Windows restore points

Hello, I'm New to the forum. I attempted researching the following questions from prior posts however:

I use CCleaner many times a day.

1. is this a good practice?

2. recently, I have noticed after running CC my windows system restore points are gone. Has anyone else experienced this?

3. How effective is CC at immediately removing malware or spyware?

Thank you very much

1) Probably best described as overkill. It depends how much detritus you generate during the day. I run CC when there's about 50 mb to go, which I've found is around two or three days with my usage. If you spend all day on youtube you may have different requirements.

2) I haven't noticed this and I don't think that CC does anything to sys restore points, some users wish it would.

3) Not at all, or at least not directly. CC cleans temp files, so if there's anything malingering there it will go, but CC doesn't specifically look for mal/spyware.

1) Probably best described as overkill. It depends how much detritus you generate during the day. I run CC when there's about 50 mb to go, which I've found is around two or three days with my usage. If you spend all day on youtube you may have different requirements.

2) I haven't noticed this and I don't think that CC does anything to sys restore points, some users wish it would.

3) Not at all, or at least not directly. CC cleans temp files, so if there's anything malingering there it will go, but CC doesn't specifically look for mal/spyware.

Thank you very much for the helpful information

Hello gator32,

Welcome to the forums !!! :D

Check out this thread also if you are using Vista.

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=19790

I am a member here like you. I am also a member of "The Gator Nation" and a proud Gator Dad. !!! :lol:

Best wishes, :) davey

Definitely spam... I hope the mods take care of this.

Keith

Definitely spam... I hope the mods take care of this.

Keith

Yup I just reported it.

it's a smart bot though:

Other Posts include

http://forum.meebo.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&a...=114174#p114174

and

http://forums.motortrend.com/70/7380965/th...-100/index.html

Guys and gals don't reply or make remarks about spam, just report it - otherwise threads will make no sense.

My apologies... I never seen the "report" button until now. :| Will note that for the future.

My apologies... I never seen the "report" button until now. :| Will note that for the future.

Now you know. :P

My comments about the threads making no sense is the spam post is removed, then people will think either the whole thread or above post is the spam, it will get confusing to say the least and that's why Admins and Mods on forums in general (not just this one) don't want people to reply or make comments about spam.

Gotcha. Are you going to remove my original post about it and the other thread?

No, this is an education moment. ;)

Your other reply in that other thread I did remove, and the spam post too.