I need some guidance on using CC

[hamall9]

Good morning,

 

I have several questions concerning CC and I hope I am not bothering anyone by rolling them into this one post

 

Firstly, Advanced Cleaning Settings.

 

What are the following and should I include them in the cleaning sequence .....

 

old prefetch data

menu order cache

tray notifications cache

window Size/ .....

User Assit ...

IIS Log Files

 

 

Secondly ( if I am not pushing my luck too far)

 

A couple of other programs (RegCure, in free mode, in particular) are showing 700+ faults after I have run CC.

Presumably they amount to nothing of interest in CC.

 

They are ....

 

Com/Active X 4

Path File Reference 420

Empty Registry File 290

 

Any suggestions are warmly received.

 

John

[hazelnut]

Some info here for you on those advanced cleaning settings

 

http://docs.piriform.com/ccleaner/ccleaner...d-windows-files

 

Perhaps wait until you feel comfortable with ccleaner before using the advanced options?

 

As regarding RegCure I have never used it. I find ccleaner is a very gentle and safe reg cleaner, sometimes others can go too deep.

[hamall9]

Some info here for you on those advanced cleaning settings

 

http://docs.piriform.com/ccleaner/ccleaner...d-windows-files

 

Perhaps wait until you feel comfortable with ccleaner before using the advanced options?

 

As regarding RegCure I have never used it. I find ccleaner is a very gentle and safe reg cleaner, sometimes others can go too deep.

 

Thanks for the reference to the settings.

As to the second part of my questions, I would be interested in furthering this discussion as to how deep to clean

[cc1]

Hi hamall9. Here's a fairly recent thread about registry cleaning. http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=24887

 

I suggest you take some time and read comments in that thread. Also, click on the additional links therein to get more perspective.

 

Registry cleaning is not a subject to be taken lightly. I have used CCleaner's registry cleaner for a few years now with no problems. But I do so because it is considered gentle. I doubt I would ever consider using something more aggresive. For me, the risk is too high and the payoff too negligible.