question from newbbie

[Louise721]

Can anyone tell approx how long ccleaner runs first use?

[Jamin4u]

Hi Louise721, and welcome to forum.

 

That depends on how old your computer is and its specifications, what you do with it and what maintenance has been done so far.

 

An estimate would be not too long, but long enough. ( A couple minutes)

See edit in post #3.

 

If you want, you could run analyze and find out without actually running the cleaner.

 

Read the documentation for CCleaner to familiarize yourself with the program. (see link below)

 

And if your not sure about something, please ask your question on the forum before diving in.

 

There's a search function at the top of the forum page to search for previously asked questions.

[ident]

How longs a bit of string?

 

All depends on the amount of temp files etc can be deleted.

 

edit: "An estimate would be not too long, but long enough. ( A couple minutes)"

CCleaner took over an hour to complete on my nans old computer.

[ReleaseRoderick]

Anything i do with CCleaner takes but a few seconds. Most likely because l run it every couple of days.

[Jamin4u]

How longs a bit of string?

 

All depends on the amount of temp files etc can be deleted.

 

edit: "An estimate would be not too long, but long enough. ( A couple minutes)"

CCleaner took over an hour to complete on my nans old computer.

 

Wow, thats why I stated it depends on how old the computer is.

I've pointed to your edit in my post.

[ident]

Wow, thats why I stated it depends on how old the computer is.

I've pointed to your edit in my post.

 

 

its a bit of a hard question to answer, becuase the bottom line is there is no answer.

 

How ever long it takes, run it.

[Jamin4u]

its a bit of a hard question to answer, becuase the bottom line is there is no answer.

 

How ever long it takes, run it.

 

Agreed, but I've never seen it take an hour.

 

That seems like a long time for CCleaner to do its job.

[ident]

Not on a 9 year old pc thats never been cleaned.

[Jamin4u]

Not on a 9 year old pc thats never been cleaned.

 

That brings us back to my statement:

That depends on how old your computer is and its specifications, what you do with it and what maintenance has been done so far.

 

I've never used CCleaner on a computer that old, thats never been cleaned.

 

Thank you for the heads up ident.

[Jamin4u]

I think when ident stated the following it was right on.

 

All depends on the amount of temp files etc

 

When I clean my sisters computer after she's on Facebook, CCleaner will run for quite a while cleaning all those files and it really doesn't amount to allot of Mb's.

 

So the more files CCleaner has to clean, the longer it will take.

 

If you use secure delete, it will increase the time by overwriting each file.