Ccleaner.

[sangfroid]

I find this free program invaluable to the good running of my PCs. Piriform are supplying an excellent 'cleaning' program for free and , in my opinion, makes ATF obsolete. My suggestion is if it could be possible for a thread to be dedicated to the program showing tutorials of how to use the program safely, though in default mode it's never done anything but get rid of 'crap' on my machines.

Thank you.

[Goku]

Hello Sang. That is a most excellent suggestion about creating a tutorial for CCleaner's 'safe use'. Here is a rough one you can use at the moment.

 

1. Open CCleaner.

2. Click on the Options tab.

3. Select the Settings tab and configure the settings so that they look similar to the ones shown below.

 

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn44/JustMeYaar/Settings.jpg

 

4. Next, move to the Advanced tab and set the settings as shown below.

 

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn44/JustMeYaar/Settings.jpg

 

5. Click on the Cleaner tab, and check everything you want to delete. Next, move to the Applications tab and check what application traces you want to remove.

6. Press the Analyze button and CCleaner will tell you how much space the unnecessary files are taking up and how much you stand to gain by removing them.

7. Check the log carefully for any unwanted files and then press the Run Cleaner button. Depending on the number of files to clean and deletion passes, the cleaning will take some time to complete.

 

There are several other features in CCleaner but you might want to explore but don't use its registry cleaning provision unless specifically advised so. It might render your system unbootable if used incorrectly.

 

I know that is a bad one but someone can hopefully edit it and make it more detailed and instructive.

 

Hope that helps. :)

[sangfroid]

That's not 'bad' at all. Including the settings for allowing certain cookies would also be helpful so as not to log one out of a site if login 'remembered'. Very good.