CCleaner question

• davidche

  20 Jan 07, 19:59

  The new ccleaner has now so many new categories available to be deleted.
  
  is it safe to tick and clear all the catergories?
• omgukilledkenny

  20 Jan 07, 20:01

  i tick all..nothing bad has happened
• davidche

  20 Jan 07, 20:02

  Originally posted by omgukilledkenny:

  i tick all..nothing bad has happened

  i mean the updated version you know...
• omgukilledkenny

  20 Jan 07, 20:05

  1.36.430. right?
• davidche

  20 Jan 07, 20:07

  Originally posted by omgukilledkenny:

  1.36.430. right?

  yes . well since you said so. i am reasured and im deleting the entries now.
  
  thanks alot
• omgukilledkenny

  20 Jan 07, 20:08

  v
• ndmmxiaomayi

  20 Jan 07, 20:17

  I won't recommend ticking all, because it harms performance rather than make it better.
  
  One reason for not ticking everything is convenience. If you tick everything, all your password, user names etc will no longer be there. This isn't a problem for those with good memory, but for those who have bad memory, it is a no-no.
  
  Second reason is because of prefetch. While prefetch takes up hard disk space, removing it is detrimental to some PCs, to some extent that it can take up to 10 minutes for a PC to start fully.
  
  The last reason is customization. Those who are tech-savvy enough to customize the PC will find all your customization gone and needing to re-customize everything again.
  
  These are the boxes that I ticked (ticking the Prefetch box is optional):
  
  
  
  
  
  And never do anything to the registry unless you know about Windows registry. Some can be removed without problems, but most aren't.
  
  For those who don't like unknown cookies or advertising cookies lurking around, CCleaner can manage it better.
  
  
• davidche

  13 Feb 07, 00:26

  CLEANING COMPLETE - (16.615 secs)
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  2,450.8MB removed.
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  wow!!!!
• ndmmxiaomayi

  13 Feb 07, 00:28

  Originally posted by davidche:

  CLEANING COMPLETE - (16.615 secs)
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  2,450.8MB removed.
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  wow!!!!

  How long you didn't clean?
• SingaporeMacross

  16 Feb 07, 14:05

  CCleaner is not spyware is it?
  
  This is weird. I don't remember downloading it. I have no idea why it's in my hard drive.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  16 Feb 07, 14:08

  Originally posted by SingaporeMacross:

  CCleaner is not spyware is it?
  
  This is weird. I don't remember downloading it. I have no idea why it's in my hard drive.

  Nope, it's not spyware.
  
  You sure it's CCleaner? It's a cleaner utility.
  
  Are there any other users for this PC/laptop? Can they install stuffs on the PC/laptop?