AlanHo Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 One of my close friends is being treated for terminal brain tumours and his wife is having to take on the running of the house in its entirety. One consequence is that she is very dependent on their computer.She called me yesterday for help - the computer was running so slow it was virtually at a standstill and it was taking nearly 45 minutes for it to boot, open Outlook Express and download the Emails. She was resigned to the fact that because it was 4 years old it was in need of a serious upgrade or even replacement with a new machine.I went over today armed with a CD on which I had installed a few diagnostic and helpful bits of software. I booted the machine which went through the BIOS post phase normally, opened windows but when the desktop appeared it ground to a snails pace and took ages to load the start programmes. I was not able to open task manager to check which processes were hogging the CPU - but it bore all the signs of being a fairly sick puppy. It was 27 minutes before I was able to click on "connect" to get broadband connected and a further 13 minutes for Outlook Express to load. WOW.... This was a new scenario for me - and I was frankly mystified but I decided to put my CD in the drive and load CCleaner. This took about 20 minutes before I could launch the programme and do a scan. The scans resulted in a total of 512 MB of junk to be deleted and several pages of registry entries to be dealt with.I then rebooted the machine - with fingers crossed - and it zoomed along at a very respectable speed. I have no idea what it was - but CCleaner had deleted something - or some things - that transformed a snail into a greyhound. I then was able to carry out a thorough check for viruses and malware but found nothing untoward.She was a very happy bunny at the outcome - I was secretely relieved and surprised that the solution had proved to be so easy. I frequently use CCleaner to tidy up my computers - but this was the most impressive result I have ever experienced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Congratulations!There is no better feeling than helping someone who has problems which exceed our worst nightmares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Another hat full of brownie points to the gentleman over there. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 I don't know how we ever managed before it was available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dencandy Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Can a utility be worth its weight in gold? Well, CCleaner is and so is McAfee SiteAdvisor. Hats off to their distributers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 I use CC every day, it only takes seconds because there has been no build up. Site Advisor is always on. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Can a utility be worth its weight in gold? Well, CCleaner is and so is McAfee SiteAdvisor. Hats off to their distributers. I agree, I use both pf these freebies. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamb Chop Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 I use it too and got it down quick smart as I get rid of the clutter of temp stuff every day as I turn off. Do the registry bit about once a month as uninstall etc leaves bits cluttering that up. I also have this bought program - got it 5 years back - it is called Cyberscrub and is as bit more in depth cleaner. latest version has a real time monitor which tells you if you need to scrub traces etc that someone can steal identity - dont use on line banking etc so not worried there but it is good for cleaning up the white spaces that you think are clear but are cluttered up with 'able to be brought back' deleted files and this can be good to use after defrag etc. It is good for getting rid of stuff for ever on the spot. Like nasties. It will kill them :D I did have MacAfee site adviser but it only works on IE and not Firefox does it not? Did before anyway. maybe wrong of course - often am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 There is a version of SiteAdvisor that works in Firefox. I think the way to load it is to access the download from Firefox and it will install the correct version automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamb Chop Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Thanks Pops really appreciate the help. will go get it now. :D I also have IE7 as first thing that happened was downloads from Bill including this one which didnt work on old machine. Due I have since been informed by having too little memory 256 RAM. Now I have a whole 1 GB!I will get both as it is a good thing to have in this increasingly nasty world even when like me, you dont got awandering to naughty places :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vestan Posted June 2, 2008 Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 Is there anyway of configuring CCleaner so that when you use it it doesn't remove log in details from the web sites you tend to visit. I've recently used CCleaner (recommended by Dencandy, Cheers!) and even though it did a great job in cleaningout the rubbish it also removed all my log in details. This normally wouldn't be a problem, but ive got a memory like a teabag. Thanks. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted June 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 You need to tell CCleaner not to clean out the relevant cookies.Go to Options > Cookies > select required cookies and add them to the keep window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vestan Posted June 2, 2008 Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 Thats cool. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 You need to tell CCleaner not to clean out the relevant cookies.Go to Options > Cookies > select required cookies and add them to the keep window.Just drag from left to right and drop them in the right hand window. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick1 Posted June 6, 2008 Report Share Posted June 6, 2008 I didn't know how long it would take before I had to download and run CCleaner after buying my Vista laptop. Turned out to be about 2 months. I used the registry cleaner on xp, but I'm still nervous about trying it on Vista. Has everyone confirmed that it's safe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted June 6, 2008 Report Share Posted June 6, 2008 I don't use Vista but I do know that Ccleaner is now designed for use with it.If you have first time nerves (I did) make a full system backup before you run it. Also, it backs up everything untoward that it finds so you are able to restore if it does go base over apex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick1 Posted June 6, 2008 Report Share Posted June 6, 2008 Hmmmm...it makes a registry backup. Well, I'm not so worried now. I always used Eusing registry cleaner when I had xp. Thanks for letting me know about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 6, 2008 Report Share Posted June 6, 2008 I have used C Cleaner for a very long time on a daily basis. I also use the registry function and have never to date had to merge a back up. I always delete the earliest one leaving only two in case of a problem. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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