CCCleaner – WinXP

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I’m about to launch CCCleaner. Anyone out there used it? Comments?

Under Win98 I used ToniArts cleaner, but after running it a couple of times under XP I noticed that Office required a partial re-install.

And yes, I do a backup first thing each morning; thanks for thinking of me anyway.

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I’ve used it without a problem. BUT NOTE that as with any system tuning/cleaning/repair tool YOU should review any changes first and had better have a fair idea of what is going to happen. And be prepared to restore your system.

Joe

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Joe, thanks for the feedback. I’ve trashed my system before, which is why everything that gets created or changed gets copied across each morning. Worst case for me, really, is reformat C:, reinstall Win/OfficeXP and drag the C:Greaves folder from the backup. Later on I can delete spurious copies of files.

I’ve run CCCcleaner, un-checking a few obvious things, and will see what happens next. Cookies aren’t a big hassle for me – there is wopr.com and my webmail account; mostly the rest are newspapers, which seem to have learned how to Ctrl-c/Ctrl-V from CNN anyway.

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If you are referring to “CCleaner” (CrapCleaner”, yes I have been using it quite a bit on several PC’s running various O/S’s and configurations. Never had a problem with any of them. Of course, there are several different things you can run in that program. Running the basic cleaning utility is the only one I run after unchecking a couple of items in the list which I don’t want to be scanned. The newest version’s “history” says it has some improvements in regard to MS Office. If you don’t have this new version 1.19.108, I would recommend you grab it.

Jeff

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Thanks for the feedback, Jeff. I d/l 1.19.108 this morning.

> the basic cleaning utility is the only one I run after un-checking a couple of items in the list

Already I’m wondering how to configure the thing for a command-line (unattended) run. I note that it can be hooked into the Recycle Bin, so maybe that would do the trick, after a few days manual running, of course!

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