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Offline franksolich

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CCleaner
« on: July 21, 2014, 06:14:21 PM »
A few days ago, I installed "CCleaner."

I'd had it on the computer before this one, and had no problems with it, but then didn't have it on this one, a used one gotten three years ago, because I'd heard it wasn't all it was made out to be.

When the AVG software expired and I was looking at alternatives, CCleaner was suggested--not as a replacement for AVG, but as a supplement I needed.

So I replaced AVG, and then decided to add CCleaner, but took my time about it.

It took DAYS to do the "cleaner" thing.  No, I didn't run the cleaner constantly, running it instead for hours at a time.  I was very happy to see that when one "cancels" something, and then restarts it later, the cleaner started where it'd left off, instead of starting all over again.

That's not always the case.

It finally got done cleaning this morning.



I wish I'd gotten a "before" picture too; "before," it showed 119,000,000,000 bytes "used," and 50% "free;" now look at it.

I'm not sure if it was the cleaning or the "registry" cleaning that did it, but a lot of quirks that'd developed over the years evaporated.  The "back button" on google searches, for example, now backs; one doesn't have to right-click to open in a new window (if one wishes to continue using the original google search page).  It again converts images to JPEGs instead of the space-consuming PNGs.  And the computer works faster, overall.

I'm very happy.
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Re: CCleaner
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2014, 05:06:54 PM »
I use Crap Cleaner. Like you I find it works quite well.
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