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Gramps

Nov 27 2006, 01:41 AM

Hi, I've just downloaded CCleaner and have read FAQs and some problems
and answers posted in this forum. Very helpful of the mods.
I have been using Steven Gould's Cleanup! for a while and lately regardless
of my choices it deletes wanted cookies. I really want to delete it completely.
My query is; is CCleaner a superior product and will I have a similar problem
using it?
It seems to be a very user-friendly program, but I'm a bit nervous of trusting
it implicitly.
Can anyone reassure me and allay my concerns.

Regards

edit: Sorry I may have posted in the wrong place. Apologies.

TheFiresInTheSky

Nov 27 2006, 01:59 AM

welcome to the forums gramps

ccleaner is a very trust worthy program.
everyone here will say that.
theres an analyze button so you can run that and see what it will delete before it actually deletes it!

Gramps

Nov 27 2006, 03:09 AM

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welcome to the forums gramps

ccleaner is a very trust worthy program.
everyone here will say that.
theres an analyze button so you can run that and see what it will delete before it actually deletes it!

Thanks for your answer and welcome TFITS, I have run the program and it worked fine.

I shall run it a few more times before I delete Cleanup!

I forgot to mention I also run, Spybot S&D, Regseeker (which I used once and
am afraid to use in case I do harm),

SpywareBlaster, HiJackThis, AVG,
ZoneAlarm Firewall and AdAware SE.

Do you see any conflict there? I want to get rid of Regseeker in case I do some damage.
It seems to me I'm pretty much covered with the rest.

Regards

mfenech

Nov 27 2006, 04:11 AM

Gramps,

I use both - CCleaner daily and Cleanup once a week. You may want to wait a while and run Cleanup as you normally would, and then run CCleaner to see what it found that Cleanup missed. Then run them in reverse order the next time. You'll be surprised, I'm sure.

JDPower

Nov 27 2006, 07:06 AM

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You may want to wait a while and run Cleanup as you normally would, and then run CCleaner to see what it found that Cleanup missed. Then run them in reverse order the next time. You'll be surprised, I'm sure.

I tried Cleanup about a month ago. Ran CCleaner till 0 bytes removed, then immediately ran Cleanup, which found about 700kb of files to clean. Didn't run it in the opposite direction as CCleaner seemed clearly superior (IMO) and Cleanup wasn't worth keeping for the sake of an extra 700k cleaned.

Gramps

Nov 27 2006, 09:35 PM

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Thanks to all for replying, I shall take all answers on board.

I've learned not to do anything hasty, so will do as you suggest at least for a while.

Regards

JDPower

Nov 28 2006, 12:41 AM

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Thanks to all for replying, I shall take all answers on board.

I've learned not to do anything hasty, so will do as you suggest at least for a while

You should be okay, the only program you mentioned that can do serious damage is RegSeeker. I have it but use it very rarely, and thats only to find entries for things that I've removed (even then I only delete entries that I'm 99% certain are safe). If you're in any doubt at all, just leave it alone

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