GSP

Could large amounts of uncompressed files clutter up RAM (physical and "virtual" on the HD both)? A full up RAM degrades performance.

If you don't mind me asking, why is that a standard part of Disk Cleanup then? I wouldn't expect Windows to have something as part of it's normal system maintenance that would actively degrade performance.

All I know is that if I don't keep old files compressed, the observed effect is a degredation of my dial up performance. And there's no way to just not run it, as it's integral to Disk Cleanup in both Windows AND CCleaner.

I have CCleaner set to run every time I start the computer to keep things nice and clean to keep my system performance up (dial up modem has a tendency to stall out if I don't). Lately, I've been noticing that despite that, I have to run the regular Disc Cleaner native to Windows at least once a week because stuff is backing up and clogging the system. I just had over 300 thousand k worth of flile compression needed despite the regular use of CCleaner. It's ALWAYS Compress Old Files that is the issue... Can anyone advise?

I upgraded to the latest version of Cleaner today, no problems with the download whatsoever. Later I ran a full system virus check and McAfee detected and quarantined the EXE file for one of the OLDER versions on my drive. The version was 227. The file was CCSETUP227.EXE. The Trojan detected was: Generic.dx!psw