Copernic Reporter Posted April 11, 2011 Reporter Share Posted April 11, 2011 CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner), developed by Piriform is a donationware utility program used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCleaner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aethec Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Because some people think cleaners such as CCleaner will do magic things and make everything 1000x faster. It doesn't, of course. Unless it's a very old computer (small and slow hard drive + lots of temp files), the difference is noticeable but not huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahoospa Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 CCleaner is on all our family's computers. We have had no problems at all with it and have been using it for several years. I think it is a great program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardcore Til I Die Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Crap because it's unecessary. the useful parts of it windows can already do. then you have the registry part, which can kill computers, and I have had to fix several computers that have dies because they used the CCleaer registry cleaner. There are worse registry cleaners, but there's not good registry cleaner. Yeah sure 99.999% of the time it won't do any damage. but it's that one time... 99.999% is probably about correct. I've ran the registry cleaner 200+ times without an issue. The only reason I use the registry cleaner is because I actually use the registry from time to time. It's useful to be able to search the registry without having to sift through thousands of entries that are no longer required by the computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deactivated_ Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 It's on all my computers, and on any computer I install, such as friends or families. It's always set to run silently on boot, so family and friends often don't even know it's there. I don't religiously run the registry cleaner, but do periodically just because. I have *never* had any issues with the Registry cleaner portion messing up the system. I prefer CCleaner's registry cleaning system because it just fixes known issues and doesn't try and get too aggressive with the Registry. The CEnhancer additions are also wonderful. I really have no idea how anyone thinks it is crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 99.999% is probably about correct. I've ran the registry cleaner 200+ times without an issue. The only reason I use the registry cleaner is because I actually use the registry from time to time. It's useful to be able to search the registry without having to sift through thousands of entries that are no longer required by the computer. unused registry entries doesn't really matter in your ability to search the registry, since the registry is sorted alphabetically and in tree form. even if they're there, for an EA game for example it'd still beunder /ea/ and the further dub dirs. testman 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexalex Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Ccleaner is mediocre in cleaning temp files. Add the winapp2.ini from CCEnhancer (no need to install CCEnhancer) which adds 450 applications to the list, and Ccleaner turns to be good. Ccleaner is crap in all other areas like registry fixing and other Windows "improvements". p.s use the portable version of Ccleaner. The less you install (and use portable apps) the more your Windows PC is stable and secure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
testman Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 For all those who use CCleaner to "clean" the registry, you do all know that "cleaning" the registry is not needed? It doesn't save space or time or anything. In fact, Mark Russinovich himself (Sysinternals guy) has specifically said they're pointless. Cleaning the registry doesn't make Windows run better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aethec Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 The Registry cleaner should not be used unless there's a problem, e.g. a software that failed to uninstall (yes, Office 2010 Beta, I'm looking at you...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ir0nw0lf Subscriber² Posted April 11, 2011 Subscriber² Share Posted April 11, 2011 I use CCleaner to clean up various temp stuff that the built-in Disk Cleanup doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lalalawawawa Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Windows takes around 0.0018 seconds to open, read, and close 100 keys. How much to do you CCleaner will help you by deleting a few keys that may be falsly detected? I use it, but I won't recommend it to someone who doesn't know what he does. Almost everything the app provides is available in a normal Windows installation, with the exception of the wiping of free space, something that one shouldn't be doing if he's still using his hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted April 11, 2011 MVC Share Posted April 11, 2011 Please. Lets talk about ccleaner in 2 parts. 1) the registry cleaner part. It's just like all other registry cleaners. Plus you have to go out of Your way to run it. It is not on the default scan. 2) as a crap file remover. Please dont confuse this with the registry part. You can run this by itself and this part of the application is what makes it great. Forget about the registry part of the application. This part is great to run before you do a scan, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Please. Lets talk about ccleaner in 2 parts. 1) the registry cleaner part. It's just like all other registry cleaners. Plus you have to go out of Your way to run it. It is not on the default scan. 2) as a crap file remover. Please dont confuse this with the registry part. You can run this by itself and this part of the application is what makes it great. Forget about the registry part of the application. This part is great to run before you do a scan, and even for the "crap" file remover. how much space do you really think you're saving with it. very little. how much performance do you think it gains ? nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seizure1990 Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 and even for the "crap" file remover. how much space do you really think you're saving with it. very little. how much performance do you think it gains ? nothing. You've obviously never run CCleaner on a 4+ year old computer used by an "average user"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted April 11, 2011 MVC Share Posted April 11, 2011 and even for the "crap" file remover. how much space do you really think you're saving with it. very little. how much performance do you think it gains ? nothing. I'm talking about running it before you do a scan. Removing 1000+ fun files it then does not have to scan. You've obviously never run CCleaner on a 4+ year old computer used by an "average user"... I have, and while it removes a lot of crap I don't think it helps the performance of the machine other than it reduces the time it takes to scan the machine with an av or antimalware solution. The only thing that would make the computer un better after running CCleaner is if the user was really hurting for hard drive space, like they had less than 10% left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc302 Veteran Posted April 11, 2011 Veteran Share Posted April 11, 2011 ccleaner (as a temp cleaner) has one major flaw...it needs to be ran under each profile that logs onto the computer for it to remove all of the temp files on the computer....you can manually clean it faster than running ccleaner in many cases. pirform has stated that this is not a flaw and it is by design, if you (the user) doesn't like it we (pirform) don't care. Otherwise, ccleaner is great for removing almost all temp files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sava700 Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 I also recommend clearing the system restore points System Restore? Lol turn this off from the start as it serves no purpose other than to screw things up even more. First thing I do when I install a OS is turn this feature off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc302 Veteran Posted April 11, 2011 Veteran Share Posted April 11, 2011 System Restore? Lol turn this off from the start as it serves no purpose other than to screw things up even more. First thing I do when I install a OS is turn this feature off. Win XP yes, I agree. Win Vista and 7, no it actually works right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted April 11, 2011 Veteran Share Posted April 11, 2011 I can't stand it because it doesn't do anything useful that Windows doesn't already do and the registry "cleaner" routinely removes COM object registrations if it can't resolve them, therefore breaking some components' installations. IMO it's about as useful as those TCP/IP tweakers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aethec Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 e, and while it removes a lot of crap I don't think it helps the performance of the machine other than it reduces the time it takes to scan the machine with an av or antimalware solution. The only thing that would make the computer un better after running CCleaner is if the user was really hurting for hard drive space, like they had less than 10% left. I once used it on an old Tablet PC (900 MHz processor, 40 GB slow disk...) and it deleted gigabytes of temp files. Then I defragged the drive...and everything was noticeably faster. Of course, that's a bit of an extreme example. @sava700: Uh...sorry, but, no, it doesn't "screw things up even more". It's a useful feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArsalanAly Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 well ccleaner is my primary app on my PC ... . it's really help me out to keep clean my PC all da tyme !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikeparkie Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 CCleaner + CC Enhancer + Diskmax is my perfect combo for a tuneup. Used to be Tuneup Utilities but thats a bit bloated these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rippleman Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Don't use the installed version, use the portable as it doesn't load anything. Many programs like this one are getting bloat ware on them when you install too so you must slow down to make sure true "Crap" isn't installed along with it. I sure hope you follow up with a boot time scan with say Avast Home free or MSE cause I can assure you if it's infected with much of the malware floating around your going to miss alot of things still in the system mostly java related infections and trojans. Malwarebytes is good, so is ccleaner but they never EVER get everything. Soon as you said avast, you lost my attention. deactivated_ and testman 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted April 11, 2011 MVC Share Posted April 11, 2011 Soon as you said avast, you lost my attention. As soon as you said avast lost your attention, you lost my attention. Aethec, Salty Wagyu, Twisp and 2 others 5 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muratoner Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 As soon as you said avast lost your attention, you lost my attention. As soon as you said "as soon as you said avast lost your attention, you lost my attention" you lost my attention :shiftyninja: Arkose and epk 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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