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This thread is far to long now for me to read if a particular something had already been posted. I just wanted to say congratulations to the maker of the cleaning utility...you made it to The Langa List!

http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2004/2004-04-22.htm#3

3) Cr*p Cleaner

Hello: At GRC.Privacy in a discussion about tidying up a drive there was a reference to a new freeware tool called Cr*p Cleaner. The author asserts "CCleaner (Cr*p Cleaner) is a ... system optimisation tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing it to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it's fast! (normally taking less that a second to run)..."

On my Win98SE sub-gigahertz box it took 1.8 seconds and freed up 23 MB, much more than I anticipated since I try to keep this box fairly tidy. The discussants noted it "added 336 keys and 289 values. Shredding? didn't find this option. Backup for registry undo just in case?: neither". It seems intended for the more advanced user, no help section, or "Undo" capability. However, during Windows idling, my CPU utilization stayed at 3-5% for five minutes with only three events at 6%. I think that's a record for this machine. Adequate user options, at least for me. Works on Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP/2003 and available at http://www.spazmatic.net/partners/ccleaner/ . Works for me.Truly, John Lowenbergh

Thanks, John. Nice find! And you're right: All tools like this carry risks and should be used cautiously and only with good backups at hand.

I finally got down to using this even though I downloaded it at version 1.02 or something. It's real fast and the uninstall programs option is real useful. I do have a suggestion though. Could you please give a short tooltip or status bar message about what each cleaning option (in the Windows tab) does when you click on it? A couple of people I introduced it to didn't know what they were for.

Otherwise, it's a great program, made THAT much better because it's free.

cheers!

  • 2 weeks later...

bigdog,

I had CCleaner working wonderfully for the last couple of days. However, today when I try the Registry Scan, I get an error at the 93% mark:

Error during registry scan.

Invalid procedure call or argument

Is there any debugging information I can post here to figure out what's wrong? I should mention that the Windows and Application cleaner is working great.

Thanks for a great program.

MR

just a suggestion for a feature

You know all the icons on the lower right hand corner of your monitor next to the clock, well if you right click on the start menu > properties > taskbar tab > customize, you'll see that there are past items taht were in the icon tray area. It would be nice if Ccleaner could delete the past items. :p

You know all the icons on the lower right hand corner of your monitor next to the clock, well if you right click on the start menu > properties > taskbar tab > customize, you'll see that there are past items taht were in the icon tray area. It would be nice if Ccleaner could delete the past items. :p

Check out script #53 at this site:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

It would be great if this was incorporated into CCleaner. However, I think that explorer.exe has to be restarted for this to take effect.

Cheers,

MR

Like I said, you'll need to shutdown explorer and restart it after you have run CCleaner with that option enabled.

Right click the taskbar --> Task Manager --> Processes Tab --> highlight explorer.exe --> End Process.

After your taskbar has disappeared, you'll need to click on File --> New Task (Run...) and type explorer and Enter.

The taskbar should reappear with none of your system tray icons being hidden. You'll be able to customize your notifications all over again.

The notifications will not be reset if you restart windows after you run CCleaner with this tweak.

cheers!

bigdog,

I had CCleaner working wonderfully for the last couple of days. However, today when I try the Registry Scan, I get an error at the 93% mark:

Error during registry scan.

Invalid procedure call or argument

Is there any debugging information I can post here to figure out what's wrong? I should mention that the Windows and Application cleaner is working great.

Thanks for a great program.

MR

Hi there,

Sorry for the delay in replying. There were certain issues with the shortcut scanner. Try downloading the latest version and running that.

Let me know if it works or not.

Like I said, you'll need to shutdown explorer and restart it after you have run CCleaner with that option enabled.

Right click the taskbar --> Task Manager --> Processes Tab --> highlight explorer.exe --> End Process.

After your taskbar has disappeared, you'll need to click on File --> New Task (Run...) and type explorer and Enter.

The taskbar should reappear with none of your system tray icons being hidden. You'll be able to customize your notifications all over again.

The notifications will not be reset if you restart windows after you run CCleaner with this tweak.

cheers!

Unfortunately ramian is right, there doesn't seem to be any easy way to clean the tray history. :(

for the 1st time since 1.04, I looked in the installation folder and found ini files with all the setting, etc. If I edit these ini files, can I get CCleaner to reflect the changes in the respective tabs? Like, if I add my own program's MRU reg keys to be cleaned, will my program name appear on the App list? Also, what other things can we change in the ini files that will actually help us?

I love CCleaner!!

cheers!

Hi there,

Sorry for the delay in replying. There were certain issues with the shortcut scanner. Try downloading the latest version and running that.

Let me know if it works or not.

Working great now. Thanks for the fix! What a great program.

Cheers,

RW

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bigdog,

I'm still using your utility -- great work.

Would it be possible for a future version of CCleaner to clear Mozilla/Firefox cache, cookies, history, downloaded files, etc.?  I really like the work you've put into this.

Thanks again.

MR

Yeah like CCleaner - Mozilla Version?

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