Re: CCCleaner

FWiW... From the prior thread, I decided to & downloaded, then ran the CCleaner. For the Registry it has a "Scan for Issues" and then the list of "issues" is presented; every entry\issue is pre-checked for "cleaning". Simply uncheck any in the list that give concerns for their loss [I left several], and then click the "Fix selected issues" button; scanning again shows those same entries that were previously unchecked.

CCleaner is much prettier and has IMO, a safer-feel than other registry cleaners that I have used in the past [two, but I do not recall names of either; I uninstalled each, immediately after use, whereas I have left CCleaner on my system]. Although the software enabled a "backup registry first?" option, I chose to instead use the Start->Run->regedit for its [OS] backup feature before running the CCleaner.

John Jones wrote:

CCleaner gives the option to back up the entries before they are deleted. I always take that option. By default it names the file CC_dateandtime.reg so you can re-import them easily (right-click
and open/import) should a problem occur.

I think what CCleaner is going after are orphans more than anything else. References to objects that no exist and that sort
of thing.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Carmen Nuland wrote:

I've used CCleaner in the past to clean up temporary files, but
how *safe* is it to let it clean up Registry problems? I'm
sure I would want to backup the registry first (or does it ask
you that?). I'm especially curious about the Client Access
"issues" it found. Other Windows programs aren't always good at
knowing that CA is a legitimate software program, so I'd hate
for it to remove vital registry entries.