Windows XP ccleaner advise

[sol]

hi all.ime running windows xp home sp2 & have defender,avg antispyware,avgantivirus,avg anti rootkit,zone alarm & i have hjt in case i need it.can i still download cleaner or do i have enough already.sorry total novice here.thanks

 

[V_R]

CCleaner just cleans out the crap in temp folders etc, its not an anti nasty.

 

[sol]

thanks,is there something i can download that checks the registry as i had a nuke on delete virus that wiped my hard drive & the virus was in the registry so i panic now in case it happens again,sorry to be a pain

 

[Abarbarian]

Sounds like you have loads of protection . As V_R says the CC cleaner cleans out crap . Its very quick and I use it after uninstalling anything .

 

[sol]

thankyou its really appreciated,feel like ime totally out of my depth with all this technology-dont know how you all cope,think my brain would explode :\

 

[sol]

oooh my word,i read the ccleaner mini how to then downloaded & ran it,could not believe the rubbish that was on here so thankyou i can relax now lol

 

[Abarbarian]

You ran it twice I hope , once as the "cleaner" thats the icon with the brush top left , an once for "issues" thats second down on the left .

 

[sol]

yes i ran it twice,trouble is there are so many issues-havent the foggiest what they all are so not sure what to fix now lol

 

[V_R]

Regarding the issues tab...

Firstly its a registry cleaner, so beware that it does delete registry entries.

Back up anything it removes! Iregularly use the reg cleaner, and have never had a problem, however. best be safe than sorry. If you back up what it removes and in the unlikely event it causes problems you can restore them.

You may also need to run it more than once the first time.

By the way, did you untick the yahoo toolbar option on install?

 

[sol]

right i got it thanks-phew lol & yes i unticked the yahoo toolbar,i actually sat & wrote out the mini how to just to make sure i was doing it right lol,many thanks again for everyones help-its really appreciated