Does CCleaner harm Vista?

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It works just fine under Vista, i use it for a long time now, no problems at
all.
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CCleaner is used daily on my system (Vista Ultimate) without any issues. As
has already been said, though, you do need to check exactly what it is
removing.

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chanook*xyz I have the cccleaner and has been working just great with my
vista home basic. Seems to do everything just fine.
 
MAT said:
Does CCleaner 2.0 http://www.ccleaner.com/ harm or destroy anything in
Vista or has anyone experienced problems in Vista after having used
CCleaner?
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mat, it is a great program. But check the settings before doing anything.
The only harm done is losing the history under your address bar in IE or
your MRU's
Works great and clearing temporary files
 
Actually Bobby I prefer to lose my history and MRU's I helps to keep my
system nice and tidy. But, yes, I agree, it is a great program.

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I use both, CCleaner and the online MS "OneCare" (beta) cleaner.
No issues so far with any of my Vista machines.
 
MAT said:
Does CCleaner 2.0 http://www.ccleaner.com/ harm or destroy anything in
Vista or has anyone experienced problems in Vista after having used
CCleaner?
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CCleaner's only real strength, and the only reason I use it, lies
in its usefulness for cleaning up unused temporary files from the hard
drive; in this regard, it works well with Vista and is completely harmless.

As a registry "cleaner," it's not significantly better or worse than
any other snake oil product of the same type. CCleaner's registry
scanner seems relatively benign, as long as you step through each
detected "issue" one at a time, to determine if it really is an "issue"
or not, and then decide whether or not to let the application "fix" it.
In my testing, though, most of the reported "issues" won't be issues,
at all. I tried the latest version on a brand-new OS installation with
no additional applications installed, and certainly none installed and
then uninstalled, and CCleaner still managed to "find" over a hundred
allegedly orphaned registry entries and dozens of purportedly
"suspicious" files, making it clearly a worthless product, in this
regard. (Not that any registry cleaner can ever be anything but
worthless, as they don't serve any useful purpose, to start with.)



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CCleaner still managed to "find" over a hundred allegedly orphaned
registry entries and dozens of purportedly "suspicious" files,
making it clearly a worthless product, in this regard.
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Well that may be an exaggeration, but the alternative explanation is
that there is a lot of detritus in the Windows installation left
over from development work that never got cleaned out!
 
The Registry cleaner in CCleaner has only ever found 3 or 4 unused file
extensions on my system. So I don't bother to clean them.

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Actually, I use them both, AlexB

Run Disk Cleanup , then run CCleaner...

I just did, and there are 88 MB of files that DC did not delete.
 
Thanks for the input concerning Ccleaner. In the end it seems like Ccleaner
cleans more than Vista Disc Clean Up. Still I actually don't figure out why
Microsoft won't make, won't buy or won't let os have the most efficient
clean up program available.

MAT
 
MAT said:
Thanks for the input concerning Ccleaner. In the end it seems like
Ccleaner cleans more than Vista Disc Clean Up. Still I actually don't
figure out why Microsoft won't make, won't buy or won't let os have the
most efficient clean up program available.

MAT
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You're incorrectly assuming that Microsoft cares about its paying
customers. They don't.

Alias
 
Alias said:
You're incorrectly assuming that Microsoft cares about its paying
customers.
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Stupid answer from our resident lying linux troll.
MS only supplies "basic" add-on apps to the OS. It's got a lot to do
with bundling and anti-trust.

They don't.

Of course they. Just because you're too broke to purchase their products
doesn't mean they don't care about their customers. You don't care about
MS and that is the real truth, you sick lying POS linux troll.
Frank
 
Still I actually don't figure out why Microsoft won't make, won't
buy or won't let os have the most efficient clean up program
available.
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Probably because MSFT don't want to risk the deletion of important
or useful files (thereby annoying customers), CC can take more of a
risk because typical CC users make backups before deleting stuff.
 
Because they would be sued by the makers of CC Cleaner for "uncompetitive"
practices. MS is in court EVERY day because they included some functionality
that some third party company offers. They don’t even have to copy the
functionality, just offering the same functionality for "free" as part of
the OS is enough to drag them to court.

Kurt
 
Frank said:
Stupid answer from our resident lying linux troll.
MS only supplies "basic" add-on apps to the OS. It's got a lot to do
with bundling and anti-trust.
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IE and Windows Media are not necessary for the OS but they sure helped
MS nuke Real Player and kill Netscape and that's what brought the big
fines, now didn't they?
They don't.

Of course they.
Huh?

Just because you're too broke to purchase their products
doesn't mean they don't care about their customers.
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Sorry, I don't see the connection between my financial wherewithal or
lack thereof and MS caring about paying customers. Please explain (as if).
You don't care about
MS and that is the real truth, you sick lying POS linux troll.
Frank
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WPA, WGA and DRM are proof positive that MS doesn't care about their
customers.

Alias
 
Alias said:
IE and Windows Media are not necessary for the OS but they sure helped
MS nuke Real Player and kill Netscape and that's what brought the big
fines, now didn't they?
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Reading comprehension not that good, huh?
That is exactly what I'm referring to. I guess you're either too stupid
or just too plain dumb to get it.
Sorry, I don't see the connection between my financial wherewithal or
lack thereof and MS caring about paying customers. Please explain (as if).



WPA, WGA and DRM are proof positive that MS doesn't care about their
customers.
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They're proly proof that you are broke and a thief.
Loser
Frank
 
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