I have to say that I recommend CCleaner and use I regularly myself. While I
agree with Bruce Chambers sentiments regarding CCleaner checking what
CCleaner is actually removing, in the few years I've been using CCleaner I
can't say that I've actually been in a position were CCleaner has located a
large amount of 'problems' that needed fixing, even on brand new machine. I
purchased a new machine two weeks ago, installed and run CCleaner and it
only found 2 problems.

Speed increase is probably relative. It is amazing how, after using a
registry cleaner one automatically thinks, WoW that certainly improved
things when, in reality it has done nothing of the sort. I certainly haven't
seen any increase in speed - well that has been noticeable, anyway.

One thing I have noticed, with Windows Vista Ultimate at any rate is that
when CCleaner is doing general housekeeping, i.e., removing temporary
internet files, history etc I am actually seeing a ghost image of Windows
Vista's Disk Cleanup Tool, so unless my machine happens to be a fluke I am
beginning to ask myself who I actually cleaning what CCleaner or Vista Disk
Cleanup?

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"Daave" wrote in message
...
No bait. You're the one who made the claim. I've used Ccleaner and have
only found the clearing of temp files to be beneficial. If you've done
more extensive testing, good for you. But bear in mind that is was YOU who
made the claim in the first place! And I still find it interesting you're
unwilling to back it up.

Belief and knowledge are two different things...


"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
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Right!

He just wants someone else to do his work for him.

DSH

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wrote in message news:%23duS%

...

he is a sly one and
was just baiting you.

if he had such an open
mind, he could download
the program and test it
himself.
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"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...

I don't give a rat's rear end whether you believe me or not.

I'm not trying to sell anything.

So, it's not worth my time and effort to post elaborate results of the
tests
I ran -- which will simply lead to a long thread of worthless back and
forth
caterwauling.

I can use that time far better in other useful pursuits such as
managing my
stock portfolio, working on the car, writing a historical post or email
or
doing something nice for my wife -- not necessarily in that order. g

I ran controlled tests on nine different machines with various
configurations -- using the Registry Cleaner in CCleaner.

Performance was improved on all of them -- fewer hangs and pauses,
faster
loading of applications, faster executions of commands and faster
startups
and shutdowns.

No Glitches -- Removing Something That Should Not Have Been Removed --
No
FUD.

I have no experience of using other Registry Cleaners -- so I can't
speak to
them.

I do, carefully, sometimes manually remove or make changes to the
Registry. So, I'm not a barefoot empiricist.

Your Mileage May Vary...

So, Run Your Own Tests.

Bonne Chance!

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas