John Barnett MVP wrote:
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.



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.


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?


CCleaner's sole strength, and the only reason I use it, lies in its
usefulness for cleaning up unused temporary files from the hard drive.


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