CCleaner Professional

A while back when I build my newest system based on the Intel Core
i7-4790K installed in a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H with 32Gigs of Crucial
Ballistix Tactical Low Profile 32GB Kit I was in a rush and didn't want
to go through all the hassle of installing Win7 and all the apps so
nicely tuned on an AMD 6 core in an ASUS M4A87TD/USB3 so I used that
drive to see if it booted with the Intel Build. Well it did and
everything worked out fine. I thought I'd do it right after awhile but
it turned out that I never did and no longer need the AMD. I knew I had
a cluttered windows system so recently I happened to purchase CCleaner
Professional which seemed to remove all the DLLs hanging around although
I saw no actual improvement but it did make me feel better.

CCleaner Pro seems to e a nice little app and I don't know why I
didn't use it sooner.

Just thought I'd throw that in just for fun.
Al

On 17/12/2014 08:26, Al Drake wrote:
A while back when I build my newest system based on the Intel Core
i7-4790K installed in a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H with 32Gigs of Crucial
Ballistix Tactical Low Profile 32GB Kit I was in a rush and didn't want
to go through all the hassle of installing Win7 and all the apps so
nicely tuned on an AMD 6 core in an ASUS M4A87TD/USB3 so I used that
drive to see if it booted with the Intel Build. Well it did and
everything worked out fine. I thought I'd do it right after awhile but
it turned out that I never did and no longer need the AMD. I knew I had
a cluttered windows system so recently I happened to purchase CCleaner
Professional which seemed to remove all the DLLs hanging around although
I saw no actual improvement but it did make me feel better.

CCleaner Pro seems to e a nice little app and I don't know why I
didn't use it sooner.

Just thought I'd throw that in just for fun.
Al

Ah, the crucial phrase...

although I saw no actual improvement

Perfectly fine if you use them just for the "enjoyment" using them, but
re-enforces my opinion that all these registry cleaners are more-or-less
snake oil, and some of them can cause real problems with registry
corruption.

On 12/17/2014 03:36 AM, wrote:
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CCleaner Pro seems to e a nice little app and I don't know why I
didn't use it sooner.

Just thought I'd throw that in just for fun.
Al

Ah, the crucial phrase...

although I saw no actual improvement

Perfectly fine if you use them just for the "enjoyment" using them, but
re-enforces my opinion that all these registry cleaners are more-or-less
snake oil, and some of them can cause real problems with registry
corruption.




Yep. A registry cleaner can do much more harm than good.
Out of the tens of thousands of registry entries how is removing a few
/possibly/ un-needed ones going to improve performance?:


That said, there is one situation where I will use a cleaner.
That's for an application who's uninstaller is damaged and needs to be
deleted. In a case like that I run a registry cleaner and delete /only/
the registry entries for that app.

Al Drake wrote:
A while back when I build my newest system based on the Intel Core
i7-4790K installed in a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H with 32Gigs of Crucial
Ballistix Tactical Low Profile 32GB Kit I was in a rush and didn't want
to go through all the hassle of installing Win7 and all the apps so
nicely tuned on an AMD 6 core in an ASUS M4A87TD/USB3 so I used that
drive to see if it booted with the Intel Build. Well it did and
everything worked out fine. I thought I'd do it right after awhile but
it turned out that I never did and no longer need the AMD. I knew I had
a cluttered windows system so recently I happened to purchase CCleaner
Professional which seemed to remove all the DLLs hanging around although
I saw no actual improvement but it did make me feel better.

CCleaner Pro seems to e a nice little app and I don't know why I didn't
use it sooner.

Just thought I'd throw that in just for fun.
Al

"remove all the DLLs"

I hope you're joking.

Removing an unused driver, before moving the hard drive to another
system is one thing. You don't need CCleaner to practice that
sort of hygiene.

But leave "system" DLLs alone.

Paul

Ken1943 wrote on 12/17/2014 8:20 AM:
I have my environment
changed to put all temp/tmp files into C:\temp so I can see all in one
place. It does collect a lot of junk.

Is this done simply by editing the environment variables through the typical user interface?

On 12/17/2014 08:19 AM, Wolf K wrote:

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CCleaner is an abbreviation of CrapCleaner. I guess some people's dainty
shell-like ears were harmed by the full name.... ;-)

Have a good day,




Dainty ears being troubled by the term "crap" would certainly enjoy the
"Cinderella" fairy tale's original name.


"Cinder-slut" would not have been a big Disney hit.

On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:36:13 +0000, wrote:

On 17/12/2014 08:26, Al Drake wrote:
A while back when I build my newest system based on the Intel Core
i7-4790K installed in a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H with 32Gigs of Crucial
Ballistix Tactical Low Profile 32GB Kit I was in a rush and didn't want
to go through all the hassle of installing Win7 and all the apps so
nicely tuned on an AMD 6 core in an ASUS M4A87TD/USB3 so I used that
drive to see if it booted with the Intel Build. Well it did and
everything worked out fine. I thought I'd do it right after awhile but
it turned out that I never did and no longer need the AMD. I knew I had
a cluttered windows system so recently I happened to purchase CCleaner
Professional which seemed to remove all the DLLs hanging around although
I saw no actual improvement but it did make me feel better.

CCleaner Pro seems to e a nice little app and I don't know why I
didn't use it sooner.

Just thought I'd throw that in just for fun.
Al

Ah, the crucial phrase...

although I saw no actual improvement

Perfectly fine if you use them just for the "enjoyment" using them, but
re-enforces my opinion that all these registry cleaners are more-or-less
snake oil, and some of them can cause real problems with registry
corruption.


CCleaner is not really a registry cleaner. It does many different
things, and registry cleaning is only one of them.

And I agree with you: CCleaner is an excellent program as long as you
do not use its registry cleaning functionality.

On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 06:20:29 -0700, Ken1943 wrote:


I use the registry cleaner rarely and never had a problem as it doesn't
go very deep looking for junk like so many other registry cleaners.


Two points:

1. Yes, CCleaner's registry cleaning functionality is not as dangerous
as most other registry cleaners.

2. You say you've never had a problem with its registry cleaning.
Neither I nor anyone else who warns against the use of registry
cleaners has ever said that they always cause problems. If they always
caused problems, they would disappear from the market almost
immediately. Many people have used a registry cleaner and never had a
problem with it.

Rather, the problem with a registry cleaner is that it carries with it
the substantial *risk* of having a problem. And since there is no
benefit to using a registry cleaner, running that risk is a very bad
bargain. That's even true of CCleaner.

Wolf K wrote:


CCleaner is an abbreviation of CrapCleaner.
Have a good day,


The company dropped that name quite some time ago. The current name is
no longer (nor was it ever) and abbreviation for the former name.



--
...winston
msft mvp consumer apps

Al Drake wrote:
A while back when I build my newest system based on the Intel Core
i7-4790K installed in a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H with 32Gigs of Crucial
Ballistix Tactical Low Profile 32GB Kit I was in a rush and didn't want
to go through all the hassle of installing Win7 and all the apps so
nicely tuned on an AMD 6 core in an ASUS M4A87TD/USB3 so I used that
drive to see if it booted with the Intel Build. Well it did and
everything worked out fine. I thought I'd do it right after awhile but
it turned out that I never did and no longer need the AMD. I knew I had
a cluttered windows system so recently I happened to purchase CCleaner
Professional which seemed to remove all the DLLs hanging around although
I saw no actual improvement but it did make me feel better.

CCleaner Pro seems to e a nice little app and I don't know why I
didn't use it sooner.

Just thought I'd throw that in just for fun.
Al

As others have noted, CCleaner is not really a registry cleaner per se
like other advertised or avaialable products. It does have a very light,
non agressive module for removing specific orpahn registry items but it
should be used with caution since some findings may point to locations
on installation media that could be necessary to retain.

Use at your own risk and understand in advance what is being removed and
always backup the registry prior to any registry item removal.





--
...winston
msft mvp consumer apps

Wolf K wrote:
On 2014-12-17 6:03 AM, Paul wrote:
Al Drake wrote:
A while back when I build my newest system based on the Intel Core
i7-4790K installed in a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H with 32Gigs of Crucial
Ballistix Tactical Low Profile 32GB Kit I was in a rush and didn't
want to go through all the hassle of installing Win7 and all the apps
so nicely tuned on an AMD 6 core in an ASUS M4A87TD/USB3 so I used
that drive to see if it booted with the Intel Build. Well it did and
everything worked out fine. I thought I'd do it right after awhile but
it turned out that I never did and no longer need the AMD. I knew I
had a cluttered windows system so recently I happened to purchase
CCleaner Professional which seemed to remove all the DLLs hanging
around although I saw no actual improvement but it did make me feel
better.

CCleaner Pro seems to e a nice little app and I don't know why I
didn't use it sooner.

Just thought I'd throw that in just for fun.
Al

"remove all the DLLs"

I hope you're joking.

Removing an unused driver, before moving the hard drive to another
system is one thing. You don't need CCleaner to practice that
sort of hygiene.

But leave "system" DLLs alone.

Paul


You missed "...hanging around", IOW, doing nothing.

CCleaner removes only leftover junk, including orphan dlls. The only
"system" files it scrubs are Windows temp files, and the default is to
keep temps any younger than 24 hours.

HTH

It also has the potential to scrub other Windows files (Memory Dumps,
Windows Log files, Error Report files and optionally via Advanced
settings Windows generated system type files (Event Viewer logs,
Pre-fetch data, environment paths, IIs log files, Search logs, etc.) and
3rd party software application files (of which some may be beneficial to
retain for better productivity - e.g. 'Recent' files from application
software



--
...winston
msft mvp consumer apps

Wolf K wrote:
On 2014-12-17 7:02 PM, . . .winston wrote:
Wolf K wrote:


CCleaner is an abbreviation of CrapCleaner.
Have a good day,


The company dropped that name quite some time ago. The current name is
no longer (nor was it ever) and abbreviation for the former name.

I beg to differ. There are two capital CCs in the name, so.... Any
attempt to deny that is disingenuous IMO.

Have a good day,


It would be more ingenious to realize that Piriform changed the name due
to a another product called Crap Cleaner causing confusion (folks
downloaded and installed the wrong product creating user induced issues
with Windows that got blamed on Piriform and MSFT.

The first 'C' in CCleaner actually stands for 'Computer' and was duly
noted in a press release and prior to CCleaner 2.0 beta (in case you
were sleeping both occurred over 7 yrs ago).


--
...winston
msft mvp consumer apps

but re-enforces my opinion that all these registry cleaners

But your opinion is not important to the vast majority of people who knows
more than idiots like you.

On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 03:26:10 -0500, Al Drake
wrote:

A while back when I build my newest system based on the Intel Core
i7-4790K installed in a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H with 32Gigs of Crucial
Ballistix Tactical Low Profile 32GB Kit I was in a rush and didn't want
to go through all the hassle of installing Win7 and all the apps so
nicely tuned on an AMD 6 core in an ASUS M4A87TD/USB3 so I used that
drive to see if it booted with the Intel Build. Well it did and
everything worked out fine. I thought I'd do it right after awhile but
it turned out that I never did and no longer need the AMD. I knew I had
a cluttered windows system so recently I happened to purchase CCleaner
Professional which seemed to remove all the DLLs hanging around although
I saw no actual improvement but it did make me feel better.

CCleaner Pro seems to e a nice little app and I don't know why I
didn't use it sooner.

Just thought I'd throw that in just for fun.
Al

I found it increased shutdown time considerably, so I got rid of it.

On 17 Dec 2014, Peter Jason wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I found it increased shutdown time considerably, so I got rid of
it.

Since it's intended to be run on demand, it should have nothing at all
to do with shutdown time. The only option I can think of that might
affect that would be its new Monitoring feature, which has only been
available for the past few weeks, and can be turned off.

I think your shutdown "problem" was due to something else.