CCleaner 4.0 released; faster. better looking, support for more applications, various new features
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[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;40048796]And you still have to pay for automatic updating[/QUOTE]
Doesn't the free version notify you?
[QUOTE=Desuh;40049235]I always am surprised how many registry errors it finds. Does fixing them actually do something?[/QUOTE]
You shouldn't mindlessly clean or "fix" your registry if you don't know what you are doing, even with such a program. Also, it's not really useful since you only get some kilobytes out of it.
[QUOTE=gokiyono;40049615]Doesn't the free version notify you?[/QUOTE]
Yeah but you still have to go to the website, download the setup and install it. There's no reason not to have a built-in updater.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;40049765]Yeah but you still have to go to the website, download the setup and install it. There's no reason not to have a built-in updater.[/QUOTE]
My versions of CCleaner and Defraggler are pretty old because I can't be assed to go to the site and download it again :v:
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;40049765]Yeah but you still have to go to the website, download the setup and install it. There's no reason not to have a built-in updater.[/QUOTE]
It literally takes no time to do so though.
And as far as I can remember it even gives a link to the update page.
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55 million downloads in 1 day, or am I missing something here?
[QUOTE=michaeldim;40047444]Thanks lads![/QUOTE]
I remember that name from back when I used Sonique for playing music
[IMG]http://fatherofcents.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Media_player_sonique_1.95.png[/IMG]
It had really pretty visualizations! And I was 12! Don't judge me.
I've never used this before. What's it for? From the posts it seems like it gets rid of needless files or something.
[QUOTE=Dominic0904;40050668]I've never used this before. What's it for? From the posts it seems like it gets rid of needless files or something.[/QUOTE]
Exactly
[QUOTE=Dominic0904;40050668]I've never used this before. What's it for? From the posts it seems like it gets rid of needless files or something.[/QUOTE]
It's called CrapCleaner, so that alludes to what it does pretty well.
[QUOTE=Melkor;40049153]I once cleared 2 GB in a single cleaning.[/QUOTE]
My very first cleaning was somewhere around 6-10 gig.
Ooh, neat.
ProcessExplorer, MalwareBytes, and CCleaner. Those are all I need. They're all free and yet I've gotten better results with just those than any of the paid crap I've used in the past. Alongside shortcuts to the MMC and System Configuration utilities, and I haven't had a crash in years.
Screw all this automated "real-time protection" junk, it's all a bunch of resource-hogging snake oil. Just give me the keys to the broom closet and I can take care of myself.
[QUOTE=Melkor;40049153]I once cleared 2 GB in a single cleaning.[/QUOTE]
You think that's bad? I remember installing and running it on my aunt's computer during a check-up and ended up clearing out over 6GB worth of junk, most of them temporary internet files.
Guess it's time to quit ignoring the update prompts whenever I open Ccleaner.
I don't clear internet files, speeds up browsing IMO but pretty new icons.
Aww, no day 1 mac release.
Shame about that, the duplicate image eraser would have made my secret folders lighter.
[QUOTE=VinLAURiA;40051370]Ooh, neat.
ProcessExplorer, MalwareBytes, and CCleaner. Those are all I need. They're all free and yet I've gotten better results with just those than any of the paid crap I've used in the past. Alongside shortcuts to the MMC and System Configuration utilities, and I haven't had a crash in years.
Screw all this automated "real-time protection" junk, it's all a bunch of resource-hogging snake oil. Just give me the keys to the broom closet and I can take care of myself.
You think that's bad? I remember installing and running it on my aunt's computer during a check-up and ended up clearing out over 6GB worth of junk, most of them temporary internet files.[/QUOTE]
Are you saying you dont have a real time antivirus? Thats pretty silly.
Real time AVs take up barely any resources, yo.
The old icon was ugly as hell. I want to see a Defraggler icon done in this new style.
[QUOTE=Desuh;40049235]I always am surprised how many registry errors it finds. Does fixing them actually do something?[/QUOTE]
I would heavily advise not to do this, it can cause problems to your system, and in some extreme cases, corrupt your OS
Unless you really new what you were doing, but you'd still need a reason to do it in the first place (getting rid of a certain registry key that you had to get rid of for some reason)
[QUOTE=The Baconator;40052583]I would heavily advise not to do this, it can cause problems to your system, and in some extreme cases, corrupt your OS
Unless you really new what you were doing, but you'd still need a reason to do it in the first place (getting rid of a certain registry key that you had to get rid of for some reason)[/QUOTE]I've never any issues with using it
[QUOTE=The Baconator;40052583]I would heavily advise not to do this, it can cause problems to your system, and in some extreme cases, corrupt your OS
Unless you really new what you were doing, but you'd still need a reason to do it in the first place (getting rid of a certain registry key that you had to get rid of for some reason)[/QUOTE]
It'd only cause system issues if things still relied on the entries of which it was deleting. Which things don't, and that's what CCleaner searches for.
All it ever finds when I run the registry error remover on my laptop is "Unused Extensions" and uninstall keys or whatever for programs I had in fact, uninstalled.
Honestly, clearing out registry keys with CCleaner should never harm your OS, if it does, you've do e something to it yourself. Seeing as all it removes are keys that point to nothing, and keys for things that don't exist on your system, it's pretty safe.
The speed up is unnoticeable, but it can make the registry nicer to work with if you do tinker with it for any reason, less junk lying around, so slightly quicker searches and RegEdit population.
It also offers you the option to save a backup of your registry.
One time it somehow managed to corrupt my Windows, no idea what it deleted but without my NAS i would have been fired from my job because these files were for some important presentation.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;40052583]I would heavily advise not to do this, it can cause problems to your system, and in some extreme cases, corrupt your OS
Unless you really new what you were doing, but you'd still need a reason to do it in the first place (getting rid of a certain registry key that you had to get rid of for some reason)[/QUOTE]
If you've ever used CCLeaner you would know that it mostly finds unnecessary registry entries that are not used anymore.
It hardly "fixes" anything, it just cleans the registry so that there are just what there should be.
This reminded me that I hadn't ran CCleaner in a while.
Downloaded the new version, ran it, deleted 14 gigabytes worth of shit
