wow CCleaner made my machine run like new!

decibel.places's picture

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I just ran CCleaner (formerly "Crap Cleaner")

It removed about 4 gigs of temporary files, file fragments, and junk

I also tweaked my registry - I knew there were a lot of bad links there

Now the performance improvement is impressive!

[note] be sure to create a restore point and back up your registry before you go deleting stuff! I did not experience any problems, but you never know!

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Yup, I use it all the time, too. It also gets rid of startup errors some computers get when a program doesn't uninstall correctly.

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The cleaning also fixed a problem I was having with Mozilla apps (Firefox and Thunderbird) becoming unresponsive, and requiring a visit to Task Manager to kill them and restart. YAY! Laughing out loud

[EDIT]

However, I am still having a problem with Windows Explorer crapping out periodically (in Vista Home Premium) and the only fix I found online was one I already use, Task Mgr to kill it and restart...

seems to be fixed Laughing out loud

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However, I am still having a problem with Windows Explorer crapping out periodically (in Vista Home Premium) and the only fix I found online was one I already use, Task Mgr to kill it and restart...

Your problem has been highlighted. Sticking out tongue

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