OT - PC drive cleaning utility

[Dave Baker]

I just have to point you all at this cracking little utility I came across the other day.

(used to be called Crap Cleaner). It gets rid of all the unwanted, unused, redundant and temp files on your hard drive and defunct or faulty registry entries which slow down your pc or make it try and load software you no longer have. It gets rid of cookies and also lets you note ones you want to keep. There are a few I really need which store the preferences and login details for various sites I visit regularly like Ebay and if you delete every cookie you'll have to set these back up again each time. Once they're in CCleaner's list you can just delete every other cookie you constantly accumulate on a daily basis with a single click. That used to take me ages because I had to go through the list of hundreds, even thousands, and sort out only the ones I didn't want to keep.

It also not only gets rid of temp files from websites you've visited but resets the index.dat files which actually store details of every site you've ever visited even if you think you've cleaned the rest up. Resetting the index.dat files is not a trivial task for the average user as the system protects them and you have to boot up in safe mode or from a diskette and do it in Dos.

First time round it found over 1000 redundant entries in my Windows Registry and got rid of 8000 unwanted files from my C drive. My PC is more stable, faster, uses less memory now and the CPU running temp has actually dropped by 2 degrees from 56C to 54C.

I know, I sound like a snake oil salesman but it really is that good and it's free!

[SJP]

[Rod]

to be about keeping oil, moss and other dirty things off the concrete/asphalt/block/slab areas used for parking.

[Andy Hall]

Installing Linux or FreeBSD does an even better job of this.

[Lobster]

Me too - was wondering why anyone might consider my Kaercher power washer to be not politically correct.

David

[geoff]

In message , Dave Baker writes

It also has a couple of other useful siblings - defraggler and a unerease program whose name I forgot

[Andy Champ]

errr.. are you running Win95 by any chance?

'cos if you can boot Dos and do anything much to an NTFS file system, I'm impressed!

Andy

[Colin Wilson]

jkdefrag rocks for defragging - simple program, but damn effective.

[Steve Walker]

Thirded ditto

[John]

"Colin Wilson" wrote in message news: [e-mail]...

Wow - both are great

[John Stumbles]

damn - he beat me to it ;-)

[Dave Baker]

Command Prompt then. That's Dos as far as I'm concerned.

[mogga]

And the pc bit is where you can't call dirt dirt anymore as it's unfair to tyhe hygenically-challenged items?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Is this the one who's advert told me that my windows registry contained over 7000 unwanted entries? and I had three viruses?

which was odd, since I have a Macintosh running OSX.

[Colin Wilson]

Absolutely not - Crap Cleaner is, to the best of my knowledge 100% legit, and other than it having the yahoo toolbar in the installer now (which you can skip installing), no "gotchas".

If you're seeing something like that, you were either looking at a dodgy website with flash / java popups, or you've been watching some very iffy "videos" and installed a codec used to deliver malware right to your ass.

I've used it for years, and I help people remove malware - my website is at

FYI :-}

[<me9]

Make sure it doesn't just delete all cookies. I did and have had to re-sign upagain from scratch for my internet banking as I didn't have my user name.

Apart from that, it seems to work, computer seems slightly faster.

[Steve Firth]

So does format.

And then you can install something that isn't Winshite.

[John Rumm]

Sysinternals used to have drivers that allowed full manipulation of NTFS filesystems under DOS - but not sure what happened to them when MS bought them.

The ultimate boot CD

has some tools for at least reading NTFS outside of windows.