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CClean; what ares are "safe" to clean

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SinOfLiberty

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Hello guys,

Thats is me again. I have my new rig with windows 7 installed on it and i want to help keep the computer lean and fast. I have installed ccleaner to maintain computer performance. Now i have to clean certain ares of the computer. Can someone please help to on what ares should i clean and what are better not to touch.

Thanks,

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SinOfLiberty said:
Hello guys,

Thats is me again. I have my new rig with windows 7 installed on it and i want to help keep the computer lean and fast. I have installed ccleaner to maintain computer performance. Now i have to clean certain ares of the computer. Can someone please help to on what ares should i clean and what are better not to touch.

Thanks,

SOL
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I used to use TweakNow PowerPack. Among the other features it has and a registry cleaner. After the scan it was categorizing the results in three categories. Items "Safe to delete", "Not fully safe to delete" and "Unknown". I was always deleting the "Safe to delete items" and from the other to categories registry entries of programs I had uninstalled and I never encountered any problem.

If you don't want all the features of TweakNow PowerPack you can download TweakNow RegCleaner which is a program that includes only the reg cleaner.

All these applications are free.
 
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SinOfLiberty

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Thanks for advice,Costas Athan. I have heard that it is unnecessary to clean registry files. I am not pro in those things, but should i clean some of them or not touch it at all?

BTW, in ccleaner there was a system clean section. It helps a lot from what i heard but do you know by any chance what is safe to delete there?

Thanks
 
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SinOfLiberty said:
Thanks for advice,Costas Athan. I have heard that it is unnecessary to clean registry files. I am not pro in those things, but should i clean some of them or not touch it at all?

BTW, in ccleaner there was a system clean section. It helps a lot from what i heard but do you know by any chance what is safe to delete there?

Thanks
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What do you mean what it is safe to clean? What does this system clean include? Does it include anything else besides registry? Post a screenshot or just describe it, because I'm not familiar with Ccleaner.

Regarding performance there isn't any important gain from registry cleaning and defragmentation.
 
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in windows explorer it says it will clean the following:Recent Documents; Run in start menu;other explorer MRUs; Thumbnail Cache; Task bar jump Lists.

System:Memory Dumps;Chkdsk File fragments;memory dumps;clipboard;temporary files;Recycle bin.

In those 2 categories what are safe ares to clean?

By safe clean i mean what is safe to delete while will not harm my computer or cause system instability.
 
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SinOfLiberty said:
in windows explorer it says it will clean the following:Recent Documents; Run in start menu;other explorer MRUs; Thumbnail Cache; Task bar jump Lists.

System:Memory Dumps;Chkdsk File fragments;memory dumps;clipboard;temporary files;Recycle bin.

In those 2 categories what are safe ares to clean?

By safe clean i mean what is safe to delete while will not harm my computer or cause system instability.
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All of these are safe to delete.

Everything listed under explorer has to do with history: documents you opened, commands you have run etc. Don't clean the thumbnail cache for performance reasons (not that if you clean it it will break anything).

Everything listed under system are also safe to delete. They will not make anything stop working. E.g. memory dumbs are copies of what RAM contains when a crash of a program occurs and can be used to investigate the problem. But it isn't need for normal operation of the system. Again you may not want to delete the contents of the recycle Bin with CCleaner just in case you want to recover something. You can delete it manually when you want to.
 
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Personally i wouldn't use any 3rd party "cleaning" software with windows, i've seen too many people having major problems because of software like this. Use windows built in defrag and disc cleanup and you shouldn't be losing any performance compared to using this software.
 
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Puppies04 said:
Personally i wouldn't use any 3rd party "cleaning" software with windows, i've seen too many people having major problems because of software like this. Use windows built in defrag and disc cleanup and you shouldn't be losing any performance compared to using this software.
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I have CCleaner (it was called Crap Cleaner before :) and then they changed the name a few years back), without ever having a problem. I use it on all the computers I have at home (8 or 9) and all the computers I take care of at work (20 or so). I also use their registry cleaner. Works perfect and again never a problem. It also gives you the opportunity to back up the registry each time you clean it if you need to go back.

Best free cleaner out there, IMO.
 
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OOps, i searched defrag in windows and there it says that it runs on a schedule every Wednesday. So, does it mean that it will defragment my hard disk every wednesday? Also after I analyzed the dick it said that it is 17% fragmented. Any ideas what does it mean?
Sorry, i am a newbie in cleaning and difragmentation.
 
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OOps, i searched defrag in windows and there it says that it runs on a schedule every Wednesday. So, does it mean that it will defragment my hard disk every wednesday? Also after I analyzed the dick it said that it is 17% fragmented. Any ideas what does it mean?
Sorry, i am a newbie in cleaning and difragmentation.
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Well a HDD is divided into sectors. A sector is the smallest amount of data written or read by the drive. When a file is saved on the disk the ideal situation is to be saved on sequential sectors for performance reasons. But that's not always the case, because there may be not as many sequential sectors free as needed for the size of a particular file. And that's how fragmentation occurs.

If defragmentation is scheduled for a certain day it will take place then if the PC is turned on. You can always run it manually if you want.
 
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From what i know is that often running hdd defragmentation will cause hard drive instability.
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Instability? That's a very general statement. What kind of instability it is supposed to cause?

The sure is that during defragmentation drive will get busy and that will slow down other applications you may run the same time if they have to access the HDD too.
 
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I mean if i will defrag hard drive a lot of time it will cause it to slow down and other bugs. I have read it from the website.
 
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SinOfLiberty said:
I can not find it anymore, but never mind. I will do it once a month, cause i do not use my hard drive very often. I got some info from this website:http://help.lockergnome.com/windows/Defrag--ftopict561486.html

Lastly, i want to ask, if i will defragment hard drive will i lose all my data? ex;games, movies? And do i need to perform any steps to prepare hard drive for defrag?

Thanks you,

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Just run the defragmentation application. No special preparation needed and there is no data loss.
 
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SinOfLiberty

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Big thank you for help, Costas Athan

It is good that there is someone out there who can help if you have a question regarding computer soft.

Thanks,

SOL
 
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