Hi again. I'm going to make a tutorial today, well not a tutorial but a review on a program I'm using called CCleaner. This is what it looks like, a little pear there. It tells you the computer specs, yeah you can look at it. First I will say you weren’t—open your browser, I have a Safari in use or others and type in just CCleaner. The first result will be CCleaner.com. You can also get this from like download.com or techradar, devious sites, file hippo, just don’t torrent it, it’s free software anyway. Click it for quick tour and click here to download CCleaner. You can read all about it at CCleaner.com. So download it there and once you do, install it, the instructions are extremely simple. You will have—it will probably give you a little thing on your desktop or you can just go to your menu and type in CCleaner to run it for the first time it comes up. Click on it and USB comes up of course and CCleaner.
What it does, it’s exactly what it says, it cleans your C drive. It removes temporary files, I have it running in a few minutes and it’s already going to pick up a few megabytes. It will remove your cache like recently used documents so if you go into here, recent items, this will be gone. It will just remove junk basically, the crap that makes Windows run slower after a while. You can check and uncheck certain things and that’s like an advanced thing. So I won’t check it because I like my auto complete. It will take away cookies, it will take away download history, internet history, cache, saved information, etcetera, as well as recent applications. This is for the cleaner part. So I'm going to hit analyze. If you don’t want to analyze it before you run it, just hit run cleaner. So it says you can remove 4 megabytes, not a big deal but I will run it anyway. It says they have been removed now. Very quick actually, very, very quick, I don’t have that fast computer, it’s a laptop.
Secondly, there’s a registry change. I have not run this in a while but I will—I’ll leave all this checked. It will basically look in your registry, find unused shortcuts, errors, issues, missing dll’s, installers that are no longer needed and delete/fix them. So I have a few unused file extensions, .zo, .xpi, I don’t know, I don’t use those. So it’s just about finishing and it only found 4 issues, I want to hit fix selective issues and not back up changes. Fix all issues and there they go, done.
Tools, you can uninstall programs, here’s a list of all your programs instead of going actually into the Control Panel, waiting for that to load because you know Vista takes—you just—and then go find any programs and features and everything. It’s right here, it’s right here for you, you can rename it, uninstall it or just delete it completely. And also you can remove startup items so I have enabled, and if you disabled, you can select one and disable or delete it completely, all in CCleaner. And if we have—here that don’t really make much of a difference, you can run it when the computer starts or when it shuts down, so, pretty cool.
That, ladies and gentlemen is CCleaner, have fun.
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