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Pieter

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Fact: CCleaner frees up LOTS of disk space
« on: January 13, 2007, 02:13:05 AM »
If you think like I did and believe that cleaning software can't free up more than +/- 200MB of disk space, you're wrong! CCleaner really does work! I was able to free up nearly 2GB of disk space without deleting anything that I still use. Gotta love that...

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Re: Fact: CCleaner frees up LOTS of disk space
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2007, 01:35:17 PM »
Was it just a bunch of little stuff that it cleaned up or were there some big files in there? Looks like your Internet Explorer temporary files took up 100MB which is much more than what I have...and I haven't used this in awhile so I may have to give it a shot.
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Re: Fact: CCleaner frees up LOTS of disk space
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2007, 04:16:32 PM »
Gave my mate this program to use and he freed up 2gb in space from cookies/caches etc...
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Re: Fact: CCleaner frees up LOTS of disk space
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2007, 03:23:38 PM »
I used CCleaner for a bit, but I found it was deleting toooo much, like the programs from the start menu and stuff.
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Re: Fact: CCleaner frees up LOTS of disk space
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2007, 07:23:02 AM »
i must admit i like the fact that it deletes everything but i know what i am deleting so i have no major problems, just nice to have alot of space =D
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Re: Fact: CCleaner frees up LOTS of disk space
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2007, 07:22:31 AM »
Wonder how this program fares with others like TuneUp Utilities for example?

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Re: Fact: CCleaner frees up LOTS of disk space
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2007, 10:08:06 AM »
I haven't used TuneUp Utilities before, but CCleaner is really nice. I just ran it the other day and it cleared up 500MB of stuff. Doesn't seem like it unnecessarily deleted anything either.
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Re: Fact: CCleaner frees up LOTS of disk space
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2007, 10:53:23 PM »
I just ran CCleaner today on a friend's laptop.  It's almost brand new, and I still cleared over 200 MB!  Gotta love CCleaner.  O0
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Re: Fact: CCleaner frees up LOTS of disk space
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2007, 06:38:28 PM »
The other day i read someone who tried TuneUp Utilities.
Fixes many things but he said it didn't seem to make anything faster.

Personally, i did a scan with AVG AV a few days ago and it found a backdoor trojan belonging to TuneUp Utilities.
The program was rendered inoperative.
I wrote to AVG and to TuneUp, still no response with regards to test results or acknowledgment that there may be somekind of spyware...   :-\


CCleaner sure does remove alot!

-a bit late, but i remember AVG did respond and problem was solved.
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Re: Fact: CCleaner frees up LOTS of disk space
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2007, 11:36:51 PM »
I haven't tried TuneUp myself, but I'm guessing that the problem with AVG is more of something on AVG's end and not TuneUp's. Sometimes antivirus software has a tendency to label things as a virus/trojan when in fact it isn't. I guess it is always better to be on the safe side of things though.
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Re: Fact: CCleaner frees up LOTS of disk space
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2007, 01:13:35 PM »
CCleaner is a great app.  The only problem I ever had was with the registry cleaner, it would remove some file associations, but other than that it works great.

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Re: Fact: CCleaner frees up LOTS of disk space
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2007, 04:58:13 PM »
I think that is why they make the registry cleaner a separate process, so that users don't mistakingly run it. Cleaning the registry is always risky business but CCleaner hasn't messed mine up yet...*crosses fingers*
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