{"id":927,"date":"2010-06-05T22:19:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T12:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=927"},"modified":"2010-06-05T22:19:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T12:19:12","slug":"keep-your-computer-clean-with-ccleaner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/keep-your-computer-clean-with-ccleaner\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Computer Clean With CCleaner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a car, computers require maintenance (both hardware and software) and unsurprisingly a lot of people don&#8217;t understand how to keep their computers in good condition. As a result, people may result for expensive and bloated utility software that does little more when compared to free alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>With hard drive sizes soaring into the stratosphere, it can be hard to keep track of the rubbish that might be clogging up your Windows installation. Conversely, you may have a netbook or older laptop with a relatively small hard drive where all of those temporary files and log files can start to make an impact upon performance.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you rectify this problem?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_928\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CCleaner-Main-Screen.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-928\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-928\" title=\"CCleaner (Main Screen)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CCleaner-Main-Screen-280x300.png?resize=280%2C300\" alt=\"CCleaner (Main Screen)\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CCleaner-Main-Screen.png?resize=280%2C300&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CCleaner-Main-Screen.png?w=734&amp;ssl=1 734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCleaner (Main Screen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Enter <a title=\"CCleaner | Piriform\" href=\"http:\/\/www.piriform.com\/ccleaner\" target=\"_blank\">CCleaner<\/a> (which stands for Crap Cleaner). There&#8217;s a wide range of things you can have CCleaner scan such as (but not limited to):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Temporary Internet files (you will need to close your browsers first though),<\/li>\n<li>Cookies,<\/li>\n<li>History,<\/li>\n<li>Temporary files,<\/li>\n<li>Memory dumps (files created when you get a &#8220;<a title=\"Blue Screen of Death | Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bsod\" target=\"_blank\">blue screen of death<\/a>&#8221; or BSoD)<\/li>\n<li>Log Files,<\/li>\n<li>DNS Cache.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_929\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CCleaner-Registry-Integrity.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-929\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-929\" title=\"CCleaner (Registry Integrity)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CCleaner-Registry-Integrity-280x300.png?resize=280%2C300\" alt=\"CCleaner (Registry Integrity)\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CCleaner-Registry-Integrity.png?resize=280%2C300&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CCleaner-Registry-Integrity.png?w=734&amp;ssl=1 734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCleaner (Registry Integrity)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>CCleaner also has the ability to clean your registry. There is some debate over cleaning the registry but I believe that it can&#8217;t hurt to remove unneeded registry entries so long as you backup the changes before proceeding. Luckily, CCleaner gives you the opportunity to do just that before deleting the offending entries.<\/p>\n<p>The great thing about CCleaner is that it is completely free and has a very small footprint (3MB download and 10MB in RAM). You can even set it to run when Windows starts but I choose to run it every so often manually.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out, you might be surprised by what it uncovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a car, computers require maintenance (both hardware and software) and unsurprisingly a lot of people don&#8217;t understand how to keep their computers in good condition. As a result, people may result for expensive and bloated utility software that does little more when compared to free alternatives. 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