I produced a video last week demonstrating how to use the basic functions of CCleaner. This week, I wanted to show some of the lesser known features of the CCleaner program. Like any add-on utility program, you must be very careful when using some of its advanced or custom functions. The same is true in this case. WARNING: Use some… Read More »How to use CCleaner – Advanced Video Tip
For many years, I have recommended using the CCleaner disk cleanup utility for Windows. It does a more thorough job and is faster than the Windows cleanup utility built-in to all versions of Windows. In this short video, I demonstrate how to get started with CCleaner. I may delve deeper into the product in a future video.
Name: Eve
From: Cedaredfe
OS: Windows XP
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I downloaded the Ccleaner and ended up with the Yahoo tool bar. How do I get rid of it. Thanks
Hello Eve. I will answer your question in a minute, but first, let me talk about prevention. As always, prevention is the best medicine. During the setup of CCleaner, there is an option to NOT install the Yahoo Toolbar (see image below).
This lesson applies to almost any software we install. Take just a few seconds to look Read More »Email of the Week – 014
The summer has kept me busy and I let a few too many question stack up (remember that you can make a small donation when asking your question to get priority). I answered all the questions you asked the last 2 weeks in these two videos. The first video contains questions from Doris, Henry, Andrew, Jean, John, Rae Ann, Craig,… Read More »Rick Answers his Email Videocast – 053
Temporary files need to be cleaned from your computer from time-to-time. I recommend at least monthly. Temporary files are the support files created by Windows and the programs we use every day to perform the functions we ask of them. We don’t see these files because they created behind the scenes and can stack up over time and number in the tens of thousands.
Keeping these caches of small, numerous and expendable files cleaned out of our systems not only saves disk space, but also helps the peformace of the individual programs and the computer in general.
Over the past few years, I made it a habit to addRead More »CCleaner adds helpful new feature to cleaning results