Running cCleaner

renegade

Hiya all.
Have installed this software, now want to run it, but it is saying that it will delete all ticked files- Which do I untick? Thanks to all who reply.

PROLIANT

renegade wrote: »

Hiya all.
Have installed this software, now want to run it, but it is saying that it will delete all ticked files- Which do I untick? Thanks to all who reply.

The files are crap, temporary junk that the computer collects from various applications.
Just delete the lot, no harm will be done.

renegade

Not very good advice Proliant! I have now lost all my passwords.

Sooler

Windows tab
Internet Explorer
Windows Explorer
System

tick everything

Advanced
Up to you - it tells you what it will do when you tick the box

I have ticked
Old prefetch data
User Assist History
IIS Log files
Hotfix Uninstallers



Applications tab
tick everything

Sooler

renegade wrote: »

Not very good advice Proliant! I have now lost all my passwords.

saving passwords is a crap thing to do

Untick Autocomplete Form History

espresso

renegade wrote: »

Not very good advice Proliant! I have now lost all my passwords.

So you basically could not be bothered to read the guide here on how to use ccleaner then!

:rolleyes:

Samba_Pa_Ti

ccleaner is a really good program, my only gripe with it is that it deletes all (ALL) of my cookies, so it forgets that im logged into forums like this (pretty much every forum i go on).

that said it only takes 2 minutes to log back into them, and considering it deletes about 3gig of temp files each time i run it, its great.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

if you go into options > cookies, you can 'save' the cookies you want by moving them into the right hand window, first highlight, then use the > arrow.

alared

Samba_Pa_Ti wrote: »

ccleaner is a really good program, my only gripe with it is that it deletes all (ALL) of my cookies, so it forgets that im logged into forums like this (pretty much every forum i go on).

http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/CookieMonster.php

Download and install this free utility and it will preserve the cookies that you don`t want deleted.

andy2004

Samba_Pa_Ti wrote: »

ccleaner is a really good program, my only gripe with it is that it deletes all (ALL) of my cookies, so it forgets that im logged into forums like this (pretty much every forum i go on).

that said it only takes 2 minutes to log back into them, and considering it deletes about 3gig of temp files each time i run it, its great.

So dont delete your cookies. remove the tick from cookies.

PROLIANT

renegade wrote: »

Not very good advice Proliant! I have now lost all my passwords.

Oops! Why did you depend on a computers temporary cache for the secure storage of such important data like passwords?

My advice to you was sound, if you do not have any
data redundancy then I am afraid the blame lies with you OM, I am sorry that you have lost your passwords but nothing harmful has been done here, CCleaner clears the 'Crap' off your computer like temporary data files and passwords stored in your cache etc.
A lesson learned for both of us here....don’t assume that people have backups and don’t listen to advice from IT professionals.