CCleaner Tips & Tricks

by Venkat eswarlu on June 15, 2009

in Freeware,tips and tricks,Troubleshooting

 CCleaner Tips & Tricks

CCleaner is a freeware utility that protects your Privacy by cleaning all browsing history ,saves free space for hard drive by cleaning temporary internet files ,temp files ,cache and thus by improves system performance.With CCleaner you can uninstall programs ,clean Windows Registry and can fix broken shortcuts also.

Here are the requirements to run CCleaner in your Computer and more info:

  • You need to be administrator to install and use CCleaner.
  • It supports Win 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista
  • You can not delete flies using CCleaner using Guest account.
  • It supports 64 bit versions of XP and Vista.
  • There are No Mac and Linux versions for CCleaner.

Since Lot of people like me use it daily, here are some CCleaner Tips & Tricks

If you don’t know about CCleaner till now read

Wipe out all Unneeded files from your PC with Excellent free Ccleaner

1.Install New CCleaner without uninstalling old version of CCleaner icon biggrin CCleaner Tips & Tricks o you think that you need to uninstall older version of CCleaner before installing new version ,you can use it without uninstalling previous version by doing so you can retain the customization and settings in older version.

2.Print list of programs installed in your computer using CCleaner:This is excellent feature in CCleaner hardly no one have recognized it.

Open CCleaner click “Tools” in the “Uninstall” entry you can find all programs installed ,which you can be saved to text file by clicking save to text file at the bottom of it.

 CCleaner Tips & Tricks

You can read more ways to print list of programs installed in a computer by reading

How To Print List of Installed Programs In Your Computer

3.Set CCleaner to close after it finishes cleaning:You can set CCleaner to stay remain or close after it finishes cleaning.

Open CCleaner click “options” and click “Advanced” then select or enable “close program after cleaning”.

4.Backup and Restore registry before cleaning Registry with CCleaner:As you know CCleaner cleans registry by scanning for issues ,you can backup registry before fixing selected issues with CCleaner.You can restore that backup registry file by right clicking on it and selecting “Merge”.

5.Use Portable CClenaer to avoid crappy toolbars:As I have written

 Crappy and Nasty Toolbars Bundled with Ccleaner and Foxit Reader 

Since CClenaer is a freeware, they will get money only through promoting these toolbars through CCleaner we can not blame CCleaner for that ,we can avoid that by using Portable CCleaner.As you can take this in your USB drive

download CCleaner Portable

6.Set CCleaner to run whenever your computer starts:You can even set  CCleaner to run and clean without your intervention whenever computer starts or at specified time using

  • Scheduled tasks for example read

How to Shutdown Your Computer at Specific Time

  • Creating shortcut for it by using CClenaer.exe/Auto and drag that to startup folder.
  • Or Open CCleaner ,click “options” and click “settings” and select or check “Run CCleaner whenever computer starts”.

You can even set your Computer to shutdown after cleaning of CCleaner by using CCleaner.exe/AUTO/SHUTDOWN .

Bonus :Troubleshooting issues with CCleaner

1.If you use CCleaner you have a chance of getting “RunDLL-Erroor in InetCpl.cpl

read How to Fix “RUNDLL- Error in InetCpl.cpl Missing entry:ClearMyTracksByProcess”

2.If you get ” CClenaer.exe –Corrupt file error

read How to Fix CCleaner.exe – Corrupt File error

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This post will be updated, if I found new tips for CCleaner.

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Blogspot to wordpress June 18, 2009 at 7:33 am

This is one must hae tool for all computer user.
This is one of those tool which I install after installing my OS.
Kudos for such a nice post

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