Recommended Settings and use of CCleaner – Temporary Internet Files Clean Up Browsers, Applications

Recommended Settings and use of CCleaner – Temporary Internet Files Clean Up Browsers, Applications
January 14, 2012 — bluecollarpc
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Recommended Settings and use of CCleaner – Temporary Internet Files Clean Up Browsers, Applications

TO CLEARN TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES IN ALL BROWSERS GET CCLEANER….

CCleaner – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (very popular, safe, freeware/donate)
CCleaner supports the cleaning of temporary and unneeded files from certain …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCleaner
CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/

ADD FOR FIREFOX….
BetterPrivacy :: Add-ons for Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623
Customize Firefox, Thunderbird, and other Mozilla products with thousands of … Better Privacy serves to protect against not deletable long term cookies,…. http://addons.mozilla.org/
 ….deletes flash cookies that none others generally delete. Cookies
should only be given session cookies permissions as a privacy and security issue (cookies have been broken into by malwares) and only if necessary.

CCLEANER SETTINGS / RECOMMENDED CLICKS

( CCleaner is for newbies and is indeed a Power User software utility for the advanced user as well ! )

****THERE ARE TWO SETTINGS COLUMNS – REVIEW *****

**** WINDOWS TAB / TOP

WINDOWS….
# Check all for Internet Explorer (ALL ! )

WINDOWS EXPLORER
# Recent Documents, Search Autocomplete, Other MRUs
(Do NOT click Network Passwords as no doubt this will keep deleting any Router type passwords in the system and you will have to keep typing in the Network Security Key (router password) each use.

SYSTEM
# Empty Recycle Bin (IF you are sure you do not need to recover mistaken deletions here. Be sure or do NOT check and simply open Recycle Bin and delete manually)

# Clipboard
# TEMPORARY FILES IS SPECIAL….. CCleaner only deletes these after they show as 2 DAYS OLD or older. IT IS BEST TO NOT CHECK THIS UNTIL THERE HAS BEEN AT LEAST A COUPLE AND MORE DAYS AFTER EACH SOFTWARE INSTALLATION OR MAJOR CHANGES TO THE SYSTEM SUCH AS WINDOWS UPDATES.

Instead you can click this and then DO NOT CLICK RUNCLEANER BUT RATHER CLICK “ANALYZE” which will not delete anything but scan and present what is available for deletion. If you see anything under around 100M size of files you are okay. UNLESS you have the Windows Updates icon in the bottom tray that says you have Updates to install – THEN anything over 100M size files total present may indicate malware present and has been running for awhile creating these.

PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE BLOG TO KNOW WHAT AND HOW TO USE THIS….
Temporary Internet Files – Windows Temp Files, Safe To Delete ?
January 14, 2010 — bluecollarpc
https://bluecollarpcwebs.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/temporary-internet-files-windows-temp-files-safe-to-delete/

ADVANCED
# DO NOT CHECK ANYTHING IN ADVANCED OR YOU MAY CAUSE SERIOUS DAMAGE TO
THE SYSTEM.


****APPLICATIONS TAB TOP
FIREFOX/MOZILLA
# CHECK ALL EXCEPT “Compact Databases”

APPLICATIONS
# CHECK ALL (According to what you have installed – example: Adobe Reader history)

INTERNET
# CHECK ALL (histories)

MULTIMEDIA
# CHECK ALL (histories)

WINDOWS
# OPTIONAL – You can check these or not if you wish to review using these and do not want the histories (logs) deleted.

CCLEANER – SOME MORE POWER USE CLICKS
{TIP: When using ANALYZE make sure you have clicked Run Cleaner and THEN add the items you wish to check without deleting with ANALYZE. Otherwise you will be looking at all the junk files you would normally delete anyway and will muddy the results of an Analyze scan as then you will just see the particular files you wanted to investigate WITHOUT all the other junk files added in the Analyze results.}

WINDOWS TAB TOP
—————–
SECTIONS:

WINDOWS EXPLORER
# RUN IN START MENU MAY NESS WITH START UP ORDER APPARENTLY AND WOULD BE BEST LEFT UNCHECKED

SYSTEM
# Memory Dumps, Chkdsk File Fragments
…. both of these should be left UNCHECKED as they will invariably only come into play at the rare Computer Crash event. This will inevitably create some special helpful information files of the event (annonymous) that will help Microsoft (or others involved – softwares, browsers, causes – annonymous) that may send out invisibly at the next computer start up. (There are settings in the Control Panel to turn these off or on – reports – RECOMMENDED to leave ON to be a help to all computer users for causes of these undesirable events that they may create patch/fix/updates to prevent the occasion from occurring again for all) .
(After the computer seems to be working again okay – you may want to check these and then click ANALYZE to see if there are any items here available per scan to delete safely. They would be really small no doubt in size not really affecting overall performance memory wise.)

# Windows Log Files …..are safe to delete, DO NOT click this as a regular clean up each time. These Logs are created automtically by Windows and can contain some information recent events that may be EXTREMELY HELPFUL to discover problems that can be easily fixed. Time to time the computer has been working fine would THEN be a time to ADD THIS to the Run Cl;eaner clean up. It will save nominal disk space as these are never really that big and in text only. The first clean up of these may be a large clean up as to 1M to 10M even at first run and if the computer is a couple years old. (They do pile up needlessly. ) TRY the CCLeaner Analyze first to see files size as example. OTHERWISE LEAVE UNCHECKED ! ! !

# DNS Cache, Font Cache ….. LEAVE UNCHECKED and do not use unless directed to by an at least Advanced User or Tech professional.

# Shortcuts…. DO NOT use this and simply delete those manually as many normal icons you use will suddenly disappear be using this to delete them. For power users building their own custom systems , this may be a desirable action to use this deletion feature.

ADVANCED
# NEVER USE ANY OF THESE UNLESS YOU ARE AN ADVANCED USER OR TECH PROFESSIONAL ! ! ! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ! ! !

AS MENTIONED CCLEANER IS NOT JUST FOR NOVICES AND VETERAN WINDOWS USERS – IT IS ALSO A PREMIUM SOFTWARE FOR ADVANCED AND TECH PROFESSIONALS USAGE (free tech help at forums, groups , lists etc. )


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