Solve : Quick question about CCleaner.?

1.	Solve : Quick question about CCleaner.?
Answer» I know you guys are all fans of CCleaner and I figured I'd finally download it and run it. There's almost 300 MB of stuff marked for removal and it'd be awesome to have that little bit of free space (I don't need it, but it'd still be nice). But do I have to worry about anything important getting deleted? How does the program know if I need any of this stuff or not? Most of it looks like stuff I don't need, but what if there are things that I need and just don't realize it? Or am I just being silly? Also, is there a way to tell to leave certain files ALONE? I'd prefer to keep my Ad-Aware logs and some of these Java files that it wants to delete.CBMatt.... Well , have you looked at the settings ? it shows you exactly what it is going to be removed....... also if you look at the ITEMS to be removed, and see something you don't want removed ........ highlite that item , right click and save as text file . But I think you will find that theres nothing ccleaner is removing that you need . dl65 Quote CBMatt.... Well , have you looked at the settings ? it shows you exactly what it is going to be removed....... also if you look at the items to be removed, and see something you don't want removed ........ [highlight]highlite that item , right click and save as text file .[/highlight] But I think you will find that theres nothing ccleaner is removing that you need . When I do that, it simply makes a log of the things it has marked for removal.Well, I found the option to have it ignore Ad-Aware, so I'll remove it from the search list, which will take care of that. As for the Java files...I guess I'll just manually move them since for the life of me, I can't find a way to tell CCleaner to not delete them. Here we go...CBMatt..... oops.....I assumed you wanted a log of what was removed ...... If there's something that ccleaner has identified as junk and for some reason you dont think it is ........ before you remove anything , go to where ever this info is and save it to a separate folder ........ I have never heard of ccleaner removing anything which was required by the operating system or any of the installed programs ...but I SUPPOSE there has to be a first time for EVERYTHING ....... If you have information which points to ccleaner removing any necessary part of the operating system or any installed program rendering them inoperative...... Please let US know immediately so we may take the necessary action. BTW , which version of ccleaner do you have installed ? dl65 Currently, I have version 1.36 installed, but I'm updating to the latest version as we speak. And yeah, I just moved the files that I didn't want it to delete. They weren't important or anything...they're just cache files for a site I like and because I have a horrible internet connection, I wanted to keep the files so the site will still load quickly. I don't have any real reason to suspect that CCleaner was deleting anything important. There were just a lot of files that I didn't recognize, so I wanted to be on the safe side. But after reviewing my log, it doesn't look like anything was too important. I just thought I'd ask for my own comfort. Heh. Thank you for your input. I'm really glad I finally jumped on the CC bandwagon, by the way. It cleared out tons of registry junk that I didn't need. It would've taken me forever to do that myself.

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I know you guys are all fans of CCleaner and I figured I'd finally download it and run it. There's almost 300 MB of stuff marked for removal and it'd be awesome to have that little bit of free space (I don't need it, but it'd still be nice). But do I have to worry about anything important getting deleted? How does the program know if I need any of this stuff or not? Most of it looks like stuff I don't need, but what if there are things that I need and just don't realize it? Or am I just being silly?

Also, is there a way to tell to leave certain files ALONE? I'd prefer to keep my Ad-Aware logs and some of these Java files that it wants to delete.CBMatt.... Well , have you looked at the settings ? it shows you exactly what it is going to be removed....... also if you look at the ITEMS to be removed, and see something you don't want removed ........ highlite that item , right click and save as text file .
But I think you will find that theres nothing ccleaner is removing that you need .

dl65

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CBMatt.... Well , have you looked at the settings ? it shows you exactly what it is going to be removed....... also if you look at the items to be removed, and see something you don't want removed ........ [highlight]highlite that item , right click and save as text file .[/highlight]
But I think you will find that theres nothing ccleaner is removing that you need .

When I do that, it simply makes a log of the things it has marked for removal.Well, I found the option to have it ignore Ad-Aware, so I'll remove it from the search list, which will take care of that. As for the Java files...I guess I'll just manually move them since for the life of me, I can't find a way to tell CCleaner to not delete them. Here we go...CBMatt..... oops.....I assumed you wanted a log of what was removed ...... If there's something that ccleaner has identified as junk and for some reason you dont think it is ........ before you remove anything , go to where ever this info is and save it to a separate folder ........ I have never heard of ccleaner removing anything which was required by the operating system or any of the installed programs ...but I SUPPOSE there has to be a first time for EVERYTHING ....... If you have information which points to ccleaner removing any necessary part of the operating system or any installed program rendering them inoperative...... Please let US know immediately so we may take the necessary action.
BTW , which version of ccleaner do you have installed ?

dl65 Currently, I have version 1.36 installed, but I'm updating to the latest version as we speak. And yeah, I just moved the files that I didn't want it to delete. They weren't important or anything...they're just cache files for a site I like and because I have a horrible internet connection, I wanted to keep the files so the site will still load quickly.

I don't have any real reason to suspect that CCleaner was deleting anything important. There were just a lot of files that I didn't recognize, so I wanted to be on the safe side. But after reviewing my log, it doesn't look like anything was too important. I just thought I'd ask for my own comfort. Heh. Thank you for your input.

I'm really glad I finally jumped on the CC bandwagon, by the way. It cleared out tons of registry junk that I didn't need. It would've taken me forever to do that myself.

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