How Many Times Should A Cleaning Program Be Run?
July 28th, 2013
Also would it be necessary to delete my temp folder on top of running this program?
Thanks for any help.
It helps you to free up space on your hard disk to improve the performance of your computer. The tool identifies files that you can safely delete and then enables you to choose whether you want to delete some or all of the identified files.
Use Disk Cleanup to:
Remove temporary Internet files.
Delete downloaded program files, such as Microsoft ActiveX controls and Java applets.
Empty the Recycle Bin.
Remove Windows temporary files, such as error reports.
Delete optional Windows components that you don’t use.
Delete installed programs that you no longer use.
Remove unused restore points and shadow copies from System Restore.
Thanks for the response, but I understand what it does I’m just wondering how many times i should run it and if i should delete my temp files manually first.
I run it around once a month i let it take the temp files and never have any problems.
i normally run ccleaner daily and tuneup utilities once a week and i don’t think you need to delete your temp files manually first
Thanks for the responses, the only other thing I’m worried about is after running it once, if I run again it will still give me MS Search, Thumbnail Cache or Windows Log Files, is this stuff that’s regenerated or is it stuff that I should be cleaning, i noticed if i run it a few times I’ll eventually get a 0kb result.
I never run it, computer parts are so fast these days.
The benefits aren’t that big.
Run it once a week and you will be fine.
I run CC at the end of each day, just before shut down – it’s a good privacy thing.
I run it daily before shutdown.
Yep I run it before shutdown each session along with AFT Cleaner and MRU Blaster.
In my opinion it depends.
I have an SSD for like 2 years now, since I have it, I like “never” used any program like that.
I could run it each day though because I would not even notice the program running, with that said, it’s also useless for me to run, since I won’t notice any speed difference.
Fluffbutt replied: I run CC at the end of each day, just before shut down - it's a good privacy thing.
Yes, that’s a good thing…
And don’t forget to shut down, as this also gives Windows a chance to clean itself up, when shutting down and restarting..
No need to be a Hero and run the system 24/7 without a break!!
after 7 or 14 days of pc usage
Never.
Same here, never.
I run the junk cleaner in CCleaner once a month. Never use the register cleaner though, how an earth does CCleaner know which bits of register are valid or not, and cleaning you register wont ever make you machine run faster, noy that you would notice any how
approx every week. helps delete some ~love~ that i forget to manually delete
capnchronic replied: , because after the initial run, future runs will still find things like "MS Search" Thumbnail Cache" etc. Would it make sense to run it, restart it, then run again? Or is that overkill?
overkill. You need to give the system time before temp files will build up again. A couple of KB here and there wont make a difference. Even a couple of gb wouldn’t make a difference unless you were actually running out of room on your HD.
I run it once a week only to clean temp and web cashed files…. I found that some browsers cash too much data from internet…. my personal record is 14GB cashed in Firefox after 3 weeks
When I feel my computer being bogged down.
Simply put, the only possible harm running CCleaner etc… everyday is that it may reduce the life of your hard drive. However, the life of the HDs will not be significantly decreased.