ccleaner help

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robertbiferi

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I use CCleaner and I need some help.

I click on the Registry Cleaner Tab and then I click on Scan For Problems and it does.
Then it brings up a lit of things to be fixed and I leave everything Selected with a check in the box.

Then I click Fix Selected.
And the next window has two tabs Fix Issue and Fix All I click Fix All.

And it does and all the prablems go off the screen so I close ccleaner and restart the computer.

Now I run it again and it brings up a big list again it never stops I thought I fixed everything.

I can do the same thing over and over and over as many time as I want.

Am I useing it wrong did this happen to anyone els??????????????
How do I use CCleaner??
 
Run it, then scan and fix issues repeatedly w/out restarting until it finds no more. When I run CCleaner for the first time on someone's computer, I have to do the scan/fix 3-6 times before it gets everything.

What's happening is when you remove the first set of errors, that creates new errors - keys that previously "made sense" to CCleaner were dependent upon the ones that you removed, so now they're broken. And this cycle keeps going until you get rid of all of the keys that don't "make sense"...

Make sense??? :P
 
Thankx but

Thanks for the help I will try it like you told me.

It is free this is why I like it and one thing?

I have win xp pro and I use chkdsk /r to find and repair bad cluster and things like that.
Is there a Free program that will do everything the chkdsk does sometimes I don't think it works?
 
Technically it doesnt really fix registry errors it just get's rid of unused registry entries. Most likely the ones that keep coming up after a restart are .xxx file extensions.
 
If it was properly programmed, wouldn't it cycle through itself, without the need for repeated user intervention? Or at least tell the user that it needs to be repeated?
 
CravinR1 said:
Its free and its good don't complain
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+1

seanspotatobiz said:
If it was properly programmed, wouldn't it cycle through itself, without the need for repeated user intervention? Or at least tell the user that it needs to be repeated?
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It is "properly programmed" - if you don't remove the first set of errors/pointers to missing files/whatever you want to call them, then no more would be found. Removing the first set of entries causes the next set of errors.
I agree, it could alert you that you should scan again after removing entries, or even automatically scan again after removing entries.
But then see the above post. ;)

If you want to talk about "proper programming", how about programmers taking responsibility for the mess their programs leave behind in the registry, and coding an uninstaller that would remove all of that crap when the program is removed. Then we wouldn't need programs like CCleaner.

In a perfect world. :P
 
deanj20 said:
If you want to talk about "proper programming", how about programmers taking responsibility for the mess their programs leave behind in the registry, and coding an uninstaller that would remove all of that crap when the program is removed. Then we wouldn't need programs like CCleaner.

In a perfect world. :P
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+1 good point
 
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