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General => Technical Help => Topic started by: celia on Wednesday 04 April 07 17:27 BST (UK)
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For around 18 months now on my temporary internet files on Disk cleanup.Now using 168,394k of space.I have been unsure if i should delete them or not,because i wasn't sure if they were internet web addresses visited or not.However i have now opened 3 of 16 files,they all say the same.
Internet Explorer
This page has an unspecified potential security flaw
would you like to continue? (I presume that means deleting them) The last file is
Type of file Data unknown application,created 29th Oct 2005.
Oct/November was when the computer was cleaned out and reinstalled.I have a suspicion that they might be the download files used when reinstalling the P.c is it safe to delete them?
Celia
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If in doubt Celia, I would get hold of a program called CCleaner. It will clear out all your old junk, not just temporary internet files. Get it from here:
http://www.ccleaner.com/
The one thing you need to do is preserve certain cookies. After you have installed the program click on Options and then the Cookies button and add the cookies you want to keep e.g. rootschat.com and GenesReunited.co.uk and others.
This program is much better than Windows Cleanup. You can fix Registry errors as well by clicking on the Issues button. It makes a backup before making any changes to your Registry.
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CCleaner is a great program.
I'd just like to point out that it comes in 3 flavours - Standard (with the Yahoo! toolbar), Basic (no toolbar) and Slim (English only, no toolbar).
To find the choices - click on download and then select "other builds".
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I have heard of cookies but dont know what they are.I dont want anything if yahoo are involved with it,is it american?
Celia
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Cookies are small text files that contain information, such as your user name and password on rootschat.com .
I'm not sure what treebeard is talking about. CCleaner is a stand-alone program and does not attach itself to any toolbar as far as I know. It puts an icon on your desktop and you run it whenever you want to do a tidy-up of your disk.
CCleaner is recommended by experts and computer geeks. :)
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Thank you downside
I don't want any side affects from yahoo ;) if it's stand alone i will download it. Back to my original question is it O.K to delete whatever it was i going to delete ::) or will ccleaner do it for me?
Celia
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Hi Celia
Windows Disk Cleanup does not remove cookies. It also compresses unused temporary files rather than remove them. It does not empty the Recycle bin by default.
CCleaner removes tons of unused stuff. Some cookies are important like rootschat.com and GenesReunited.co.uk but if you do accidently delete them it means that you will have to recreate them by logging-on and entering your password at the 2 sites I mentioned. You do not need to store webpages as they constantly change and get replaced anyway. As soon as you open a webpage it downloads all the objects needed to view the page. Temporary Internet Files as the name suggests means that the webpages are only needed for a short time. They can easily be discarded and replaced.
Go for it. CCleaner will not delete any critical files that you require
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Sorry for any confusion caused by my earlier post. My point was that the Standard version of CCleaner has the Yahoo! toolbar included with it - and not that CCleaner is part of the Yahoo! toolbar. Installing the toolbar is optional but those who didn't want it were annoyed at having to download a much larger file so the writers made builds available without the toolbar - Basic and Slim.
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Treebeard
There is only one version of CCleaner (free version).
Please supply a link to where you have found different versions of CCleaner.
I cannot find any information about it being incorporated into a Yahoo toolbar. Perhaps that has something to do with Yahoo rather than CCleaner?
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I thought I'd explained that I wasn't saying that CCleaner is incorporated into the Yahoo! toolbar, but that the toolbar is included in the install file of CCleaner. There is a difference.
As you say, there is only one version of CCleaner (free version), but it is available in 3 different builds.
Here is where to find the different builds on the CCleaner website, as I described earlier:
http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds.aspx
Here is the post from the official forum showing the changelog when the toolbar was first included (highlighted):
v1.27.260
- Added secure file deletion.
- Added Windows HotFix Uninstaller cleaning.
- Added optional IE toolbar.
- Updated application icon.
- Fixed large file size issue.
- Fixed Firefox cookie error.
- Restyled Startup program list.
- Added cleaning for:
Grisoft AVG 7.0, TUGZip, AntiVir Personal Edition,
Google Toolbar 4.0
- Updated cleaning for:
MSN Messenger, DVD Shrink, Spybot Search and Destroy,
Adobe Photoshop CS2.
- Updated translations:
Hebrew, Romanian, French, German.
- Fixed small font issue with symbolic languages.
- Minor display fixes.
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=4116
Here are further posts from the same forum regarding inclusion of the toolbar...
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=4054&hl=toolbar
...and here regarding the introduction of Basic and Slim builds of CCleaner (see post #2):
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=6243&hl=toolbar
I hope that this helps to clarify.
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Hi Treebeard
Thanks for the link. I wasn't aware of the other versions.
I was aware that certain options are greyed-out in the standard version, so I assumed there was a 'professional version' that could activate those options.
I shall investigate further.
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Another way of deleting temporary internet files is via the toolbar in Internet Explorer.
Select Tools , then Delete Browsing History - this brings up a box with various options the top one being for temporary internet files - if you select that they will be deleted.
I actually use the "Delete All" option regularly - I'm quite happy to type in user name & password for sites such as this & prefer to remove "clutter" from the hard disk.