ChromaticAngel posted...pinky0926 posted...
but why....
I'm not saying you're wrong. I just don't know why I need all those gigs of cached temporary files.
the majority of temporary files most people have are generated by their browsers. You can clean out most of them just by going to your browsers menu and saying "delete temporary files"
Temp folders that are targeted by CCleaner are also high privileged areas that other applications use as staging areas to perform updates or store configuration data that need to be written to (as you generally cannot write to the program files folder directly itself without clicking the admin rights popup). CCleaner doesn't know what's safe to delete and what isn't and assumes everything in temp folders is garbage however, this is not the case.
It will also delete registry keys that it thinks aren't being used anymore but you should never do that.
You could just untick a bunch of options before you run CCleaner but chances are you'll end up having to untick so much shit you're better off doing as I said just opening up your browser settings and saying "delete temp files"
This is actually 100% correct. If you do use CCleaner NEVER use the registry cleaner above all else.
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