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Offline mistybear

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« Reply #15 on: May 12, 2006, 12:11 »
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Sorry am I keeping you up.

You did say give it a whirl, so I am.
 
I have no idea what it's suppose to do, thought I'd find out.
It did let me know that after using CCleaner, when I restart my computer I will lose a couple of files.
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« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2006, 13:02 »
Gosh!  I'm not used to ladies apologising for keeping me up.

I don't suppose Scotty happened to mention which particular files would be lost?  However, I would imagine they will be the usual bits of clutter and orpahaned links that CCleaner is designed to zap.

As regards finding out exactly what WinPatrol does, this article may help.
 

 
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« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2006, 13:12 »
the link on the page to the most cluttered tray is not that impressive, I bet clive has that many icons for spyware programs alone in his tray!
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« Reply #18 on: May 12, 2006, 13:52 »
Gosh!  I'm not used to ladies apologising for keeping me up.

Why's that, because it rarely happens. :wink:

Thanks for the link, I think it will be good for Michael's computer as his takes forever to boot up fully. As in turn it on and go and have breakfast, and it should be ready when you're finished.

The files to be deleted are temporary/content.IE5/indx.dat    and
                                                     /cookies/index.dat
That doesn't appear to be important.
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« Reply #19 on: May 12, 2006, 14:01 »
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the link on the page to the most cluttered tray is not that impressive, I bet clive has that many icons for spyware programs alone in his tray!

It is my understanding that he's quite keen on his toolbars too.


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Why's that, because it rarely happens.  ;)

Rarely?  Never, at this time of day actually!   8-)


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The files to be deleted are "temporary/content.IE5/indx.dat"  and "/cookies/index.dat"

Nope, you can happily zap those, so long as your MS IE cache and cookies have been flushed.  They're just pointers to tell your system where to find files you've since deleted.


 
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« Reply #20 on: May 12, 2006, 14:38 »
hehe, I recall someone suggesting that simons was like that.. and he adamantly denied it...  :P
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« Reply #21 on: May 12, 2006, 19:35 »
Nope, my screen is uncluttered.  I hate toolbars, and never have them in view, unless needed.  :wahh:

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