computer techs?

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12856

Idle tasks does more then just defrag Sallyanne.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2015 1:38 am **(#22)**

Thanks

Charlie · **Joined:** Nov 15, 2014 **Posts:** 161

Another thing you can try Sallyanne, is to open your command prompt and run the system file check utility tool. It will attempt to fix any errors your disk may have (but may not fix all of them) Just press Windows key and x at the same time then select "Command Prompt (Admin)" A window will pop up asking "Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your PC?", select yes. In the command prompt window type "sfc /scannow" without the quotations (the tool will take a while to complete) After the scan has finished, if it couldn't repair everything, the next tool to run should be the "Deployment Imaging and Servicing Management" tool (or Dism) Just type "Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth" and that should take care of the rest of the corruptions (if any were found)

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12856

sfc may require OS CD. Good command, but, be aware of this. Below might be a helpful thread. Good info too Charlie (it's how I found the link below).

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insi ... 528?auth=1

sallyanne · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:15 pm **(#25)**

Hope i am not deviating at all here. I also have 'Crap Cleaner'. Asks me occaisionally if I want to run it. I am scared to so don't (incase it deletes something I want to keep)
Should I run it or leave it?

Wallace · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:00 pm **(#26)**

sallyanne wrote:

Hope i am not deviating at all here. I also have 'Crap Cleaner'. Asks me occaisionally if I want to run it. I am scared to so don't (incase it deletes something I want to keep)
Should I run it or leave it?

I would suggest that if you're going to use a cleaner,
that you use Ccleaner by Piriform instead of Crap Cleaner.
I would also suggest that you uninstall this "Crap Cleaner" form your computer

sallyanne · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:17 pm **(#27)**

Thanks
EDIT:
That the one I have Wallace :oops:

Apparently it is always running in the background
CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner), developed by Piriform, is a utility program used to clean ...

Wallace · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:28 pm **(#28)**

sallyanne wrote:

Thanks
EDIT:
That the one I have Wallace :oops:

Apparently it is always running in the background
CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner), developed by Piriform, is a utility program used to clean ...

Crap Cleaner is old software no longer made by Piriform.
Ccleaner By Piriform is what you want.
You can disable monitoring by going to the Options settings.

Look at this attachment Sallyanne...

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sallyanne · **Posted:** Sun Nov 01, 2015 12:19 am **(#29)**

So this is not it?

I had heard of Crap Cleaner before and mistook the CC to mean the same thing

Wallace · **Posted:** Sun Nov 01, 2015 12:45 am **(#30)**

sallyanne wrote:

So this is not it?
[ Image ]
I had heard of Crap Cleaner before and mistook the CC to mean the same thing

That looks like it, but the most recent version is 5.11+...

david · **Joined:** Nov 15, 2014 **Posts:** 878

sallyanne,

In the days when I was using Windows XP I used to run CCleaner regularly. It did an excellent job and I never had any problems with it.
You can update to the latest version (as I am sure you know) by clicking on the update message at the bottom right of the screen.

As I say, I never had any problems with it, but I was using an antique version of Windows on an antique computer!

david.