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I've read about 9-10 reviews lately on FixCleaner, an all-in-one comprehensive PC toner-upper, and couldn't find hardly any negative feedback.

All keep saying how it's one of the best & most comprehensive, user friendly, PC cleaning devices to come down the pike in quite awhile.

(as a side note, many issues of late with T-Bird email freezing & stopping (Not Responding) is being blamed more on [bloated PCs] >>> compacting; MSF files; defragmenting; mailbox, allowing anti-virus programs to check out-going mail, and a bunch more) - all help to bog-down T-Bird.

Anybody have any experience using FixCleaner? and more importantly, have most of these so-called PC cleaners really improved?

Chip Fossa wrote:I've read about 9-10 reviews lately on FixCleaner, an all-in-one comprehensive PC toner-upper, and couldn't find hardly any negative feedback.

All keep saying how it's one of the best & most comprehensive, user friendly, PC cleaning devices to come down the pike in quite awhile.

(as a side note, many issues of late with T-Bird email freezing & stopping (Not Responding) is being blamed more on [bloated PCs] >>> compacting; MSF files; defragmenting; mailbox, allowing anti-virus programs to check out-going mail, and a bunch more) - all help to bog-down T-Bird.

Anybody have any experience using FixCleaner? and more importantly, have most of these so-called PC cleaners really improved?

Chip;
Read this before you invest in that program.

You can get all the same functions for free, with CCleaner, from Piriform.

The raving positive reviews that show up in Google search results are posted by affiliates and friends/members of the company.

That's exactly what crossed my mind right away. Just had a hear it from real "anti's".

I used to use CCleaner quite awhile back. You turned me unto CC.

Then, I think, the over-all concensus became that all that Registry tweaking didn't help much, one way or the other.

Chip Fossa wrote: Then, I think, the over-all concensus became that all that Registry tweaking didn't help much, one way or the other.

They usually don't help, except in bad cases where there are all manner of junk entries in the registry. Everytime I uninstall a program and reboot, I run CCleaner to look for leftover Reg entries, which there always are, then delete them.

The main purpose of CC is to find and delete unnecessary files. It also lets you edit your startup programs and uninstall unwanted programs. Not bad for a free program (donationware)!

No Wiz,

Not bad at all. I just ran CC and it came up with 3,000+MBs of files that many didn't even exist.

I've been trying out Eudora [I know, I have no will power ] again because of T-Bird not behaving; but it's not recognizing me and thus the mail aint gettin' thru Mailwasher.

So decided to try T-Bird again after running Auslogics longer defrag, and total car wash with CC, and T-Bird, right now, leaped off the screen. I don't recall seeing it so fast.

Got my fangers crossed-up.

Yeah, that poor ole' feller in your 'see here' link - looks like they took him him for a ride; but maybe he did have a virus and FixFix either missed it with their software, or didn't have the software to begin with.

Chip;
If CC found unknown temporary files, they were real. Windows has lots of hiding places for temp files. There are also hotfix uninstallers that CC gets rid of, if you so elect.

Wiz,

All I know is what I read when CC got done finding those 3000MB files. I think they meant they were like empty shells, and left behind .dlls, from lots of software being installed/uninstalled over the years.

A bit confusing, now. Why would they bother with empty folders? I know I come across 'empties' all the time. It's rather annoying. You think you got this huge folder jammed with important files, only to find out a bunch of of them are empty.

I use the free version of "Revo Uninstaller" to uninstall programs. Along with the uninstall from the program, it also searches for left over registry entries and left over files in folders and allows you to delete them.

PC "repair" programs or "Registry" repair or "Speed Up the PC" type programs are primarily in the "snake oil" category.

Chip Fossa wrote:Wiz,

All I know is what I read when CC got done finding those 3000MB files. I think they meant they were like empty shells, and left behind .dlls, from lots of software being installed/uninstalled over the years.

A bit confusing, now. Why would they bother with empty folders? I know I come across 'empties' all the time. It's rather annoying. You think you got this huge folder jammed with important files, only to find out a bunch of of them are empty. :lol:

Maybe you only think they are empty because Explorer doesn't reveal the files. Are you using Folder settings to show hidden and system files? What about hiding operating system files? These areas may not open with a list of files if the properties is set to not display them.

Then, there is the possibility that files are present in a folder, but not viewable because the file system doesn't have them cataloged by the OS. Files not in the Master File Table are not displayed by the running operating system. But, they may be visible if that drive is slaved to another system and opened in Explorer, or another file viewer.

Wiz,

Well then, you said it in a nut shell. If you can't believe your own eyes that the page you're looking at has nothing there, then what and who else are you to believe?

And aren't these very programs supposed to find those 'hidden' files?

I know I could never, in the years I got left.