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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Jun 22, 2014 11:43:31 GMT
I know we try to steer clear of so called disk wipers, drive cleaners and especially registry cleaners but this does not prevent us testing them when they appear. This one caught my and decided to give it a whirl, as it were. 'Since installation is not required, you can place Portable Wise Disk Cleaner on a removable drive, plug it into any computer and directly run its executable file. The most important part is that your Windows registry will remain intact. Softpedia download>>>>> I suggest you check all the cleaning options first!! The is an option to 'slim down' things that Ccleaner misses. I did a backup firstI ran this from default. It was extremely fast to scan in all options, and fast to clean. Overall, I will be using this in conjunction with Ccleaner. My laptop has a 240gb SSD drive and tends to fill up quickly, so is a good option for me. After the clean I gained 4.2gb including the slim down option. I will also find this portable app useful in my repair work. Comments welcome
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Post by irvsp on Jun 23, 2014 12:32:17 GMT
I know we try to steer clear of so called disk wipers, drive cleaners and especially registry cleaners but this does not prevent us testing them when they appear. This one caught my and decided to give it a whirl, as it were. 'Since installation is not required, you can place Portable Wise Disk Cleaner on a removable drive, plug it into any computer and directly run its executable file. The most important part is that your Windows registry will remain intact. Softpedia download>>>>> . . . Comments welcome Mike, 4.7GB's recovered, but almost 1/2 came from the Windows Installer Baseline cache. Although it can be removed, check this out, answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/can-windows-installer-baseline-cache-be-deleted/1acb4770-2a3d-49f5-9d29-e851db47f996 as it could be required later. I've gotten to the point where I just do not use or completely trust any cleaner, disk or registry. All of them basically work 'chains', that is pointers back to something else. Files referenced in a Registry not there, or something the app developer 'discovered' you don't need to keep. Note that for the IME's it basically says 'if you do not need them'. I once was looking at an app on the disk and saw a bunch of language files, heck I only needed English so I deleted them. There were 2 sets too, one for the program text and the other for help. Guess what didn't run after I removed those non-English files. In the Registry are entries only the program that created them knows they are connected to it. Many times these are encoded license numbers. Some Registry cleaners will march the chain and see nothing references these and delete them. One of the problems with Registry cleaners is that one NEVER knows what the item to be deleted is really used for. Since I used to run them sporadically, it was not uncommon for CCLeaner to find hundreds of items to delete. I do save the deletions, but then I can't always 'test' every program that might be hit to verify no problems were created. Only later on a few occasions do I discover it did. Back to the saved deletions and start looking which it could be, and usually I wind up putting EVERYTHING back, which fixes the problem. I've learned to stay away from anything called CACHE, MRU, and some other 'types'. These all get recreated and in time will be just as large if not larger. Many of these are 'circular', that is only so many entries or disk space is used and the oldest stuff is discarded. I don't need temporary space savings, a waste of time. I find it better to manage where files are put (if possible). I've got a 128GB SSD for my C: drive 1/2 used, but I routinely will move files off of it. I just installed Oracle's VM Virtual Box for instance and created a VM within it. Discovered the VM was put into my USERS location. Moved it to another drive immediately and changed the pointer. Moving some stuff off of C: can be a chore, like iTunes for instance. Better to do that than use a Cleaner it my take on this. If it works for you, do it, and probably for most people it is 'good enough'. I just don't trust them like I used too.
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