PC Cleaning is a subject well cussed and discussed over the years, and it seems like every user had their favorite "Cleaner". And then there are those who just don't CLEAN at all. I guess Ignorance is Bliss! Eh? At least till their PC just grinds to a halt!
But after 40+ years in the computer business, and having tried every cleaning program that's come down the pike, I finally gave up on all those so-called "Cleaners" and I wrote my own. I would NEVER use either of the two programs that you mentioned.
I went through my Windows HD and discovered every place that junk files like to hide. Then I put every one of those locations in a Batch File. Then I added a file counter, both before and after the cleaning process, so I could see just how many junk files were deleted. And I get a report displayed on my screen.
And, that was just one days collection of junk.
If I don't forget, I run my little batch file every night, before I shut down the PC for the day. And, before I do my weekly backup of C:.
I've found that a Clean machine is a Happy Machine! And, keeping all the junk out of my Backups is very beneficial too!
But would your computer grind to an halt?..Most of what cleaners find are trace, meaning something gone i presume.
There's no way a cleaner can find cache and stuff, once it's been deleted in the browser.
cosmic52 said:
How did you write it?.
In DOS batch Language.
I've been writing DOS batch files since 1983.
here's the first few lines:
@Echo off
cls
Echo: Disk Cleanup now starting. Please Wait!
Del /F /S /Q C.tmp
Del /F /S /Q C.old
Del /F /S /Q C.log
Del /F /S /Q C.bak
Echo Del Firefox Temporary Internet Files
del /F /S /Q "C:Users%UserName%AppData LocalMozillaFirefoxProfil es*.*"
Echo Del Edge Temporary Internet Files
del /F /S /Q "C:Users%UserName%AppDataLocalMicrosoftEdgeUser DataDefaultCache*.*"
There is More, that I don't wish to post here and now.
cosmic52 said:
But would your computer grind to an halt?..Most of what cleaners find are trace, meaning something gone i presume.
There's no way a cleaner can find cache and stuff, once it's been deleted in the browser.
I'd venture a guess that very few people are adept enough at running a browser to program it to delete all its TIF's.
They DO NOT come pre-programmed to do that.
Truth be known, most users are totally unaware of the garbage building up on their PC. That is, till it has to go into a PC shop for repair.
I used to be the one who got the Service Call, "my PC is running so slow, I can't get anything done".
I wish I would have had my current Cleanup.bat program back then. That would have saved me countless hours of work.
Well, congratulations on doing that. I don't believe the cleaners I've used today and in the past, really do anything but try and scare into buying their product. Because whichever I've used find exactly the same junk as the one before, meaning, if I clean with one and then the other, the same junk is there. If I miss a day you'd think it would pile up, but it doesn't.
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