Cleaning up computer, best advice?

[technoman2]

like dyserq, i use a program called CCleaner.com .. it's really good, i recommend you download it and give it a try. You wouldn't believe how much rubbish you pick up.

 

[toeknee]

Go to to C:\WINDOWS\, make sure 'Show Hidden Files and Folders' is enabled, and you should see some folders around the name of $nt$uninstall. Delete those.

I also recommend TuneUp Utilities; great program.

tune up utilities and ccleaner are ace, got rid of loads of stuff

I was more wondering whether deleting all these $nt$uninstall files is safe? They take up around 100mb which isn't loads but it would help.

I have never seen this suggestion before and am too scared to do it

thanks

Tone

 

[acphenom]

Those folders are created when windows updates are installed, to allow you to uninstall updates. But why would you want to do that? Unless you use System Restore, maybe, but I have that disabled, as I find it does more harm than good.