25 or so days to go! Ain't this fun? I can't wait.
Getting rid of the clutter on your Windows XP machine is always a good idea.The detritus left behind by your browser and other programs that you run can really slow down your machine and those folders where this junk is kept can be a good hiding place for a virus or piece of malware.
Quite a few years ago I somehow learned about a free software product called Crap Cleaner. I was quite impressed by it and began to use it regularly, like once a week or so. In time it became very popular and the owner renamed it CCleaner.
Although there are other such cleaners available, even for free, my feeling is that this is the best and it is the only one I use. It is a very simple to use program and it is very fast, and of course it is free.I like free!
If you don't have CCleaner installed on your machine, you can get it at http://www.filehippo.com/, my favorite place for downloading software. The best part about Filehippo is that they give you the product you want without all of the extra junk that is sometimes included when you download from other sites. So always check with http://www.filehippo.com/ first, and if they have what you want, download it there. As with other programs, you can search http://www.filehippo.com/ for CCleaner, but I notice today that it is number 1 on their list of popular software, so no search is necessary.
Download it, install it, and run it weekly to keep your system clean of the "crap" left behind by almost all programs. In use take a look at the list of things it deletes. You may be surprised by the total size of the deleted files and also from whence they come. My favorite browser, Firefox, is one of the biggest culprits, allowing its cache to get quite out of hand if you ask me. The good news is that everytime you run CCleaner it will wipe clean the Firefox cache.
Although CCleaner can be run in one step, I prefer to run it in 2 steps, Analyze and then Run Cleaner.
There is one piece of bad news. You may be erasing some saved pieces of data like your userid or password for some applications, so don't be surprised if you are asked to enter them the next time you visit their web site. It goes without saying that a user is expected to know his or her userids and passwords anyway! Right?.
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