Possibly OT: networking under VirtualBox

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 14:42 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> CCleaner is better than nothing, but it does not do a very thorough
>> job. It's far better to do it manually. I wrote an article on this a
>> few years back which went down quite well:
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1004689/how-to-give-a-tired-old-pc-a-spring-clean
>>
>
> Thanks! I just sent that link to a friend who's Windoze laptop has 36
> gigs used out of 40 available and he's started to sweat about it.
> Someone mentioned, awhile back, about some website that deals with the
> registry cruft... do you know of a reliable one? Ric

Don't bother with registry "cleaning" tools; they're all scams. Clean
up the filesystem, check it, give it a defrag and you (or he) will be
fine.

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