CCleaner (Making a backup)

Voy06 · 23 Sep 2006 at 20:57

Prehaps a bit of a stupid question but for all those who use or have used CCleaner, when it cleans the registry for you it asks if you want too make a backup.

If you make a backup and save it how do you know when it's safe to delete the backup or don't you delete the backup do you just keep it saved.

Kelpie · 23 Sep 2006 at 21:16

TBH I've never made a backup before a registry clean using this app and have never had any bother.

Been using it for well over a year now, and normally run it at least once a week.

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Greenlizard0 · 23 Sep 2006 at 21:16

I always scroll down the list and check what it's deleting. More often than not it's old uninstalled programs and stuff which means I don't let the programs do back ups!

Voy06 · 23 Sep 2006 at 21:20

Fair enough. Most of what it deleted where too do with old programs but there where a couple of things that I didn't understand so I thought it was best to do a backup just incase.

The PC rebooted fine and not had any problems so I may just go ahead and delete the backup.

Cheers fellas.

Smithy · 23 Sep 2006 at 21:32

Deleting backups kind of defeats the point of backups.

If i was unsure about which reg keys ccleaner was deleting, i would make a backup and keep the backup. Having said that, ive been using ccleaner for ages now and never done a backup (only because i know whats being deleted).

bledd · 24 Sep 2006 at 01:27

never made a backup with any registry cleaning program

and never had any problems