I am new here. Just installed CCleaner but have not run it yet other than removing some temporary internet files with it. Is it really completely safe to use or can it remove needed files, programs, or registry entries. My pc is 6 years old and very slow but at least everything works and I'd like to keep it that way. Thanks.

Bob

Here is a link to the beginners guide Bob

http://www.internetrotsyourbrain.com/ccleanerbeginnersguide/

If you do in the future do a registry clean (issues clean) accept the offer of making a backup of the entries you are deleting. Then should you find there is a problem (unlikely) you can put them back.

By the way with your computer being slow, have you done a defrag lately?

Yes, I defrag all of the time.

With the Registy Clean DO NOT JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING YOU WILL BE SORRY.
do it in little steps and only clean things you "know" are not needed. Save each little bit of the Registry that you remove (For instance if you once used Thunderbird, but uninstalled it, and there are a couple of mozilla mail handlers, check only those off click clean, and save it as mozillamail_{date}.reg. That way when you restore them (double click) it'll only restore those and not every single reg entry you removed. Please reead my sig

Thank you all. I will procede with caution.