automaton Posted November 8, 2012 Posted November 8, 2012 I've used CCleaner on at least 7 different computers and they are all fine. Have been working perfectly ever since. If you're weary of it just don't use the registry cleaner. I've used it on my personal rig at least once weekly with no adverse effects. I do agree with hornybluecow about hibernation though, it takes up a ton of space. Also, if you have lots of RAM you may consider reducing the size of your pagefile to around 1gb or so. registry cleaning with any utility is trepidous at best https://www.google.com/search?q=egistry+cleaning+danger&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimarsinan Posted December 3, 2012 Posted December 3, 2012 If you want to maximize your space savings, you should check out Drive Press. I've been able to realize triple space savings with it (magicrar.com/drive-press.html). I think this also improves overall SSD performance, because there is more spare area available on the drive. My average space savings are now 20%-25% (but this is only after using Drive Press, which compresses more than Windows itself somehow). TRIM is not an issue within Windows itself, but I employ the best practice of keeping the root of the drive clear so the temp file Intel's SSD Toolbox creates during manual TRIMs is not affected by drive compression. So I have two 600 GB Intel SSDs on my system - one of them for my source codes, the other for my games. VMs are hosted on both SSDs (there's no RAID involved). The raw capacity of the SSDs is 558 GB. Both drives have 100 GB free space. The source code disk has 650 GB actual usage, the games disk has 550 GB actual usage. For regular applications, there is no perceived slow-down at all. When I am running 4 VMs simultaneously though on VMware, and doing some heavy-lifting, there is a bit of a noticeable slow-down. I think on a fast enough SSD, the difference would not be very noticeable. My SSDs have a SATA II interface, so that might be a bottleneck. With a SATA III interface, I suppose there might be even less of a bottleneck on the compression (considering how multi-core CPUs are now basically everywhere). 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClineMor Posted April 29, 2013 Posted April 29, 2013 Maybe, you should thing about buying a hybrid drive. The disk of this kind combined with a conventional hard disk drive model, SSD in one box. Flash memory chips are often cited as a buffer of data. While this combination does not accelerate as much as using the system only SSD, but read operations are performed 33 percent faster. If you will be interested to know more on this matter, I would recommend you to read the article: Solid State Drive usage and maintenance http://www.dataretrieval.com/blog/solid-state-drives/solid-state-drive-usage-and-maintenance.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wevsspot Posted May 1, 2013 Posted May 1, 2013 Just wanted to pipe in about CCleaner. It has always worked fine for me going back to Windows XP days. I install it on all my rigs, and every rig I do for anyone else. I normally don't recommend registry cleaners, but if you're going to use one then CCleaner is about the safest "free" option that there is. Just be careful what registry errors it is scanning for. You can select what type of registry errors it checks for, and it offers to make a backup of your current registry before it will even delete any entries. Generally I only scan for the following issues; Missing Shared DLLs Applications Application Paths Installer Obsolete Software Run at Startup Careful before deleting any ActiveX/Com Issue registry keys. Again, from my experiences CCleaner is pretty much perfectly safe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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