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CCleaner Cleans Up After Chrome
1:45AM Adam Pash | CCleaner—Lifehacker readers’ favourite Windows maintenance tool —has added support for Google Chrome in its latest release. Granted, the release first saw light about a month ago, but it’s great to see CCleaner continue to add new browsers. Chrome cleaning includes cookies, download history, cache, browser history, and saved form info. [via Cnet] More »
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Run CCleaner on a Schedule to Keep Your PC Crap-Free
7:00AM Adam Pash | For those of you who prefer automating your computer maintenance on a schedule, the How-To Geek weblog explains how to automatically de-crapify your PC nightly. Setting it up takes little more than creating a scheduled task in the Windows Task Scheduler, but it’s a great way to regularly clean out your PC with a set-it-and-forget-it routine. For more automated maintenance, check out how to set up a self-repairing hard drive. Setup CCleaner to Automatically Run Each Night in Vista or XP [the How-To Geek] More »
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Run CCleaner Instantly and Silently with a Keyboard Shortcut
8:00AM Adam Pash | The How-To Geek weblog details how to create a keyboard shortcut that—when pressed—will automatically run the popular Windows maintenance utility CCleaner with your default settings in the background. The setup is simple, requiring you to create a shortcut and add the /AUTO switch to the end of the target. Then you can just assign a keyboard shortcut through the Properties window. If you already obsessively run CCleaner to keep your computer pristine (judging by the results of our Hive Five best maintenance tools, you probably do), this shortcut will make life that much easier. Create a Shortcut or Hotkey to Run CCleaner Silently [the How-To Geek] More »
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