Any time I work on a client's computer, I have employed this as a scheduled task, to run once a week. It is one of the few of these programs that has some sort of command line switch. Registry automation would be nice too, but I understand why the author doesn't support that in the switch. This, coupled with a weekly defragmentation and proper badware prevention keeps a computer running as good as possible. Basic startup maintenance training for the user as well will have the hardware fail before the OS does.

axisfx

Good program, yes. There's nothing it removes, however, that requires daily attention unless you're particularly retentive about browser cache/history/cookies.

There's simply no point in running daily registry scans, and deleting log files might not be the best idea for some programs. Besides, you're getting back at the most about 2KB per log file, so who cares anyway.

Run this thing twice a year manually and save your self and system the trouble of keeping track of yet another program

pdok

@axisfx: I'm very skeptical of registry cleaners running unattended.

In my experience, all registry cleaners find false positives that really shouldn't be removed, which means they always require manual attention.

I'm also a little skeptical of registry cleaners in general... I've only found a few that seem to really do what they are supposed to.

The How-To Geek

CCleaner (and Steven Gould's CleanUp!) is a great tool, but if you are looking for something much more light-weight and doesn't require any installation, then I would recommend ATF-Cleaner by Atribune.org. It's extremely fast and will scan all user profiles as well as other system caches for files that tend to bog down your system. I keep it saved to my thumbdrive while running around repairing computers for the hospital I work at.

Resolution

Haha, I posted yesterday in the comments that I used to do exactly this when I ran windows. Strange...

strabes