Quick Tip: Scrub your hard drive with CCleaner Video
Quick Tip: Scrub your hard drive with CCleaner Video Transcript
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>> Lets face it your hard drive is a mess you've got temporary files here cash files over there, cookies and half uninstalled programs all over the place. I'm Tom Merritt editor from CNET.com here's a quick tip for cleaning up your act. Jason Parker over at download.com tipped me off to a free program called C cleaner. Start C cleaner. You'll notice most of the boxes are checked these are the items that will be cleaned. Now remember cleaned in this case means deleted. If you clean your internet history for instance you won't be able to find that YouTube video of Star Wars versus Star Treck by looking at your browser history, so only uncheck boxes next to items that you want to keep, like your internet history for instance. Press the analyze button to find out how much hard drive space you get by running the cleaner. When your ready to take back that ill used space press clean. Now you have more unused sectors on your platter and how many people can say that really, I'm Tom Merritt for CNET.com see you later. ^M00:00:57 [ Music ]
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