thanks, Wendy - perhaps I am being over-cautious. What I have heard of, but fortunately not experienced myself, was a program which produced a registry backup but needed considerable expertise to restore it if disaster struck. From memory I think that it involved booting into safe mode or even working from the Command Prompt! Having a registry backup is fine but one needs to be sure that in the unlikely event of it being needed the process is not too difficult. Douglas On 18 Aug 2008 at 11:44, Wendy Sharpe wrote: > It is ok to do the registry bit, as it asks you if you want to back up the > registry file. Just press ok and it then saves the registry file and even > tells you the path, I think. So far I have had no problems with it at > all. > > Wendy > > -----Original Message----- > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf > Of Douglas Harrison Sent: 18 August 2008 10:25 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [access-uk] Re: C Cleaner. > > Many thankss for these comments, Sandra. Like you I have a healthy > respect for the registry - always very suspicious of those programs which > claim to clear out duplicate and redundant entries - having my fingers > burned once was enough! > > I just ran the CCleaner Analyse with everything at default settings - > except that I unchecked Cookies as there are some (e.g. bank sites, Gmail > etc.) which I don't want to lose. It reports a staggering 800 mb plus > which it could delete. Will have to try to pluck up the courage to do the > deed! > > Douglas > -- Douglas Harrison ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq