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 On 17 Aug 2008 at 18:55, Sandra Henshall wrote: > Hi Douglas, > I was talking about the tree view where you've got windows explorer, > internet explorer and so forth. I've got all those checked. Some of the > check boxes in the options I don't understand so I've left those as the > defaults. I haven't tried the registry stuff either because if something > went wrong, I wouldn't understand what was happening as I know very little > about the registry, except that you can screw up your system if something > goes wrong with it. I've set it to secure deletion with three passes and > that seems to suit me. If I can help further, just give me a shout. > > Cheers, > -- 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