Norton Cleansweep 2003 keeps crashing on me

[AfroGeek]

I'm running windows XP.
My PC is a P4 2.53GHZ, radeon 9700, 2 sata drives(seagate)60gb x 2, dual channel OCZ ram.

Bottom line- Want to clean up my PC. Everytime I run cleansweep, about half way through scanning , it crashes. What can I do to get this problem resolved?

 

[HammerBot]

Don't use Norton Cleansweep. It really doesn't do anything good anyway. Say what? Oh, it removes unused files and unused registry entries. I see. Well consider that and compare it to the gigabytes of data you have on your drive and the many many thousands of entries in the registry. Cleaning up hundreds of unused files of registry entries doesn't do anything spectacular to your system.

I tell you one thing. Ever since I stopped messing around with the registry using various 'clean' and 'uninstall' programs my system has <i>never</i> run better. Stop worrying about garbage on you drive and unused registry entries and focus on what problems (if any) you have. I did, and I have never been better.

What you need to worry about is spyware programs that takes up resources. Unused files or unused registry entries doesn't take up any significant HD space and does not load your CPU. Run spybot or ad-aware.

<i><b>Engineering is the fine art of making what you want from things you can get</b></i>

 

[AfroGeek]

I have some older applications and double of some applications I need to remove. I want to remove the files and reg entries. I understand what you are saying, but, I paid for the software and I would prefer it to work.

 

[HammerBot]

In that case you paid for nothing. But since you paid for it, contact the manufacturers support if you really wish to waste time.
In my experience no 'clean' utility has ever been able to do anything good. Their top performance is being utterly harmless. As I said, they remove unused files and registry entries. But why do you care. They are <i>unused</i> and does no harm. The best way to get rid of that stuff is to reinstall windows. I do that (using a drive image) two or three times a year.

<i><b>Engineering is the fine art of making what you want from things you can get</b></i>

 

[AfroGeek]

YOu don't seem to get it. I have duplicate copies of applications I wish to remove without just deleting them.

 

[HammerBot]

Use the uninstall program that came with those applications.

<i><b>Engineering is the fine art of making what you want from things you can get</b></i>