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Can anyone recommend a free tool to clean up old user account profiles on desktops, clean up temp files, cookies, etc?

Thank you.

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CCLeaner is a great tool for cleaning up most things: Speed up, optimize and clean your PC for free | CCleaner for PC

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second ccleaner… and any other app from piriform.

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+1 for anything from piriform. ccleaner can do what you want

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Is CCleaner safe to use? Has anyone ever run into any problems?

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I’ve been using it for years and haven’t run into any issues yet. It’s always a good idea to back up things that you are cleaning just in case. It does prompt you to save a backup copy of your registry before it cleans if you so choose to do so as well.

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CCleaner

DelProf

UPHClean

Maybe a combination of a few, think CCleaner handles the majority though to be honest.

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Gonefishing wrote:

CCLeaner is a great tool for cleaning up most things: Speed up, optimize and clean your PC for free | CCleaner for PC

There is also a no install version.

I have been using CCleaner for years with no issues what so ever.

TM

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ccleaner is pretty good, however i would not run it on a server. I did this once years back and it was not pretty. ymmv

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Ok, thank you everyone…Looks like CCleaner is the winner on this one. I’ll download and try it.

Thank you!

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I realize that this post has already been replied to but wanted to say that while Ccleaner does a very good job at deleting the active profiles temp files, it sometimes misses older inactive profiles on your system.

If you want an application that actively goes into ALL profiles and deletes all temp files download Cleanup! 4.5.2

Make sure that you dont have any important files in any folders called “temp” because it will delete those as well.

Hope this helps.

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ATF Cleaner is great for getting multiple user profiles Temp files and Folders while logged in as or using RUN AS a local Administrator.

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Add one more

Cleanup 452

http://www.stevengould.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=151

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Chad Brindley wrote:

CCleaner

DelProf

UPHClean

Maybe a combination of a few, think CCleaner handles the majority though to be honest.

I’ve used delprof in the past, if I remember rightly you can use it remotely too

delprof

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sb_uk wrote:

Yes you can run it remotely, we use it on our 2003 Citrix servers currently but using it with the command line to remove old profiles which haven’t cleared down correctly.

UPHClean runs when the user logs off if I remember rightly and it cleans up the User Profile Hive. I think the last downloadable version of this is actually still in Beta as Microsoft included it in the later operating systems Windows Vista and Server 2008.

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I downloaded Delprof and installed. Microsoft indicates that it can be run as a GUI, but all I can find is how to run it from the command line. Anyone know how to run it as a GUI?

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Curtis: Does the Cleanup 452 also clean the hkcu registry keys or does it only delete files from the profile’s subdirectories?

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Its not really made for profile cleaning but the Vista Easy Transfer Wizard has helped me out in the past.

After failing to clean an issue in my profile on vista (long story) with ccleaner and other manual hacks, I finally backed up the hkcu hive and the appdata dirs and then used the vista easy transfer wizard to backup. then deleted my user and profile. then used the wizard to restore profile without application settings. manually imported several software settings from hkcu export.

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Try glary utilities

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Comrade, instead of using a program, why can’t you simply try to run a batch? In the post http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/1571 , Rob suggests a simple implementation that works perfectly.

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