So I went ahead and ran CCleaner 216 as I do about once a week now, and the first time it freed up tons of space on my main drive, says I don't need to defrag.
So after what you said, I dl'ed and installed the latest version and ran it again just now.
FreeRepublic had that funny look (more stuff at the top than usual and larger fonts) in Netscape (not in Firefox or IE7), and it was driving me nutz, tried everything I could think of to get it right again, no luck. After I ran the newest version of CCleaner, FR is back to normal in Netscape, don't know why as it didn't happen before from that. Sometimes it does that like maybe FR is having a problem or something but doesn't last long.
I don't know if what I ran cleans the registry or not. I've been afraid to run that (you get to it from the tab). My sysrestore didn't work either last time I needed it even after I backed up to another highlighted day & tried again, so I just gave it up and put up with it, can't remember how I got around it. No need to run it now but I'd like to know if it's fixed. I have repaired a couple programs since.
I've been having a problem with Firefox since I installed the latest version of that. On many of my sites, it's starts loading and spins and spins, just hangs. So I hit stop and it switches over to a blank page from the site I was going from. Then I hit reload, and it will load the page I want. Odd. And a minor nuisance.
Of course, I have to sign in everywhere again, but I save my pw's so no biggie.
In version 18-878 there is a new addition in the check box options on the left side .......”wipe free space” !
I did that first few times and it does take a while initially but very very little time after initial cleaning !
never a fault for me cept when it IS FR’s issues versus mine ........
Good luck !!
Stay safe !
BTW have ya tried UBUNTU 8.10 ?
Works really well , user friendly and dual OS for my Vista and Ubuntu laptop ! Download is an ISO file, burn it or request a free CD version of ya don’t burn CD’s from ISO’s.....
Makes really old laptops and desktops run super fast on old hardware !!
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
Really user friendly and comes with
GIMP (Photoshop)
Open Office ( MS Office )
Firefox browser
Opera and or Thunderbird Email
Best of all ........free !!!!!