CC Cleaner Issues Tab

Following instructions in this thread about CCleaner:

http://forum.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?p=876758#post876758

I ran the scan for registry integrity and was left with quite a few questions about how I did it and what it found. In the READ & RUN THIS FIRST thread, it says to run the Windows tab with the default settings. However, in the above thread, it doesn't mention how to proceed, so I simply ticked off the whole list and let it look for everything. My first question was if this was the idea behind the instruction?

The next thing that happened was a got a list of everything it found. Among these was a list of unused file extensions. What does that mean, exactly? Does it mean I will never need them, because I never had? Does it mean they don't exist in the computer world as extensions and therefore wouldn't have any function?

Another set of items which wanted fixing were faulty application pathways. Among them and in some of the other sets of issues found were all kinds of <surprise surpise> Symantec things. I went to a lot of trouble to get my computer Symantec free. The only thing I have against Symantec is that they quit concentrating on what they were good at (getting rid of viruses) and thereby became too bulky for my system. So now I have the question ...

when CCleaner finds Symantec issues and wants to "fix" them, does this fix them so they will be better? Or does it understand that there's no need for them anymore and get rid of them?

This same question came up with an Outlook Express option, where I could "fix" or "repair" damaged things. If I want to "fix" something because it's a virus sitting somewhere in my e-mails, does that mean it will fix it and make it better? (thereby unleashing a damaged virus onto my computer as a healthy one?)

I believe this word "fix" is giving me a hard time.
Thanks.
abri

 

Unused file extentions usually refers to files that have been left behind from 'uninstalled' software that has not completed the job!
In the ideal world....software that we get rid of, through 'uninstall programs' in the control panel, will rid our drives and registry of all associated files, key values etc.
However, this is not always the case!
It's not to say you have never needed this file, it is just that you don't need it now or anymore.

'Fix' usually means 'delete' when it comes to ccleaner, and this is what you should do with any old symantec rubbish that is left lying around after the extermination!

Regards....

 

um i think fix means it deletes them

but before it deletes them it asks you if you wanna save a backup just in case deleteing the issues messes up your computer

you can use the back up to fix the problem

 

File extensions themselves refer to the usually three letters (or however many) that follow the file name after the last period, don't they? So if CCleaner tells me I have unused file extensions, and those file extensions are ones used in other areas of the computer, will it then be deleting all files in the computer with that file extension? This is the part that was troubling me?

Oh, I have installation software on my desktop for some Symantec something. If it is only the installation program, can I simply delete it?

Thanks!
abri