Thanks, SarahJames. I like CC cleaner so I downloaded this one. Did you know I am looking for you? I found your post about using DriveImage XML to make a mirror image of your primary disk. That's exactly what I did fairly recently and then most recently I am having a computer crisis I don't know how to resolve yet. If I have usable data saved from Drive Image on my external disk I will be able to save myself a lot of work and consternation. Please see my post from earlier today for the whole sad story of my OS crash. I am stuck at the point of making a BartPE disk. I don't have Nero on my system--can you or someone else there maybe help me figure out how to get my C drive back? Who or where should I turn to?--I really dislike this system the way it is from the factory, it is way way slow, and it isn't protected as efficiently as it was with my Kaspersky 2009. Only problem with this Total Privacy download is that I'm hopefully going to be able to wipe this drive clean and put the good stuff back on it. I can put it on my external drive. Anyway, thanks & please see my earlier post if you would be so kind.

@ drifta - I prefer freeware too, and CCleaner is not only free, but very good too. But every now and again I see something on GAOTD which might be nice, so I put it up here. That's all:)

4 years ago i bought webroot's window washer and received every update so far. it's an impressive cleaner now. it can clean the free space and make a bootable disk eraser or be set to clean at intervals. everything i've read so far says registry cleaners do more harm than good. i just set vista disk defrag to start every night.

drifta, if it works - no problem. I just wanted to point out, that registry cleaning has it's downsides. Many people say it is not worth doing it alltogether. And on the Defrag you are right - once a week should be the most frequent. For normal use, once a month is OK too.