Comments on: Ncleaner – The App That Tells CCleaner To Take A Hike

By: Don Morris

Don Morris — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:26:43 +0000

Hi,

I have been using cCleaner for a couple of years how and really like it. I tried nCleaner when i read this article.It found over 200 registry items cCleaner did not (I ran cCleaner before running ncleaner). I made sure to back up the registry before removing invalid entries with nCleaner, but all was well.

I have had a remarkable improvement in performance since cleaning the registry with nCleaner. I had several erros hapening, and nCleaner appears to have restored default settings.

So I tried the cleaner, too, and all was well with that, too. I didn’t back up anything then, which was foolish I see, from earlier comments.

I tried the system tweak settings, putting everything at the “Suggested” settings. But when I rebooted I couldn’t access the Internet and a couple of programs no longer worked. So I went back into nCleaner and set the tweak settings to default.

Everything is fine now.

I had customized the appearance of my windows, with larger fonts and icons for one thing. All that was reset to default. I also lost some context menu items, such as Send to Desktop (create shortcut). I found out how to restore those earlier today by doing a Google search.

My Media Center app was not working, and it is now. So resetting most things back to default was a good thing, I think. I didn’t lose any files, so that’s good. But my computer is much faster and more responsive now.

So I have a thumbs up for nCleaner. Just listen to the comments about backing things up. Very important!

Thanks, NProds, for making this available. I’ll be watching for a new version that addresses some of these issues.

Warmly,

don :)

By: ErikG

ErikG — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:41:23 +0000

Now when you start to use programs that delve deeper and deeper into the recesses of your operating system to make it all clean and sparkly you take the risk of breaking your install by taking out things that your OS needs. With this said I use ccleaner and ncleaner for my system but I watch ncleaner like a hawk and use ccleaner when I am just clearing out temp files, and I never put ncleaner on a computer with a user that dosen’t have a full understanding of the in’s and out’s of xp and filesystems in general. There are some options that I use at my own risk with ncleaner.

By: ray

ray — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:33:00 +0000

Yes I got it to and it all good.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:45:29 +0000

To all I used nCleaner since it became public with no problem and used on a couple on my work computers which is on a network with no problem and on my home unit as well works great for me.

By: David

David — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:42:46 +0000

Hey, I used this today and had the EXACT same problem, I had to reinstall Windows too, just some advice, you DON’T have to format your hard drive when your reinstalling windows, there should be an option to keep file system in tact, and then you just install windows into another directory, once you have finished that, you simply log into the new O/S, and copy the files from the old one onto the new one, easy as pie.

By: CnB

CnB — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:44:20 +0000

nCleaner Beware!
I made the mistake of downloading and doing as described above, it corrupted my dll files among others I an’t name, and I couldn’t even get system restore to operate. Ended up having to re-install XP from the disc, and lost all of my files, since this required formatting the hard drive. This is not for the uninformed, it took me a week to get back to near normal operation of my PC.

By: Tim Watson

Tim Watson — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:03:16 +0000

Nice! I’ve got a new favorite cleaner.

By: AboutOnlineTips

AboutOnlineTips — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:03:13 +0000

Well I am a die hard fan of ccleaner. I will give a try for ncleaner too just for comparison purpose.Will post my comment after testing ncleaner.

–Chris

By: JK

JK — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:27:48 +0000

I did a registry defrag once (using a software whos name i have forgot.) It blew up my Windows XP System and I had to reistall it. Since then, I am afraid of trying another such cleaning software.

By: Mike Benton

Mike Benton — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:19:28 +0000

Hey Gunslinger,

Stephen King fan myself. You shouldn’t blast a blog that makes hundreds of contributions to thousands of thankless people on a constant basis. He did warn you to make a backup. As with any heavy duty system cleaning, a backup is a must. I’m pretty sure makeuseof has even done a few articles on backup apps in the past.

Maybe you should think twice about backing up.

Back it all up

By: Roland Deschain

Roland Deschain — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:30:12 +0000

I have installed it on my system with Windows XP SP3 and done only the default scans and cleans and my system became unusable and I had to resort to whole rebuild of my system.

I trusted makeuseof.com reviews before, and used it and now I should think twice about reading and using anything mentioned on this blog.

By: Andrei

Andrei — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:05:54 +0000

Hello,

My name is Boghiu Andrei from NKProds. I am the Project Manager for nCleaner.
As observed there is no connection between CCleaner and nCleaner rather than the name (we have been using the name nCleaner for almost 3 years now). Also as mentioned there is no connection between the two companies NKPords and Piriform.

Indeed nCleaner does not support Windows 2000, although it will work if you copy srclient.dll from Windows XP.

Hope you continue to use nCleaner and looking forward to releasing a new version that will address some of the problems mentioned here.

By: meggva

meggva — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:40:47 +0000

Although nCleaner installs under Windows 2000, it is not supported according to their forums. nCleaner gives you an error that its missing srclient.dll which is a Window XP module to create restore points.

By: Zia

Zia — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:49:22 +0000

I will wait for the dust to settle…I will monitor the blogosphere until reviews of the product become more positive

By: Jason Mayoff

Jason Mayoff — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:48:45 +0000

Well, if it comes from a superhero (with a cape or without?) then I’ll have to try it. I’ve got a couple of Windows machines lying around that could stand to lose a few pounds.

I’ve always been worried about trying these types of things — thinking they’d delete some critical files.