If you have ever wondered why your laptop is starting run slowly, have low disk space or generally becoming unstable it could be a hardware problem (i.e. laptop motherboard, CPU, memory, hard drive etc) or software. Over time files collect on your laptop which are not required and can cause some of the symptoms which may require you having your laptop to be repaired. You might have to seek advice from a laptop engineer.
A possible start to repairing your laptop is with a free piece of software called CClearner
“CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space” and has been downloaded “375 million times” * (quotation and statics from www.ccleaner.com)
Below you will find a step by step guide to installing CClearner on your laptop, notebook, netbook or other Windows XP based computer.
Download CClearner from http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
1) Click on the link at the top right hand side of the web page to download Cclearner (A green button “Download Latest Version”)
When you click on the “Download Latest Version” button a new page will be displayed and CClearner will automatically start downloading.
Depending on your browser settings (in this tutorial we are using IE 7.0) the download might be blocked and a message will be displayed saying “To help protect you security internet explorer blocked this site from downloading files to your computer, Click here for options”
Left click on any part of this message and a popup menu will be displayed.
Click on Download File and you will be prompted with 3 Options, 1) Run, 2) Save, 3) Cancel.
Click on Save
Select a location to save the Cclearner file in then click on Save. The file will start to download and a progress bar will be displayed
(Progress bar displaying how long CClearner will take to download to your laptop)
Once the file has downloaded you will either need to browse to the directory where you saved the Cclearner setup file or Click on open
If you have browsed to the file double click on it to start the installation
(Location of CClearner installation file on your laptops hard drive)
If you have either double clicked on the installation file (ccsetup228 with this example but the file name might change) an “Open file - security warning” will be displayed, click on the “run” button, this will start the installation wizard.
The 1st question is to select your language, Click “OK” if this is the correct setting.
Click on Ok
Click on Next
It is important you read the licence agreement, if you agree to these then click "i agree"
You can change the installation options but in this guide I will leave it as the default.
Click on “Install”. Cclearner will start to install and is nearly ready to be used on your laptop
Once the installation has completed successfully you can run it on your laptop.
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