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Gearhead This Week: Getting Rid of the Rest of the Cruft

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May 22, 20071 min

Last week we discussed a tool that optimizes your disk and attempts to get rid of the cruft that causes Winrot. This week we look at CCleaner, a free tool that goes even further in cleaning up Windows.

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Mark Gibbs is an author, journalist, and man of mystery. His writing for Network World is widely considered to be vastly underpaid. For more than 30 years, Gibbs has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books about networking, information technology, and the social and political issues surrounding them. His complete bio can be found at http://gibbs.com/mgbio

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