Just use stock settings, do not change anything!
And stay away from CCleaner's Registry scanner option. It is fairly benign compared to the scam registry cleaners around, but even so, the registry does not want cleaning.
One thing about CCleaner's stock settings; when you run analyse and then run the cleaner, it will delete all your cookies. If you need to preserve any cookies, eg web site login cookies, visit Options > Cookies before running the analyser to save those cookies.
I can't say much about System Restore with so few details given. except we know that Norton's Security disables it in favor of it's own protected files option.
Mark
Any suggestions on how to safely set up CCleaner? I want to be sure important files or settings aren't deleted.
Also, "system restore " is not working. Any suggestions?
I have Dell Dimension 5100, Windows XP Professional.

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