Thread: recently downloaded ccleaner, and am now experiencing problems?

I recently downloaded the ccleaner program, however, I have since uninstalled it, but I seem to be plagued by pop-ups, windows explorer.exe keeps crashing, and my Internet Connection Wizard keeps randomly starting up without prompt.Is this anything to do with the ccleaner?How can I get my laptop back to normal?I am running on Windows 2000, so it is an older version of windows that I have.I also recently downloaded the GIMP picture editing software, and with it, yahoo toolbar also installed itself. I have uninstalled both of these as well now, but am still experiencing problems.

CCleaner is a safe program which I use and have no problems with. I believe there may have been something wrong with your computer to begin with.Your machine is infected. Pop-ups are mostly caused by adware, spyware, and other malicious and unwanted software and using pop-up blocker won't help an infected PC. No single program can detect and eradicate all spyware and I recommend using Ad-aware and Spybot (they are free). Other great free anti-spyware programs would be Super anti-spyware and AVG anti-spyware (formally Ewido).Running these programs in Safe Mode (tap F8 as the computer boots up and choose to boot to safe mode) can be more effective.If you do not have an updated anti-virus program always running, you need to get one. Install only one, but you can get AVG, Avast! or AntiVir for free.I strongly recommend using FireFox, it's a far better and safer alternative to Internet Explorer.

cccleaner sucks, ive used it many times an gave me problems, viruses an spyware from it, so my advice, go to circuit city, officemax or somewhere like that an buy a program called registry repair, good buy for 10 bux.