Question re PC Health meter

barebear

I'm using JV PT 2008 ( 1.8.0.446 ) on XP SP2 (fully updated) and use the Registry Cleaner on a daily basis, along with CCleaner and the all-in-one wizard from SystemSuite 8 Professional. I also run Diskeeper Premier Pro on Auto Defrag.

Simply put, I am very conscientious about keeping my system clean and well maintained. The following situation is therefore a major concern to me.

When I open JV16, the Registry Health meter reads 100%, but the PC Health meter reads 92% and says I can improve the rating by using the file cleaner to clean my system of unneeded files.

I've run the file cleaner in Safe Mode; it found only 4 tiny files inside my Mozilla Firefox. I had JV delete them after making backups of them, rebooted, re-opened JV16, and found that the PC Health meter was still reading 92% and again mentioning using the file cleaner to improve the rating by getting rid of unneeded files.

I am not what I would call an advanced user, and have no idea of what to look for/do to get my PC Health meter back to the 100% where it should be at. I've seen the options for "medium" and "aggressive" modes in the File Cleaner, but have been leery of using them for fear of damaging my system and uncertainty as to whether their use would really bring the PC Health meter back to 100%. ( I do run Acronis True Image on a sheduled daily basis to protect myself in case of any real trouble developing, but want to avoid generating a situation where an Acronis restore would be needed).

Please advise what to look for/do to bring my PC Health meter back to 100% and if I need to provide any other information in order to figure out the problem.

Again, I don't consider myself an advanced user --- please take note of that when advising me.

Thank you! to any and all who may be able to help me resolve the situation.

One other small matter--I don't know how to update my information--I'm now running a different Asus motherboard and an Athlon3500 processor. Please advise how to update that info---I couldn't find where to do that in the User Control Panel

tullik

barebear wrote
... One other small matter--I don't know how to update my information--I'm now running a different Asus motherboard and an Athlon3500 processor. Please advise how to update that info---I couldn't find where to do that in the User Control Panel

This did it for me:

User Control Panel --> Profile --> Edit signature --> make your changes --> Submit

jv16

barebear wrote

Please advise what to look for/do to bring my PC Health meter back to 100% and if I need to provide any other information in order to figure out the problem.

The PC Health is calculated based on the Registry Health value and the amount of unneeded Temp files stored in your computer. If your Registry Health value is already at 100%, you should be able to get the PC Health to 100% by running File Cleaner, verifying the items it finds and then deleting them.

Do notice that after this you must run the Quick System Analysis under Main Window's File menu in order to recalculate the PC Health score.

tullik

@ barebear

The PC Health is an estimation, or opinion, about which files are unneeded.

The File Cleaner "unneeded files" results list only suggests removal candidates.

If you can't determine for sure that a file is safe to delete, it's best to leave it alone.

IMO, 92% is pretty good. :

barebear

Hi Juoni,

I followed your instructions exactly--ran the File Cleaner in its default Safe Mode and it found nothing ( not a single file showed up ). I then went to File and re-ran Run Quick System Analysis. The PC Health meter did not change from its 92% reading and the Registry Health meter still reads 100%

Please advise what to do now?

tullik

Perhaps the files used in the calculation include those in the "Aggressive" mode. Since I don't have a shortage of disk space, I don't make the rather large effort to analyze those files to determine (or guess : ) what's safe to delete and take the risk.

Perhaps the calculation also includes the files (logs, et cetera) detected by the History Cleaner. You could try running that and "Clear" everything you think you do not want or need. With backup of course.

For what it's worth, the PC health indicator is:

94 out of 100 on my Vista machine

100 out of 100 on my XP Pro machine

I made no special effort -- that's just what PT2008 says ... :

barebear

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tullik

barebear wrote
... I don't want to run my history cleaner because I'm not sure how to back that up? ...

Backup works in the standard PowerTools way. To see how backup works with History Cleaner, just select and Clear only the "Microsoft RegEdit" line (completely safe to remove). If you don't show that line, let me know -- I'll then suggest some others.

You can see what will be "cleared" for an application ("Software") by double clicking its line. The resulting window has two tabs, one for registry entries and one for files. Some applications have only registry entries, some have only files, some have both.

If you decide to use History Cleaner, I suggest doing one line at a time the first time. Items with many files can take a while to backup. Restores can be done using the PowerTools Backup tool.

You may want to "never show" the lines for some applications (click the application's check box-->right click the line-->select "never show again").