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be powerful enough to be a frontline tool

CCleaner, a registry repair tool that comes in both a free and a paid version, created by the Piriform company, is known for being a blazingly fast registry cleaner. In fact, we've timed it on our 3 Ghz 32-bit Pentium 4 computer, and it finished a registry scan in just under 15 seconds. It only picked up one error. Our first question was: How thorough a scan was that? Other registry cleaners that we've run on our computer have taken anywhere from a minute or more (many in the two to four minute range) to more than six or eight minutes, and in some cases up to 14 minutes. Our natural curiosity wonders how a scan that only lasts for 15 seconds can possibly be as thorough as a two or four or six minute scan. Obviously, CCleaner doesn't scan as many files as these other cleaners. How can it in fifteen seconds? And our results have born out these findings. Other cleaners, like RegCure, have ended up picking up more errors and empty entries in their scans than CCleaner. RegCur...

accumulation of waste in the environment

The WEEE directive is a law that governs all matters related to the management and disposal of electronic and electrical waste products throughout the EU. All member countries including the EU are expected to adhere to this law without fail. The law aims at limiting the environmental impact of all IT and electrical equipment waste. Therefore, suppose you are an EU resident and you have prospects of discarding a computer. You will be required to adhere to the regulations and guidelines that are found in the directive. Disposing of electronic and electrical equipment in line with the WEEE directive simply means that the person who has prospects of discarding an electronic item has to meet the demand of this law. One of the notable features of the law is that it promotes the reuse and recycle of all IT equipment such as computers, mobile phones and printers. The ultimate goal of the law is to see to it that the degradation of the environment caused by the disposal of electronic and elect...