If this happens to you, try resetting the CMOS. The way to do that is the following:

A client of mine recently had CCleaner, a valuable cleaning tool, delete a file that one of his programs (which was poorly designed) needed to run, even though that file was in a temp folder.

The file that it deleted on his system was DAO.msi. So, if this happens to you with a different file, then replace DAO.msi with the name of the file that you are needing to keep on your system.

If this happens to you with this file, or another file, then here is how to tell CCleaner to exclude that file so you can continue to use this valuable cleaning tool:

Even after you delete a contact in your Mac’s Address Book, it still may appear. How do you get rid of it entirely?

Here’s how:

I was losing space on the c drive of my laptop, and found that over 2 gigs was being taken up by Windows Desktop Search, and as far as I know, it keeps accumulating over time, as it keeps indexing. No other program needs Windows Desktop Search to run, so there are no worries about uninstalling it.

I removed it and got back over 2.7GB of space!

To remove it, do this (in Windows XP):