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If you put suggestions and bug reports in this thread, then I'll create a new forum for it tomorrow.

A new title for our forum members first. Introducing Speccy Our new advanced system info tool. Currently in a beta release. Download now from: www.speccy.com

We're happy to announce that our entire range of software titles: CCleaner, Defraggler and Recuva are 100% compatible with Windows 7. Download the latest releases now to make sure you're compatible too! View the full blog post

In release 1.15 of Defraggler, we've focused on Windows 7 support and improving the user interface. User interface - The most obvious change is the improved appearance of the pie chart from a standard windows one into a cooler transparent one. We hope you like it! Windows 7 - Released on October 22, and Defraggler has full support! We've got new internal optimizations that will improve your system optimization experience on this new OS! Download Defraggler now! Here's the full list of changes: Redesigned disk space usage pie chart. Windows 7 support added. Added Portable U3 installer support. Improved numerical and text validation. Fixed bug in automatic update checking. Many GUI fixes and improvements. Download Defraggler today at www.piriform.com/defraggler. Also don't forget to sign up for the Piriform newsletter while you're there. View the full blog post

In this new release of Recuva we've optimized and improved a lot with new our new internal testing systems. Including a new portable U3 installer and better exFAT support. The mildy sad news is that we've had to drop support for Windows 98. The benefit of this is that we can remove the old compatibility code we had to write to support it. This code slowed down the program on newer OSs. The end result is a more compact, faster, fully unicode (and 100% Windows 7 compatible) Recuva! The full change log is below: Improved analysis of exFAT drives. Added U3 portable installer. GUI fixes for non-standard DPI (large fonts). Improved error messages for files that cannot be overwritten. Dropped support for Windows 98 to improve performance. Fixed bug in language selection. Minor bug fixes. Download now from www.piriform.com/recuva. While you're there, sign up for the newsletter so you don't miss any news or updates. View the full blog post

Windows 7 was released on October 22, and whether you're a new user or waiting with an older version of Windows, we've got new features and fixes for CCleaner that will improve your system optimization experience. We've made lots of other improvements which are listed below: CCleaner v2.25.1025 Improved Windows 7 jump list cleaning. Improved Windows 7 thumbnail cache cleaning. Added support for Windows Server 2008 R2. Improved 64-bit support and performance. Fixed issue with Windows 7 task scheduler. Fixed issue with Startup tool, displaying incorrect folder contents. Added support for AVG Antivirus 9.0. Added support for ExcludeKey in INI files. Improved support for wildcards and RECURSE/REMOVESELF. Fixed minor GUI bugs in non-English versions. Fixed minor GUI usability issues. Improved input validation. Lots of minor bugs fixed. Click here to visit the CCleaner.com site and to download View the full blog post

Defraggler 1.14 is a small release with two important changes. We've improved one of the ways Defraggler works, and we've added a new feature. Recycle Bin emptying - It's always wise to empty your Recycle Bin before you defragment. Not only does this free up space on your hard drive, but it gives Defraggler more room to move and reorganize files for optimum speed and efficiency. Defraggler v1.14 now automatically prompts you to do so. Improved Master File Table handling - The Master File Table (MFT) contains an index of where your files live on the hard drive. By nature it's fixed, and Defraggler can't move it. With this program update, Defraggler handles the files located just around the MFT much more efficiently, so you'll be able to access those files faster in the future. Download Defraggler now! Here's the full list of changes: Added 'Empty recycle bin option' before defrag. Improved placement of files around MFT. Fixed incorrect defrag button behavior (defrag checked and highlighted while using tabstop). Fixed crash occurring after pressing defrag button. Fixed tab order on cleanup drive dialog. Added Run Defraggler option after installation. Added Estonian support. Download Defraggler v1.14 today at www.piriform.com/defraggler. Want to keep current on all new releases? Sign up for the Piriform newsletter while you're there. View the full blog post

Elton John may have sung the virtues of a Pinball Wizard, but we're going to start touting Recuva as an email wizard. The word is spreading that the latest versions of Recuva can be used to recover deleted emails from Thunderbird, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail. That's right - even if you deleted an email from your email program's Trash folder, you should be able to recover it with Recuva. The main change for this release is that we've added support for email recovery right in the Recuva wizard. On the File Type pane, you'll see that you can now select Emails as a type of file to recover. As a quick recap: When Recuva finds deleted emails, it gathers them up into a compressed file (called 'Thunderbird Emails.zip' or similar, depending on your email program). You can unzip this file, which contains the emails as .EML files -- one for each email. Most email programs enable you to re-import these EML files. Even if you don't use the Wizard, you can still search for deleted emails by selecting Emails in the Filename or path drop-down box. Give it a try! The full change log is below: Added email recovery to Wizard. Improvements to Thunderbird email recovery. Improved handling of very large exFAT drives. Various stability fixes in 64-bit version. Updated installer to allow Recuva to run at the end. Added Estonian language support. Download now from www.piriform.com/recuva. While you're there, sign up for the newsletter so you don't miss any new updates or other news. View the full blog post

Can you post a screenshot of an example that doesn't work? And we'll look into it

This new build focuses on improving existing features, fixing bugs and adding support for the latest browsers. We've made lots of other changes which are listed below in the full change log: CCleaner v2.24.1010 Added support for Firefox 3.6. Added file search history cleaning for Windows 7. Improved Opera 10 cleaning. Reduced temp folder cleaning delay to 24 hours. Several bugs fixed to better support Windows 7. Added winapp2.ini filter support to detailed results view. Improved 64-bit support for Registry Cleaner. Fixed minor bug in Uninstall Tool. Fixed minor bug in System Restore Tool. Minor interface bugs fixed. Minor display bugs fixed. Click here to visit the CCleaner.com site and to download View the full blog post

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The previous version of Recuva brought recovery of deleted emails for users of Mozilla Thunderbird. With v1.30, we've extended that support to Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail. Normally, when you delete an email, it is moved into the email program's Trash or Deleted Items. But what happens when you empty these and then need that email back? No problem - Recuva's got you covered! If you're using the Recuva Wizard, select "Other" as the File Type. In the results window, switch to advanced view and select Emails from the filter drop-down. If Recuva has recovered deleted emails, they will be contained in ZIP files in the form: Thunderbird emails.ZIP. Restore this ZIP file, and you'll find your deleted emails, sorted by folders. The emails are in the .EML format, which most email programs can read. Double-click an EML file to view the email in your default email program. Depending on the program, you may also be able to import the EML files back into the program's database. The full change log is below: Added recovery of emails from Outlook Express. Added recover of emails from Windows Mail. Added 'Email' filter. Fixed bug that could cause secure delete to fail in list view. Various bug fixes. Download now from www.recuva.com. While you're there, sign up for the newsletter so you don't miss any new updates or other news. View the full blog post

Hi all, Due to a couple of issues found by our forum members and the new Opera 10 release, we've published a new build of CCleaner v2.23 v2.23.999 - Improved Opera 10 support for final release. - Fixed the "No Disk" exception error. - Fixed %ProgramFiles% bug in 64-bit Registry scanning. Hope you like it! MrG

The previous version of Recuva brought recovery of deleted emails for users of Mozilla Thunderbird. With v1.30, we've extended that support to Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail. Normally, when you delete an email, it is moved into the email program's Trash or Deleted Items. But what happens when you empty these and then need that email back? No problem - Recuva's got you covered! If you're using the Recuva Wizard, select "Other" as the File Type. In the results window, switch to advanced view and select Emails from the filter drop-down. If Recuva has recovered deleted emails, they will be contained in ZIP files in the form: Thunderbird emails.ZIP. Restore this ZIP file, and you'll find your deleted emails, sorted by folders. The emails are in the .EML format, which most email programs can read. Double-click an EML file to view the email in your default email program. Depending on the program, you may also be able to import the EML files back into the program's database. The full change log is below: Added recovery of emails from Outlook Express. Added recover of emails from Windows Mail. Added 'Email' filter. Fixed bug that could cause secure delete to fail in list view. Various bug fixes. Download now from www.recuva.com. While you're there, sign up for the newsletter so you don't miss any new updates or other news. View the full blog post

With Microsoft Windows 7.0 having been released to developers we've been working hard to fix any final compatibility issues. With this latest version of CCleaner, we've added support for cleaning the new Taskbar Jump Lists. For this release, we also focused on tidying up the user interface and adding niceties that make it easier to use. The new results window has been fixed and improved - a lot of feedback and suggestions came from our users, and we really appreciate that! We've made even more improvements which are listed below in the full change log: CCleaner v2.23.993 Added Taskbar Jump List cleaning for Windows 7. Added history cleaning support for Opera 10. Added icons to Cookie selection to show browser. Improved scrolling in new results window. Improved Avira Anti-virus cleaning. Improved multiselect in listviews. Improved 64-bit support when including/excluding files. Improved 64-bit issue detection in Registry screen. Updated internal icons. Added language support for Armenian. Fixed language bugs with new results window. Fixed bug in Recycle Bin cleaning. Fixed minor bug with help files in Registry Cleaner. Fixed bug when deleting an application in Uninstall Tool. Fixed bug when enabling/disabling in Startup Tool. Minor GUI improvements. Click here to visit the CCleaner.com site and to download View the full blog post

Perking right along through the heat of summer, the dev team has released the latest version of Defraggler. We've got a couple of new features, performance improvements, and the usual bits and bobbles. 1. Command-Line Quick Defrag The last version of Defraggler (v1.12) introduced Quick Defrag, a drop-down selection in the main Defraggler window you can use to run a much faster, though slightly less efficient defrag. For those of you running Defraggler from the command line, you can now instruct it to use the Quick Defrag option. Here's the syntax: df.exe [file or filemask or folder or drive label] /QD To see all of the command-line options, type df.exe /? at a command prompt, or see this topic: http://docs.piriform.com/defraggler/advanc...line-parameters 2. Folder Index entries Microsoft Windows stores information about files in folders in a hidden file called the folder index. For example, if you create a file in a folder, that folder's index will contain the filename, creation timestamp, an archive bit, and more. Advanced users may want to view folder index entries in the file list viewable after you analyze a drive. To set folder index entries as viewable, click Settings, then click Options?€? On the General tab, click Show folder index entries in file list, and then click OK. The folder index entries will show up as [Folder Entry] in the list. Download Defraggler now! Here's the full list of changes: Added quick defrag to command line version. Added option to view folder index entries in file list. Fixed bug related to excessive GDI objects. Fixed tab issue in search tab. Improved speed of moving very large files to the end of the drive. Several minor bugs fixed. Download Defraggler v1.13 today at www.defraggler.com. Want to keep current on all new releases? Sign up for the Piriform newsletter while you're there. View the full blog post

The problem with downloading the ZIP files has been fixed. The forum code had a bug that corrupted the files on IE. MrG

We've made a number of changes to CCleaner in this new release. Some you'll notice up front, and some you won't see at all. They're designed to support more software, provide more operating support, and help you get the most out of CCleaner and your PC. When you click Analyze or Run Cleaner, you'll see a new Results panel. We've redesigned the Results panel so that you can see an overview of files by application and details on each file to be deleted. You can also sort the list, search for specific items, and export the list to a text file. We think you'll like it! We've also added better support for Opera 10 and Safari 4. We've made even more improvements which are listed below in the full change log: CCleaner v2.20.920 Redesign of Cleaner results panel. Added support for Opera 10 Beta. Added support for Safari 4.0. Added search to Uninstall tool. Added search to Cookies screen. Improved User assist cleaning in Windows 7. Fixed bug in OpenOffice cleaning. Fixed IE8 SuggestedSites.dat cleaning support. Fixed UI bugs. Click here to visit the CCleaner.com site and to download View the full blog post

The latest version of Recuva (v1.29) brings support for new applications and file types, and improved support in other areas. First, we're pleased to announce that Recuva now supports Mozilla Thunderbird. If you're using this excellent email program, Recuva can restore any emails you've deleted by mistake - using the same interface you're already familiar with (just do a normal scan and look for a file called 'Thunderbird_emails.zip'). The emails are restored as .eml files, so that means attachments are also recovered. If you're a pro (or prosumer) photographer, you'll appreciate Recuva's new support for the Nikon RAW image file format during the Deep Scan process. Also for those of you using exFAT for flash drives, we've improved Recuva's support for this Microsoft format. The full change log is below: Added recovery of deleted Thunderbird emails. Added support for Nikon RAW in Deep Scan. Improved support of exFAT drives. Improved recovery of JPG images from NTFS drives. Various minor tweaks. Download now from www.recuva.com. While you're there, sign up for the newsletter so you don't miss any new updates or other news. View the full blog post

1. Quick Defrag Defragmentation is a great way to speed up your PC, but it can also take a fair bit of time. If you remember to start Defraggler before you go to sleep, you'll have a faster PC in the morning. If you run Defraggler (or any defrag program) while you continue to work, though, you'll notice a slight decrease in performance. Now there's a way for you to do a faster, less involved defrag whenever you want. Introducing Defraggler's Quick Defrag. When you use the Quick Defrag option, Defraggler will operate about 3-4 times faster. The compromise, though, is that it won't use the most intensive, optimal algorithm to reorganize your files. Defraggler still works the same way. Once you're ready to defrag, either click the Defrag button, or click the down-arrow next to it and select Quick Defrag. Download Defraggler now! 2. exFAT compatibility If you use the new exFAT file system for your flash drives under Windows Vista SP1, you'll be pleased to know that Defraggler now has 100% support for exFAT. Here's the full list of changes: Added Quick Defrag feature. Added exFAT compatibility. Architecture changes to improve defrag performance. Improved placement of most commonly used files. Various UI tweaks. Download Defraggler v1.12 today at www.defraggler.com. Want to keep current on all new releases? Sign up for the Piriform newsletter while you're there. View the full blog post

Server has been patched to prevent this happening again

Recuva now has a separate EXE for running natively on 64-bit OSs. This will allow it to run faster and more efficiently on Vista 64-bit. Additionally - Now that the Windows 7 Release Candidate is out and free for download, we're sure that a lot of you have bitten the bullet and are getting to know it. Windows 7 does things a bit differently than previous versions of Windows, and sometimes stores files in different locations. This release improves Recuva's support for Windows 7. The full change log is below: Added native 64-bit support. Added support for exFAT drives. Improved Windows 7 support. Fixed browse issue with the Wizard in Win98. Fixed a few other Win98 issues. Minor UI tweaks. Download now from www.recuva.com View the full blog post

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