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I may just have found a possible permanent solution to the WelcomeScreen appearing in the installed version happening all the time or in some cases spasmodically. Looking back at the solutions recommended in this forum topic I first went to the registry at HKLM\Software\Piriform\CCleaner and as suggested by previous forum users I modified the item (Cfg)WelcomeScreen to "0" (it was indeed showing the default of "1"). I then opened CCleaner and under "Options" unticked the boxes in both "Smart Cleaning" and "Updates". Then under "Advanced" I ticked the box for "Save all settings to INI file". As reported by previous forum members, the changing of the registry value to "0", does result in the Welcome Screen not appearing. "Great" I thought, but after a while my set value of"0" just kept reverting back to the default of "1" for no apparent reason, and of course the Welcome Screen then continued to return. I said some rude words to myself and the computer at this juncture, but decided to experiment further. I have now found that putting the value to "3" instead of "0" has just the same effect of stopping the Welcome Screen, as putting it to "0". But furthermore this value of "3" has not been somehow reverting to "1" as it did after modifying the value to "0". So far, after many days now, I have not had the Welcome Screen showing, and the registry value that I set at "3" has remained at "3" now all the time and thus I no longer see any WelcomeScreen. I just trust that this actually turns out to be a permanent solution. Hope this helps anyone who was having the same problems - it's now working fine for me, although I do suspect a future update may affect it again. Hence my turning off "Smart Cleaning" and "Updates". Incidentally, just in passing, the problem does not happen in any case in the "Portable" version.