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Did you try to generate some heavy disk activity like copying a large file? Does it behave the same with a different counter? What you're using is a bit odd setup imo. Transferred bytes per seconds will be a number in the order of millions (megabytes) and DiskLED will be applying a scale between 0 and 1 to it, so the result will be always red. Could you maybe try some percentage based counter like % Disk Time? Then if you set the "100% utilization" in DiskLED to 100, the number from the counter will fit in the scale and you should also see some green / orange. I checked the code and the thresholds are: no color for 0, green up to 25%, yellow up to 50%, orange up to 75% and red for anything above. Then try to copy some larger file and see if the icon does something (without CCleaner running).

I seriously doubt CCleaner has some direct role in this. The only thing I can think of is that it might generate some disk activity when running but so do virtually all running programs. But the correlation sounds interesting indeed. I didn't quite get from your description what's the actual difference between the desired state of DiskLED (i.e. when CCleaner is running) and the undesired state (i.e. when CCleaner is not running). Is the tray icon missing completely? Is it showing something it shouldn't be showing? What does it mean exactly that it shows activity only for one drive?

I'm just fishing here but could you try to make the taskbar a little bit bigger to see if the date pops up? This suggestion is based on one of the answers here https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/taskbar-does-not-show-date/f2764f6f-d1cc-482c-ab4f-dce871b0afa1 (the second one)

Could you please go to Tools -> Software Updater and see what programs to update you have there?

If you right-click on the Cookies to Keep pane, it will bring up a context menu with an Add option. If you click that option, you'll get a dialog where you can enter the cookie domain - bard.google.com. However, I'm not very sure it will do what you expect. From the fact that bard.google.com cookie isn't listed in CCleaner and from my experiment with a web login to Bard, it seems to me that the login you want to protect is stored in a google.com cookie. This means that protecting bard.google.com cookie wouldn't have any effect, simply because there is no such cookie.

I'm sorry I probably didn't express myself very well. What (in my opinion) is happening is that when you launch a game, Cortex automatically terminates the CCleaner process (the one running in the background) and when the game has finished, Cortex launches CCleaner process again. The problem is that for the latter it doesn't use correct arguments, which leads to opening the main CCleaner window instead of just running CCleaner in the background. So, if all this is a valid theory, there should be two ways out of it, both trying to prevent Cortex from terminating and restoring CCleaner: Add CCleaner as an exception to Cortex, so that Cortex optimization will skip it. The exception you added would prevent CCleaner from cleaning Cortex installation folder (which it doesn't anyway). This is not what we need. We need to ask Cortex to stop optimizing CCleaner, so the exception needs to go to the Cortex application. Prevent CCleaner from running in the background. This in your case will probably mean switching off automatic updates (in Options -> Updates). If you don't have automatic updates on, then my whole theory is probably invalid. The first solution is arguably preferable. :) Edit: It seems that what you need to do is untick CCleaner in the Game Booster window

I see you have Razer Cortex installed. Do you use its Game Booster feature? If you do, then I'd say it might very well be the culprit. Could you try to add CCleaner to the Game Booster's exception list and see if it helps?

You can try to start the service manually to get some details about the issue. If you open Services (for example by clicking the start menu, typing "services" and clicking the Services icon which appears) and find a service named "CCleaner Performance Optimizer Service", you'll probably see that it's stopped (its status is not Running). If you right click that line and select "Start" from the menu, the service will attempt to start. If that fails, I'd expect an error message to pop up. It won't most likely contain a tremendous amount of detail, but it could shed a bit of light on the issue. Can you try that?

I think you can't really blame CCleaner here - it is dependent on the version information in the executable file and that information in this case says 5.8.1.0