DjLizard

When those services crash and begin to reboot your computer, they pop up a dialog that counts down from 60 seconds before it actually restarts (which you can cancel with Start > Run > shutdown -a). If you weren't getting that, then that wasn't the problem. You'll want to disable automatic shutdown on blue screens: Start > Run > control sysdm.cpl,,3 > Startup and Recovery > Settings > uncheck "Automatically restart" Start > Run > eventvwr.msc Clear both the Application and System logs. Use your computer as normal until something happens. If you get a BSoD, note the STOP error code, text, and any parameters in parenthesis. Then send me the latest file from C:\windows\minidump. If you happen to have any files in minidump right now, post one somewhere so I can examine it. If you don't get BSoDs but weird things happen, check event viewer, then right-click on Application and System and Save Log File As... and save both as a comma delimited file (csv) and post them somewhere so I can see them.

Stops how? Do you receive an error message? Are you able to delete C:\Program Files\CCleaner\ and then reinstall it?

No problem krit. HD firmware upgrades are extremely rare. You won't need to do one of those, especially if you're experiencing a new problem. hazelnut: Do you have a card reader or something on your system? It thinks you have at least 3 other drives (which is probably true) (I told it to stop looking for drives past "physical drive 3", but I may expand that)

What'd you call me? Oh, oh yeah. OK.

I know that, and 0.58 warns the user that it's going to get flushed, and prompts the user to choose whether to leave the log or not. 0.58 is not yet available, but that was the first change I made when I started development on 0.58, per a user request (which is when I learned about DataStore). Anyway, CCleaner should not do this thread over --- cut here ---

What the hell? I put a Trim() around that stupid serial number variable... uhhh Good point about the not-giving-it-an-extension, I'll fix that. Ah, I forgot to put .txt as the DefaultExt property of the dialog. There. It was written in like 30 minutes, actually lokoike: Can I have your log too? Also, download the new build at the same address and see if the serial number gets properly trimmed. If it doesn't, then that means those spaces aren't really spaces, but are some other character that looks like spaces (like a tab), which is like that because of your drive. I may be able to see such characters in a saved log and filter them out in future builds. I was going to start a new thread about this program asking for people to send logs in, but this thread'll do Anyone else who wants to run it may run it (but not in Win98/Me just yet) and attach a .log for me. These logs help me make sure the program is working well on all of the possible combinations of host controllers and hard drives. krit86lr: since your SMART attributes are perfect, it was probably just a fluke. http://DjLizard.net/SMARTass.exe I decided to ditch the bottom pane and go back to uniwindow... so the info that would have shown up in the bottom pane (which would have been S.M.A.R.T. threshold errors) will just show up in the main pane.

The history is stored in SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb, and will not be recreated if you delete it.

It's funny, I just wrote this little program yesterday which checks SMART status, so give it a shot and post a log from it (right-click the top pane, Save...) http://DjLizard.net/SMARTass.exe

PS: Dial-a-fix is made for fixing Windows Update problems, and does actually include a SoftwareDistribution flusher

It is my professional opinion that CCleaner should not be targeting this folder at all. The downloaded files are supposed to be removed after installation, or you can do it manually as described. Be warned though that blatantly deleting SoftwareDistribution will remove your update history log. My recommendation is only to remove the SoftwareDistribution\Download folder.

Also, mic jacks are mono.

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Hey MrG and other anonymous powers-that-be: I have a request. I know you use a custom checklistbox, but does it have a BeginUpdate method or something? The reason I ask is... I frequently clean machines in Safe Mode and use the Issues scanner to clean up spyware leftovers. Today, I have had it with the animated listbox removing one object from the list at a time. It took 5 minutes straight to animate itself to empty. Can you clear the listbox, remove the entries from the registry, then re-populate it with the entries that didn't get removed, without having it smooth-scroll and remove the issues object by object? Also, if CCleaner repeatedly finds its own COM objects (CCListBar, CCTreeView, etc) issue a warning to the user that their registry permissions are not set properly, and refer them to: http://wiki.DjLizard.net/Repair_Permissions or http://wiki.DjLizard.net/Dial-a-fix_tips#CCleaner After they repair their permissions, they should NOT remove the CCleaner-specific Issues found, but instead, start a new Issues scan - the CCleaner COM objects will go away and everything will be fine.

If we're randomly guessing, I'd guess that your hard drive is failing. Download a S.M.A.R.T. status app and see for yourself. I recommend HDD Health, HD Tune, or even Smart and Simple.

ye olde snappe

You can make any kind of installer you like... as long as the program unpacks the files, places them in the proper folder as specified by the user, and registers the OCXs and whatnot that the program uses. You could make the installer in whatever language; that part doesn't matter. It just happens that Inno Setup, my favorite installer/packaging program, is written in Delphi, and as such, is highly extensible (you can write Pascal script inside of Inno Setup to automate your tasks, or create functions that don't even exist in Inno Setup). MrG could just as easily continue using his current installer, but have it run a small custom program that uses the Win32 API to kill off the processes, instead of the well-known "risk tool" pskill. Inno Setup may even provide a process termination function (I haven't checked) or allow you to write one. I use the TerminateProcess API to kill off processes in Dial-a-fix, and DAF has never been flagged by anything jotti uses (I re-tested it just last week - no positives). Here's a TerminateProcess stub for VB. Even HP uses tools in system preparation that are flagged by anti-virus vendors as "risk tools", just because they manipulate window handles. One such example is the program in C:\hp\bin\ called fondlewindow or something like that. I see it a lot on older HP computers running XP. It's part of their system preparation/configuration software.

Dial-a-fix medium, Tools > repair permissions, etc.

No it's not, you idiot, it's caused by pskill. ;D MrG: Start using Inno Setup. It is greater than all. (and written in Delphi )

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Yeah, you're not supposed to be installing the DirectX SDK. That's why it's not on Windows Update. It's for software developers. It just happens to come with the redistributable (for software developers to put on their product's CD and whatnot).

InternetFrog.com is probably in Indiana. Download: 5,884,064 bps Upload: 611,792 bps QOS: 73% RTT: 60 ms MaxPause: 147 ms

Yep.

Took it again, and they fixed the bugs... Your score is 63 61 to 102: Seriously Nerdy

It would have to scan all of the files set for deletion, tally up all of the filesizes, and then scan through all of the files and delete them, using the first scan's total for the progess bar. It would take almost twice as long to delete the files since it would have to parse through them all twice.

Google Desktop makes indexes of files, and those indexes remain after the files have gone. You'd have to flush Google Desktop's entire database and re-start it if you want sensitive information to be flushed from G.D.