jrx10

thx for the quick reply.

Is there any way in Ccleaner (either regular or portable) to back up "options/Include/Custom files to delete & folders to empty"? Is this info in a certain folder in Ccleaner regular under program files or in the Ccleaner portable complete folder so it can be saved and then added either to a new version when updated, added to another computer running the same OS, or added when I reinstall the boot partition from a previous OS image? If this info is only added to the registry is there a 'script' available that will back it up? thx

no, but I'll try it, I did change the limited user account to a temporary administrator's account from my main administrators account, and then logged off and back in to the user (now administrator's account) and all this "issue crap" didn't show up (same as when running CCleaner from the other adminstrator's accounts). It appears only when using CCleaner to scan for issues from the "limited user" account.

and not from the administrators console? the only time I get all this "issue crap" is when I scan for issues from the xp user's console, and "clean" doesn't seem to clean anything from user's console which I use for surfing. also, will CCleaner work from the limited user's console at all?, and if you log out of the xp limited user's console into an administrator's console and run CCleaner, will it clean out all the "crap" from the limited user's console as well? these issues just keep returning over and over but only from scanning for issues using CCleaner in the limited user's console, but none of these "issues" ever appear when scanning for issues from any administrator's console.