Greenknight

If you're running v 1.26, you're not updated; the newest version is 1.28. I suggest you redownload and re-install CCleaner, and while you're at it get the latest update. If you don't want the Yahoo toolbar, either uncheck it in the install options or get the Slim or Basic version, which don't include it. To find those: on the front page click Download > Other builds. If you still have the problem after re-installing, post back here.

The next time you update Spybot, click "Show Logs" after the update is finished and you'll see what's in them. I think you'll agree that there's no need to keep them.

The only problem it could create is a minor one with future hotfixes, not anything to do with everyday operation of your computer.

I think it should be added that early PCs were much more likely to suffer from being turned on and off than the ones made today. The idea that they should be left on all the time is outdated.

I realize that some sites jumped the gun on announcing the release of 2.0a1, somebody does that every time there's going to be a new Firefox release. But, Eldmannen, you should know me better than that! I'm not planning to tweak CCleaner to make it clean the history; Places combines bookmarks and history in 1 .sqlite file, so it's not so simple. In current builds bookmarks.html is still retained, so you can delete the .sqlite files without losing your bookmarks, but I believe that will change before the 2.0 final release. I'll just use the Firefox "Clear Private Data" function until Mr. G makes CCleaner compatible with Firefox 2.0, which is supposed to come out sometime in the 3rd quarter. <edit> I've since found out that bookmarks.html is not updated in a Places build, so any new bookmarks would be lost if bookmarks_history.sqlite were deleted. All the more reason I don't want to mess with it.

I'm sure it's better than IE6, but malware writers will find holes in it, I guarantee.

It is an official Alpha version of Firefox, and was released today. It's called by it's development name, Bon Echo, just as the Alphas of 1.5 were called Deer Park, to emphasize that it's not a release of Firefox, it's for test purposes only. I'm not asking for help, just passing along some information.

Running Firefox nightly builds, I've found that with the new bookmarks/history system (Places) that's being introduced in 2.0, CCleaner will not clean the history. Since the first alpha version, officially known as Bon Echo 2.0a1, is supposed to come out tomorrow, thought I'd give you all a heads-up. For anyone who wants to give it a try, let me warn you: it's a major change that's gonna take some getting used to, it's still quite full of bugs, and the UI is a long way from being finished. Unless you really want to be on the cutting edge of testing new software, I wouldn't recommend it.

Do you mean that the recently-used programs still appear in the Start menu? I see the same thing the first time I open the Start menu after cleaning, but they're gone the next time I come back, without any need to run CCleaner again.

You don't need a program just to clean out MRUs. AdAware gets rid of those while it's scanning for spyware. I use EasyCleaner as a backup to CCleaner, it has an MRU cleaning function - which I never bother with, since I run AdAware weekly.

You need to keep the cookie from the site. Unless you want to skip "Cookies" cleaning all together, you need to do this: After you have been logged in to the site, before running CCleaner open CCleaner > Options > Cookies, find Bank of America in the "Cookies to delete" column, highlight it, and click the arrow to move it to the "Cookies to keep" column. You need to do the same for any site you want to remain logged in to.

Hard to take their views to seriously when they haven't even heard of ewido. I haven't heard of About:Blaster myself, did you mean About:Buster? Anyway, the programs they recommend are good, I use them myself. When I got a Trojan that installed spyware on my machine, they weren't enough (another user downloaded it, not me!). I now have lots more anti-spyware programs than I need, I cheerfully admit, but most of them are on-demand scans, not running in the background all the time. You should have 2 or 3 spyware scanners, anyway, you can't rely on any 1 to find everything (SpywareBlaster is not a scanner).

I tried it, wasn't impressed. Didn't have any viruses for it to find, though, so it wasn't much of a test.

My 12v line is at 11.69v. Everything's working just fine. Which raises the question, how far off can voltage get before it starts to be a problem? I should add that 11.69v seems to be stable, about what it runs all the time.

I have XP Home, SP2, I run CCleaner at the end of every browsing session and sometimes more often. I've never run into any problems with it deleting too much. I looked for C\Windows\PCHealth\helpCTR\offline cache index.dat on my computer, and I found it, it hasn't been cleaned out. Someone may have mistakenly thought that CCleaner cleans all index.dat files, but it doesn't, it only cleans specific ones.

Actually, what I gather from Microsoft's info about this is that there will be a problem only if you install a Hotfix that contains an older version of a file that was updated in a previously installed Hotfix. So if MS screws up and releases a Hotfix that contains some outdated file, you'll wind up using the outdated version instead of the up to date version you previously installed. Knowing Microsoft, this probably happens all the time.

I've never had any problem getting CCleaner to keep the Firefox cookies I tell it to, either. If the above doesn't work for you, maybe you should uninstall and re-install CCleaner.

It doesn't appear to be a rogue app, but I don't think I'd want it. It does nothing except monitor your system for keyloggers, and it doesn't remove them, it just tells you about them. One review said it's extremely hard to uninstall, and it can cause problems. If you've got your machine properly secured, there's little chance a keylogger could get in. There are other apps that will remove it if one does. I don't think it's worth having.

Yes, the folder would be re-created, but the previously cached data would not be restored. You'd have to re-install all those updates to do that.

I use FDM, because the Firefox built-in download manager is lousy. I use the FlashGot extension to better integrate FDM with Firefox.

I removed A-squared from my computer after I tried out ewido. Ewido finds more, it has a better interface, and it's faster.

You can block some or all cookies if you want. Click Help -> Help Contents -> Managing Cookies for complete instructions.

The Issues scan is CCleaner's Registry cleaning function. Windows' Registry becomes cluttered with old, invalid entries over time, and these can significantly slow down your computer. So yes, you should clean it. CCleaner is probably the safest Registry cleaner around, but it's stll best to back up the entries it deletes. When you click "Fix selected Issues", you'll get a prompt asking if you want to back them up, all you'll have to do is choose a location. Once you gain experience with it you may learn to recognize entries that are safe to remove without backup, and it's actually very rare that the backups are needed, it's merely a precaution.

Donations. That's what pays for freeware. You write a program that people like, people send you donations. A lot of people find it hard to believe that this model works, but it seems to work quite well. Since there's not much of a capital outlay involved in writing software (if you do it yourself, instead of hiring someone to do it), you can afford to give it away on the internet and wait for someone to send you money. If millions of internet users download your program, only a tiny percentage have to donate for you to make a whole lot of money.

If you do the same things again, the same registry entries will be created again. Windows creates many useless registry entries, that's why the registry needs to be cleaned regularly. If you never clean the registry, you can accumulate literally thousands of unneeded entries, which will seriously impair your computer's performance.