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It appears that this option is limited to highlighting the point you wish to remove and then pressing the Remove button. And repeat.

Is that AshWebSv? I'm using 12,900 k. 60 mb is rather a lot. Are you XP? (PS Sorry. no clue.)

I don't know how the average user proceeds with registry cleaning but I would advise to proceed with caution. There's probably not a great deal to benefit in terms of space or speed if the registry is squeaky clean, it just looks neater. But if we didn't use CC or a similar product we wouldn't see the registry 'issues' anyway. Step one of course is always to take the backup when offered. It's not (according to some threads) a guaranteed recovery panacea but it's a good start. Then I would progress a step at a time, certainly not fix all issues in one go. Remove those entries that you know are obsolete, such as those belonging to removed software. Google those entries you don't understand, and don't remove them if you don't understand what Google returns. Finally, if you don't remove all entries, and that is likely, don't worry too much. I still have some of those issues. Can't you either reinstall Windows if your pc is so bad, or reinstall some of the applications? CC won't really break your pc beyond recall.

Up to you, but stopped, manual is my choice. Like you I would never faff about sending anything to M/S, if a progarm crashes it's usually my fault or cured by a reboot.

My Dell setup is almost identical to Brian's. Apparently there are two (easy) ways to tell if hyperthreading is enabled, one with the task manager showing two cpu usage graphs (as above), and the other by going to Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager/Processors, where two will be shown.

There's a huge amount of stuff on this in Google, and a huge amount of 'solutions'. But something is causing it, the problem's finding it. Is it all Explorer folders or some? Those with pics or without? Are the folders still slow to open after they've been opened once? Can you use task manager to see whats using resources when you open a folder? What do you have running at startup? (No, don't list them, do you have a lot?). Can you do a clean boot to run without these applications? Has anything crept in? What services do you have running? (Ditto above.) Is there anything runing that shouldn't be? What folder options do you have? (Ditto etc.) Can you check nothing has changed? This is not a common CC issue, and I can't see what CC could have done to cause it. At a guess it's something that the pc is doing, such as redo all thumbnails or some other display option, or some application conflict, or disk indexing, etc.

I think that if you look at some of the other posts on wipe free space you'll find that the actual time taken is variable, from a few hours to eight or ten hours or more. It all depends on how large your disk is, what the access speed is, how much data (and thus how little free space) there is on it, what spec your pc is, whether you're doing anything else on the pc at the time, etc. I would think that the main consideratiuons are how much to wipe and disk access speed. Just consider how long it would take to actually write 100 gb of data (or whatever amount you have). Quite a while. You can't compare it with Recuva.

I guess they are elements of some previously loaded software. Applications can include files which were created some time ago. I have a few entries with a date going back to before my pc was even a red blob on my credit card. What's a Recuva deep sweep 7 scan pass?

You could look at the logs in the Event Viewer, but I've never found these to be very helpful. Apart from this I'm stumped. Anyone else have any ideas?

There has been a thread on this recently, so a search might be rewarding. Otherwise use Google to check what the processes are, and common sense to decide whether you need them. CCleaner won't help, by the way, apart from being an easy interface to the startup list.

As far as I know it doesn't make the slightest difference what the file extension is. If Recuva can find it it will. Very recently created files which are deleted can seemingly disappear of the face of the earth. This is because they will have used the next available slot in the MFT for the file details. When the file is deleted the slot becomes available and can be quickly reused, in seconds. Opening Recuva may well create a prefetch file, or recently used program entry for instance. I don't know why deep scan can't find any mkv files at all. Did you use the recycler to delete the files?

Can you reverse Defraggler? No. H, why would Defraggler be allocating a large file? Does it do this to position moved files at the end of the drive? EW, did you let Defraggler run to completion? Did you ask to position certain files at the end of the drive? Can you run a search on the drefragged drive on today's date, and see what's been allocated at the time of the Defraggler run, and what size it is?

I dunno, some environment variable missing? Do the bat files contain full path filenames? Do they have a @Echo off line which you can edit out and then run so that there may be an error message produced? Can you try this on a harmless bat file? I'm no great expert in batting.

Unfortunately not too many. A sys restore from a point before you ran CC might help, and can be backed out if you don't like it. I'm not too confident that sys restore will solve CC issues as it only restores critical system files, not data, but it's worth a try. That's on XP, Vista sys restore does do some data restore, but I'm not a Vista user.

Threads like this, which are many, at a guess. The thread is quite valid, as the wipe free space operation is not always understood by many users: I would think that it is quite alarming to see an application run for hours just eating up disk space. PS And wipe free space for the overwhelming majority of mankind is soooo unnecessary.

What's all the fuss? I have WGA installed by those kind MS people when I went to SP3, but there's no tray.exe, no notifications, no nothing, no anything running. I didn't have to disable anything. Mind you I don't have auto-update on so maybe that's the difference.

Did you run the registry clean option? Did you 'fix' all issues? Did you take a registry backup when requested? If yes to all three then I suggest that you restore the registry backup. Right click on the backup file (something like cc_20090417_095608.reg in My Documents) and select Merge. If no to any, or having problems with the reg mrege, post back here.

Are you following the pukka download links from www.piriform.com? Get CC from the link to Filehippo, or Alternative Download, or Other Builds. I only get one exe file, and that installs fine (I use the slim version). PS I'm on XP SP3 and using Avast and FF, no probs.

What about right-clicking the Wipe Free Space option in Cleaner/Windows/Advanced and selecting Clean Wipe Free Space? That might run the operation without unticking any boxes. I don't know if it really fits in Revcuva as wipe free space is an anti-recover option.

We would be if we knew. We're just users like you, trying to make sense of the world (and usually failing).

When CC deletes something then it goes for good. Well, it's still on the disk somewhere but for all intents and purposes it's gone and you get the use of the free space immediately. I guess that different registry cleaners just look at and 'judge' things according to different criteria. CC's has a reputation for playing it safe, others may be more risky.

I think that you're saying that the file names have been overwritten, not removed. This can be done very easily by allocating randomly named files until the entries in the MFT are overwritten - 'replaced' - and then deleting them. Or just wait until enough files have been created in the normal course of events to overwrite the old names. Or use Eraser. I don't know what CCleaner Wipe free Space does with these file names as nobody has posted the info, and I'm not going to use it to see.

Most probably yes. Have a read of the CCleaner help documents, found on Piriform's main site (link at the bottom of the home page).

I've really no idea what your pc problem is. You could search your drive on today's date and try to see if there is any file either being created or extended to use up disk space. It's doubtful whether CC could stop this. If English is not your first language then using an occasional please would help things along. Also bumping your own thread is rather rude.

These files have been created by Windows Backup (in XP Pro, and add-on in XP Home) and need to be restored using Windows Backup. From Google 'If you make multiple backups a catalog of those backups is kept on the hard disk in the folder \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\catalogs51. If you have a backup file you are trying to recover files from and that file is not listed in the catalog then the Windows Backup program will not restore from that file unless you delete the catalog. Then, because it has no other data to work from, Windows Backup will recover files from the backup.' I don't know how relevant that is. If Win Backup can't read them then it might be a file association problem or some other error. There are applications available to recover files from bkf backups.