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  1. Doh, I knew that, and still gave a stupid answer!
  2. Explorer address is C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE - hope that helps you get your reg restored.
  3. Do you mean that the index.dat files are not overwritten? CC cannot overwrite index.dat files as they are in use, and locked, by Windows. When Windows is running, that is. The files are scheduled to be deleted at pc boot time. When Windows initiates it reinstates new empty index.dat files. You can wipe the deleted files with Recuva. Some index.dat files seem to hang around and are not used: CC doesn't touch them.
  4. Augeas

    Registry cleaning

    I don't think that any user, no matter how experienced, can guarantee that full registry cleaning will be harmless. We don't know what pc you have, how you use it, what software is on it, what is being flagged as a candidate for deletion, and what CC gives as a reason for deletion. (Please don't post all this info, we still won't know!) It's often commented here that CC is a fairly mild cleaner, so the odds are that you will be OK. Take the advice and back up and do a section at a time, say one area a day. You will soon become familiar with it. I speak as someone who hardly ever cleans the registry, unless the entry has aol or some other similarly easily identifiable entry. It's no great deal.
  5. You may be able to recover cookies, as they are easily recognised and presumably go back into Doc and Settings/username/Cookies. They should contain userid/password info. Recently typed urls may be a different kettle of fish. I think they are held in the index.dat file in Doc and Settings/username/Local Settings/History/History IE5/ and ditto/MSHistnnnnnn/ (if you're using IE). These index files will have been recreated by Windows so you won't be able to restore over them or modify them at all. To be honest it's better to type the things in again as and when they're needed. I've given up trying to impress girlfriends. They are soooo ungrateful. PS Just read your reply. Cookies are text files, and can have a txt file extension. Where did you restore them to? PPS I've never recovered a cookie, so there may be more to it than just restoring the text file. Maybe there's something kept in the index.dat files, in which case you're snookered.
  6. Most strange, especially as you've rebooted several times. If you're not running any other application then I too would suspect your a/v. Which one do you use? Also check that you're downloading from a reliable source, Filehippo or Piriform. I'm on XP/SP2 Home with AVG and FF/IE6, never any CC download probs.
  7. I think that the only clean uninstall is an install - of the O/S that is. There's always some tat left over.
  8. Not in the same way that it searches for temp files etc. on the system drive, as it assumes that there aren't any on non-system drives.. You can drag files/folders from the ext drive to the include section, but there is no selection. What you drag is what gets deleted.
  9. I use the slim version from Piriform's site (a quarter of the size) and there is no option to chose or not any toolbars (and you don't get one either). Perhaps Mr Qutts can try this. I used to use the full version from filehippo, and I can remember seeing the No Toolbar box, but I can't say about the latest full version.
  10. Just updated AVG and.... nothing. I feel rather left out.
  11. I'm bemused. I've never seen the Yahoo toolbar or any ad/spyware in years. Well, ever, really.
  12. This has been raised several times before. There are other dedicated s/w solutions (Eraser, as you mention), and personally I wouldn't want CC to become bloatware with every option under the sun. I have only wiped one disk in too many years of pc wrangling and it wasn't worth the effort then. I vote no (as you probably guessed), but then I'm a shift/del user.
  13. This was discussed in a separate thread only a few days ago - please have a quick look around before posting....
  14. Well, I'm not absolutely au fait with Windows file and directory structures (who is?) so I can't really say how straightforward it would be to remove file names completely. But it can be said that Windows puts files into a deleted state whilst retaining the file name, cluster size and addresses, etc. So to change that state might not be that easy. Would you just zap the filename to blanks, or remove the file deleted flag? Do you have to shuffle the remaining MFT entries? What else should you do that you don't know about? What will M/S introduce in the future that will cause your work to corrupt the MFT? The list is endless. It's a big risk for relatively low and unimportant returns.
  15. Options - Advanced - Tick the first three boxes. The first might be some help, the other two are no help at all as far as recovering data is concerned. Your lost files may well have gone forever.
  16. Well, you could answer this in ten minutes by trying it, but entirely at your own - or your pc's - risk.
  17. It would be better if you posted in this thread the 14 entries that keep reappearing (please do not email me!). Also pc spec, CC release, etc.
  18. What does Recuva say, recovered 0 files, or 1, or 2 etc? Does it warn you that you are recovering to the same drive? Does it just end?
  19. Yes, this does happen, but I wouldn't want to automate any cleaning actions when dealing with the registry.
  20. Windows 2000 8 bit, I guess. Sorry, I never noticed what was or wasn't in the About box before.
  21. Do you mean you ticked the Temp Internet Files box in CC, or did you include your new temp file in the Options/Include list? CC will not recognise any folder or file not on the c (or system) drive. I doubt if it will recognise any temp internet file on the c drive which is not named as good old Microsoft intended, but I haven't tested that. If you want this renamed folder emptied, or any file/folder on a non-c drive, then you will have to drag the folder to the Options/Include list. Then you need to tick the Advanced/Custom Files box on the Cleaner page. You want the contents of the folder cleaned not the folder itself, so drag the folder name as you've specced it above.
  22. Because it is not a temp internet file but the message file for Windows WMI system. I've no idea what would happen if you deleted it, but I wouldn't try. You could upgrade to Vista which doesn't have or use these files (but has zillions of others!).
  23. I would hazard a guess that it is one or more of: 1) The O/S has control of the MFT and Recuva can't access it at all 2) Recuva can access the MFT but can't lock it to do changes 3) It manage the MFT effectively means managing the entire pc whilst doing changes 4) To mess up a file is unfortunate, to mess up the MFT is a pc rebuild 5) Piriform wouldn't touch the MFT with a barge-pole
  24. I believe that Recuva reads the entries in the MFT with the delete flag set on, and then follows the CCHHRR (or whatever these disks use) to find the relevant file. So if the MFT has been reformatted then the old files will not be findable with this method, even if they still physically exist on the disk. Furthermore Recuva specifically looks for deleted files, and your files have not been deleted as far as I can tell. Recuva (and I guess most, if not all, commonly available file recovery programs) can't read the entire disk and return the info to the user. Well, they could, but they would have to return every 32k sector, and that's over 30,000 sectors in 1gb, so there would be an awfully long list, without file names and without filetype info. Commercial file recovery firms do have the software to do this, so you could have a chat with your local pc shop, and see what they say. Unless someone else has a whizzo idea. Rgds.
  25. How would CC know? How would the user know? Yes, I guess there are many empty folders hanging about. When does a pc scan all the folders? Only in file maintenance/search utilities I would think. No reason, they just don't bother me. On my minimal XP system I have over 70,000 files, so a few hundred empty folders are no problem. In the end it comes down to different user perceptions. One thinks it's important, another doesn't. Rgds.
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