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Right on SEAGULL. All these other guys and gals are extremely happy to have been of service.

Hey Bingo I mean Seagull. I am so happy also. You saw that thread and it stirred your thought processes. This is great news !!! Now if the others use Spyware Doctor etc. THANK YOU FOR LETTING US KNOW AS SOON AS YOU COULD. Please check your PM and this thread over the next couple days. Sometimes the E-Mail doesn't work or it gets put into junk mail or Spam mail. You are the kind of member we can always use. davey P.S. All the other members who help on these forums always get a big Reward for all their efforts . They try so hard as they can to help resolve other members problems or contribute in their own way to answer questions. This is good news for all.

NOT GOOD davey That is the correct location but the last part of the file name will always be different per user. This is something that Dennis normally tells all users. I learned this from his posts. NOT GOOD that the folder was empty but indicative of the problem still occurring. davey Hi Seagull, We are going to need some more information. The following info will help others to come up with a solution. These answers help to evaluate the problem.Provide as much information and detail as you can. Just fill in the answers next to or below the questions? Did you reboot after installing CCleaner before trying to run it? Did you do any Registry issues fixing? Do you continue to scan for issues until no more are found? Did you do any software or hardware changes installs or uninstalls? Are you running with Administrator privileges. CCleaner version ? What Language did you request at install,if any? OS,edition ,32bit or 64bit and version ? Browsers and ver.? Do they work properly? Security software and ver? Do you have IE7Pro IE7 add on? Do you use SpywareBlaster ? Other data you think might be relevant? What did you do and then what happened? SEE ABOVE POSTS Provide a list of your CCleaner.ini file.( Tick option for Save settings to INI file at Options > Advanced then close CCleaner.This file will be created in C:\Program Files\CCleaner folder.) Are you using a winapp2.ini file? Answer "Yes" if you do and please explain its contents or provide a brief listing.Otherwise answer "No". Just to fill you in on the "History" file problem see this link. We are still trying to figure out what is happening to cause this. You are the third user to report such strange behavior. http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=110601 Best wishes and we need your information ASAP, davey The CCleaner Guide is your first source of information. http://www.ccleanerbeginnersguide.com/ CCleaner Beginner's Guide.com Bookmark & save to Favorites See this link for my first advice to brand new users of CCleaner. http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=105208

My "PC Fairy" turned out to be someone that I had helped. I was already adequately rewarded with all the coffee or Root Beer I could guzzle and much of his wifes Polish "Down home" cooking. I would have brought my own coffee and Root Beer supply but the meals were a reward themselves. Nothing like real "home cooked" food. Sadly, I fall short in that area of expertise. I can do a good job of cleaning up afterwards though. Especially in the "doggie bag" duties. Karen's Replicator may also come in handy for some more Polish "goodies" or maybe Central American or "good ole Southern cookin' ". davey

Following paragraph EDITED by davey Not out of disrespect but to avoid more complications, "bugs", updates, and forums to read etc. etc. for users who may try such a thing. All the "geeks" and "techies" already know this stuff. Most of us are already leading entirely too hectic lives as it is. As expected I would go along with the final quote. Casey, I hope the "PC Fairy" visits you and leaves behind a nice external Hard Drive for back-up purposes as the fairy did for me. davey

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Hello keane16, Welcome to the forums. Thank you for you excellent report. Congrats on your simple methodical approach also. Your efforts are a breath of fresh air compared to "I GOT THIS PROBLEM. WHATCHA GONNA DO ABOUT IT ? ANY IDEAS ? TIA." First skip the registry "clean" for awhile. Who needs it anyway ? Very few users at all. This will help concentrate on the "general" cleaning options. More likely the problem is there or with Firefox. I think you should do some checking in with the Firefox forum also. These questions are also to stimulate your thought processes as well. Does this router require certain information that is retrieved from your PC ? Did you have some important data stored in a Temp file or folder that needed to be put into another folder before you ran CCleaner ? Is the older laptop using Vista also and the same version of Firefox ? Is the older laptop using all the same settings ? Are the same applications appearing on the Applications tab as before ? Are you using the winapp2.ini file ? What "permissions" are required to log-in for Firefox ? Are these different in Vista versus the prior method ? In the following just say "See above" for anything already provided. The following info will help others to come up with a solution. These answers help to evaluate the problem. Provide as much information and detail as you can. Just fill in the answers next to or below the questions? Did you reboot after installing CCleaner before trying to run it? Did you do any Registry issues fixing? Do you continue to scan for issues until no more are found? Did you do any software or hardware changes installs or uninstalls? Are you running with Administrator privileges. CCleaner version ? What Language did you request at install,if any? OS,edition ,32bit or 64bit and version ? Browsers and ver.? Security software and ver? Other data you think might be relevant? What did you do and then what happened? Provide a list of your CCleaner.ini file.( Tick option for Save settings to INI file at Options > Advanced then close CCleaner.This file will be created in C:\Program Files\CCleaner folder.) Are you using a winapp2.ini file? Answer "Yes" if you do and please explain its contents or provide a brief listing.Otherwise answer "No". Best wishes, davey The CCleaner Guide is your first source of information. http://www.ccleanerbeginnersguide.com/ CCleaner Beginner's Guide.com Bookmark & save to Favorites Thanks for taking your time to make a great report. This is an interactive process. I believe you know the answer but just don't know it, yet. I don't know it either, yet.

Hi Casey, I have learned some good info from this short thread. How many GB do you have in there ? Mushu13 says she HE has 8 GB already and Vista hasn't been around too long. I hope for your sake that MS has a plan to resolve this. Maybe an even trade-in for WinXP ? Like the "pork barrel" politicians said. What's a few $ Billion here and a few $ Billion there between friends? Except after a while, we are talking about real money !!! Politicians Taxpayers Good luck, davey P.S. DLLHell ? Where have I have heard that before ? I must have missed out on such an "exciting" time in PC History. Mushu 13,Thanks for the great follow up post. You "Geek" !!!

Hi gigabayt, I have been using the latest version for testing purposes and just for single files or some files. I have found that trying to get the whole drive defragmented seems to result in problems. If the PC you are using is very important for your use or work, I would go back a couple of versions. They are still ironing out problems it seems with too many or too large files. This is based only my experience and not based on some sort of insider information as some people may think. If you just stay away from System Volume files and don't select the "whole" drive at once it seems to work OK. Has this been your experience ? Defrag only the files that have a lot of fragments but not too big. If you don't have sufficient free space (say 20-30%)EDIT then do several files from the top number of fragments only and also several pages at the bottom of the list. This seems to work OK also. Good luck, davey P.S. I have several client/friends computers at my disposal but only a few that have multiple partitions. Those few are not as readily available as the others with single partitions. Gigabayt, are you using multiple partitions ? What is the relative free space available in the partition that you are having trouble with? Are you running out of space in your C volume ? If so then you may have some work to do and need advice from some of our more experienced multi-partition users. You may get a better performance increase right now by using PageDefrag to defrag the locked system files which may be very defragmented. If you have PageDefrag then run it and see if your System files are defragmented and run it if necessary. You can get PageDefrag here and use it right away. You can also Run it live from the website(see upper right hand of Web page). These guys go out of their way to help us !!! http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb897426.aspx PageDefrag v2.32 By Mark Russinovich

You are much safer using Recuva. After using it no files can be recovered even though the names of some will still appear from the MFT. Those considering Eraser would be advised to read this thread and the related links. http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?s=&amp...ost&p=97526 Or of course you could still end up reformatting your whole drive and stating from scratch anyway. davey

Hello Scotty, Hope that the weather is better in sunny old Scotland. What Augeas is getting at is the fact that files that are "emptied" by you from the Recycle Bin are renamed by Windows. This link will help you to understand the idea better. http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=14299 Do not forget that as soon as you Empty something from the Recycle Bin then that space is available to be "overwritten" by some new file. If the file is still in the Recycle Bin then it is not yet "deleted" as far as Windows and Recuva are concerned. As regards all those strange Pictures, they are Pics that been downloaded everytime you look at another web page. You may never see them because you did not scroll down the page but they were there. Almost all the pics get there that way. Good luck, davey P.S. I know you are probably not worried about certain kinds of pictures being found on your PC. Sad to say but some of those pictures are going to be of politicians and sports stars that you despise. Most Home pages have some news pics when you connect and you never knew that they were there. Surprise, surprise, surprise !!!

Hello pg8183, My first reply would be to leave the registry alone. How long ago did you start using Vista ? What OS ver. ed.etc were you using before? There may be entries in winapp2.ini files that clean OK for non-Vista users but do things that may cause you problems. Do you mean you took drastic steps and reinstalled Vista etc. or did your hard drives actually get wiped? What is the exact name of your Vista edition and version. What DVD software do you use now? Is it the same as before ? The following info will help others to come up with a solution. These answers help to evaluate the problem.Provide as much information and detail as you can. Just fill in the answers next to or below the questions? Did you do any Registry issues fixing? Do you continue to scan for issues until no more are found? Did you do any software or hardware changes installs or uninstalls? Are you running with Administrator privileges. CCleaner version ? OS,edition ,32bit or 64bit and version ? Browsers and ver.? Security software and ver? Other data you think might be relevant? What did you do and then what happened? Provide a list of your CCleaner.ini file.( Tick option for Save settings to INI file at Options > Advanced then close CCleaner.This file will be created in C:\Program Files\CCleaner folder.) Are you using a winapp2.ini file? Answer "Yes" if you do and please explain its contents or provide a brief listing.Otherwise answer "No". Best wishes, davey The CCleaner Guide is your first source of information. http://www.ccleanerbeginnersguide.com/ CCleaner Beginner's Guide.com Bookmark & save to Favorites Thanks for taking your time to make a report.

No, we don't want any links to Videos. You can supply logs and snapshots. The link you put into your post may be considered Spam and treated as such. davey

Hi again, Yes, this good suggestion has already been put into effect. It will run CCleaner and then shutdown your PC. Andavari, one of our forums Global Moderators, has a very informative post at this link. His work is excellent. http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=16551 Warning : It will not turn out the lights, put out the pets, set the alarm system, or any other required tasks when shutting down.(At least not as of this posting) Good luck, davey

In this case you don't fall into the "most users" category. You have very special needs for your music profession. YOU are a "PC Wizard" in your own right. You are capable of taking a few Winternals (Sysinternals) tools and performing just what you need. I loaded about 42 GB of "static" application data on this PC a week ago. I have done no defragging but Windows has somehow decided to move it all to the inside of the drive. It is right where I had planned putting it. There are no other users with enough knowledge to have done so. I have no "optimization" screen savers activated. This is the 2ND time Windows idle time processes have surprised me. Of course it could be the "PC Fairy" or "Piriform Fairy". I can't believe my luck sometimes. I deleted about 20 GB of C drive backup from my C drive 2 days ago. Now I wonder what surprise Windows "optimization" has in store for me. davey

Most probably some "bugs" to iron out. Some debug logs would be helpful. And some disk, system, OS info would also help. davey Thanks for reporting.

You look younger than that. Same thing used to happen to me but at 36, I can't remember. Thought I would show you what has been making my day(night) !!! I might even start a new topic. Can you beat this 101 to 1 ratio ? For your sake I hope not. This is high-speed DSL in the beautiful Wash.,D.C. area. Both speed figures were 3 times as high last week. I have been a happy "speedy camper". Off to buy some postcards and such. This speed thing is "wracking" my nerves. Hope my ISP "speedy" repair service is a bit "speedier" this time. I may have a new Desktop soon. davey

It is necessary for all users to defragment their Hard Drive to eliminate a build up of too many fragments. This slows processing down when there are too many fragmented files. The Windows Disk Defragmenter program is sufficient for MOST users and does a good and safe job. It does not require any special knowledge or constant updating or purchasing on the part of the user. It can be run to Analyze the Hard Drive to see if the drive needs defragmenting. If it says it needs defragmenting then do so when the PC is not going to be used for awhile. If it says it does not need defragmenting then DO NOT do it. It is that simple. Many users are misled into believing that constant defragmenting is the best and necessary. This is far from the correct practice as stated above. Constant defragmenting is a waste of time and does put undue strain on your Hard Drive. The Windows Disk Defragmenter can be run by Start > My Computer > Right click on the Hard Drive icon > select Properties and then selecting the Tools tab. The Tools tab offers the opportunity to do other Disk related tasks also. Click on Defragment Now and then select Analyze. This will result in a graphic representation of the disk. It is not 100% accurate in its depiction due to the limitations represented by the pixel lines on the screen. It does present you with a general idea of the condition of the disk. What is MORE IMPORTANT is the message it will give you after Analyzing. This will tell you if you need to Defragment the disk or not. Simple, simple, simple. Thank you MS. I don't have to be a PC whiz to do a good job of maintaining my PC. davey

We already get those topics reported that CCleaner did it because it was the last thing done. I disagree. The last thing done was turning out the lights and I am sure that has something to do with all these reports that CCleaner DID IT !!! If you turn out the lights that is when all the fairies, goblins and such come out. I think CCleaner shouldn't touch System Restore points. People can always use the Include option if they want. davey

Yes, I failed to mention that as the easiest resolution. Revisiting sites and re-activating passwords and such is the simplest way. I hope that new users see this thread and keep it in mind that there are steps to be taken before you run your first "cleaning" using CCleaner. I hope to see some new section added to the CCleaner Beginners Guide at the beginning emphasizing these steps to be taken. I would also like to see a direct link to the CCleaner Beginners Guide from the Download page and Help page at CCleaner.com . This would eliminate many new user problems. davey

We know it frustrating at times. The problem you are having is not caused by CCleaner. It is something that occurred on or about the same day. Hi hesyst. The Recent folder and History folder have been the biggest headaches for me, personally and when trying to help others with similar problems. It does not require drastic solutions. In most cases it just takes the right bits to be reset or correcting or letting Windows correct something that is not quite right. Windows does some strange things when things get jumbled and sometimes it takes a little time and use and it "corrects" things. Don't be surprised to find some folders and things tucked into strange places in the future. Believe me, you will find this out. There is another thing to try but let us see what happens. davey

Hi Jim, CCleaners registry "cleaner" is a very very "mild" cleaner. When you use it you need to repeat the process a few times. However, CCleaner is designed to be fast and mild and most of all safe. AutoCad is a product that creates a lot of entries. It is also best to use some user or MVP users solution to cleaning out all those keys. In most cases this resolves the problem. I would go to their forum for advice and possibly some custom designed procedures. Good luck, davey

Hello chi206, Welcome to the forums. You certainly do have some sort of problem with your "Cookies" folder. First do the simplest thing and close all programs and reboot. If the problem is still there answer the following so we can help. The following info will help others to come up with a solution. These answers help to evaluate the problem.Provide as much information and detail as you can. Just fill in the answers next to or below the questions? Did you reboot after installing CCleaner before trying to run it? Did you do any Registry issues fixing? Do you continue to scan for issues until no more are found? Did you do any software or hardware changes installs or uninstalls? Are you running with Administrator privileges. CCleaner version ? What Language did you request at install,if any? OS,edition ,32bit or 64bit and version ? Browsers and ver.? Security software and ver? Other data you think might be relevant? What did you do and then what happened? Provide a list of your CCleaner.ini file.( Tick option for Save settings to INI file at Options > Advanced then close CCleaner.This file will be created in C:\Program Files\CCleaner folder.) Are you using a winapp2.ini file? Answer "Yes" if you do and please explain its contents or provide a brief listing.Otherwise answer "No". Best wishes, davey The CCleaner Guide is your first source of information. http://www.ccleanerbeginnersguide.com/ CCleaner Beginner's Guide.com Bookmark & save to Favorites See this link for my first advice to brand new users of CCleaner. http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=105208 Thanks for taking your time to make a report.

If it is an ActiveX issue just use Tools > Internet Options > Programs > Manage Add-ons and turn off what you would like. If it is just sites being marked then Remove them under Privacy or Security. I have a relatively slow or limited PC but I use whatever I can to keep out "The Bad Guys". Did you go here and get updated plus I got some free ActiveX tools http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=111560 davey

I know you were thinking "Turf Ship" like ToTo leaves behind when he has been visiting. davey