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I've installed the latest-n-greatest defraggler on my win xp pro sp3 system.
Here are some comments.
1). The slowness of defragging is most likely due to defraggler trying to do
a "defrag and optimize" whereby it tries to compact files as tight as they will
go so that there is very little empty space between the files. Whereas when
I defrag the files from the "file list" it is very fast since it is only defragging
a known list of fragmented files and doesn't try to optimize the disk space usage.
Moreover, optimizing the files may look good, but it doesn't take very long
to start fragmenting the file system again since for the few data block that are
available/scattered within the defragged filesystem, any file stored will
put chunks of the file all over the disk and amongst the available data blocks.
Suggestions:
a). Give me a radio checkbox option for "defrag files" and another for "defrag
and optimize". This will will allow me to defrag my files for maximum speed and then
I can select the "defrag and optimize" occasionally when I have more time.
b ). Give me an option to defrag multiple drives at the same time on a single or multiple
core CPU. This will speed up my defragging. along with defragging FAT16/FAT32
filesystems besides NTFS ones on the Win95 thru Vista.
c). Give me an option to select which drives to defrag and at what time. This will use the
windows scheduler without me having to do it outside of defraggler.
d). Give me an option to run defraggler out of systray that utilizes a user setting as to
when to stop defragging based on cpu loading. This setting is a cpu load percentage so
that when it excedes it, it will pause defragging and start again when below this setting.
Thus the disk will be defragged in the background when the cpu is idle so the user
doesn't have to manually initiate it. An alternative is to defrag the disk whereby the
program is a service and a client interacts with the service to tell it what to do.
See dirms from dirms.com as an example. See IOBIT.com for the iobit defragger
as an example of cpu loading and systray defragging.
e). Give me an option to exclude files and certain files that excede a user specified file
size by using a sliding bar setting.
f). Give me an option to defrag on bootup vs. when I'm logged in and manually start
defragging. Note: The auto defrag based on cpu loading would be available too.
g). Give me an option to defrag removable drives such as USB and Zip drives and
recognize that the disk or flash disk is inserted or not.
h). Give me a user option to defrag and group files together based on their last access
time vs. current time. Note: Since most OS/program files are updated infrequently,
they will have very old access dates and once defragged they will be grouped together
on the disk thus require very little moving around on the disk. The same can be said
for file types such as dll, exe, com, inf, and other file types which change very little
vs. others such as .doc, xls, txt, tmp etc. ;thus, defrag based on file type grouping.
i). Give me the ability to defrag huge files (That is multi-gigabyte files of 20Gigs plus since they are
disk images) when the amount of free space on the disk drive they reside on is very small i.e. less
than five gigs. The defragging of the file can be done over time (multiple defrag runs) so that
over time the file is defragged. Perhaps defrag the file in-place. Currently I have this problem
whereby all defragging software quits saying there is not enough free space. My drive is 40 gigs
with a 25gig file and another of 10 gigs leaving 5 gigs free. Some defraggers work with at
least 1 percent of the disk drive available, but they don't specify the maximum filesize that
can be defragged under these circumstances. An option to do this is to use RAM Disk to
read in part of the file being defragged, defrag this portion and rewrite the defragged copy
to disk and then read the next data block in and repeat til the file is fully defragged.
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Hi Mike,
Why not just use Windows "Services" Program to enable/disable these services ? run services.msc
You can also use CCleaner Tools > Startup to enable/disable or delete startup entries completely.
You forgot to tell us what OS ver. etc that you are using.
Best wishes,
daveyhttp://www.ccleanerbeginnersguide.com/
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Im using windows 2k pro sp4 and I have xp sp3 too.
I know about ccleaners startup window to enable/disable programs. I could use msconfig too, but CCleaner
is more convenient since it's a one-stop tool.
Now that startup has been added to CCleaner, I'd like the capability to control services. Yes I know
about services.msc, but then I'd like only one tool to get to them to enable/disable them.
Moreover, MSoft windows and the services.msc don't give the capability to delete services. I need to do this
easily for those leftover services from various s/w products that don't remove their own stuff when I uninstall
the s/w. I must always research the command line program that lists the services and the command to delete
them which always takes time. Moreover, HiJackThis allows one to delete a service on the next reboot, but
one should be able to delete a service knowing that it will not restart itself like a virus service would. It'd be
nice to have CCleaner also do deletes on reboot too!!!! Moreover, HiJackThis doesn't provide a window that
lists services, so I must go into Windows and get the service name and then switch back to HiJackThis to
delete it. It'd be nice for CCleaner to get the list and display the service names to be so I can check the
ones I want to delete or delete on reboot.
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Hi,
Can you add the ability to clean out unwanted "services" from Microsoft windows 2k,xp,vista etc using CCleaner? Alot of times if one uninstalls software programs, they don't uninstall the service they started. A good example of this is Nero (for CD/DVD's) since the windows services they install aren't removed. I'm not talking about Services that MSoft installs but only those applications that have their own.
One might even want to just enable/disable them without installing similar to the windows startup programs that CCleaner can now manage.
Thanks.
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I've installed the latest version of recuva on a win xp pro sp2 with patches and it doesn't have the problem when
one clicks on the plus sign to expand the "My Computer" or C drive option when you select the recuva option
called under "other location." However, this laptop doesn't have a removable zip drive. It also has a link to a network
drive that I'm not connected at present so this eliminates this as a possible cause. Also this laptop has a CD/DVD drive which
doesn't have a disk in it right now, so this cause is eliminated.
So the possibilities are,
a). Recuva tries to scan an internal zip drive wthat has no zip disk inserted thus causing the problem.
I'll remove the cable to this drive to see if this goes away on my Win 2K Pro Sp4 machine.
b ). The tower system with the win 2k pro sp4 plus patches is a dual boot system. The first primary partition
is a 2 gig MSDOS system, with the remaining logical drives being NTFS and the first logical partition contains
the Win 2K PRO SP4 OS.
Can recuva handle dual boot systems or in other words a disk that has partitions that are a combination
of FAT16 (MSDOS), FAT32 (Windows 95/98...), and NTFS? What if the disk partition has been encrypted
whereby the filesystem resides upon this encrypted layer? If it can, can it recover deleted files on
a disk that uses MSoft's file/disk encryption or third party software like TrueCrypt or Encryption Plus from
PCGuardian? Note: My Windows 2K PRO SP4 is not encrypted presently, but will be in the future.
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The capability to recover deleted/damage disk partitions that are
physical, logical, and dynamic partitions and raid arrays.
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Version 1.12.291 of recuva generates exceptions whereby the title of the
window is "no disk". It is installed on Win 2K Pro SP4 and an IBM intel P4 processor
system.
When I specify that I want to select "other location" by browsing a list of drives, it
pops up a windows that shows a directory tree structure that shows "desktop",
"My Documents", "MY Computer" .... like Windows Explorer does.
The problem occurs when I select the '+' graphic symbol under "My Computer" to
expand the list of drives to select from. It is at this point that it generates popup
windows with the window title of "no disk". Sometimes it is a few exception popups
and sometimes alot more. After hitting "canceL" for each one, it displays the expanded
list of drives.
A possible reason for the above popups with exceptions for "My Computer" is because
my computer has an IDE Zip 250Meg drive installed, but there is no removable disk
installed in it. Of course the floppy and CD/DVD drives don't have a disk in them either.
I also have a network drive entry assigned that will reconnect upon login, but when the
error occurred, I wasn't at work which has this network drive.
All exception information is written to the event logs.
Note: Will "recuva" eventually get the funtionality to recover accidentally deleted partitions both
logical anad physical with dynamic/raid disks in the future? Note: deleted partitions wasn't the
cause of the problem.
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Things to add that are missing.
a). The capability to view firewall exceptions for cleanup in a layout similar to add/remove progs.
Mark all firewall exceptions that are enabled/disabled with an indicator telling me that the
application associated with an exception can't be found.
Reason:
I removed Nero 7 Sipps using Nero clean. It left the firewall exception called "phone" enabled
in the firewall although the Nero Sipps software had been removed. Thus, the security audit
event logs for the OS software keeps recording the firewall exception in the logs althouh the
application has been deleted.
category:
Place this functionality in CCleaner under the add/remove and startup screens as Firewall Exception
cleanup.
b ). The capability to view startup files that are enabled/disabled by marking startup entries
whereby the application doesn't exist since it was deleted.
Reason:
I removed Nero all together using Nero cleanup, but it didn't remove some startup entries although
the application doesn't exist anymore.
category:
Place this functionality in CCleaner under the current startup display button.
c). The capability to view and remove leftover services that haven't been removed from the startup list
although the application has been removed.
reason:
I removed Nero using nero cleanup, however, the Nero indexing service wasn't removed although
the application was removed. Another variation is that the service was removed, but the application
wasn't.
Category:
Place this functionality in the CCleaner under the add/remove and startup display area as another
button called Services.
d). the capability to view and remove leftover BHO objects for the browser although the files associated
with the browser have been removed.
Reason:
Various BHO's i.e. googletoolbar have leftover BHO's although the files were deleted. HiJackthis
will show such missing info which it can remove, but I'd prefer all such cleanup of leftovers
in one tool.
Category:
Place this functionality in CCleaner under the add/remove, start display screen area as a button
called BHO's.
Note: Active X objects may fall under this area too.
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Things to add that are missing.
a). The capability to view firewall exceptions for cleanup in a layout similar to add/remove progs.
Mark all firewall exceptions that are enabled/disabled with an indicator telling me that the
application associated with an exception can't be found.
Reason:
I removed Nero 7 Sipps using Nero clean. It left the firewall exception called "phone" enabled
in the firewall although the Nero Sipps software had been removed. Thus, the security audit
event logs for the OS software keeps recording the firewall exception in the logs althouh the
application has been deleted.
category:
Place this functionality in CCleaner under the add/remove and startup screens as Firewall Exception
cleanup.
b ). The capability to view startup files that are enabled/disabled by marking startup entries
whereby the application doesn't exist since it was deleted.
Reason:
I removed Nero all together using Nero cleanup, but it didn't remove some startup entries although
the application doesn't exist anymore.
category:
Place this functionality in CCleaner under the current startup display button.
c). The capability to view and remove leftover services that haven't been removed from the startup list
although the application has been removed.
reason:
I removed Nero using nero cleanup, however, the Nero indexing service wasn't removed although
the application was removed. Another variation is that the service was removed, but the application
wasn't.
Category:
Place this functionality in the CCleaner under the add/remove and startup display area as another
button called Services.
d). the capability to view and remove leftover BHO objects for the browser although the files associated
with the browser have been removed.
Reason:
Various BHO's i.e. googletoolbar have leftover BHO's although the files were deleted. HiJackthis
will show such missing info which it can remove, but I'd prefer all such cleanup of leftovers
in one tool.
Category:
Place this functionality in CCleaner under the add/remove, start display screen area as a button
called BHO's.
Note: Active X objects may fall under this area too.
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I downloaded and ran the latest CCleaner on Windows 2K.
It does show the hidden entries in the startup and add/remove programs
so that the user can delete them. An example is "neroxml" which is hidden
in the add/remove list normally.
Add highlighting to denote those entries in the startup and add/remove
programs area that are hidden so that they are more easily found vs. those
that aren't hidden.
Problem:
Of all the functionality that CCleaner has, it has no feature to remove leftover services
that are left behind when one uninstalls an application. There are some applications that
when one uninstalls it, it removes the program for the service, but not the entry for the
service in the service table list. Moreover, one may want to remove a service from the
service list and by selecting it, it should remove the file and/or subdirectory it resides
in (if needed). Why because I've seen during bootup and shutdown error messages being
recorded to the application and system event logs complaining about a service not finding
the program it needs.
Add this uninstall feature to the screen that shows the add/remove list.
davey
Latest CCleaner doesn't show MSoft hotfix,updates...
in CCleaner
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The latest version of CCleaner doesn't list updates, servicepacks, hotfixes etc for any
MSoft product such as the OS, Office etc. Thus, I can't remove any of them and
must use MSofts add/remove program to do so. This may apply to other programs to
from MSoft.
Moreover, it doesn't show "hidden" program files so that I may remove them too.
Total uninstaller will show these, but not CCleaner.
System is win xp pro sp3.
I'll try win 2k pro sp4 this weekend.
Vista sp1 ????
correction: .NET service packs and hotfixes along with msxml ones do show, just no others such as
OS or Office patches show up.