[Suggestion For New Feature]

After an analyze is performed, it would be nice to be able to remove items from the list of things to be removed before running Cleaner. Sometimes I see a few temp files I want to keep from among a sea of ones I want to delete. I don't see any way to simple remove the few from the list so I can Clean out the rest.

 

Thanks for considering this idea.

 

Good luck.

 

Dennis

[Cookies]

Thank you for quoting the relevant section of the user guide.

 

Reading it here still gives me the impression that the Windows and Applications tabs are processed separately. There's a section in the guid for each tab and each section says "Clicking on Analyze will create a list of everything CCleaner is going to clean." and "Clicking on Run Cleaner will clean everything." There is no mention that when you click in one section you are also processing the items from the other section. Come to think of it, I may have read this and that might be where I got the idea that they were processed separately.

 

I guess it comes down to what the context for "everything" is. In any case, you now know the source of my confusion. Use this information as you see fit.

 

Thanks.

 

Good luck.

 

Dennis

[Cookies]

Hi Dennis,

After a little more thought and investigation I come to realize that you need to uncheck anything related to Firefox/Mozilla in your Applications tab when you are doing this reduced cleaning task.

Turn it back on when you want your Firefox/Mozilla files cleaned.

Aha! The lightbulb goes on.

 

So the settings on both the "Windows" and "Applications" tab are processed when the Analyze button is pushed. Aha! I was under the (mistaken) impression that each tab was processed independently. If that was in the beginners guide, I missed it.

You might want to do this for other Applications as well.It is up to you.

Good Luck,

davey

Yes, I unchecked all of the Application boxes as all I wanted to do was a subset of what's on the "Windows" tab.

This helps avoid many problems also.

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=1504

P.S. For you and all other users out there, the better and more detailed information you can provide will help to solve your problem or a "bug" much sooner.

Thanks Dennis,your detailed information helped solve your problem.

No, it is I who must express the thanks. Everything seems to be working as expected now that I know the way the program processes the selections under the two tabs.

 

Good luck.

 

Dennis

[Cookies]

Hello Dennis,

Same old questions I always ask.The data helps evaluate your problem.

CCleaner version ? 2.05.555

OS and version ? WinXP with SP2

Browsers and ver.? IE 7.0.5730.11 and Firefox 2.0.0.12

Security software and ver? Norton Internet Security 2006 (why does this matter?)

Other data you think might be relevant? None that I can think of

What did you do and then what happened? Provided in Post 1. I checked the boxes to delete temporary files, clipboard, memory dumps, chkdsk file fragments and windows log files. Nothing else is checked especially cookies. Then I clicked Analyze. I get a long list of files to be deleted along with dozens of lines with "Removed Cookie" and my cookies listed. I'm just trying to figure out why the program is even looking at cookies? Oh, I also get a message saying "You must close Firefox for the Internet cache to be cleaned." I don't know why this is appearing either since I didn't ask for any Internet-related files to be removed.

Do you use the Options > Advanced Save settings to INI file ? No. Why should I have to do that to get it to ignore cookies? Shouldn't leaving the cookies box unchecked be enough to tell it to not do anything with cookies?

Thanks,

davey

No, thank you for taking the time to help me understand.

 

Dennis

[Cookies]

Move the cookies from the left Cookies to Delete window to the right Cookies to Keep window by clicking on the one you want to keep then click on ->

So there's no other way, short of that, to have cookies ignored? I guess I still don't understand why cookies are listed for removal when I don't check and cookie options. Say I only want to delete browser temp files. Why are cookies even in the picture? Why does the program even look at them when only temp files is chekced? That's what's confusing to me.

 

Dennis

[Cookies]

That doesn't happen for me.

What version are you using?

 

Dennis

[Cookies]

First, thank you for CCleaner. It's a great program and the price is right.

 

I know cookies is a hot topic here. I've read through many past posts about how to keep cookies from getting deleted and I'm still confused. I'm using version 2.05.555 but I think my question applies to other versions.

 

Basically, my question is why are cookies always scanned and offered up for deletion even if you only select, say, Empty Recycle Bin or any of the other cleaning options? It would seem logical to only process cookies when the Cookie box is checked. Is there any way (short of moving cookies to the "Cookies To Keep" list) to get CCleaner to simply ignore cookies and do the things I select? If I can get this one thing to work reliably I will gladly donate to the effort of keeping this program up-to-date.

 

Thanks.

 

Dennis