Alan_B

Can Windows Explorer see both Windows partitions simultaneously ? If so you have far worse potential problems with your computer than a CCleaner "feature". If not then please disregard the following :- If you launch one version of Windows and use Windows Disk Management, you can then change the System Volume Names of each Win7 installation to uniquely identify each partition. Then you can delete the Drive letter of the Windows partition that is NOT running. Then you can boot into the other version of Windows, and Windows Disk Management will still use the correct new System Volume Names of each partition, but both drive letters will be as the were before any changes.. Now delete the Drive Letter of the "other" partition that is not running.

My career included several decades of designing high reliability microcomputer hardware, operating systems, and application software. To me the phrase "I do think that this could be fixed" carried the implication that that you knew it was fixable by Piriform, rather than a hope for a fix But instead of getting bogged down in a pedantic discussion, I would prefer to close by saying that I appreciate this topic might be useful to other Chrome Beta users who come here looking for the cause of their woes. CCleaner does recognise different version numbers for some products which it cleans. Perhaps you could start a topic in the Suggestions forum with the request that CCleaner should refrain from ALL cleaning actions on ALL Beta products, perhaps referring to this topic as an example of what can go wrong, and perhaps advising how to easily detect when Chrome is a Beta variant. Regards Alan

Actually you said "But I do think that this could be fixed", which I understood as being something for which you held Piriform to be responsible, That is what I reacted against - and the reason I posted.

Welcome to the forum. Please clarify. Are you saying that CC correctly shows the "Plugins" but not the "Extensions" or are you meaning that your "Extensions" are still present and working correctly ? Please list up to (and no more than) 6 of the most common Firefox Extensions which are not being shown, Otherwise others may well report "it works for me" because they happen to use extensions that are still detected. Please define the actual reported version number of CC. What was to you the "latest" is not the same as what will be the latest when this topic is read in the future. Please define version of Windows, and whether 32 bit or 64 bit - it might be relevant.

Piriform is unlikely to have a crystal ball that will predict future changes to Chrome Beta's, so they would not know which regions of junk will in future hold special value. It is feasible that last month's version of CC will do no harm to your existing Chrome Beta, but this same version of CC could do harm to any future Chrome Beta. Chrome provides BETA's so that their users can run the risks, and in my view any problems ought to be reported as bugs in the Bug Report forums/posting mechanisms of Chrome. CC allows you to Analyze and obtain a list of all the files that will be deleted as a result of Chrome being ticked. In my view it is only reasonable to use this Bug Report forum to :- Complain if "ANALYZE" fails to predict a file that "RUN CLEANER" will delete ; Or complain that the latest CCleaner damages any production release of a specific product Or warn Piriform that any specific item that is safe to clean on specific product Release is dangerous on a specific product Beta. Alan

SoftPerfect allows multiple Ram Disks. Why not create a VOLATILE disk for TMP/TEMP etc, and create a PERSISTENT disk for applications, code, and other files that should survive a reboot ?

Post #2 gives a quote BUT regrettably no link to indicate relevance to this topic. On the assumption that this quote actually applies to a SoftPerfect RamDisk then :- "Volatile RAM disks whose content disappears on shutdown." :- Content on RAM chips is destroyed at Reboot, so there is no point in using CC to clean the contents "Persistent RAM disks with an associated on-disk image." :- Content on RAM chips may be preserved before shutdown in a disk image for restoration after reboot, in which case CC might be useful.

No surprise here - it appears to average less than 5 updates per year. The last update was 22 October so I would expect another 8 weeks before the next update.

Thanks for providing the link which I had ready to paste - but then a sudden domestic chore distracted me I also had a problem making it portable. My first problem may have been that the file "Portable.ini" must be renamed "Locate.ini" BEFORE ever running the code. Perhaps running the code first will configure the registry to never become portable regardless of the subsequent presence of Locate.ini. They may have been other issues also but I cannot recall.

The only choice I see is Piriform. I have checked both https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download and https://www.piriform.com/download What are you using which is redirecting you to FileHippo ?

I now use the 64 bit version of Locate32 instead of Everything. There are times when I want to reuse a clever bit of DOS code and cannot remember how I did it or the name of the *.BAT script in which I did it. Both "Everything" and "Locate32" can produce a list of 1504 files with the extension *.BAT in a few seconds. Life is too short to read 1504 files. If I remember a DOS command that was part of the magic, then I simply click the "Advanced" TAB and enter the name of that command as text to search for, Then in less than one second LOCATE32 will cut the list down to only 3 files with names and date stamps and I immediately know which file to open. Everything has no such capability.

I think you are wrong - unless :- your Windows system subfolders are in a FAT32 partition which has no MFT; or they have been added/changed since Everything's database was last updated (believe update is automatic on startup plus on manual demand, but not continuous real-time); or perhaps the files you are looking for do not exist in System32 but are figments in the imagination due to the evil machinations of WinSXS. I agree with Login123, examples would be useful, and their time stamps could also be relevant.

You may be lucky if you scan again. Unfortunately under Options the General TAB concludes with "Secure Overwrite". I have never tried this but I believe that once you have scanned and selected any deleted files there is the facility to "Secure Overwrite" and permanently eradicate the original files. This is a useful feature for anyone who realises that he deleted a private file that should have been permanently eradicated and put beyond recovery. If you clicked the wrong thing after scanning, you will not find your files in trash or anywhere else. It might be worth using the free Treesize to analyze your partition(s) and show you what remains on your computer. I suggest the portable *ZIP version rather than the *.EXE version from https://www.jam-software.de/customers/downloadTrial.php?article_no=80&language=EN&

To what drive did you recover on the first attempt ? Are those recovered files still accessible ?

Are you sure you are not a victim of a common scam, where by a manufacturer creates a 32 GB Flash drive and a "middleman" configures it to report a capacity of 64 GB, and now that its real capacity has been used up you are seeing the real capacity ?

I forget the technical term but there are some Detection key values to detect which version of Windows is running and accordingly enable or disable Winapp2.ini entries Could a similar form of Detection key value be invented and used to detect whether Safe mode is in use and accordingly enable or disable Winapp2.ini entries

You are approximating the difference between Apples and Oranges 1000 MB is not always the same as 1 GB - it all depends upon whether or not you are looking at Drive Manufacture (mis)information sheets Windows and CCleaner use a ratio of 1024 MB per GB CCleaner is reporting "Windows Old INSTALLATION" as 4,927 MB or 5,045,080 KB which is 4.8115234375 GB Windows Explorer is reporting "Windows.Old FOLDER" as 4.41 GB size 4.61 GB Size on disk When CCleaner removes the folder the Free Space will increase NOT by 4.41 GB but by 4.61 GB, so the discrepancy is NOT the 0.6 GB that you claim but only 0.2 GB. Perhaps the 0.2 GB discrepancy might be due to CCleaner's intention to remove files outside of the FOLDER but part of the INSTALLATION, e.g. Related and redundant registry hives, Related and redundant files in C:\Windows\winsxs (caution - dragons be here )

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From the top top level of your computer guide http://www.ehow.com/computers/ Is a link to "How to Lose Body Fat by Drinking Vinegar" http://www.ehow.com/computers/#ixzz2m9M0BdQG I have grave doubts about the detailed technical competance of a general purpose website that covers "How to ... everything". According to Wikepedia your stick could be "exFAT" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Stick#Memory_Stick_PRO Nowhere on that page do I see the word NTFS. In 2007 Sony themselves provide a special Formatting tool that runs UNDER Windows for certain of their products http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?upd_id=2860 http://esupport.sony.com/US/p/swu-matrix.pl?upd_id=2860 I do not know what damage MAY have been inflicted upon exFAT formatted data by an NTFS format. I suggest that you desist from any further attempts at recovery, and that you keep your stick out of use, until such time as someone with more knowledge than is able to advise.

If only that could be true. The problem is that facebook does not have privacy settings - it has publicity/privacy VARIABLES, and once I set the variables to suit my comfort level, then FB would "enhance" publicity/privacy by inventing new options and once more over-ride all my choices to their revenue earning defaults. The first time I saw a warning that FB had "enhanced" publicity/privacy I immediately logged in and cancelled their publicity values. The second time I saw a warning I changed my Birth location and D.O.B. and other personal I.D., and after a few weeks to allow them to update their backups I closed my account. But even so a year later FB was still sending me invitations from a stranger who happened to have sent me an email several years earlier. Obviously that stranger had shared his address book with FB so they could look for his "friends", and although I had never shared my address book with FB they still found a match when they searched their contact list for all cancelled accounts. I really doubt that my cancelled account data is deleted, but assume that all original and modified data remains on-line for searching by F.B. at every revenue earning opportunity.

This will show you the size of every Restore Point that is held in "C:\System Volume Information" in Windows XP. https://www.jam-software.de/customers/downloadTrial.php?article_no=80&language=EN& I prefer the 2.5 MB portable zipped version. This also shows me everything in that folder on Windows 7 but I do not allow System Restore to be active on my P.C. I only tolerate the existence of "C:\System Volume Information" because Volume Shadow Storage is alleged to depend upon it. Each Restore Point holds a snapshot of the registry when it was created, and also record of all file changes whilst it was the youngest.

That seems unlikely. What is your evidence ? What is your version of Windows ? Only the youngest point should grow, and growth should finish when a younger one is created.

Disk Management does NOT freeze up when I try to use it to change anything on my 600 GB secondary HDD, but most of its options are greyed out and inoperative on this disk, most of which has partitions in a similar state to the last 3 partitions on your Disk 1. All of my WDC partitions are shown as having a size but no indication of NTFS nor FAT32 nor "Unallocated Space". Your Disk 1 seems to be as hopeless as my 600 GB HDD. All my valuable archives were rescued by the freeware Recovery suite from Lazesoft. I suggest that you try it. http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/Lazesoft-Recovery-Suite-Home.shtml Use the HELP button which is on the bottom left corner when you launch the application, it presents a manual which concludes with an email address for support from the developers. The above will not write to the disk when used for data recovery, so if it fails then no harm is done. (but it does include tools that you can use for creating and restoring partition images if you wish) Freeware Minitool Partition Wizard Boot Recovery CD can recover partitions, but this involves writing new partition tables - but if it makes the wrong decisions then harm is done - data recovery becomes more difficult. http://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/partition-magic-for-windows7.html At the end of the day, if you did ever manage to format this disk and get it to hold data, would you actually trust it for any purpose higher than being a door stop ?

Disk 1 is shown as having a healthy (Active, Primary partition) and yet it has 3 following partitions that appear inaccessible. This is something I have never seen and cannot understand. I have seen warnings that issues may arise if a computer has two or more drives with Active partitions. It may be worth using Disk Management to remove the "Active" flag from G:\ and then rebooting. I doubt that this will help but it is all I got Hopefully someone else with more experience will be able to advise you. What version of Windows are you using ? Alan