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  1. Do you think this feature will be added anytime soon? I hope they add it into the next version.

    I would guess the next version is unlikely.

     

    Quite possibly never because. so far as I know,

    Piriform uses published API's to accomplish tricky complicated high risk actions such as Secure Deletion and Defragging,

    and many "experts" argue about whether files are in WinSXS with corresponding Reparse points in System32 - or vice versa,

    and I have found that CMD.EXE can be in both categories :wacko:

    Therefore in my view the determination of which patches have become redundant and then their eradication is a "tricky complicated high risk action".

     

    If you are in a hurry you can always create a shortcut to a *.BAT file that launches Cleanmgr and then runs CCleaner.

     

    http://www.ghacks.ne...e-cleanup-tool/

    You can automate the process by using command line parameters the Disk Cleanup tool supports.

    1. Tap on the Windows-key, type cmd, and hit return.
       
    2. Run cleanmgr /sageset:n to save the cleanup options you want future cleanups to use to the Registry.
       
    3. Run cleanmgr /sagerun:n to run the specified tasks using the configuration that you have saved when you ran the tool with the sageset command.

    Note: Replace n with an integer value between 0 and 65535.

    Additional information about running Disk Cleanup manually or automatically are provided by Microsoft.

     

    http://support.micro....com/kb/2852386

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315246

  2. You can create a *.BAT script which contains something like

    SET "ANY TEMP FOLDER=c:\someuser\downloads\saved\custom\whoknows\why\]whenwillwe\okaylets\TEMP\*.*"
    CCLEANER.EXE
    
    

    That will run CCleaner with a new temporary and unique set of "variables in windows environmental settings",

    which will include whatever you define as being the variable %ANY TEMP FOLDER%,

    and this variable can be used by Winapp2.ini or CCleaner.ini.

     

    You should not remove logs or temps which would annoy those who can now or in the future cause harm to your career :rolleyes:

     

    I really think it might be safer, and simpler, and release a lot more space on the server system,

    if you render inaccessible to everyone but yourself any drive\partition\folder for which you can see no legitimate authorised purpose.

    When this causes a problem the particular region can be re-enabled.

    After this has stabilised you could ensure you have backups of all that appears to be safe to remove,

    and then remove from the servers - and should that go wrong you locate the relevant backup and restore.

  3. Can it Clean using variables

    You can create your own WinApp2.ini file with variables.

    This topic will give you a lot of information and guidance if you want more indormation

    http://forum.pirifor...showtopic=32310

     

    That topic starts a link for downloading the latest semi-official WinApp2.ini file, which includes variables in lines such as

    FileKey1=%ProgramFiles%\Acoustica CD Label Maker\thumbs|*.*|RECURSE
    FileKey2=%AppData%\Acoustica\CD Label Maker\cache|*.*|RECURSE

     

    Alternatively, if you use the portable version of CCleaner,

    or else with the installed version and using the Options / Advanced / "Save all Settings to INI file" option,

    you will have a file CCleaner.ini that you can manually edit with Notepad.exe and insert lines with a variable such as :-

    Include1=PATH|%APPDATA%\Adobe\Flash Player\AssetCache\|*.*|RECURSE
    Include2=PATH|%APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\|*.*|RECURSE
    Include3=PATH|%APPDATA%\vlc\|*.*|REMOVESELF

     

    I suggest that you take extreme care to NOT click "Run Cleaner" until you have first used "Analyze",

    and then use the "Save to text file" option,

    and then inspect the output and determine which people will be annoyed, and whether they will have mercy on your soul :)

     

    And finally, before you "Run Cleaner", make sure your resume is fully up to date and ready for your next job search :(

  4. This could be an exciting experience :o

    I mean that in the worst possible way :)

     

    I think I read an article last year that Windows 7 updates prior to SP1 would remain resident in WinSXS even though they were not needed,

    but there was a manual technique (possibly involving some tool) of removing them.

     

    I obtained the impression that removing subsequent updates would be at my own risk.

    Will using this new option in "Windows Cleanup" similarly be at my own risk ?

  5. I mentioned 8.1 because it ought to be safer than 8.0

    and although finnipinni refers to W8 it was not clear to me that he was excluding 8.1.

     

    Regardless, both 8.1 and 8.0 and all other versions of Windows are vulnerable.

    You need these updates if you're running any currently supported, 32-bit or 64-bit, Windows operating system: Windows 8 (including Windows 8.1),

    Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP, plus Windows server versions and Windows RT.

    http://pcsupport.abo...tch-tuesday.htm

     

    Alan

  6. MTA forumregulator.

    Why don't you stick to topic ?

    Lack of answers ?

    O'course I'm using OS as intended by Microsoft.

    And I am capabel of detecting and remooving unwanted SW.

    And yes, I have programs doing That.

    And Yes, I am the onley user - it is a PersonalComputer ?

    And yes, I had expected more.....

    Now you appear rather obnoxious in your response,

    and unbelievably foolish in dismissing the possibility of Malware.

    I do not believe that when you posted on the 6th you had already installed the Patch Tuesday updates that were issued today and which affect Windows 8.1.

    http://pcsupport.about.com/b/2013/10/08/patch-tuesday.htm

    https://community.qualys.com/blogs/laws-of-vulnerabilities/2013/10/08/patch-tuesday-october-2013

  7. I was using version 3.14

     

    I was running Virtual Windows 7 64 bit on a Real Windows 7 64 bit platform.

     

    This was my first post on 1st Sept 2011, and I bumped it on 17th and still got no response.

    https://communities....m/thread/326929

     

    This was a separate topic which got no response so I gave up and moved onto VirtulaBox

    https://communities....m/thread/328856

     

    I have just looked at the very recent topics, and again it appears that no one gets any solutions.

    This has 14 posts, the first 12 all report that version 6 fails to initialise after an upgrade to version 6.

    and the last tow posts are users that fixed their problems by un-installing 6 and installing 5.2

    and the last one even tried a total purge of every trace of VMware followed by a fresh install of 6.0,

    AND AGAIN even that failed to initialise.

    https://communities....m/thread/457667

    Your Mileage May Vary :D

     

    It is especially annoying that the destruction of free space on my host was NOT due to the Virtual system crashing,

    but apparently even the latest version is designed to always transfer files via the Host computer %TEMP%,

    THEREFORE it is designed to transfer malware into the Host system even if the virtual system has not crashed.

    https://communities....m/thread/457688

     

    If your virtual machine has no Internet Access,

    and if you have used dependable malware scanners designed to detect Windows malware,

    I think your Windows system should remain safe if those files broke through the barrier out of VMware and back into Windows.

     

    Please note that :-

    I vaguely remember reading that it is possible to receive an unsolicited malware file that can infect both Windows and also Linux;

    I cannot remember where I read that - or if in fact it was just a bad dream :wacko:

  8. I fully agree that restoring a partition table is dangerous.

     

    My Laptop had 4 off NTFS partitions and 2 off FAT32 partitions plus a hidden FAT? "Secure Zone" partition created and used by Acronis.

    One day the partition table broke and the computer could not boot.

     

    The Linux based Minitool Partition Wizard Boot Rescue CD was able to create a new partition table.

    After many attempts it failed to include the Acronis Secure Zone so I gave up and attempted the other 6 partitions.

    When that looked plausible I committed to the writing of a new partition table for only those 6.

    I think that when I committed there was no way of then adding the Acronis special without endangering the other 6.

     

    The NTFS partitions were well recovered.

     

    When I booted up Windows promptly demanded that I should run chkdsk and reboot to fix fatal errors in one of the FAT32 partitions.

    That was fixed by chkdsk but innumerable errors were fixed and I never trusted that data again.

     

    Once all was working I ran chkdsk on all the other partitions and the other FAT32 partition had a large number of errors detected,

    but the 4 off NTFS partitions only needed a few fixes to some sort of Security logs.

     

    That was the day that I finally believed that data was safer on an NTFS partition than a FAT32 partition.

     

    I fully agree with the safety of creating an image backup before attempting to write a new partition table.

  9. More than two years ago VMware had a massive security hole and gave absolutely no support response to two separate issues which I raised.

    My primary issue was that when I drag-drop-copied something between two partitions on my SECONDARY HDD,

    one of which was for access by the virtual machine,

    something went wrong and the virtual machine crashed.

     

    Then Windows Explorer had a great big red bar showing that I had zero free space available In system partition C:\. on my PRIMARY HDD

    there was too much copied to the virtual machine

     

    I discovered that because VMware was NOT available as a portable application, and could only be installed,

    even though most of it was installed on the secondary HDD,

    it still used system resources including %TEMP% in my system partition C:\

    and the virtual machine had stuffed a gazillion Gigabytes into %TEMP% on my system partition C:\

     

    So far as I am concerned if a virtual machine can disgorge its "sandboxed" contents into my operating system when I innocently drag-drop-copy,

    it will do the same when "sandboxed" malware deliberately forces a buffer overflow.

     

    I uninstalled VMware and replaced it with VBox from Sun/Oracle.

    Initially I had problems with VBox, but each time a had a quick helpful response and it very quickly worked well for me,

     

    Regardless of whether or not VMware has by now fixed their issue,

    there was no response to the two topics which I posted on their forum, and I gave up looking after two years.

     

    Both VBox and VMware have their own user forums - which I have not visited for a few years.

    I suggest it might be worth visiting those forums to get an idea of the percentage of problems that are never resolved,

    and the average time taken before a problem is resolved.

  10. Yes, that is what I meant.

     

    I would expect most of the original 150 GB free space to be at the "far end" of the disk

    The E:\ partition is at the start of your disk so that represents 31.9 GB of the original files that has been over-written.

    There remain 320 GB that could be recovered, ASSUMING that "after formatting over" refers to a Quick format and not a slow overwrite format.

     

    Was your external drive originally formatted as FAT32 or NTFS ?

    What version of Windows do you have ?

     

    I have limited experience with Recuva so I now "tag out" and defer to others with experience.

     

    All the best

    Alan

  11. Disk Management shows that G:\ is assigned to a 100 MB "System Reserved" volume.

     

    Recuva is showing that System32 and SysWOW64 both exist in G:\.

     

    Those two things CANNOT be true at the same time.

     

    Either drive letters got reassigned in the time between those screen shots,

    or there is stupendous confusion caused either by Reparse points within System Volume or by the laptop damage that needs $1000 to rebuild.

  12. After being so kind as to allow you to change the title of my previous topic (http://forum.pirifor...showtopic=39502) from "Danger! Speccy Does Not Update Disk Temperatures" (or something like that) to a much less worrying title

    UTTER RUBBISH - YOU NEVER MENTIONED DISK OR TEMPERATURE IN THE TITLE.

     

    The title falsely indicated that Speccy would cause damage to a computer,

    and nowhere in your initial diatribe did you mention temperature.

     

    Only in post #3 did you refer to the disk temperature.

     

    So far as I am concerned your initial tile was Libel.

    You were not being kind when you agreed to your false title being changed to an accurate statement.

  13. WARNING TO EVERYONE

     

    It may be hazardous to the safety of your registry if you download a genuine registry backup from another computer in good condition.

     

    A computer that has been damaged by a version of CCleaner that is packed with nothing but Winapp2.ini plus CCenhancer is no safer and ...

     

    If this version was NOT downloaded from Piriform or FileHippo,

    then other more dangerous things could also have been packed in with it by a dishonest site.

     

    I for one am not going to download what might be a *.REG file but could equally well include a Zero Day exploit.

  14. I don't think my external harddrive would have protected system files on it. Are there any other reasons this could be happening?

    Your operating system(s) and whether your external drive is FAT32 or NTFS could be reasons.

     

    It has no relevance to me so I have forgotten precise details,

    but I think that if an external drive receives files from one user on an XP system then another user on a Windows 7 System may be prohibited from access,

    or it might have been the other way round, or something else of this nature.

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