Alan_B

"version 10..0.9200.16438" of what particular software ? Where did you download CCleaner from ? CCleaner is freeware for private use only. For use in a computer room you probably need to pay for a license and then you get professional support from the developers.

Congratulations. You worked hard and achieved well deserved success.

I like your guess - it has a ring of truth I remember that Paragon also claim the ability to fix the problem http://www.paragon-s...tion-alignment/ Is there any possibility that Paragon might have done that to your disc ?

Are you saying that UEFI precludes anything like a CMOS configuration memory such as BIOS uses and is subject to the need for a manual over-ride/reset ?

Have you reset your CMOS RAM settings ? That used to mean removing all power and removing CMOS batteries and applying short circuits to reset CMOS RAM to cancel out non default chaos that may have developed. That seems to be the current guidance from OCZ when an SSD does not boot, though I fail to see the relevance of batteries if CMOS RAM is now superseded by EEPROM, My non-UEFI BIOS made a bad mistake. It decided that my SSD was not worthy of having Boot Priority and cancelled/corrupted its settings in CMOS RAM. My SSD never booted again until I had revisited the BIOS settings and battled with obscure menus and settings to put things right. Perhaps your UEFI has also cancelled/corrupted something in CMOS RAM (or whatever technology your latest system employs) and the consequence is :- LOCKUP when it sees an EMPTY partition (which possibly still has data that RECUVA and also the UEFI BIOS can read), but NORMALITY AFTER you format the partition which removes data from certain sectors which cause the UEFI BIOS aggravation.

Under XP absolutely every deleted file that was preserved in a Restore Point was given a new name starting with letter 'A' then an incrementing number such as 000001234, but it retained the original extension, and Change.Log was updated with an entry that indexed A000001234 with the original name before deletion. Never had Vista Never used System Restore on Win 7 because it never helped and mostly damaged my XP experience.

If you clean a registry key then you will hit disaster the same day should you run an application that needed that key. Alternatively you will not know of any problem until a year later when you run the application that needed that key; By which time you may have deleted your registry backup, and even if the backup is available the remaining registry hive may well have adapted to altered installations and perhaps the key backup will not be a good fit any more. I rarely clean the registry, and when I do I only remove what I am confident of. If I get it wrong my perfect solution is to restore a partition image backup, and the only downside if go back a year is that I may have to alter the desktop shortcuts for portable applications etc installed on non-system partitions. Life was so much simpler before the registry took over from INI files.

If there is only one person with Admin authority and the personal ability to run CCleaner on all the family computers, are the other family members allowed to enjoy the benefit of running standard non-admin profiles on those computers ?

400 MB per week is an awful lot of Adverts that Google was serving you

I am pleased to observe that Palemoon v15.4 is better protected than Firefox v18 by default. Palemoon has Java blocked by default unless the user specifically enables it. Apparently Firefox 18 requires user intervention to disable Java See post dated Fri Jan 18, 2013 3:24 pm http://forum.palemoo...php?f=16&t=1886

Glary has been on GAOTD several times since I gave it a go, and on the more recent times my only interest was to look at the end of the day to see how many more victims had suffered and by some means got back on the Internet. More recently I have not seen many such victims. I deduce that either Glary has tamed down the product with less adventurous settings or alternatively has ramped up the aggression and the victims never manage to struggle back on to the Internet The idea of the "Folder Hider" was privacy. Without submitting a password the existence of the contents of the folder was concealed, and possibly (I do not remember for sure) the presence of the folder. I believe it simply modified the Access Control Levels that in the absence of the password are applied to the designated folder, and ACL's are very fine grained with more than a dozen different restrictions of what they can permit, i.e. you can prevent Windows Explorer from viewing the contents of a folder, but you also have the option of or not a desktop shortcut can EXECUTE an executable is known to exist therein.

I am very happy with these tools at http://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html The "Home" version at the top is free The stand-alone Bootable CD ISO at the bottom is also free. I have used both.

Yes, he was unable to run some programs. He especially was unable to launch Folder Hider to undo what he had done I do get daily emails from them and perhaps 2% of them intrigue me enough to click and see the details. Over the last 7 years I think I actually installed only three for use plus one to observe. I observed "Glary Cleaner" or some such super zapper of junk. I was amazed at how much of my Win XP was recommended to removal. Originally I had intended to let it do its thing and observe the results and then restore my system from my partition image backup, but when I saw what was intended I realised that my Acronis "built in" restore might be overwhelmed and that I would have to dust off the Acronis Linux boot CD, so I simply aborted Glary. Sure enough, at the end of the day there were many very unhappy campers on the GAOTD site who had allowed Glary to perform a "tender embrace".

Could there be a problem with USB3 drivers ? It might be worth trying to use a USB2 port. USB2 Port connection has definitely been a solution for "Partition image Restore" of backups that were created via USB3 when the Boot CD's lacked the appropriate USB3 drivers. It just occurs to me that your USB3 drivers are obviously fit for writing and reading files, but maybe they are not up to the demands of defragging.

Whoops - confusion I do not need advice. I was explaining an issue which I encountered and had a similar consequence of the BIOS not remembering that my SSD had Boot priority over my HDD. The resolution of my problem has nothing to do with installation DVD's etc. - it merely required entering the BIOS and forcing it to update its settings which it had corrupted in the CMOS RAM. This topic is concerned with KCav's problem which MIGHT be resolved by entering the BIOS and altering its settings. There may be other solutions to KCav's problems but they will not be fixed by addressing my symptoms e.g. My SSD does not rotate and has no need to spin up

Quite often GAOTD starts the day so well with a powerful laxative to cleanse the inner workings of a computer. Those days end so badly for some whose computers crash and they ask for help on fixing the damage, and even worse for those who can no longer get on the Internet. I also remember one person downloaded a "Folder Hider" that promised to conceal any folder he chose. He chose to hide a folder he never used. He chose to hide "C:\Program Files\" The good news was that Folder Hider did what it promised, but the consequences were severe

None at all if you are trying to READ from the SSD and WRITE the Recuva output to a different HDD etc.

Simple Add them all to the "Exclude" list; Clean; prove that you have preserved your settings. Now remove one item and clean and test to see if settings still preserved. and if not then add it back Repeat for each item.

Perhaps the difference is that your wife does not have admin privileges. Hazelnut is not logged in so I will risk saying "That is how I manage my computer as well "

Palemoon at 15.4 today http://forum.palemoo....php?f=1&t=1904 http://www.palemoon....enotes-ng.shtml

I admire such diabolical cunning. I pulled that sort of devious stunt many times with 8 bit arithmetic processors, and received flak from colleagues over my source code's brief and cryptic documentation which was adequate for my needs but not their's I take note of your information about bitmaps and will try to avoid them - brain cells are precious and I do not wish to wear them out.

CLUNK - Another piece drops into my puzzle, Thanks. A few weeks ago I secure erased my SSD and after a restart through the BIOS I booted into my Macrium Rescue Boot Flash Drive to restore an earlier Disc image backup. I Restarted and my BIOS totally forgot that my SSD had any sort of Boot Priority, and so with zero drama and no hysteria ( so like a man ) it went to my next boot priority which was my HDD, and Windows was booted through the MBR of my HDD to my active partition (without drive letter) "System Reserved", AND YET this launched Windows resident on my SSD and I never saw the difference. Had it been running on my HDD then C:\ would have been 25 GB, not the 55 GB of my SSD. I only knew something was wrong because when I used Partition Wizard, although both the SSD and the HDD had an "Active" status for "System Reserved" it was only the HDD that showed "Active & Boot" I have just inspected and there is no NTLDR in either "System Reserved" or C:\, but there are 375 KB sized BOOTMGR files in all of "System Reserved" and also in C:\ and also C:\boot\Macrium. Until today I was thinking that IF ONLY Windows had never defaulted to a separate "System Reserved" as part of the installation, then there would have been no need for a "hyperspace jump" from one partition to another that resulted in the "wrong" physical drive, and I was thinking that avoiding an intermediate partition to partition hop would avoid that sort of accident, but now I see that the MBR of the Active partition uses an absolute address number to designate BOOTMGR, and this in turn uses a full path with drive letter to launch the installed Operating System, so the same "hyperspace jump" would have occurred even if the Operating System had been on the Active partition. I am glad I found out before I tried a new installation of Windows without any "System Reserved". Little-Endian and Big-Endian is all BAD-Indian to me - it takes of my scalp Partition Wizard tells me that my SSD is 55.90 GB with 117234408 Sectors of 512 bytes per sector. There are 2048 sectors per MByte so 117234408 / 2048 = 57243.36328125 MB - close enough. The "Toolbox" from OCZ reports their SSD as having CF3006CFh / 2 = 67980367h KB = 1738015591 KB = 1738015591 / 1024 MB = 1697280 MB = 1657 GigaBytes - what a promise - dissappointment ahead. 6FCCF30h / 2 = 37E6798h KB = 58615704 KB = 58615704 / 1024 MB = 57241 MB - near enough I hate Linux and stupid-endian arithmetic My first experience was of DOS 3.3? on a maximum spec Compaq Luggable P.C. with a 20 MByte HDD. I did a little bit of software using Edlin and Debug. I never defragged because of the danger of a power failure and a corruption of my system, and the consequent neccessity of first backing up my HDD on a massive stack of 160 KiloByte capacity 5.25 inch Floppy Discs. Not a happy way to spend a weekend I still do not defrag. I am not afraid of Power loss because I have an APC battery backup supply, but I am still afraid of the crash-ability of Windows. Decades of Blue Screens and "You failed to shut down properly" have permanently scarred me. N.B. After 10 months daily use of my SSD it has only reached 1% fragmentation, as reported by Defraggler version 11. I was always much happier with my 8 bit 6800 Microprocessor based computer that never crashed, and always shut down when I told it to and never refused and subsequently blamed me for not shutting it down properly.

I once had a SAITEK keyboard. Every day it worked OK, BUT every time I powered up Windows XP the Event Log scored one more Error Event HID (Human Interface something) I do not think your keyboard should keep its driver files in the System Temp - that is asking for trouble

Although I have only done this with CCleaner, I am absolutely confident that if you follow my directions, AND IF as a result you see what you hoped for when you attempted "When I try to select PGPWDE01 to exclude it (Exclude->Add->Open)" Then you will have achieved the exclusion setting that you were hoping for. Regardless of how you achieve an exclusion, I know nothing about the certainty of any such setting in defraggler because I have not experimented with them. I was only offering assistance on how to achieve a setting. I suggest that rather than worry about the consequences of damage to PGPWDE01 etc by utilities such as Defraggler (amongst many other tools), it would be better to have a backup strategy that will restore normality regardless of whether damage was done by any utility or malware or a lightening strike down the chimney. I have total confidence in Macrium Reflect to backup and restore all my partitions, including the hidden and letter-less "System Reserved" partition that holds BitLocker and Boot files. There are other competing partition image backups which also have users that live by them ( and die with them ) N.B. On two occasions this last year a Windows Security Update devastated my system and made it unusable. Each time I rebooted and it failed, and then I inserted my Macrium Boot Recovery CD and it took only 6 minutes to restore my system back with the previous day's backup. On one occasion my Laptop 30 GB HDD was replaced with an empty 160 GB HDD (a Christmas present) and several minutes later the recovery CD had restored the image backups of the 30 GB drive, and everything worked the same as the day before - but better because I had an extra 130 GB of unallocated space to use.

Thanks - I was unaware of "Volume Boot Record", and that has given me more to Google for. My concern however was not that defragging would stray outside the partition and move the essential MBR ( or VBR ), but that the MBR / VBR / whatever would designate the "Operating System" entry point by a fixed sector number and not by a file name. I did not want to make a mistake and break my Boot Recovery tools to such an extent that they did not mend a broken system, and that even worse they did not scream to a halt and abort, but that they might totally miss-fire and do more damage than before. I am now prepared to cautiously try my luck and "give it a go".