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http://www.howtogeek.com/161056/windows-8.1-rumored-to-have-significant-highly-desired-ui-changes-in-store-for-users A matter of "too little, too late" ? Seems MS is waking up to the fact that Win 8 "sucks" and that the competition is fierce.

Since the last 4 to 5 versions worked well on my (Win 7) laptop, I would assume that this should blamed on the computer system, not on Speccy. A program that has helped me in the recent past is Windows Repair (www.tweaking.com). It helped me to solve three problems Speccy ran into.

Thanks. I failed to remove the update. Thanks to Registry Backup (www.tweaking.com (one shameless plug for this program) was able to restore the registry to the situation of april 10. Then I searched for new updates. And Windows Update told me which updates to re-install and this particular update wasn't (pre-)selected.

WOW. This allows me to fly a REAL plane instead of a small toy plane. Where can I buy that software ?

I guess/know this has been brought forward in the past but I want to post these suggestions for CC v4.00 (again). 1. Move all the "Wipe Free Space drives" options ("Options", "Advanced") to the "Drive Wiper" screen (under "Tools"). 2. Get rid of the "Wipe Free Space" option. ("Cleaner", "Windows", under "Advanced"). I've (un-)ticked this option and as far as I can tell, it didn't make any difference at all. It seems it has become obsolete. 3. Add an option: "Wipe/Clean MFT only". I DO like the "wipe Free space". I have a 4 GB MicroSD card for my cellphone/MP3 player and when I opened it with Recuva it revealed A LOT OF files that I wiped previously but were still "visible" on that card. And after wiping the free space on the SD card, the MP3 player was also responding faster. It was not extremely faster and I know it sounds weird, but I definitely noticed a small speed increase.

Both CC and CleanDisk Security (CDS) write A LOT OF large files to disk in order to "clean" free space on a disk, effectively overwriting all the old files. Windows keeps monitoring that process, notices that the disk gets filled and at some point Windows decides to kill (one or more) SRPs and to reduce the size of the MFT as much as possible, in order to make room for the new files. Reducing the size of the MFT and killing the SRPs are effectively unintended consequences of the way these two programs work. When CC and CDS notice that a disk is nearly completely filled (the user then gets a "disk full" warniung from Windows) then they delete all those temporary files. The end result is that a drive/disk is "cleaned". But one's SRPs are gone as well. That's why I am curious whether or not your PRO tool operates the same way.

Yes, it will reduce the size of the MFT (temporarily). But there's another problem to this solution. As a result of the method used both CC and Cleandisk Security wipe the System Restore Points (SRPs). Does your PRO tool wipe these SRPs as well ? I would assume it does. Because, as far as I know, there's no "Reduce MFT size" or "Clean MFT" API. One has to use a "Work Around" method to produce the desired outcome.

The MFT is something special to the NTFS filing system. The MFT doesn't contain any files at all. It's more or less an extension of the directory file. The directory file can't hold too much info about files and therefore the MFT contains more info about those files. http://msdn.microsof...0(v=vs.85).aspx When one uses the CC's free space wipe feature then it first cleans the MFT and then after that it wipes the free drive space. And that takes A LOT OF time. When I want to REALLY clean the MFT and the free space on a disk then I use "Cleandisk Security". This program does the opposite of what CC does. First clean the free space on a disk (by writing lots of files to that disk). A as result of that the MFT shrinks in size. And then "cleaning" the MFT takes (much) less time. http://www.theabsolu...re/clndisk.html I personally favor "Cleandisk Security" over CC.

What I have learned is that the most blatant bugs "get squeezed" first. The more a bug is "buried deeper" in the program code the more effort it takes to "uncover" that bug. And CC is in this regard no exception. Besides that, I presented two solutions for this bug. A simple one and a more elaborate one. The simplest solution would take the developers - IMO - less than five minutes to implement.

@mta: I know for sure the Piriform developers are aware of this bug but they seem to have other things on their mind.

New version (v1.5.0) of the "Svchost.exe" look up tool released. (www.tweaking.com)

Still not fixed in v4.00

http://techbeat.com/...ril-fools-2013/ I am awake and I have smelled the coffee (Java coffee). Excellent brew.

Yes, wonderful english/american saying: "Wake up and smell the coffee".

April fool ???

Precisely. 1. MS can't flatly say: "We need to fix A LOT OF bugs in Win 8". That was the signal MS gave when they issued a Service Pack for (the buggy) Vista very shortly after Vista was launched. They need to put a positive spin on the whole (negative) story. 2. Issueing CDs/DVDs is costing them lots of $$$. 3. This also is an acknowledgement - IMO - Win 8 was a (more than a) "bit buggy", especially when it came to the "Automatic Update" feature. 4. MS always can issue (and in the past have issued) "Cumulative Updates".

1. I think MS should abolish that thing call Service Packs all together. Since they have been using Automatic Updates, MS Service Packs became obsolete. 2. It confirms - IMO - that things aren't "too well" at Microsoft. They are getting aware that there's some REAL competition. They're becoming aware that they need to cut wasteful spending will they have a chance of surviving. 3. The question is also: "What took them so long to come to this conclusion/decision" ?

@Trium: (Lesen Sie das Antwort im zweiten Post). Read the answer (and the link) Hazelnut gave in the second post. @Hazelnut: I am curious. Win 7 has two folders, "C:\program files\Defender" (for Defender) and "C:\program files\Security client" (for MS Essentials). Does Win 8 have both folders as well ?

It took me LOTS of GOOGLE-ing to find an answer to another question I had. MS Security Essentials turns off Windows Defender. And when MSE is removed (using the official un-installer !!!) Windows Defender is turned back on. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/mse-protect_start/microsoft-security-essentials-turns-off-windows/06e9ad25-f263-459f-a14a-6afaea010f49 And that's why the Win Defender Service is turned off as well. Now things are starting to make much more sense.

My take on this story is that this is a retaliation/revenge for the EU giving the savers on Cyprus a "haircut" of 25% (or more). And it seems the bulk of those "savers" were criminals from Eastern Europe and/or Russia who thought that their "savings" were safe in Cyprus. And those "savers" have used Cyrpus to launder money, to "fleece" the russian tax authorities. to avoid paying taxes in Russia.

Downloaded CC v4.00. Tried the registry cleaner. Now it finds more obsolete registry entries. But the first time CC wanted to backup the deleted registry items, it offered to store them in the "C:\Windows\Prefetch" subfolder. I am not quite sure, but I consider this to be a bug. Because it should offer (by default) to put the backup in the folder in which CC was installed. And no, I didn't store/save any info in that "prefetch" folder in the last say 20 days.

But only one AV program is active in "Real Time". The others are just not active.

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I need some advice. I tried to GOOGLE the next problem but it didn't provide any definitive/satisfactory answers. I installed the AVAST AV program (NOT the free one, AVAST offered a discount on the regular price). This is the program that protects my Win 7 system in REAL TIME. I also installed the free versions of Malwarebytes & MS Security essentials. I run the last two programs about every one to two weeks to make sure AVAST doesn't overlook anything. (as advised on the "How to geek" website). http://www.howtogeek...virus-programs/ Questions: 1. Is MS security essentials the same as Windows Defender ? 2. Some folks (Hazelnut ???) on this forum have talked about a "layered approach" . What's meant by that ?

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=218805 He hacked an Android app.