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Willy2

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  1. - Try to find out where those rules are stored. (Firefox helpforum ???) Perhaps you  can copy them to another folder (as a backup ??) and copy them back to that one special folder (???) after running CCleaner.

    - Go to the website FileHippo ( https://filehippo.com/ ) There you can download previous versions of CCleaner. One of those previous versions doesn't delete those rules. Install that version and make sure that you install each version of CCleaner in a different folder. Then compare the file "winapp2.ini" of that one version with the file "winapp2.ini" of the latest version. Are there any differences between the 2 files ?

    - Report in this thread what you found. It will be helpful for other Firefox users as well.

     

  2. - From the OEC Facebook page(s), I pulled the following texts:

    source: https://www.facebook.com/oeclassic

     

    - Comment #1:

    "Gmail should be Griefmail, it periodically stops OE Classic from collecting my mail so goodbye to the problem. GMX.com and Outlook.com are superior to Gmail and have never caused a fault with OE Classic collecting mail."

    - OEC replied as follows:

    "It is true that Gmail quality of service has dropped in the recent years. But still beats Yahoo mail (also used by ATT and Frontier as well as some others) which is one of the least reliable servers we know of (also a frequent cause of tech support questions)"

     

    - Comment #2:

    "If you use Mail for Windows 10 as a "backup" to OE Classic, be careful! If you use it in combination with Gmail, the latest update of Windows 10 can cause this application to randomly delete messages from various Gmail folders. OE Classic of course has no such issues. If you're interested in more of the issues with Windows 10 May update - we wrote a bit on that on our blog.
    https://www.infobyte.hr/blog/642/windows-10-may-2020-update-v2004-is-a-disaster/"

  3. - Users of the july 2020 version of OEC PRO should remove this version and go back to the june 10, 2020 version. There is a MAJOR annoying bug that shows up when the user is writing an email. The same bug shows up in a slightly different way in each language.

    - I assume the developers are aware of this bug because the last available version for download is that june 10, 2020 version. The july 2020 version has been removed.

    - Re-installing the previous version is very simple. Remove all files from "C:\Program files (x86)\OEClassic", download & install the latest available PRO version

  4. @CTYankee:

    - To be able to defrag a file (with Defraggler) that has a size of X you need a contiguous free space of - at least - the same size X. And that's not the case on your system with the E: drive. No wonder Defraggler won't (completely) defrag the pagefile. The best it can do is to decrease the fragmentation.

    - A defragmented pagefile will indeed increase the performance of your system

     

    - Try this:

        - Turn  off the pagefile and (temporarily) move all other files to another drive.

        - Format the E: drive (again).

        - Turn on the pagefile, choose a size for the pagefile that's (a little) smaller than the size of the E: drive. Hopefully the pagefile won't be fragmented.

  5. - I still use Internet Explorer 11 on my Windows 7 system every now and then. Using IE 11 still has a number of advantages over e.g. Edge & Chrome.

    - Although I was looking for something else in the "Microsoft Update catalogus", I was very surprised to see that MS still issues "Cumulative Security Updates" for IE  11 for Windows 7. Even though MS doesn't support Windows 7 anymore. The latest version was issued on june 8, 2020 (KB 4561603).

    - Source:

    https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com

    and search with the words 'internet explore 11 update'.

     

  6. - CCleaner is a very powerful tool. When you use the program for the first time then I would recommend to untick ALL boxes and then step by step tick more and more boxes and see how your system reponds after each step.

    - The default setting is that cleaning / removing of all cookies is enabled.

    - Just untick all the "Cookie" boxes for all browsers that show up in the list (Chrome, Edge, ............... ). Log-in for those programs / applications (again). After running CCleaner once more the cookies should be still there.

    - CCleaner also allows you to select which cookies must be kept and which can be removed. (Options > Cookies).

  7. - Have been using DF today again and when I opened RAMMAP I saw 43 DF "Zombie" processes ("Defraggler.exe") while Task Manager showed only one process called "Defraggler64.exe".

    - It seems that somehow the process "Defraggler64.exe" opens "Defraggler.exe" and uses some of the subroutines and then "forgets" to tell the Operating System that the process has done its job and the process can be "closed"/"removed".

    - This also can be a bug in the program code. E.g. "Defraggler64.exe" has all the subroutines it needs to perform its tasks but still calls upon "Defraggler.exe" every now and then. This could be a remnant of a previous Defraggler version before there was no 64 bit version of the program. Lots of possibilities on why so many Zombie processes show up.

    - When I look at the size of the 43 DF "zombies" then I see that these Zombies actually don't use that much memory. RAMMAP reports that each of these 43 processes only use 20 Kb. Seems each of these processes are opened/created but then these processes each are hardly used/don't see little or no "activity". And - in general - one can say that the more a process is being used the larger the memory footprint. There the low memory usage could give a good indication of what's going on.

    - Another thing I noticed is that as soon as I close DF the zombie processes (seem to) disappear away as well. Odd, very odd.

  8. - Something is wrong with the memory management of DF and I think that the memory management can be improved.

    - There is a difference between the info provided by Sysinternals' RAMMAP and Task Manager (Windows 7). When I look at the "Process" tab in RAMMAP then I count 13 DF processes (red Arrow & red rectangle). But when I open (the dutch version of) Task Manager (blue Arrow & blue rectangle) then I only see one process ("Defraggler64.exe"). The amount of memory used by DF (Task Manager) doesn't match up with the amount of used memory by DF as displayed in RAMMAP. Odd, very odd. These 12 extra DF processes don't use much memory but there are running anyway. Again, odd, very odd.

     

    - Recently I watched a video explaining how the program called "RAMMAP" worked. They mentioned the words "zombie processes". It seems the extra DF processes (as shown in "RAMMAP") are precisely that, "Zombies". The video also gives a (possible ???) explanantion of why these zombies exist.

    The video can be found at

    https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Defrag-Tools/Defrag-Tools-6-RAMMap

    The word "zombie" is mentioned a few times in the video from about 21:00 onwards.

    - Sysinternals' RAMMAP can be found here:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/rammap

    - See the picture attached.

     

     

    Defraggler-RAMMAP1.png

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