Nergal

on your second Idea, just do a SEARCH for winapp2.ini

Also, a donate is just that a donate it is not paying for the application, the application is free. That said that is awesome that you donated, very few people do that for freeware.

Restore the backup registry (Right click open/merge) The registry shouldn't be cleaned of everything that comes up just the ones you know aren't neeed any more. Peace

There's a portible version, go to downloads page and go to other builds

eppie, you can also use the windows accessablility tools, magnifier XP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/a...ault.mspx#EEDAC Vista http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/w.../magnifier.aspx

Use, CCleaner's remove desktop shortcuts?

Did you use the cleaner? or Did you use the reg integrety part and clean everything. I have never experienced this with my CCleaner use (on any computer and I use it on a lot)

Alix Do you have access to another computer??? Hijak this and CCleaner will run portably, this may be the way to go. Also, esp if this is Bagel, here is a link to portible multivirus cleaner (at portablefreeware.com) it handles bagel http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=810 and here is trend micro's cleaner that'll run porably and in safe mode http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=643

Get systernal's Process explorer from the MS Site http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb896653.aspx and see what is opening and closing each time you do this. I've never heard of something like this happening that's soooooo bizarre. See if it still does it in Safe Mode. Run and live cd version of a antivirus and a rootkit revealer and make sure you don't have some sneaky fellow.

Unsure where you found freewarefiles.com. It doesn't seem very up and up http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/freewaref...mp;locale=en-US

Davy Put it very well Put just in case: Read My signature at the bottom of my post. Really only remove things from the registry that you know no longer exist Example You uninstall RealPlayer You run the registry integ and see some thing along the lines of Missing Shared DLL C:\program files\RealPlayer\player.dll HKCU\Software\Realone\Realplayer That would be ok to remove because you've uninstalled realplayer. AS I said read and FOLLOW my signature and you'll be ok. (And listen to davey I've yet to see him steer someone wrong )

No this is just a shortcut in the recent documents section (Start Menu >Documents shows the most recent documents//songs you opened CCleaner removes the quick link) But there is no reason to CCleaner UNTIL the TROJAN IS GONE. Clean that first deal with your "Crap" (Thus the name crap cleaner) Later

This is ABSOLUTLY normal behavior (and this does happen (less frequently) with large files on XP as Well)

???? why not just run CCleaner after using the unistaller ???

I've NEVER encountered a cookie that couldn't be deleted you'll just have to resign in to any sites that you have set to remain logged in for ever (like piriform )

Also, How much space does CCleaner say it's removed. Because you have too much on your drive that isn't defined as "CRAP" by CCleaner (i.e. programs, Documents etc)

Just because something comes up on the REGCleaner section does not mean that you SHOULD remove it. In specific regards to IWinPwdSvc as I have said before IWinPwdSvc is a part of Symantec/Norton products (maybe other security Products too) The reason you can't remove it is that the security program sees you trying to remove it and says "Hey, that's not right, you must be malware trying to disable me by removing my secret Reg entries. I'm not going to let you do that." http://siteadvisor.cn/sites/digitalriver.c...nloads/3620018/

Just because something comes up on the REGCleaner section does not mean that you SHOULD remove it. In specific regards to IWinPwdSvc as I have said before IWinPwdSvc is a part of Symantec/Norton products (maybe other security Products too) The reason you can't remove it is that the security program sees you trying to remove it and says "Hey, that's not right, you must be malware trying to disable me by removing my secret Reg entries. I'm not going to let you do that." http://siteadvisor.cn/sites/digitalriver.c...nloads/3620018/

I'm going to guess that Chi is using and just started using FF3 and that this upgrade coincides with the lack of cookie cleaning. There are some amount of multiple ff3 users opening new threads about how CCleaner is not cleaning their firefox. I'm sure the developers are working on this for the next version. The Long and shirt of it is that ff3 does cookies and history differently than ff1 and ff2 did

here is a forum topic which uses a combination of domain controller scripts, Installing CCleaner on each computer with the same ini file (in my version the putting a portable version on a shared access read/write drive should work), and using the /auto switch within the script Hope that helps

??? ed, I'm assuming you mean the Firefox from John Haller's portableapps.com.(ver 3 or ver 2?) How come you don't just set the FF to delete privacy stuff at the end of the session. Tools > Options > Privacy in the Private data Section, check both options, press the settings and set the ones you want cleared. Then when you close your Firefox window you'll be given the option to clean or not. it's not the securely scrubbing you want but it does well. Otherwise yeah you'll need custom folders and to always have your portable drive mount to the same drive letter on every computer u use it on. Perhaps also (though I've never looked) there is a Firefox extension that will securely (in an amount of passes you approve of) delete your history and all. EDIT I found some extensions for you: Stealther: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1306 CookieSafe: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2497

As Corona insinuated the CCleaner reg cleaner is only as good as your knowledge of your own computer. The Best practice (IMHO) is three fold 1) Go in small Chunks (this will help when restoring reg entries that you backed up see 2) go checkmark by checkmark 2) Back up each time you clean and name each file, not the default but the name of the tree you are cleaning and the date you cleaned it. 3) DON'T Just Click and clean. If you don't know what something is Google it. Start by googling the entire reg key then if you get no (helpful) results pare down your search. (Helpful results might include someone's hijackthis log if someone has pointed out what something is, but usually these are a mess to go through). Many things are found by CCleaner that doesn't mean you don't use/need them examples below a) security Programs (i.e. Symantec/Norton, Mcafee) will often have reg entries that aren't "related" to anything, this helps keep hackers from being able to easily disable your security. b)File Extensions often just because a file extension is not assigned to a program this doesn't mean that a program doesn't exist on your computer that needs these extensions. (ex from my computer .amz is assigned to the Amazon File Downloader but still shows up in unused file extensions) That said, some of the Recent Changes to CCleaner's reg handler have greatly improved my accidental removal of entries I need. so really the most important items in my list are 1 and 2

????? um why not just use the Portable version????

yup, no auto script with VISTA AFAIK

The Following is MY OPINION ONLY AND REALLY I THINK IT IS UP TO YOU BUT IF I CAN HELP SOME BY GIVING MHO THAN I WILL. advanced old prefetch data (yes) menu order cache I use classic Start menu so I don't know about this one tray notifications cache (if you have specific things you've told Vista to always show or always Hide DO NOT DO THIS ONE else go for it it'll get rid of some programs that may have been one shots) windows sze/location cache Yes user assist history iis log files yes hotfix unistallers I do this but only just before the new patch tuesday when I've been using patches for a month and know I won't need to uninstall them custom files and folders only if you have custom files or folders set in the options section LOL