mr don
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I looked at that one but the reviews are horrible. Seems every one is having major problems with it.
As long as it is an MS theme such as Royal or Zune, it should work without needing a patch.
3rd party themes need to be unlocked.
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I can get to the main yahoo website, but when I click "mail" to go to login, I get an error page that says "problem loading page" and "the server at mail.yahoo is taking too long to respond."
I did try logging into Yahoo instant messenger and got the same thing.
I'm mostly doing this in Firefox, but I tried it in IE also (which, incidentally, seems to have disappeared from my start menu) and got an error message there as well.
I just ran the cleaner section, NOT the registry section.
My computer (an old one) runs Windows XP, version 2002.
What version of FF do you have? If it is an older one, have you tried uninstalling it & installing the newer 3.6.8 one from filehippo.com?
Newer versions sometimes work better. I am not sure how long IE6 (XP default) will be supported by websites, or maybe 1.5 series of Firefox.
Additionally, have you installed/removed/added/ran any security programs/firewalls etc when it stopped working? Used a hosts file block list? Downloaded a "yahoo ad blocker" that uses the hosts file?
If you got into active-x based malware or fake security popups, sometimes they install "website specific" blockers or redirects. If you suspect you have malware, there is a link in the spyware section here that may be able to help.
If you have restore points, you may be able to system restore back to when it was working.
If you still have problems, please post back here.
Thanks!
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I beeen using your cccleaner every day but there some issues that need fixing
bug 1:
wiping files with 1 wipe pass take too long 26MB takes 84 secs to wipe
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bug 2:
when wiping free space the created files are too small there are 146KB in size the file size needs to be larger
otherwise it will take forever to wipe large drives
please fix these problems soon
thank you very much
- What OS are you running? 98/XP/Vista/7?
- What Service Pack (if any?) are you running?
- What version of CCleaner are you using?
- Does your drive go slowly in other activities? Has the drive for some reason slipped into PIO mode instead of DMA 5 or 6?
- Are you wiping internal or external drives? Are you trying to wipe drive C? D? USB 1.1 or 2.0 drives?
- Do you have utilities running in the background that could be interfering with wipe such as backup/drive protection/on the fly encryption etc?
- Has this problem always been there, or is it something more recent?
- Have you tried it in safe mode to eliminate the possibility of startup items/malware causing this?
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If you have UAC enabled, any program that needs admin privilege will ask for it and abide by your choice. If UAC is disabled, the program will simply run as a standard user and, either fail to install, or get installed in the current user's virtual store folder, where it's effectively sandboxed.
That, I am fully aware of. What I am saying is:
- If windows can bypass UAC by the simple running of a script which can disable it on reboot, then what is to keep malware writers from either coming up with their own UAC script to disable it on reboot, or even call up the Windows own UAC script & auto-reboot the PC?
It would seem to me that if Microsoft is capable of disabling it with so much ease, malware writers could too?
Or am I missing anything here?
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I agree. Furthermore, the recycle bin is allotted a given percentage of the drive's space. Whenever you "delete" something and it pushes the bin's contents over that limit, the system will effectively remove enough of the older contents to make room for the new. Anything "stored" in the bin can thus disappear without warning.
You are absolutely right on that. Although there the right-click the recycle bin/properties & then the option to either configure drives all at once or independently, it still runs the risks that novices will inevitably choose an inadequate size for one of the drives, or even not bother choosing at all since they would unlikely know that you can change it!
Additionally, if they happen to switch between an external drive & a flash drive on the same USB port, & if windows fails to recognize that the external drive has been removed before it recognizes the flash drive has been inserted.... Then if they were to try to "resize" the recycle bin to a larger size than the entire flash drive is (since external drives are typically far larger than flash drives, & the flash drive would inherit the external drive properties) data loss would again be something that could occur.
I agree 100% with you.
P.S. Ever tried setting recycle bin properties for a drive to a max of 100% of a that drive's space & then clicked apply?
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/me thinks Alan_B is training to be a lawyer (or maybe he's one already?
): he's straining at gnats (the next exercise is swallowing camels 
)The proposed function that would let CCleaner remove the trash from all accounts in one fell swoop, like all other options in CCleaner, doesn't have to be activated, this is left to the computer owner's ? or administrator's ? choice. If we allowed every possible risk, however remote, to stop us from going forward, we'd never get anything done. Just remember this: by today's standards, we wouldn't have Aspirin.
I 100% agree with you. That is exactly what I would have said, only you beat me to it.
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Is there any way that I can stop CCleaner from affecting one specific program? I use a program made by Alcatel for telecommunications work. Whenever I run CCleaner the Alcatel program attempts to reinstall itself.
Steve
When you say after you run CCleaner, do you mean you just run CCleaner, or that you run the registry cleaner as well? I highly advise against running the registry cleaner with all options checked if this is the case.
The top 3 ticks are the ones that cause the most problems, & MSI based installers are well known for problems. You can get problems from MSI installers by clearing information from the registry that links to them, or by running an uninstaller for a program that utilizes the same dir for their files, etc, etc. I am assuming this is an MSI type installation program that you used, because what you are describing sounds very typical of what can happen with MSI based installs.
Would help to know what OS you are using, what SP of that OS, whether you only ran ccleaner or if you ran the registry cleaner, & also if you were using/installing/uninstalling other MSI based installers any time recently.
Additionally, if you have the problem "every time you run CCleaner" then this seems to indicate that you already had some corrupt MSI file somewhere on your system with an incorrect reference in the registry.
It is possible that if you uninstall the program you are using, then re-install it, that it may fix that problem, but there is a chance it may not. Win XP & higher is much better about running things always in their own separate memory spaces than win 98 (which caused cross-linked files/files overwriting each other).
Thanks!
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ONE FINAL UPDATE: I decided to download Microsoft Update KB953356 in order to try and repair the damage from SP3.
I am now able to run a full virus scan without the computer crashing. Whoo - hoo!
I'm not going to reinstall SP3 unless they issue a clean version that won't wonk up my computer. The fact that MS is now offering *FREE* telephone, chat & email support for SP3 issues shows that they know the massive mess they made. Oh, well, I've learned a lesson here
There may be some here who advise you to do the upgrade because the "updates are critical".
However, I advise against immediate upgrade until you can make a complete image of your drive that you can restore if something goes wrong.
Since you had 1 blue screen, installing it again will result in another. It may be possible to mitigate those dangers a bit by following the other guys advice, but I advise you to wait till you make a backup first. Also, be sure that if you do try it again, make sure any startup entries you do not need are unchecked & that your AV is uninstalled during the upgrade so that it will not interfere with the update process. Be sure to reboot after the AntiVirus uninstall so it can complete, before you even attempt to run the update.
Whether you update to SP3 is up to you. On 1 hand, it does offer hotfixes & a few "enhancements". But on the other, it can also interfere with certain programs that used to work under SP2 from working as they should & even cause intermittent WiFi connection problems where a user gets disconnected every couple minutes from their wireless.
It is up to you which way you solve the problem. I have had my XP install for a year or more with no problems. Of course, I have AVG, use a firewall, use Firefox instead of IE, don't play active X games on facebook/myspace, & I watch what is installed/used on this machine.
I currently have SP2 because SP3 simply will not handle all the programs I have. Some work, some do not, then some do but not so greatly under SP3.
Hazelnut would probably advise the update to SP3, but I would be a bit hesitant to suggest it because since you have an HP AMD machine, it WILL bluescreen again & for that reason, I strongly advise that you have a backup first. This is in case the advice earlier still does not fix the blue screen. It normally does, & it is advice that MS gives for computers, but I would say better to be safe than sorry.
If you have a backup you can restore from in the event of something going wrong, then I would feel less hesitant in you trying it. The advice given earlier sounds solid, but I have had machines that do work with a solution like this, then others that still do not.
The computer could still bluescreen, for example, if there were driver incompatibilities under SP3. There could be more than 1 reason or cause wherein that you fix 1, but still have blue screens because of a 2cd cause as well.
I don't see any harm in you running your current config for now, as long as everything is ok. Be sure to print out the directions given earlier for fixing the HP AMD blue screen problem & back up your system if you intend to try it again.
This way, you can have a way to see the instructions + a way to restore your data in case there are other problems/causes of blue screens if something does go wrong.
Thanks!
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[ quote = nom de " noisettes " date = '13 ao?t 2010 - 11h41 timestamp '= '1281696083 'post = '175066 ']
Qu'est-ce que cela a ? voir avec CCleaner ?
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Sorry for the mistake !
It is hard to help without knowing what OS you are running... 98? XP/Vista/7?
32 bit or 64 bit?
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I have installed latest version on WIN XP and every time I try to run the cleaner, wizard get disappear in seconds. I'm not a first time user. Previously It worked fine but only after I have installed fresh copy of Xp, When I click Ccleaner icon on desktop, the wizard appears and within seconds it disappears without giving me a chance to select the options. It is very strange. Please help
What do you mean by the latest version of XP?
Are you running XP Home? XP Pro? XP Media Center?
Also, what Service Pack are you using? No SP, SP1, SP2, SP3? (Right click my computer/properties to show what you have).
How long do you normally run it on a "fresh" machine before it starts acting up?
Do you have updates turned on or off?
This information will really help...
Thanks!
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Hi, I've tried installing ccleaner on my laptop but everytime I open the file to install it, it will begin to install and then I get a message that says:
Ccleaner v2.34 Setup
Error opening file for writing:
C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCleaner.exe
Click abort to stop the intallation,
Retry to try again, or
Ignore to skip this file
Can anyone help me solve this problem?
Thans
- What browser are you using? If using IE, go to the IE options to empty the the temp files.
- Download Firefox 2.0.0.0.20 from filehippo (page 7 under more results) using IE. This is the latest you can use on W98.
- Be sure CCleaner is not running or minimized before attempting the upgrade. This can cause the error because it is in use. Additionally, if you have an older version of CCleaner installed, go to Add/Remove programs to uninstall the older version first to that it also unregisters the context menus.
- Download the slim version through Firefox & attempt the upgrade again. Use Google to find the slim ccleaner if you need to.
- If this fails, try the downloading via Firefox the portable version from Piriform & use Google to find portable ccleaner if you need to.
- If this still fails, find a machine that has a working copy of the latest CCleaner & either email it to yourself, then download it to your CCleaner dir, or send it to a flash drive/burn to CD. You can either run it from there, or put it in the program files/ccleaner dir.
If you still have trouble running it, post back what errors you have here.
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Great story here made much more interesting by the pages of comments beneath it.
The MikeRoweSoft vs Microsoft one is funny, as well as the lady suing McDonald's for hot Coffee... http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
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I always get the installers from FileHippo here.
Filehippo is a wonderful site to get files from.
Freewarefiles is another great site also.
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Suggested sites is turned off. I have a very lite install of Win7, I am an IT graduate, and don't want much crap with it lol.
In the Address Bar there is a little drop down arrow.
Clicking that shows a section called History. Under this section are a few sites, which I have visited over a week ago and are not in my Favourites at all. Also I have ran CCleaner about 10 times, and they are still showing in the Address Bar but not the actual History (near the Favourites tab) tab.
In the Address Bar, there is an X against each listing to remove the entry and it then disappears and doesn't come back unless I visit the site again.
I have also done a search on the computer for all sections and hidden files for the sites listed, such as this one which isn't yet in my favourites and after running ccleaner it doesn't find anything, which is why I am confused.
So you want to clean the IE History?
I had this problem a while back & I know what you are talking about.
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When you run CCleaner, even with IE fully closed, it appears to delete the temp files/history etc.
When you go to the history button on IE after opening it again, it will reveal every website you previously went to.
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* In order to fix this, you will need to invoke IE options & click the big "Clear History" button. Might be a good idea to click all the buttons IE provides for cleaning while you are at it.
* Once you have successfully gotten IE to run a cleanup the 1st time, CCleaner appears to then be able to clean IE history properly.
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I haven't figured out just why you must run IE's own history clean in order for CCleaner to start working & cleaning it, but it appears it is necessary & I was able to replicate it across multiple machines.
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ok think i fixed it, running ccleaner for some reason changed a setting in accesibilty options, i turned all the crap off in there and there ys go woohoo
This could have been triggered by 5 rapid presses of the shift key (also known as "Sticky Keys").
High contrast option is under Display tab.
Glad you got it fixed!
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Thanks. However I probably won't bother with it.
I agree.
Until the current crop of malware/viruses/loopholes can get around a good firewall/antivirus/security policy etc, I see no reason to change either.
If something maliciously evil should crop up, I am sure someone could combat it with a new breed of anti-evil utilities.
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Thanks to all posters for the helpful suggestions. Fortunately, I just used TestDisk version 6.11, open source software, to find, recover and re-write my lost partition on my Seagate Free Agent Pro external hard drive. I simply followed the step-by-step instructions available via this link: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step. I had to utilized the "Deeper Search" option, but my drive now shows up under "Computer" in Windows 7 (My Computer in XP) and all of my files are listed and intact. Yes!
Thanks again.
I have Testdisk, although I never got around to checking it out at the moment. Will have to test it later. Thank you for the info. Glad you got it fixed.
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The main competition to Windows seems to be a Linux Distro called Ubuntu.
It would be wonderful (if it is even possible) to have Linux versions of Piriform softwares for Ubuntu.
I am not sure if this is something you can really pull off, but if you can, it would be soooo sweet!
P.S. There is Bleachbit for Linux, but I am sure CCleaner would be so much better!
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You have this totally wrong.
I am not aware of my daughter running CCleaner to hide her web activities.
So far as I know the only thing she does is use the convenient shut-down link I placed on the All-User desktop,
and that does all her cache cleaning without further interaction from her.
I have never wanted to spy on my daughter.
She is an adult and I trust her.
Please read again what I said, i.e.
"My daughter's profile remains private to her, and is clear of junk without needing me to invade her privacy.
This is the way I like it."
I disagree.
I can customize CCleaner only by using a batch script to look at %USERNAME% and select the customized CCleaner.ini that purges Firefox caches etc. for that user.
The alternative is to use the installed CCleaner which uses individual user registry keys,
and any adjustment to that requires me to :-
Change her from User to Administrator status;
Shut down and wait for her to login (I do not want to know her password);
and then I can configure CCleaner so that her registry stipulate for her profile a very safe cleansing that is fit for her profile.
Then I can shut down.
I must remember to login to my account and drop her from administrator status to user level,
otherwise the system is at greater risk if she clicks on the wrong pop-up.
Even more hazardous as the possibility that the next time she plugs in her IPOD or downloads more music,
if she still has administrator authority then Apple may seize control and install more of their unwanted rubbish.
Why on earth would any-one want to have Apple Bonjour service seizing 90% of all processor cycle ?
What you are missing is your understanding of why a user would enable CCleaner to remove trash.
To me it is obvious that there is MORE than the one reason you can think of.
I want to IDENTIFY all POTENTIAL trash, and scrutinise the results of Analyze,
and if I see something I do not recognise I wonder why it is there and Google.
I may decide that CCleaner got this one wrong, in which case I protect from deletion.
I have not yet found evidence that a new bit of junk is the result of malware,
and through "trust but verify" I am more confident of my protection by Comodo.
Regards
Alan
I am a little confused. You have not yet found evidence that a new bit of junk is the result of malware? Are you trying to say that CCleaner is also a malware detector, or that malware uses the windows temp folders when unloading?
CCleaner is not a malware cleaner. It is a temp files cleaner. It works differently from other temp cleaners as it does not search for .TMP files or other "trash" file extensions as this could end up deleting even files such as calendar .TMP (template) files & cause problems!
CCleaner has the locations of the temp files it needs to clean written in embedded .ini files that are built into the .EXE.
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Recuva is easy to use & does a good job on what it can find.
I have encountered drives that were in the process of transferring data to another when it would lock up! Nothing you can do but power off the computer & power it back on.
When this happened, the drive would be in "RAW" mode instead of NTFS/FAT32/etc...
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Currently, Recuva offers no way to see this "blank" or "RAW" mode drive, even though all the data is still there!
In fact, Windows shows it as a drive that "needs formatting".
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Any way to add detection of blank/raw mode drives & let user's recover from them?
Under NTFS, perhaps offer the ability to restore the 2cd good copy of the MFT so the drive letter returns & it becomes visible to Recuva.
Thanks!
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Good job you pointed it out that it's easy to spot the difference between a pear and a tomato or I would never have known
Well, it's always good to make someone laugh! Haha!
A good laugh always makes people feel better. Heh heh heh!
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If you cannot identify something to remove, why do you think that is junk ?
You could select the most obvious bit of junk and remove it to the recycle bin.
Then go to the recycle bin and restore it back.
Then see if it has been successfully restored.
If you can successfully restore from the recycle bin you could move all suspect "junk" to the recycle bin,
and then make full use of the drive, its files, and its applications.
If something is broken then hopefully an error message would give a clue upon what needs to be restored,
otherwise you can restore everything from the recycle bin and hope that mends whatever is broken,
then try again but restrict how much junk you move in multiple stages.
Alan
I would be careful suggesting the use of the recycle bin to store the data, Allan. This could be dangerous if a user does not have backup options & has multiple drives connected. Normally, Windows does allocate each drive it's own drive letter in addition to allocating space on the drive for the recycle bin.
However, I have also had the issue occur that under certain circumstances, an external drive would be disconnected & a flash drive connected to the same USB slot. Normally, Windows recognizes this, but I have had it happen that a flash drive can suddenly take on "new properties" where it has a recycle bin.
In investigating the problem, it appears that Windows somehow failed to fully recognize the other drive had been disconnected, & the flash drive would get the "old" properties of the other drive. Normally, flash drives do not have a recycle bin, but do you know what it is like to have a 16 GB flash drive plugged in & when you check the properties, Windows says it is a 120 GB drive & assigns the flash drive a recycle bin? (same properties as the drive just disconnected prior to inserting the flash drive).
The weird thing is, that though flash drives normally are not assigned a recycle bin, when this happens, the recycle bin actually works, although the drive size is wrong.
Your advice sounds a little dangerous for newbies & could cause computer malfunction/boot problems if certain parameters came into play concerning the way Windows treats recycle bins when switching between drives. I first discovered it by accident using flash drives & switching between Seagate External 500 GB drive & flash drives. It appears it can be replicated by removing a drive, then plugging in another without using safe eject. At the time, I was researching how to mod U3 drive space in order to run a customized launchpad, when I discovered it so I wasn't as picky about safe eject use.
This leads to other potential problems such as what happens if other users who are not nearly as savvy as you or I happen to unplug & plug in another drive without using safe eject? I have seen others who do that before I warn them of the potential dangers. If the properties of the 500 GB drive are transferred to the flash drive I just plugged in, what will happen if a user decides to "format" the drive, or even test the "new properties" of the drive, since Windows now treats is as an internal drive instead of removable? Perhaps they would even be able to partition the drive or do other potentially damaging things?
Please be sure a user has a backup before proceeding.
What you are suggesting seems to have been suggested with the best of intent, but appears to be with the capability of causing catastrophic data loss if a user who is inexperienced happens to stumble upon your post.
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Uh...The UAC prompt means "Do you want to give admin rights to this program?". It can't be bypassed - that would render it useless...
I disagree. --> It can't be bypassed - that would render it useless...
Windows has a way to bypass the UAC by going to MSCONFIG & running the script to disable UAC, which takes effect on reboot.
If Windows can so easily disable UAC, why can't malware create a script to imitate/emulate the Microsoft one, & just reboot the PC so they have admin access?
Or is there something I am missing here?
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While I appreciate your answer it has nothing to do with the question the OP was asking about the phyiscal uninstall files and having ccleaner clean them (as it does on xp via "Hotfix installers")
You may edit it out if you wish. I edited my original post. Thank you for pointing out that error. It was originally meant as a reply to assist someone with registry cleaning problems, but when my DSL went out, it caused me to lose track of which one I was writing to at the moment.
Thanks!
): he's straining at gnats (the next exercise is swallowing camels 
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Recommed a UX theme patcher for XP SP3
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Do you mean Flyakite's theme patcher? I used it as well for SP2 & it worked great. I tried to email him about making one for SP3 but he appears to be off the web for now.
Meantime, as I suggested below, if it is an MS theme such as Royal or Zune, it should work with no patching.