mr don

Sometimes Defraggler seems to do a good job of defragging all the files. Other times, it seems to leave clusters of files scattered everywhere & "Defrag Complete" even when all the files are not consolidated? In addition, the defragment option of moving files over 250 mb to the end of the drive seems not to work that great. Hit & miss. It happens on a clean XP SP2 install with 1024 MB DDR ram, 120 GB HD, 7,200 RPM - 3.2 GHZ dual core. It also seems to happen on friends machines I test. I cannot understand why sometimes it does great! Then other times, it leaves files fragmented & having all over the drive? Why does it refuse to consolidate files & free space at times, leaving blocks here or there that are not part of the MFT or other "unmovable" files? Why does selecting or de-selecting the 250 MB to the end of the drive option seem sometimes to have little effect. In fact, after running that, then switching back to normal & unchecking the option, it seems to defrag the exact same way as though I never ticked or unticked anything at all! Anyone else have these problems? It is not the antivirus, have AVG 9. I am not using any disk locking tools, or encryptions, or even password protected account that I am testing this on! P.S. Why does it sometimes take it hours to "defrag" 800 MB on a fast machine with a brand new fast hard disk? It shouldn't take that long, right? You can copy files from one partition or drive to another & it takes minutes! Should it be that long for a few files to be "defragged" on a drive with 70% free space?

Try using Recuva with the option Deep Scan enabled. If this fails, try going to http://www.handyrecovery.com/ and using the freeware they have, version 1 to see if it can see it. The versions 3 & 4 are lots more powerful but require $$$ payment.

Handy Recovery undeletes files, including those from password protected user accounts on XP & Vista. It is payware though, but if you have the full version, it works really well. It structures the results exactly the same as you would have seen the folder trees if they had not been deleted. You can restore using folder structure on there as well as preview pics before recovery. In addition, you can drill down & right click a folder to recover & only select that folder if you wish. Or, select multiple folders. It can also scan for deleted partitions & try to find those as well. It is one of the best programs I have tried so far, although Recuva does keep improving. It would be nice to see Recuva implement folder recovery in the future, as well as partition recovery, or at least the option to scan for deleted partitions, then recover files from deleted partitions, even if it did not restore them! http://www.handyrecovery.com/ is the website for it. If you want to buy it, you will not regret it, I assure you.

I have a 250 GB drive that had hundreds of pics on it. I had accidentally deleted the partition before I backed up the pics, even though I already had the music & vids off of it. Then, I created a 50 gig partition, & 200 gig partition that I formatted under windows management tools before realizing what I had lost. I then went back, deleted both partitions, recreated the single large partition, & formatted it. Under regular scan, Recuva found nothing, but when I enabled deep scan in options, & I also enabled restore folder structure so that if any pics were the same name in a different folder that they would not be overwritten, then I was able to recover them all. Windows doesn't overwrite files when formatting, even in a long format it just uses the "long" format to check for bad sectors that it has trouble reading or writing from & marks them bad. So the references to the files are removed. Running Recuva in deep scan mode can take over an hour, or even several hours depending on processor speed, speed of the harddisk, & harddisk size. But it was worth it, because I got every one of them back. P.S. It is easier to wade through the results it gives you, if you click the top bar to sort by folder name, then recover all those you needed that were in the "My Pictures" or other folders you had pics in. This way, you can be sure you get all the pics from that folder, instead of a nit picking here or there! In addition, its far easier to click your left mouse button on the beginning pic, then drag the slider down (or middle mouse roll it down) till you reach the end of the folder & pics you want to recover. Then, hold down shift, & click the ending pic. Right click the highlighted area & choose "Recover highlighted". For best results, please recover to another drive so you do not run the risk of over-writing any files that are still deleted before they get a chance to be recovered!

This can happen on install. After install, open Recuva, then go to the options button. Under the general tab, select the language you want & click ok.

This can happen if you have bad sectors on a harddisk. Run MS checkdisk to repair errors & bad sectors. Go to start, run, & paste in chkdsk C:/r then hit enter. Or select another drive letter if it isn't C: After you run this, at least we can eliminate the bad sector issue. Also, instead of searching for all content types, try doing it a few types at the time. For example, try searching pics, then docs, then vids, to get an idea what it is locking up on. I have had success in only recovering 1 type at the time, when trying to scan for everything failed! I was able to get an idea where it was hanging up on. This way, you could potentially hit cancel if nothing else works, then after a min or so at 98 or 99%, try hitting cancel & see if all the files it finds are in the list? If this STILL doesn't work, try finding a drive at least as large as yours, run a hex dump image of the entire drive (exact clone) to another disk, then see if it is recoverable! P.S. Always recover to another drive so the data you are recovering doesn't chance being over-written by the data you are un-deleting!

In the latest version of Recuva, it recovers BMP files fine, but the preview pane shows them in inverted colors? Whereas JPG looks the same in preview and after being recovered! P.S. This is on XP PRO - SP2 1 GB DDR ram, 80 GB harddisk, P4 3.2 GHZ dual core, 128 MB onboard video mem, DX 9.0 with a clean install of Recuva (other version is totally & completely removed (yes, I checked the program folder after uninstalling).

The new version is meant so be simplified. The results are grouped. If it was cleaned by firefox, it will be under the firefox icon, & if by internet explorer, it will be by internet explorer. You can of course, view all the results same as always, by double clicking any of the results to open the full details. Thank you!

I think he means shut down the pc, not the program.

Why would you need this feature, anyway? CCleaner only takes seconds to run on my computer. What is say, 5 seconds or less? Can't wait for 5 seconds? Gee, isn't that impatient?

A much better option would be to just add the ability to hide the startup items you know you will need. This will prevent you from seeing them in the future, & hence from having to decide why you disabled it, etc, etc. They could add a .ini file that would be generated automatically in the program folder if you decided to hide certain startup items that you knew you always will be using! Not hide from windows loading, hide from ccleaner cleaning. But then, this could present a problem cleaning certain malwares from machines if they added the ability to hide items, then someone hid a ton of them, & YOU had to clean it up.

This is not used in CCleaner, because if it were, CCleaner would scan for example, all .tmp files. It sound great, but I have a few programs, i-photo plus 4 is one of them, that uses .tmp for calendar templates. If CCleaner scanned for all .tmp files, it would also remove those & make that program stop working with calendars! This is why I switched to CCleaner earlier, because it is safe, & only cleans what it needs to. Sure, Wise Disk cleaner & a lot of others do scan for "junk" files, but sometimes those "junk" files just so happen to be something you need for some program to run, and when it DOES remove them, so also will your program mess up that depended on that file! While cleaning a lot of junk IS important, it is just as important to be a SAFE cleaner!

Nice suggestion, but seeing how small CCleaner is, is it really that much trouble to download the slim version at less than 1 mb? Also, firefox may retain some older style features in the program file folder until you delete it & reinstall from scratch. Leave your profile folder though. I noted this from upgrading from 3 to 3.5. Sure, it updated security & a few features, but I noted that some were not there till I did the complete install, not the update. Seeing as CCleaner is packaged as a single EXE, even if it did get updated in this way, it would have to update the entire EXE all over again. CCleaner goes through a lot of changes both cosmetically, & functionally, so it is much better that they do it just like they are doing now. Just be sure to check back every few months or so. The latest version is really quite good. Sure, the newer versions will always get better, but you can live with the older versions if you have to on a pinch, because they are stable, fast, work great. Just update now & then & you will be fine!

Recuva is very clean, easy, simple to use. It works fine when it can see a drive. It always seems able to see a drive, but sometimes a drive has 2 or even 3 partitions. Is there a way to add partition finding & recovery? Have seen some drives with gigs of files that Recuva totally misses because it cannot see the partition if they get "lost". Recuva works fine on most drives, but ones that lose a partition, how can it recover the data if it doesn't even see the lost partition? Any chance of adding a feature to scan for lost partitions & then recovering data from the partition you choose? Thanks!

Defraggler is nice, no doubt. What about the option to schedule a quick instead of a full defrag? Thanks!

You might have noticed that it takes a while to reach from 0 to 1% & that in the same manner, reaching "100%" may actually take a bit to complete. It could, for instance, be working on the 100th percent point, but that point could be rather large depending on files on the drive & size of the drive. Put it this way, it will take far longer for Defraggler to finish 1% of a 1,000 mb file than 1% of a 100mb file. In a 100 mb file, 1% is 1mb while it is 10 in a 1,000 mb file! It is easy to see now, with some drives stretching into the trillions of bytes how 1% can really be a huge number of files!

I am a bit disappointed in Recuva! It failed on a laptop recovery job. Handy Recovery was able to pull off the job though! The laptop had "lost" the NTFS partition but Handy Recovery was able to scan for & present these for recovery purposes! In addition, Handy Recovery seems able to strip all password protection off "protected" XP or Vista logins. This is way cool because some people forget, or can't access their "dead" drive due to corrupted software... Recuva can do well on drives it recognizes, but what about on drives it CAN'T see the partition? Is it possible to add the ability to scan for deleted or lost partitions & then run the recovery on the selected partition? Also, can you add the ability to strip password encryption from "locked" user accounts like in Handy Recovery? This is very important for me, as I HAVE to be able to recover files for people who otherwise would be locked out of their own machines due to malware infestations or viruses, or even older windows installs that "conk" out on them, leaving them with no way to access their data! I look forward to your replies & I do check out every update you all make!

You are wanting the option to delete items as normal, but just send it all to the recycle bin. This is not very feasible. Imagine if they did this multiple times, or horrors, had a bug that re-sent what they just sent to the recycle bin BACK to the recycle bin another time & just wasted space? Trash in duplicity form. I am sure you can see how terrible this could get & lead to more problems than it would solve!

http://www.freewarefiles.com/screenshot.php?programid=42761 Please note the above screenshot of Argente Uninstaller. If you have any "invalid" uninstallers, it marks them with a red X instead of a green checkmark so you know which ones to just straight up delete the uninstall entry to instead of attempting to uninstall. CCleaner uninstaller is very handy, don't get me wrong, & it is lightning fast. But how can I tell which ones may be broken uninstallers (IE, someone deleted the program folder, so it is left unable to uninstall, etc) It seems to be a good feature that saves a lot of time because you would be surprised how many broken uninstallers end up on people's pc's, but you wasted that time to try the uninstaller, it didn't work, so now you got to go back & delete it. Any chance to add this feature to CCleaner in the future? Lastly, MSI based installers "appear" to be gone when you try to delete them, but they don't delete but self repair their entry! Any way to make a version of CCleaner that also hides entries that you just want the uninstaller to be hidden? Thanks!

Try these things. - Download Nirsoft's startup run & disable (not delete) all startup items you don't need & BHO you don't need, then reboot. - Go to C:/Program Files/CCleaner & delete everything in that folder. CCleaner installs usually leave remnants of previous versions in that folder. - Install the latest CCleaner. - Go to http://www.abexo.com/free-registry-cleaner.htm & get their free registry cleaner. It is the safest reg cleaner I have used, allow it to make a backup, & let it remove all it finds. The backup will come in handy if you have problems, but Abexo is tops on their free cleaner. - Install the latest CCleaner, but UNCHECK the boxes for check for update & install CCleaner toolbar. Running Abexo Registry Cleaner will remove entries referring to older versions of CCleaner. Doing the above steps before installing the latest CCleaner ensures that no older version is left to cause conflicts or problems. Let me know how it runs afterwards.

I love the first idea the most. Wish we had that!

I agree. While win 95/98/me had mem problems, XP and Vista may not have so many mem problems. For people still using win 95/98/me & low amounts of mem, this would be nice to have. Of course, it would be nicer still if they just upgraded to a better PC, because using older OS is a risk of losing data because of dangers of crosslinked files and not running things in seperate mem spaces.

Windows would include system files, programs, and other things. Even important programs. Windows would use number of times or frequency of access to determine if you used anything. What happens if you didn't use CCleaner for a month, and it was included in the "unused", or windows media player, etc. This is not a good idea!

1) CCleaner does this on reboot since it cannot when windows is using them and has them locked. Windows creates blank new index files however. 2) New folders are annoying, but deleting them all would risk that someone actually has something in them. A friend of mine uses them for dvd vids for example. 3) You can uncheck these, then select for CCleaner to save all options to a .ini file. Copy the folder to a flash drive to use portably. 4. See #3

You are right. I hear Windows 7 is just a fast version of Vista mostly. I still like XP. It is fast, simple, and stable. No problems!