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My first post of the this topic included use of an url shortener for the full url http://www.magnetfor...f-the-evidence/ : http://.../1brkG7S. It may be that Piriform in fact does not allow use of url shorteners or maybe just bit.ly. When I tried posting this current post I also got the message and I had to change the bit.ly url above (add bit.ly where the 3 dots are). I assumed that url shorteners would be allowed, as they are on most websites, and that the Magnet Forensics site was the problem.

Thanks for your reply, however I knew this. Like I wrote, I have used CCleaner for years and never had this issue before last week. This means that Session was never ticked by default before in earlier versions. I should not have to save session profiles in order to save tabs in Firefox. I repeat that I would like CCleaner to not tick Session in all future versions.

Well, your first sentence is a cop-out. The point of CCleaner and similar products is to get rid of as much as possible. The real question is which product in this class does the best job, and further to know what types of files are not going to be cleaned by which product, and which types can not be cleaned by any product (at the moment). Wondering why Piriform blocks the Magnet Forensics website. Does it have anything to do with the post I referred to above, the title of my first post? Because it has detailed results from what CCleaner removed and what was left after. Maybe other posts on this topic do not have such detailed info, such as which files and types of files were cleaned. I'll try posting a modified link to it (replace the middle 3 dots after www with magnetforensics): http://www.....com/o...f-the-evidence/ It's worth noting that the website staff chose CCleaner only as an example; you might even say it should make Piriform pleased that it's product was chosen.

From the tests run by Magnet forensics using Internet Evidence Finder, it appears that CCleaner could do a better job of cleaning PCs. CC is certainly a good tool, but I'm just suggesting that further effort could be made to improve the cleaning. The article I refer to is worth reading for what CC may not clean, and may never be able to clean, such as RAM, pagefiles, and hibernation files. The article concludes with: "The point of this post is to illustrate that the potential benefits of running a search for Internet related artifacts is well worth the effort, even when you fear they may have been ‘sanitized’." ------- I tried posting a link to the website that did the tests, but Piriform.com does not allow a link to the site. Unfortunate, since readers here should be able to read unbiased reviews of Ccleaner and similar software to be able to understand their limitations. To find the article you can use the topic title.

CC v4.07.4369. Firefox latest version, XPPro. I was very disappointed that all my 20 FFtabs were removed in the latest operation of CCleaner. This has never happened before and I did not know that Session was enabled. I have FF set to Show my windows and tabs from last time. This has always worked, even with FF and Windows crashes, for many years, including years of using CCleaner. Until now. How do I recover the tabs? I suggest in future that you disable this Session option from the default in future versions. If you are not willing to do this, how can I disable it permanently myself? Maybe by using Options - Exclude?

Thank you for your reply. Yes IOLO_SRV is an exe file. If CCleaner did not delete it, can you suggest how it got removed from my system? (XP Home SP3.) Where is the text file saved by CCleaner?

I would have thought there was a file created by CCleaner of deleted items, optional or not. I searched the FAQ and Forum and user guides but surprisingly could not find anything. I specifically now want to find if CCleaner deleted IOLO_SRV, a required file for System Mechanic to operate the System Guard Alerter. This program was working well but now I get missing file error messages if I try to start it. I know that there is disagreement as to whether System Guard Alerter is a good program, but for me it worked fine.