Hmm

I mentioned FF synching above, it doesn't synch your themes and layout but does keep the tweaks

Thanks for moving to it's own thread and providing links to a few other previous threads. This issue is something very new, within the last few months that's been happening. I reviewed the above links and they seem to be from around 2016- 2019. Interestingly, they seem to have a commonality: Windows 10. A few months ago, I performed a fresh and new Windows installation, back to Windows 10 from Windows 11. I didn't experience this with Windows 11 which I stayed with more than 2 years. As I mentioned, when it does happen it's quite random and the interval is the same as before in terms of giving Firefox time to close completely. Anyway, this is more of minor annoyance than anything. I'm not going to uninstall/reinstall Firefox because unlike Chrome, it doesn't restore all your settings including themes like Chrome synch does. I now think this might be related to Windows 10 too.

Same problem here. I was about to make a new post about it. I am getting the false positive error that FF is open and asking my permission to close before [manual] cleaning. FF including other Mozilla service are not running as I have verified within TaskManager and Process Hacker. I have everything on manual, no updater, no smartcleaning. I use Custom Clean. Also, the last time FF was updated for me was on April 2. The issue happened moments ago. This isn't a major problem, just a minor annoyance which started happening a few CCC versions ago. I'm using W10.

Necroposting? I have Office 365 installed and have for a few years now. The OP and others need to learn how to format their posts better. It's hard to read and understand their problem when everything is crammed together. They should use [multiple] paragraphs to separate their points and make it easier for others to help them. Anyway, maybe lock this thread? @nukecad

Just an update. I realized what's going on. I unticked IE for cleaning to speed up the process. I went ahead and enabled the settings for IE cleaning (there's no IE in Windows 11) and now it's cleaning fine. But if I run analyze again, this nasty file keeps on being shown and like a Zombie, you can kill it but it keeps coming back: --- C:\Users\MYPC\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Low\SuggestedSites.dat 5,121 KB

@hazelnut That's awesome. It's an unusual place for sure, but at least I now know where to look. Thank you!

It seems CCleaner has followed the old trend started around 20 years ago with light and thin colored fonts which make it ridiculously difficut to read . There is ample evidence and literature this is not only aesthetically unpleasant but also hard on one's eyes. To further add insult, the site won't let you log-in if you use an adblocker/anti-fingerprinting extensions.

One of the main cookies which remain is assets.msn.com I have to manually delete it after scanning and then analyzing.

I'd suggest otherwise. This is a terrible change. Who asked for this? Clearly not the real users, but some developers who don't seem to care about our user experience. And what's up with all the cookies on the support page? I think a vote/poll on this would be prudent Maybe then they will see how unpopular this is. And how do we contact these developers anyway? I feel they need to hear from us loud and clear. We are the ones who use their product regularly and it seems they don't.

Wow, you must have a lot of patience to put up with that nag screen. It's like having a fly buzzing around your ear every time you use CC. And don't get me started on the name change. Crapcleaner was way more catchy and honest back in the day. You should demand better from a program that you've been loyal to for so long. Don't settle for crap, literally.

It's always a good idea to include the link when referring to another topic :)

I just got it today...I use constantly use CC and it never happened until now. How frustrating. Let's hope the developers prioritize this bug and provide an update/fix.

The cookies don't show up during "analysis" but do when manually selecting cookies in CC. I haven't seen this issue crop up in quite some time. But it's back. I suspect the cookies are Edge Cookies (using W11 Pro). I also use FF and Chrome.

I should add (can't edit after the fact) that on average, cleaning is around 7+ seconds. Even the analysis time varies despite no changes which again seems to be pointing to Windows itself.

I agree with you. Windows Security/Defender does slow things down in general and it's becoming worse it seems. The "best" speed I now can attain is 3.88 seconds with IE cleaning disabled. Still slow compared to before.