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Something I forgot, as in "a portable will not damage system files", well there's portable anti-virus, anti-rootkit, anti-malware, and if they have false positives and someone cleans what's presented to them there's the damage.

Hmm, I must've accidentally clicked the Post button to finish my above post (don't know how). It really freaked me out that your reply was already there when I finally clicked the Post button - must be your time traveling super hero powers at work! Maybe re-read my above post since something inadvertently happened.

These statements on there aren't 100% correct: Sure a 100% true portable won't do that, but some actually will create registry data, and some will create AppData, and some both. That's why I always track the first time usage of portable software using Total Uninstall. Also you can't really trust downloading the "portable" version of some software (lets use "portable" zipped Wise Disk Cleaner & Wise Uninstaller from the official homepage, and the PortableApps.com versions Wise Disk Cleaner Portable & Wise Uninstaller Portable as examples) because the only thing "portable" about them is there's no traditional setup file (well the PortableApps.com packaged versions sort of have a setup file, but it's just a pure SFX). Those mentioned Wise software titles will create registry data (at least one CLSID key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E5B3AA32-A77C-4653-A7B1-1BF3EE35D531}) regardless of how you use the software, and they'll create AppData if you click the button in it titled Assistance - not to pick on Wise software because I actually like it, just using it as an example. As for not remembering settings, some use .INI or .CFG, etc., files to remember your preferences - imagine if a portable web browser didn't remember preferences - well it would be the definition of completely useless. A portable may not damage files on the system, however some may require the installation of some other software just to function which could cause system issues such as; Java, .NET Framework, a scripting language, etc. And again about the registry, some actually create registry data. -------- A good source for finding portable software with user comments letting you know if it's not a 100% true portable is: The Portable Freeware Collection: https://www.portablefreeware.com/ Of course you should already know about PortableApps.com,

It would probably have to be an answer from the developers or bug fixers, however they don't really post on here anymore. You're the first person to even state such a feature to my knowledge and yes it works on older systems (WinXP here), we learn something new. Most people probably never knew it even existed, I certainly didn't and I've been using CCleaner since 2004.

To find out if Check Disk found errors you have to look in the Event Viewer at the log. Although the log still won't give much info that makes much sense if it corrected errors.

If you also use a Chrome/Chromium browser also untick/disable the Compact Databases for it as well. These are located in: Cleaner > Applications Then they're under the browser name at the bottom, example: Firefox

A game console will solve that, although I know if you're primarily a PC gamer then a console won't suffice with things like the lack of settings control, etc.

Perhaps it's the same depending upon the OS (although Windows 10 finishes checking a disk so fast when inside "This PC" I don't know if it's really fully checking the disk when manually started).

One more thing to try is a Modem Reboot, sometimes that will fix web-related issues.

Some anti-tools ("antivirus, anti-malware", etc.,) will sometimes leave some malware traces behind in the registry, doesn't mean the system is still infected but another scanner may find the key and deem the system as infected.

On a Windows Vista a newer OS no a defrag can cause space to mysteriously reduce which is usually because of VSS which is why the Windows defrag/optimize will not attempt to move anything above 64MB. If you look on download sites like Softpedia.com people are always reporting about loosing free disk space when using most defrag tools including Defraggler. Although you had VSS disabled, and no Restore Points (and since Windows will sometimes not obey) give something a try just to see if it works, although it may not work: 1. Make sure VSS is enabled. 2. Create a System Restore Point. 3. Then 3a) delete all Restore Points, and then 3b) make sure VSS is disabled again. Sorry I'm on XP and don't know which order this one should actually be done in. 4. Look at your free space and see if it returned or not. Also don't forget to run the disk error checker ChkDsk, sometimes if there's disk errors that can reclaim space allocated as free You may also want to look at Microsoft's Support site, perhaps they have info on the issue since you used a 3rd party defrag tool.

I won't use it on Win10. On my old XP system I use it all the time, because I know the stuff it's presenting me with, and it's only caused a problem once many years ago but that was because of a file association issue with IrfanView.

I've always like Kaspersky's antivirus products, and at least they aren't prone to as many false positives. The only antivirus I've used in recent years that doesn't produce a ton of false positives is Panda Free Antivirus.

Supposedly Total Defense is by the eTrust EZ Antivirus guys and gals, remember that? Well at least that's the info I saw in a YouTube review of it awhile ago.

There's other videos on YouTube, just search for USB Killer. People had fried the head units in cars, tablets, TVs, phones, etc., with a USB Killer. Those things should be illegal.

I won't be installing WOT again. When something so abusive happens without disclosure it isn't something I would trust, and without it the Internet hasn't blown up and I haven't visited anywhere via a search engine that has nuked my supposedly old "insecure" XP system - yet at least. I was going to try BitDefender Traffic Light, until I read some of the user comments on the Firefox add-on page, but that's been awhile ago, and I've forgotten what they said.

Defraggler has in 'Settings > Options > Advanced' a setting to: Stop VSS when defragmenting NTFS volume. Which most people would want to make sure is enabled to avoid issues. On how to get your free space back hopefully a more modern Windows user than me will chime in with instructions. The only advice I can offer on that is do a reboot if you haven't since the decreasing hard disk space. I know Windows will create some cache or something that eats up a little disk space, that it then releases when rebooting - but I've no idea if that is even a solution.

Don't forget your toast and golden coffee mug!

I got bored last night, and so I tried it. And I didn't need a week to make up my mind! I test on my actual system, I do not use any malware samples, and I don't use any Virtualization software for an antivirus test because in my views it gives a false representation of how an antivirus will work and live sitting alongside other software. I do however have disk images to restore from after the test. They didn't have a trial for Norton Antivirus Basic, the smallest one they offer is Norton Security Deluxe (not what I wanted to test at all I could careless about their firewall that's included). It contains; antivirus, antispam, antispyware, disk defrag/optimizer, disk cleaner, firewall, identity protection, and a browser toolbar (didn't like that, the sneaky basta....). The installation was easy and everything downloaded and installed at a very acceptable speed, and that there was the only good thing about it in my opinion. It's a false positive machine, just like it's been for years! it flags a ton of UPX compressed files (actually according to VirusTotal results allot of av's currently are), and Nirsoft software (gotta feel for the Nirsoft author so many av's falsely detect his useful small tools). It doesn't help when it classifies things as the same type of infection and stating it was first made 1 week ago which wasn't true, and stating only 5 Norton users have the file - when in fact all of the files were several years old with one being nearly 15 years old - it evidently didn't like some of my very old portable legacy audio software. How the system operated I'd compare it roughly to how AVG Free is - a bit bloated (but not the fattest thing around, but still chubby) with some slowdown, although it uses less memory when idle compared to AVG Free. One thing though when in Explorer and single-clicking a small setup file (not running it) it locked my whole system while it was scanning the file, and then it unlocked the system when finished, I didn't like that kind of behavior it seemed as if Windows froze. The Full System Scan scanning speed out of the box was ok at 66 minutes, I was expecting something at the minimum of 90 minutes but I don't think it scans everything in order to achieve the speed - although how it displays the on-going scan makes it look like it would take forever. The quarantine isn't intuitive at all to get falsely detected quarantined files out of it. One would've thought they'd just have something logical like a Delete button and a Restore button in clear sight, but no they had to go and make things complicated since you actually have to double-click upon a quarantined item to get at the Restore option - it becomes a chore too because it immediately scrolls back to the top of the long list which is frustrating with all the false positive quarantines it did. The settings would probably have some inexperienced users going to the support pages to learn what allot of it was mostly due to their trademarked names they use for calling things entirely different when compared to almost all other antivirus. Mostly the default settings don't need to be messed with, especially since it wholly ignores when you set it to Ask Me, it just goes ahead and does whatever it wants anyways without asking you anything, so why have the option. I didn't like all of the settings they have, they literally need to have a toggle button/switch to have the settings be in a Basic form (not showing much since most of it doesn't need messed with), and Advanced (show everything the way it is now by default), or they just need to seriously cut down/dumb it down on having so many settings in my opinion. For me I wouldn't personally buy it, and I'll likely never install their software again.

All I do on it is a once a month maintenance for my mother's Win10 laptop but only when there's a new CCleaner version I use it to: Update CCleaner, look for any newer version of AnyBurn, update Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, update Firefox because she says she keeps mistakenly using Edge. Then run a monthly full scan with Windows Defender (which is getting slower and slower every month), then run a monthly scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and turn it off, and go running back to XP heaven.

I always grab the 720p HD (and rarely the 1080p HD) MP4 extension since the PlayStation 3 which I only use as a video player now plays the videos flawlessly.

It's probably because of VSS which sees a defrag operation as a file change event. I'd suggest reading up on various pages via a search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vss+compatible+defrag In short some defrag tools have to configured and limited to only defrag files up to 64MB, whereas some other people are stating to limit it to 128MB.

I did too about 2 months ago and got a somewhat prompt reply, I asked if they could put info on the site to state which version of Windows it supported, and they did.

Yeah, and there's things like Spybot Anti-Beacon (freeware) from the makers of the anti-malware Spybot - Search & Destroy to immunize the system, and auto-immunize every time the computer starts. It affects Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10.

The only non-adware way I know of that works is a Russian software called YouTube Downloader HD. If you use it I recommend that portable ZIP version found here. Edit: It's also lightweight, doesn't use much RAM or resources at all and just plain works!