Andavari
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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.
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It's also lightweight, doesn't use much RAM or resources at all and just plain works!
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It won't be anything soon though because I'd need a solid week to test it - that is if it doesn't immediately put me off.
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Want to be horrified by a device that looks like an innocent USB Thumb Drive, then look at this YouTube video titled "This will kill your computer":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pP8TLwO_Ks
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I gather you had tried Norton at some point in the past and was not too pleased.
It's been 17 years since I bought a copy on Amazon and that year 2000 version other than messing up the system clock by changing the time was exceptionally good in my opinion and well worth the money, things later on changed as we all know.
Fast forward a few years later and it was the "free" add-on from my ISP, installed it, and rather immediately got rid of it. Supposedly they've gotten their act together the past few years, and there's only one way to find out and that's a trial.
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I have back when they were relatively new a few years ago, they used to be good but now it's an adware minefield so I would completely avoid them.
All of their software runs extremely heavy on a system with high resources which will tax a system and your system fan(s) will be screaming loudly to cool your CPU, even their video downloader has the same results which I don't understand whereas it's sort of understandable for their video converter since that is a system taxing process but still very heavy running programs.
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I forgot to mention I also disabled Security Center from warning me about Automatic Updates being turned off.
Malwarebytes will want to remove that disable since malware can also do the same, it see's it as threat so I have to exclude it in Malwarebytes since I myself did the system modification.
This is what I did maybe different in Vista though, I'm not for sure, but I get no warnings from Security Center:
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Is there a reason why you haven't tried another free antivirus that runs on XP?
Yes, there's always a reason specifically performance related or bug related issues, while Panda has bugs they're less of a problem than I've had with other free av's. Specifically:
* Avast - incompatible with the Sentinel HASP License Manager which is required to run an expensive software on my machine. Install Avast with Sentinel HASP License Manager also installed and enjoy an unbootable into normal mode system (safe mode works to uninstall Avast however), been that way since 2007 I think.
* Avira - incompatible with XP.
* AVG - heavy and my system doesn't hasn't liked it since 2012, and I agree with my system I don't like it either.
* Comodo Cloud - Looked very promising, too good to true however since it has constant issues connecting to the "cloud", wait forever performing that first time scan which seemingly never ends as the "cloud" connection fails over and over, and trying to uninstall it like all Comodo security software is nearly impossible without a disk image to restore from.
I'm actually tempted to give Norton Antivirus Basic a trial run (oh I must be very ill to even think of going that route, but it's true).
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Monitoring.
Look in CCleaner in: Options > Monitoring
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OS: Windows 7 Home Premimum x-64
What is the entry that behaves like the Windows XP Shellbags but for Windows 7 machines? IOWs to remove folder customizations please?
I thought those thinking they were "Cached Shell Extensions" were requested for removal from winapp2.ini not too long ago, but I could be wrong.
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Problem is if it's a separate program that is installed with a game an uninstaller tool isn't going to be able to also remove it along with uninstalling the game in one go - they'd need to have separate uninstall programs with them.
One suggestion is to install an installation watching program; i.e.; Total Uninstall (there's a Last Freeware Version, but it might not work correctly on modern Windows OSes), ZSoft Uninstaller (freeware), etc., there's other freeware tools that do the same. You'd run the built-in uninstaller from Windows Add/Remove (or whatever it's called nowadays), then you'd have Total Uninstall, ZSoft Uninstaller, etc., remove the left-overs using them. Never use such tools to uninstall drivers however as they will cause only problems that may cripple the system.
Or do your software installs and uninstalls with something like the paid version of Revo Uninstaller Pro, it can watch installations and then later uninstall them. Again I wouldn't recommend uninstalling drivers with it!
If you wish to do everything the freeware route you can do software uninstalls with Revo Uninstaller Free, but it won't know exactly what was done during install it's more a look for left-overs and it may miss some things but it's better than using the Windows Add/Remove which never looks for left-overs.
Here's how I do it for free in this precise order from install to uninstall (not with drivers however I only use Windows Add/Remove for drivers):
1. Total Uninstall (Last Freeware Version), pre-scans the system before an install.
2. Install the software. Use the software for several minutes so it creates settings, and possibly junk files like logs, etc.
3. Return to Total Uninstall (Last Freeware Version), it now scans the system for differences after the install.
Should I want to uninstall the program:
1. Uninstall with Revo Uninstaller Free. And reboot if necessary.
2. Total Uninstall (Last Freeware Version), using the saved scanning results I have it remove all known left-overs.
Note this is not a 100% guaranteed way to remove everything, still some manual removal is necessary depending upon the program that was uninstalled such as antivirus, etc.
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Panda has more bugs and issues, note that some of them may be XP specific.
Panda Protection (aka "Panda Free Antivirus") version 18.0.1 has some serious issues that aren't immediately obvious since you really have to use it on your computer for a few days or weeks for them to become something you'll notice. For instance the .EXE file for the GUI which I think is PSUAConsole.exe takes forever to load and it has allot of silent crashing/hanging and will sometimes cause the computer to freeze/lock for several minutes while Windows restarts the service or program, and this info is only found out when looking at the Windows Event Viewer logs.
When I had the buggy version 18.01 installed I posted on their forums these annoying bugs listed here. Yesterday I found another USB related bug where it wouldn't let Paint.net and Microsoft Paint communicate with my scanner, I had to disable the real-time protection to scan an image, having to disable the real-time protection to do something was becoming a very regular task. So being fed up and tired of dealing with issues specifically with PSUAConsole.exe I used my disk image from about 3-4 weeks ago that had Panda v17.0.1 already installed. Although 17.0.1 has bugs itself there's just less bugs in it on my XP system.
In my experience Panda is an every other version antivirus, meaning one version will work good on my system and the very next version is rather unusable. If/when they release a version 19 and if it's still XP compatible I'll try it but until then I'm sticking with 17.0.1. I've been thinking of finding an old version of Avira maybe 14 or a very early compatible version 15 and disabling the program updates in it and only allowing definition updates, however I'll keep thinking about that a bit longer.
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Thank you for explaining the Wi-Fi issue. I thought my modem was dying again because it exhibited the exact same behaviour as it did about 1 year ago even on a wired connection when attempting to access something online boom the connection was dead and I was doing numerous daily modem reboots.
Where I live a modem usually only lasts 1-2 two years anyways do to all the thunderstorms and power outages that I think kills a modem which is why I will only rent them from my ISP who will promptly send a replacement in about 2 days instead of paying $100 or more for them to only have to re-buy them again in 1-2 years.
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I have win updates disabled on the xp machine that I keep running.
On this old XP box I went one step further:
Administrative Tools > Services > Automatic Updates (I set it to Disabled)
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Since you have Norton installed, in that first screenshot you supplied you need to right-click everyone of those entries and select to Exclude them - they're a part of your installed security therefore they shouldn't be removed.
And the Yahoo search entry; if you didn't specifically set that yourself as the default you could've installed some "free" software that set it as the default search engine since allot of installs (with adware in them) will want to change your default homepage and search engine to something else.
Make sure it isn't malware:
Please read item number 10 titled "10: Giving advice on Malware Removal" in the forum rules located here, and choose any one of the forums/sites listed in it. Those forums/sites can determine if your system is infected with malware or not. Hopefully it isn't malware, however it's better to find out even if your system comes back as clean since something malicious could be causing the issue, and it really does seem rather strange that two completely different web browsers are having issues on your Win10 system.
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Did you have any of the secure delete options on?
Did you have Wipe Free Space on?
If so, and since it's the first time you've ever used CCleaner on a 7 years old PC then it could take a very long time to cleanse out old temporary files, etc.
If that was the first time your computer has had any serious amount of cleaning, now you'll probably need to defragment your hard disk(s).
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How is it supposed to show you something if nothing exists? Well in theory.
It's completely different if it's however mapped to a folder location that is static and isn't always changing which has a file in it that always gets created such as:
If it was told to look in "%UserProfile%\Desktop\Temp1" for the file "ScannedImage-1.jpg" (assuming your scanner always created such an image) then it would having something to display.
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When I went to update it on my mother's Win10 laptop today 4/3/2017 something immediately killed the wireless connection, and there shouldn't have been any wireless connection issues because the laptop was about 12 inches away from the modem in clear sight.
I rebooted the modem, and the laptop, and then manually initiated a Windows Defender update and it updated to 4/1/2017 - well that beats the 3/23/2017 definitions she had on it which were 10 days old. She told me just install another antivirus on it, I told her to just wait and see what Microsoft does first before trying something else.
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Avira Free Antivirus if that's what you meant to type instead of "Avari" doesn't work on XP anymore. Sure you can grab an old version online and allow it to update the program via updates but it will cause random system freezing after a program update it had in August 2016. It actually worked alright for 1 or 2 years after they officially ended support for XP, but not anymore.
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If you're using Defraggler only and not using Windows to optimise your disk at all then disabling the one built into Windows will allow Defraggler to operate without having to constantly undo what Windows does.
Actually it's like that with any defrag software they often do not complement each other at all and will only undo what each other have did since they each have their own algorithms.
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maybe they have installed/changed some component before they should have.
You'd think if it was pre-loaded on the machine waiting for the install date it would just be dormant and not cause any issues. If it is .NET Framework causing you issues a clean install of the OS would fix it, unfortunately the issues may return in the future. It's one reason I don't miss Windows Updates at all on this old unsupported XP machine.
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I remember an antivirus from years past (WinXP era and newer) where any logging off, and then a logon would cause it's SysTray icon near the clock to completely disappear. I can't remember if it was Avira or not but the solution was to always restart the computer. Other antivirus' can also have that behavior without CCleaner being the culprit, however you've tested it to be caused by CCleaner.
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Piriform is aware of the bug(s). Hopefully when they release CCleaner v5.29 it will be fixed, but all we can do is hope and we all have to wait and see if it is fixed.
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can`t you ask developers about it directly?
A bit of a late reply!
Moderators on here are all volunteers, the developers do not converse with us directly.
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There's the .NET Framework Cleanup Tool - it's a sort of last resort so if you decide to use it first make a full system image before using it. I don't believe it will let you uninstall a version of .NET Framework that was pre-installed on the OS, so if you have an OS pre-installed version that's went corrupt the only fix may be to restore Windows after you've exhausted "possible fixes."
I only mention it because a few years ago that was the only way I could get .NET Framework to start updating properly again, i.e.; I had to uninstall every version .NET Framework Cleanup Tool allowed me to, and then install the versions of .NET Framework my system needed to run installed software. Using the .NET Framework Cleanup Tool didn't damage any of the software installations I had, however with Win10 your experience may be different if you use it.
You already tried the Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool (another link for it here). From my experience depending upon the damage and possibly the age of damage it may not help. I think the issue is there's so many security patches for .NET Framework that it just gets corrupted eventually. I'm surpised Microsoft hasn't made something like the .NET Framework Cleanup Tool themselves that allows a full uninstall of problematic versions so that end-users can reinstall it to have a working version.
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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.