Andavari
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See if anything in here helps:
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I've moved your post here into it's own unique topic since it had nothing to do with the topic you originally posted it into.
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When my mother's Win10 system was doing exactly as you described it during startup it turned out she needed a different graphics driver installed from Dell and not what Automatic Updates incorrectly put on her system. Win10 really shouldn't automatically install drivers, it's just asking for serious problems!
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I'm surprised the Avast browser even works in XP, and it must be rather old or they've enabled something to allow it to function because Chrome/Chromium stopped XP support with v50 I think.
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Anyone concerned about privacy ought to think again about installing Avast or AVG, and go with something different.
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CCleaner has issues with duplicate naming.
I ran into that two days ago when I switched my own personal Firefox Portable cleaners to be Firefox ESR Portable.
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There's no need to rehash this since there was a recent topic about it located here:
https://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=47862
Continue the discussion in the previous topic!
This topic is closed.
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Probably not too much different than other AV vendors supplying their own build of a browser. I know 360 Total Security does it, as does Avira, and Comodo. Although I think Comodo was one of the first.
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Does panda still update their old anti-virus? The name change looks good though.
If someone has an older version like 17.0.1 it can still access the Cloud for protection, it's what I was using yesterday, although I don't know about older than 17.0.1 versions.
And the name change is well confusing, because they call it two different things in 18.0.1:
The shortcuts and folders created by the installation and within the program itself are called Panda Protection -- that is until clicking the My Products button on the main GUI it then states "Activated license Panda Free Antivirus."
They need to figure out exactly what they want to call it instead of constantly changing the name, they really should chose something and stick with it so they aren't confusing people. It would also help if they had it as a visible download on their website because it's nowhere to be found, and has to be downloaded from a site like Softpedia or FileHippo.
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It does look for Firefox cookies in your Firefox profile folder.
However those aren't the only types of cookies and sometimes CCleaner has been known to state there's cookies but they're impossible for an end-user to find.
Cookies can also be set by Adobe Flash Player using an LSO ("Flash cookie"). To clean Adobe Flash Player cookies make sure you enable the cleaner for Adobe Flash Player in CCleaner.
Then there's also Supercookie, Zombie cookie, and Evercookie.
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The few times I have used restore points for others, I reckon about half the time they fail, so have always figured them almost useless and no match for a tested backup regime.
I think I've used it maybe six times to attempt a "restore" and you're right it does fail half the time making it absolutely useless and untrustworthy. Or worse you think it will undo something for you but for whatever stupid reason what you're trying to undo gets put right back onto the system, as if it had incrementally added it into the restore point.
Trying to restore from a Restore Point fails so often the feature really shouldn't be relied upon by anyone in my opinion, because relying upon it means it won't be of any help at some point when you really need it - just rely upon disk imaging software instead.
That's why I have ERUNT automatically create a daily registry backup, and then I make sure I have a current disk image if I've made significant enough changes, to me significant enough changes means it will take me fifteen or more minutes to undo something or reinstall something, etc., i.e.; it only takes Macrium Reflect a mere five to six minutes to backup my OS drive and then another two or three minutes to verify it (so that's a max of nine minutes) and I can often restore from a disk image significantly faster than trying to fiddle around fixing or undoing something.
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That's why I removed the link mta, it was a whole article then the "solution" was that supposed program which seemed spammy to me, hence the URL link removal.
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I've often seen on various websites over the years to not allow Firefox to remember logins and passwords, but to instead use an external program for it.
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You gave an answer to a topic nearly three years old. Your link was removed, and this topic is closed.
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The more you use your computer the less of a chance your file will be intact, however give this a try, it will forgo the hours long scanning you previously experienced:
1. Start Recuva.
2. In the Recuva Wizard select All Files and click Next.
3. Now select In a specific location and click Browse.
4. In the Browse window click the Desktop icon at the top, click OK, and click Next.
5. Now click Start.
Important: If it finds your document do not restore it onto the hard disk you're attempting to restore it from as doing so has the potential to overwrite the original file, instead have it restore to an external media such as a USB Thumb Drive, Portable USB Hard Disk, Floppy, etc.
If it doesn't find your document do the following using a Deep Scan:
1. Start Recuva.
2. In the Recuva Wizard select All Files and click Next.
3. Now select In a specific location and click Browse.
4. In the Browse window click the Desktop icon at the top, click OK, and click Next.
5. Now tick the box in the middle of the Recuva window that reads Enable Deep Scan. Note: This will significantly increase the scanning time, however it may be able to find your document.
6. Now click Start.
Important: If it finds your document do not restore it onto the hard disk you're attempting to restore it from as doing so has the potential to overwrite the original file, instead have it restore to an external media such as a USB Thumb Drive, Portable USB Hard Disk, Floppy, etc.
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I'd probably choose a completely new and different password in the event that forum was hacked and your password was changed that way.
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Firefox has a bug with some HTTPS sites such as giving a warning and can't load them like the Slax Linux site where it states the certificate was revoked and whatnot where as a Chrome-based browser loads it fine. Unfortunately for those sites another browser has to be used.
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MVPS.org HOSTS file updated 6 March 2017.
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Also if you have another defrag program running automatically such as the one built into Windows it can undo what Defraggler did without you even knowing it happened because it does so in the background. Therefore when you run Defraggler again it has to undo what the Windows defrag did, and since Defraggler is rather thorough it can take a long time to complete. It's because of different algorithms used in different defrag tools, i.e.; how they defrag and determine file placement.
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CCleaner Free doesn't clean multiple user profiles, it only cleans the profile it is ran from.
To clean multiple profiles in one go (versus logging into each profile individually to run CCleaner) you'd need to purchase a license for CCleaner Professional. You can see the differences between Free vs Pro here, I think what they mean by "Complete Cleaning" in the chart means it will clean all user profiles.
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Make sure when you enable it to run on startup that you're doing so as an administrator or make sure your account at least has administrator privileges so that it can write the required registry setting needed to allow it to clean on startup.
Optionally:
If that doesn't work there's a different way to make it work:
1. Copy the CCleaner shortcut from the desktop and paste it into the Startup folder located in the Start Menu, and then rename that copied shortcut to something else like CCleaner Auto.
Screenshot example made in Wndows XP (click to enlarge):
2. Right click the newly copied shortcut and select Properties, you'll see the Target path pointing to CCleaner.exe, example:
"C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCleaner.exe"
Change the Target path by pasting /AUTO at the end of it, example:
"C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCleaner.exe" /AUTO
To test it log off Windows, then logon, you should see the CCleaner icon briefly display in the systray near the clock while it's cleaning.
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There are some instances when you may not want it to run, such as if an installation has to continue after a system restart. To manage if it's enabled or disabled to run on startup you can do this via CCleaner itself by going into:
Tools > Startup > Windows
Then you can either Disable, or Enable if needed.
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You may need to run CCleaner first to remove junk files which can help speed up a defrag.
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If you know what the format the videos were encoded as, what I mean is the exact Video format and Audio format input those into Avidemux and try to resave to a brand new video file again - doing this means it's just re-muxing the file or copying it to a new file with the required header for software and hardware to know how to play the video.
If that fails try do a full re-encode with Avidemux. If it still gives you nothing but errors you might very well be out of luck, as in the file is truly corrupt or not usable for fixing or re-encoding.
However there's a host of video editors out that, where one might fail another with a pinch of luck might not - but you may not be able to get the whole video file back.
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I don't know what you meant by remove FK1
FK1 probably means FileKey1.
An instance where spelling it out would've caused no guess work or confusion.
Ccleaner don't wipe all of the cookies
in CCleaner Bug Reporting
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You can wipe them in Chrome itself or as you're also doing using SuperAntiSpyware.
If you don't want allot of those cookies in the first place you can benefit from using a HOSTS file that blocks ad servers, such as the MVPS HOSTS File located here:
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
And if things still get through install an adblocker in your web browser, such as uBlock Origin.