Andavari

Since 2019 Automatic Updates has never offered me anymore of the upgrades to the newest OS version (could be something to do with the lack of validation from Acer, or whatever else the cause is why they aren't pushed to my laptop). It would've likely never been offered to me just like v20H2 never was just like what came before it v1909 and v1903 all had to be manually invoked to get those upgrades.

Took 55 minutes from start to finish for me using the Windows 10 May 2021 Update utility. ------------------------------- So far it doesn't look like it broke anything obvious but it did cause some errors that I discovered using command line tools. These by now should be obvious to run after a major update! Repair Disk Errors: 1. In an admin Command Prompt or PowerShell run: ChkDsk /F C: Or whatever the Windows OS drive is. For me it found and corrected Volume Bitmap errors immediately after updating. 2. Restart the PC after running that command line repair tool. Repair Possible Corruption: 1. In an admin Command Prompt or PowerShell run: DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth 2. In an admin Command Prompt or PowerShell run: SFC /scannow v20H2 caused corruption for me and it was the same situation with the current v21H1 which SFC reported that it repaired. 3. Restart the PC after running those two command line repair tools.

It was reported on the news that some gas stations are out of fuel due to people hoarding it. These eerily seems like last year when toilet paper disappeared entirely for a long time due to people hoarding it.

I know about MyDefrag replacing JkDefrag, and being the replacement as a GUI, etc. Although JkDefrag is easy enough to use with a very simple command.

Look for the now discontinued freeware defrag tool called JkDefrag (for a known safe source you could use the files included with JkDefrag Portable from PortableApps.com but not the GUI itself since it won't do what is needed), should still work with Win10 systems. JkDefrag has a commandline option that will force all files together at the beginning of the drive so that you can shrink or partition the drive. Note that doing so will fragment the drive, and also note not all files can necessarily be moved - so make sure you have a disk image backup before messing around with the drive.

I always use PortableApps VLC Portable, which is always a manual download and then install

It almost sounds registry related because Windows stores drive information in the registry, but how it could be correct on two occasions with user accounts and wrong on another is very strange. One thing to try and I haven't the slightest clue if it will make any difference is this: Right click the CCleaner icon and select: Run as administrator

What file system is the SSD formatted with? Is it NTFS, FAT32, or exFAT? If it's not NTFS, then Windows will usually identify an SSD as a Hard Disk Drive ("HDD"). Windows is finicky with what the file system is, for example; Formatting a USB Flash Drive with NTFS can/may/will have it identified in for instance Optimize Drives as a Hard Disk Drive.

They know about items being double listed, it's been reported. Although it is only cosmetic, and doesn't break functionality.

It's a possibility that the antivirus is self protecting itself which is causing the error. Or CCleaner isn't being ran as an administrator. If you are trying to disable or enable the antivirus instead try it using the built in Windows 10 app: Services Start > Run > Services.msc or in Cortana/Search type in: Services Edit: Note that you may have to disable or enable from inside the McAfee app itself, some security software services cannot be disabled outside of the main app such as using CCleaner or the Windows Services app.

If Panda Antivirus is producing a false positive you can report it to them. They will likely want logs or the detected file attached so they can inspect it. The Panda Antivirus official forum is at: https://support.pandasecurity.com/forum/

That's what I was thinking. Just a few weeks ago they showed on TV some Covid research clinic person in an interview, the most interesting thing was the computer monitor in the background which had WinXP on it.

Added: FileKey5 Added because of a Windows Defender bug, in accordance to this topic: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/60418-windows-defender-bug-may-fill-your-hard-drive-with-thousands-of-files/ [Windows Defender *] LangSecRef=3024 Detect=HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Defender FileKey1=%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Network Inspection System\Support|*.txt;NisLog.txt.bak FileKey2=%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\BackupStore|*.*|RECURSE FileKey3=%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\CacheManager|*.*|RECURSE FileKey4=%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\Service|*.log FileKey5=%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\Store|*.* FileKey6=%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\MetaStore|*.*|RECURSE FileKey7=%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\RtSigs\Data|*.*|RECURSE FileKey8=%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Support|*.*|RECURSE

I had 816 files in there using about 5MB. I just manually deleted all of it. It's another reason that Nukecad and I noted in a topic from awhile ago why having Defender cleaners in winapp2.ini can be beneficial to removing allot of accumulation it builds up - but that particular folder isn't cleaned by any winapp2.ini entries to my knowledge. Edit: I'm submitting that folder location to winapp2.ini.

If wanting something "wiped" off the SSD just use Windows built-in Optimize Drives and it will run Trim on the SSD - assuming it's formatted with NTFS, otherwise it will do a regular defrag on it.

It also helps to have a HOSTS file, such as MVPS.org HOSTS File. Note that having a custom HOSTS file can cause Microsoft Windows Defender (if that's the antivirus you use) to have fits.

I'll never use WFS on the Micron 1100 M.2 256GB OEM SSD, especially since works perfectly fine. Now a Windows Full Format is a different story, because two weeks ago my Sk Hynix S31 Gold 2.5 500GB SSD supposedly had a bad sector according to ChkDsk but none of the other disk utilities found anything, and since there's hardly anything on it I cleaned it with DiskPart and then did a Full Format, now ChkDsk doesn't find any bad sectors. Edit: Observation: ChkDsk in Windows 10 v20H2 seems somewhat buggy, and it's the version that found "bad sector" on my Sk Hynix SSD that didn't really exist. With that version of ChkDsk I also have to boot with Installation Media (USB Flash Drive) to properly run ChkDsk on my C:\ drive, otherwise if I don't it will just get stuck at 100% completion.

The way NTFS works (in Windows 10 at least) shocked me the other day, the MFT size is over 511MB on my C:\ drive SSD.

Some anti-malware, anti-spyware, and anti-virus over the years has also used the word "trackers" for cookies and even present it as if they're cleaning some nefarious infection (inflation of a feature/value) - when in fact the PC isn't even infected with anything, and the full system scan would be considered in reality as 100% clean. Wording needs to be considered very carefully so as to not confuse people.

It can break the registry in Windows 10, mostly due to Windows 10 being a constantly changing moving target. Older OSes like Windows XP I've no issue using it, but I do have a large exclusion list.

Maybe re-do the include with sub-folders which would be to delete it in CCleaner, and the configure it again to clean C:\Windows\Temp. I also had that issue many years ago with custom root directory temp folders that I make on every drive such as; C:\Temp, D:\Temp, E:\Temp. A re-do fixed the ability in CCleaner, although it will still sometimes not delete sub-folders and that exists on WinXP and Win10.

The way you've been complaining about it in this topic would make one wonder why do you even bother using it? There's other e-mail programs, or even web-based e-mail.

With all the other companies against it, now there only needs to be some courtroom proceedings to kill it.

+1 It would be so much better not having to even look at those. Although we can sort, but still.

The newest version of SRWare Iron Portable had a Floc folder located inside the Profile folder (...\Profile\Floc), and it contained data. I didn't find anything on their forum to find out if it's enabled or disabled, so I'll just assume it's enabled because it was there.