Andavari
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They should honor exclusions regardless of the mode selected. I'd personally like the ability to completely hide things from view in the GUI I'll never use like Health Check, etc., that way it won't be accidentally clicked. Sort of a CCleaner classic!
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Try right clicking the CCleaner icon and choose: Run as administrator
See if that works.Sometimes when CCleaner can't clean something that "may work", but not always.
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Most of what's listed under 'Advanced' can be left alone, especially things like Windows Event Logs I'd personally never clean since that can give a clue to what's wrong with a PC.
One thing in 'Advanced' that helps is when you've manually configured CCleaner in 'Options > Include' to delete a particular file or contents of a folder (such as: C:\Temp, or a software that isn't already cleaned by CCleaner, etc.,). Then under 'Advanced' you'd have to enable/tick 'Custom Files and Folders' otherwise it wouldn't clean your manually configured Include.
It's worth looking at the Docs site for more detailed info:
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My thinking is (without actually trying it) is there's something with the OEM installation that is perhaps causing it, and a fresh install could possibly fix it - that's a big guess. One of these days I might actually get around to doing a clean install, but not today.
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If you're using Custom Clean as detailed in the provided link above you can actually force CCleaner to never touch anything in your Firefox Profile. To do that you'd need to input an Exclude of the folder/path where your Firefox Profile resides.
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2 hours ago, hazelnut said:
Why did you use the Update utility you linked to instead of Windows Update (just wondering)
That is for the 10th May update plus anything after it.
The 21H1 update itself is just a couple of minutes long and turns on features downloaded in previous updates.
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.
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Took 55 minutes from start to finish for me using the Windows 10 May 2021 Update utility.
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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 /Restorehealth2. In an admin Command Prompt or PowerShell run:
SFC /scannowv20H2 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.
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On 11/05/2021 at 23:42, hazelnut said:
Some US gas stations start to run dry as large queues (and prices) build up
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.
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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.
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5 hours ago, philjans said:
really needed!
I am trying to shink my hdd and I need those files at the begining not the end of the drive!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.
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I always use PortableApps VLC Portable, which is always a manual download and then install
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6 hours ago, waitey said:
Furthermore, the Laptop has two user accounts, and on one account CCleaner identifies the disk correctly and on the other account it misidentifies it.
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:
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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.
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8 hours ago, Léon said:
Plus: every item is double listed.
They know about items being double listed, it's been reported. Although it is only cosmetic, and doesn't break functionality.
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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: ServicesEdit:
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.
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10 hours ago, Willy2 said:
- Perhaps the pipeline still used Windows XP ?
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. -
On 29/04/2021 at 06:28, Willy2 said:
- I used to know how the filing system worked but that was in the "good old" FAT days. But it's clear NTFS works in a different fashion.
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.
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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.
CCleaner does not empty my recycle bin even is checked
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Could be something to do with some user profile corruption or some other corruption. The upgrade to Windows 10 v21H1 caused some corruption on my system drive.
I repaired it running:
1. In Command Prompt or PowerShell run:
ChkDsk /F C:2. Restart the PC.
3. In Command Prompt or PowerShell run (will take several minutes to complete):
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth4. In Command Prompt or PowerShell run (will take several minutes to complete):
SFC /scannow5. Restart the PC.