Andavari

You can go into CCleaner and click Options->Include and then input the new path to clean, although it probably isn't going to clean as good as the normal built in cleaner.

Probably best to stop the Automatic Updates service if using Drive Wiper or Wipe Free Space. If I use Wipe Free Space I always stop the Automatic Updates service - although it would be nice if CCleaner could automatically do this for us and possibly also stop other interfering services or programs.

In the future it would be a good idea to get a free disk imaging/cloning software (allot of us on here use Macrium Reflect), that way you can restore to a fully function system with your programs already installed without having to "refresh/reinstall" the OS.

The version you had previously, was it a very old version from years ago? Only ask because that PortableApps.com topic from 2005 shows them registering those .DLL files for some reason. Those .dll and .ocx files as long as I remember going back to 2004 when I first started using CCleaner have never been installed by it.

Time to backup everything that's important like family photos, music, etc., onto other media and/or another hard disk then. The disk error checker ("ChkDsk") can be ran to check for bad sectors - but before messing with it I'd backup everything important first. Edit: We posted near the same time. I'm glad to see you've got a clean bill of health as for that corruption. As for being unable to import the backup .reg file I don't know and will let someone else chime in on that - although it has happened to other CCleaner users before with no real solution that I've seen come forth.

Maybe those are embedded into CCleaner.exe - not that we'd know though. And a mention of them in this PortableApps.com topic from 10 years ago in 2005: http://portableapps.com/node/151

If you have a recent System Restore point available that was made before using the registry cleaner you can use it to fully restore the Windows registry.

Since the op never returned, and since we're thinking along the lines of it possibly being spammer related this topic is now closed.

Someone just suggested this the other day here. Moved this topic to the suggestion forum.

I wouldn't jump the gun based upon the original posters name, being it's a valid question and hasn't spammed anything.

Are there any other forum members who also use Avira Free Antivirus and have any of you noticed for approximately the past two weeks that it will sometimes not update - neither automatically on its own nor when manually invoked by you? Today it won't update at all for me. Thinking my installed version must have some corruption or error I did the usual: 1. Uninstalled Avira Free Antivirus. 2. Rebooted the computer. 3. Manually removed all the leftovers on the hard disk and in the registry that I could find. 4. Reinstalled Avira Free Antivirus, and it still won't update, so all that was for nothing. The failed update log contains information about: * No Internet connection - when I am in fact always connected to the Internet. * Mismatching checksums of locally installed files on my hard disk compared to those on the Avira update server. * The failed update log also states I have the incorrect operating system - but why would it install perfectly fine then I wonder. Talk about a triplet of failures. I guess I'll give it perhaps three days maximum, then I'm going to switch to a different antivirus software. Edit: Well it isn't just me having the issue. Avira Support are starting to get failed update complaints posted and I've also posted in the topic linked below on their support page (so anyone else also having this same issue it's worth adding your information to it so this update failure can get quickly fixed): https://answers.avira.com/en/question/avira-free-antivirus-update-failed-32578 Edit 2: More people are stating the same. Somethings went really buggy in version 15.0.8.650 (dated 25 Feb 2015).

Please refrain from copying something I've written in the past!!!

If you're using XP SP2 have a read here: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=43027&p=260079

You may want to look into the community winapp2.ini file here: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=32310 It's also relatively easy to make your own winapp2.ini cleaners, or course this is assuming the portable software is stored on the local disk such as what PortableApps.com software does by default in: C:\PortableApps

If you're using the winapp2.ini file or CCEnhancer remove both of them and then see if CCleaner works. If CCleaner still doesn't work: 1. Uninstall CCleaner. 2. Restart Windows. 3. Reinstall CCleaner.

We aren't suppose to allow posts or mentioning of rival products, however what I have below could be a sort of warning with BleachBit: I stayed with BleachBit v1.2 because newer versions are incorrectly targeting the C:\Windows folder on my XP SP3 system such as .DLL files, etc., i.e.; newer versions would break my Windows installation so I don't dare use any newer version of it.

I know it's just a suggestion however; CCleaner only works by default on the system drive (usually C:\) so for USB Flash Drives and External HDDs it wouldn't even bother scanning them for anything to remove.

See if any of this helps: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=5739 In particular don't name the downloaded file ccleaner.exe

See if any of this helps: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=5739

The thing with Firefox is during uninstall it will ask if you wish to keep your profile or remove it. If you keep the profile CCleaner may still detect Firefox as being installed.

I don't see it at all Hazelnut.

Some antivirus' will automatically block double extension files!

That's not the one I was referring to, it's this topic here: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=43012 Piriform are fully aware of it, see one of the admins post here: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=43012&p=259868

This is a known issue since another user reported it.

Although you didn't state you use Internet Explorer I wonder if the cookie could be from it, if so perhaps give Nirsoft IECookiesView a try to see if it finds it associated with IE. There's also a version available for Firefox called MozillaCookiesView. Can't forget cookies can be written into the Windows registry.