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Already pre-selected programs are just cleaned, like their Recent File List ("MRU"), etc. Nothing is uninstalled automatically, you have to initiate uninstalling a software yourself if you use the built in uninstall tool 'Tools > Uninstall' which just mirrors what Windows already does. Recommend reading the documentation: https://www.ccleaner.com/docs

Maybe give Foobar2000 Audio Player a try to, it has additional components (aka "plugins") you can download separately but since I've never used it like you intend I don't know if it will be a solution for you.

I've seen silly stuff like that before, for instance in the past with some file upload/download hosts. I guess it's better than that Captcha s**t. They'll have to come up with something better once bot software isn't so stupid and has A.I. built into it.

Firefox may have an add-on for it. Any such add-on if it exists wouldn't be using anything from within CCleaner, it would be it's own separate tool.

There's probably a resident program (or maybe a Windows Update since they pre-load some of them) that's doing that which may not necessarily be considered "junk" for programs like CCleaner to delete. Since you're so low on space you may need to run some program that monitors everything being saved onto the system - sorry I don't have any recommendations for such a program. Other than that try storing any "space hog" media files like music and videos on the 1TB hard disk since those generally never need to be on fast access storage like an SSD.

Plain and simple 16GB of free available space just isn't enough! That alone will free many GBs if it's never been cleared out - it's very annoying that it can't be completely disabled from filling up. The built in Windows Disk Cleanup will have to be ran after every Windows updates patch Tuesday to regain space from there. A 120GB-128GB SSD doesn't really cut it anymore, definitely not with Windows 10, it's too small and doesn't give anywhere near enough space. At least a 240GB-256GB SSD boot drive should be the minimum sized used nowadays. I suppose in a few years the minimum recommendation will bloat into being at least 480GB-512GB.

The features you can use with Cookies: https://www.ccleaner.com/docs/ccleaner/ccleaner-settings/choosing-which-cookies-to-keep

Registry cleaners can give a false positive which is what's happening. Goofy and cryptic looking entries in the registry that don't actually resolve to a correct path can trip up many registry cleaners in regards to what's located in C:\Windows which isn't really safe to clean, especially if the OS or a software doesn't automatically add it back in automatically for you. It's a reason they should have a setting to skip all detections located in C:\Windows. If you must continue using the registry cleaner (not a good ideal with Windows 10) realize you can manually right-click any entry deemed as "invalid" to exclude it which is especially important for anything that points to C:\Windows as an issue.

Maxtor is owned by Seagate now. Could just be the bridge interface that gave up and not the drive itself. I've watched a YouTube video before where someone removed their old portable hard disk from it's enclosure, and then put it into a brand new cheap USB 3.0 hard disk enclosure (good ones are under $15 USD). That only works if the hard disk has a SATA connection, but if it's new enough and uses some proprietary connection (likely done to prevent shucking HDDs) you're likely out of luck. On much older drives there's "possibly a better chance" that they just used a standard SATA connection, so in that scenario the drive could possibly be shucked and put into a brand new working enclosure.

Even a checksum/hash verification tool like NirSoft HashMyFiles as a freeware example wouldn't state those are identical, the file size is different so the hashes would also be different. To my understanding CC's Dup finder does look at hashes.

A true portable should only prompt that there's an Update available, and if the user clicks to Update it should then open the appropriate download page to allow the user to manually download the "portable" version. A "portable" software that downloads and installs an installation version is NOT portable!

Do note my stating of Windows won't wipe the drive clean simply means that Windows won't secure overwrite the data when doing a Quick Format, that's what will give you a "possible chance to get some of your data back", but doing any formatting can be destructive.

If you Quick Format then Windows won't wipe the drive clean, meaning you'll have a better chance of recovering the data yourself using freeware tools like Recuva, etc.

Something simpler than "hacking/tweaking" to get the correct drive type to show up would be to just change the volume label, i.e.; HDD 2TB, SSD 500GB, etc. Edit: When making your own DIY external/portable HDDs or SSDs in cheap (sometimes even over-priced) enclosures those can cause SSDs to be listed as HDDs - especially if whatever interface the enclosure has is old and outdated or if it's just too cheap for the manufacturer to care. Windows can get things very wrong, for instance (on Win10 v1909 at least): Formatting a USB Flash Drive with NTFS will make Optimize Drives think it's an HDD, and it will also be displayed in Task Manager as an HDD.

The different terminology is why it was always getting wiped on my Win10 system for two whole years until I happened upon a random topic mentioning how to stop CCleaner from clearing it out. I had thought it was something broken in my OEM install of Win10. Duh!

Look in Windows Task Manager to see if there's any processes belonging to CCleaner still running, if so End Task them then try again with Revo Uninstaller.

They already have ReFS. But I'd prefer them to fix all the known issues with NTFS.

That's been in my CCleaner.ini for ages going back to 2014, oddly the same day 01/01: UpdateKey=01/01/2014 05:55:24 AM Edit: I think it's safe to say we really shouldn't be calling CCleaner Portable a "portable", it's just a Standalone - albeit using the older flavor of it that I use it has never acted in an odd way of not being a "true" portable, but I've got enough experience with "portable" software misbehaving and creating either AppData, ProgramData, or Registry settings which I usually craft a Batch .bat/.cmd and .reg file to deal with.

I don't know if that folder can or should be manually cleaned or not, and using CCleaner to do it would be manually cleaning it outside of using Windows to do it because you can dismiss notifications (or should I say annoyances). That folder is empty on my system, however the only notifications I have enabled is for 'Security and Maintenance', and 'Wireless'. You can change Notification settings in (Win10): Settings > Notifications & Actions

Portable programs that can auto-update or even notify is in a very grey area, most don't bother because it's an offense that more-or-less breaks the rules of being "portable". It's also a big no-no if a portable creates anything in C:\AppData or C:\ProgramData or the registry (unless it reliably auto-deletes the registry data it creates when exiting). So creating a Scheduled Task would put CC "Portable" on the list of doing a big no-no. Edit: Sometimes program developers seem to confuse Portable vs Standalone. I solely use portable programs if one is available and have a small handful that can notify there's an updated version (usually that's a no-no), I always turn that off in them if it's enabled. The one exception is Firefox Portable ESR, I like that it can update itself instead of waiting for PortableApps.com to release an .exe file that's near 100mb, and it's a significantly smaller download.

Safest thing to do in Win10 is untick/disable every box in CCleaner's Registry Cleaner - especially important if installing CCleaner on someone's computer, and it helps to tell them to avoid using it. That is unless of course someone knows exactly what they're about to allow it to remove (i.e.; they open RegEdit and have a look), but there's just way too much changing in Win10 to reliably clean the registry.

Good that it's just the "old" bug that also existed on XP. XP always had a peculiarity when running ChkDsk stating it was correcting the volume bitmap for whatever reason due to some erroneous error that was never patched. I do know on old XP that running Disk Cleanup with the Recycle Bin box ticked and if there's something for it to remove from the Recycle Bin will cause ChkDsk to fix some erroneous error that Windows 10 never finds, for example on a USB external/portable drive formatted with NTFS. Something similiar happens on XP after Volume Shadow Copy ("VSS") service in used for instance by Tweaking.com Registry Backup - afterwards the internal drive with the largest amount of free space all of a sudden has some erroneous error that ChkDsk will repair. Maybe time for Microsoft to come up with a new file system because NTFS is very old anyways with some limitations, or they should overhaul it and remove the bugs. USN journal bug/misery: Another NTFS quirk is if the USN journal is enabled on for instance USB external/portable backup drives (HDD or SSD), it makes it extremely difficult or impossible to use Safely Remove on those drives in a timely manner which has the potential of corrupting files on the drives as most people will get fed up waiting a long time and just unplug the USB cord. Manually disabling USN journal on those drives makes it possible to Safely Remove them almost instantly. I recently reported such a bug to Microsoft within the last two weeks because something in Win10 was consistently enabling and re-enabling USN journal on USB external/portable drives that were NTFS formatted, it got fixed within 2 or 3 days, and I suspect it was perhaps tied to something Windows Defender was doing because allot of antivirus' trigger enabling USN journal on internal drives just not usually USB drives.

Rather it's a bug, or intended behavior what I'd personally do is input that updater .exe file into CCleaner Portable's Include settings and have it kill it automatically whenever it gets added - but that wouldn't do anything for removing the Scheduled Task. Or craft a batch *.bat file and place it in the root of the USB flash drive that will delete it.

What Speccy is showing you regarding your DRAM speed is correct! DDR means Double Data Rate for DRAM, it doubles the DRAM Frequency/Clock Speed. In tools like Speccy, CPU-Z, HWiNFO, etc., it will list your 1600Mhz dual channel kit as 800Mhz (or typically very near it), whereas in Windows 10 Task Manager the Memory Tab will list 1600Mhz.

Windows 10 Zero Day exploit that corrupts NTFS drives instantly with a single one line command The vulnerability exists in Windows 10 v1803 and higher. Read the article: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-10-bug-corrupts-your-hard-drive-on-seeing-this-files-icon/