Andavari
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That KB took awhile to install even with an SSD as the boot drive.
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I got it with a KB update today.
Simply Solution: Right-click it, then select Exclude
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It's a bit drastic to reset your PC - I'm assuming you mean to start fresh again with a clean install of Windows, I wouldn't do that just to get rid of CCleaner.
Make sure there's no CCleaner processes running when attempting to uninstall, and if you still can't uninstall it there's always a manual uninstall method which you could get away with doing since it isn't hooked deep into the system like a driver, etc. Manual uninstall simply details just deleting it, and if you know your way around the Windows registry you could also manually delete the CCleaner settings in there too or just leave them if you're not comfortable editing the registry.
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2 hours ago, glimmare said:
Can I still delete Registry entries for NON Windows entries ( ie leftovers from SW installations)? Or shall I stay away totally?
I personally do just that on Win10, but I leave anything that points to the OS specifically in C:\Windows alone.
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If the docs don't state something just post on these forums and someone can tell you.
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Not really an "error" in my opinion since it does state Unrecoverable, so even if it did state that about the files data you still wouldn't be able to recover it since it's deemed unrecoverable. Hopefully you have a recent enough backup to restore from!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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On 06/02/2021 at 11:53, Deekay57 said:
if it stays at 16gb free then I'll be happy
Plain and simple 16GB of free available space just isn't enough!
7 hours ago, Augeas said:Windows Update Cleanup will be first on the list, and if you check that and run Cleanup you should save several gbs.
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.
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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.
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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.
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8 hours ago, PeterSp said:
02 Fantasy.mp3 5.2MB
Les Paul and Mary Ford - Fantasy.mp3 5.3MB
The title is the same only 5.2MB and 5.3MB
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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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They already have ReFS. But I'd prefer them to fix all the known issues with NTFS.
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6 hours ago, Paidup_User21 said:
UpdateKey=01/01/2020 01:02:03 am which seems harmless = last time it spammed me.
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 AMEdit:
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.
Wiped free disk space on HDD, now the drive is inaccessible.
in CCleaner Bug Reporting
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Interesting that it caused the drive file system to become RAW.
You can use a 3rd disk partition tool that can convert RAW to NTFS - don't know if it's a free feature in them or not though:
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=convert+RAW+to+NTFS
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Note that you may need to use a recovery tool first just in case the converting causes file loss.