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Windows Defender was having a few false positives with a version of the definition files released this morning. Have Windows Defender update to see if it's still detecting the file.

I wonder if Windows power settings could've put the drive to sleep if the PC was unattended and not in use long enough for that. Even on my laptop I've turned off powering down the drives, and I've disabled USB suspending because it always eventually causes issues with external backup drives.

It would be worth also doing some S.M.A.R.T. scans on the drive, then again those Dell utilities you mentioned probably already do that when checking the drive. If I'm remembering correctly from twenty years ago it is or was called the Dell Hard Drive Confidence Utility.

Aw you could've played on that a little bit, and said I was a resident A.I. or something to make everyone scratch their heads.

Look in the program folder that the cad software is installed into, and if you're very lucky they used a standard installer that will have a .EXE file you can double-click to start the uninstall. They are usually named something like: unins000.exe, uninst.exe, uninstall.exe Edit: The other option is if you by chance had System Restore enabled is to restore a very recent Restore Point which will restore the registry data needed for the Uninstall to work.

How did it kill your HDD if it eventually was listed again by Windows and was usable? If it had actually killed the HDD it would be unusable and need replacing. To cause the issue did you shutdown the PC while Defraggler was still defragmenting the drive? If so that's a big no no with any disk utility from defrag software to secure disk wiping programs. Some disk utilities don't like that at all since in some it can be like pulling the plug, and in some cases can set a disk as the RAW format. Although like most disk defrag software Defraggler uses the Microsoft Defrag API which means it's supposed to be safe. In any event if the disk is actually usable and seen in Windows you may want to run ChkDsk /f on it via an admin Command Prompt, and then reboot the PC so it can scan the drive for errors (full Microsoft instructions): chkdsk /f F:

Something else for them to fix then.

Trium, try the Builds page: https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/builds

Do you have the portable.dat file (it's 10 bytes) and should be in the directory where CCleaner.exe is stored? It tells CCleaner it's portable, without it registry data will be created. portable.dat contains this in it (should you need to create it for yourself): #PORTABLE#

You're answering a question from 7 months ago!

I wonder if the last XP/Vista version would instead work:

I don't know how restrictive Windows 7 is with old versions but on Windows 10 it won't let you install or use versions that are too old. Some things to try: 1. Restart your computer. 2. To rule out any disk errors run Windows built-in tool ChkDsk on your disk drive, here's how. 3. Try the CCleaner Slim installer again and if it fails again try the Portable ZIP. Both of those can be downloaded here. The Portable ZIP should be unzipped into its own unique folder (don't run it from within the ZIP archive), example unzip into: C:\CCleanerPortable

It doesn't allow excluding using a wildcard in Duplicate Finder from what I can tell looking at the GUI. It would have to be a feature request for them to implement in the future.

Post a new question about CCleaner in a new topic instead of resurrecting a 15 years old topic about another software that ironically is blacklisted in modern versions of Windows because it's incompatible. Topic locked.

You could try the Corrupted Recycle Bin Fix: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/42673-corrupted-recycle-bin-fix/

My guess is like Nukecad's with it being a gaming rig would be the GPU since they don't last forever, however maybe it needs to be re-pasted if it's causing shutdowns - that is if it's actually the GPU but who really knows. You might want to try a computer hardware gaming forum instead where they might be able to walk you through troubleshooting issues, and don't forget there's probably a myriad of YouTube videos and Google searches for particular issues where you can look at a video or pictures of what to attempt.

The site owners don't allow competing product names so they had to be edited out. There's no such thing as a "best" defrag tool and one having a "top" rating does sound like an advert but it can also stem from allot of users downloading it on a download site, which would be better worded as: Most Downloaded - which says nothing about the software. Some defrag tools from my past experience don't get along at all with certain systems so another alternative has to be used. Just use what you and your system likes and prefers.

That happened three years ago and was resolved! One recommendation as with all software, download it from the actual publisher to be on the safe side. You can download CCleaner at: https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/builds

It can't clean Chrome or any browser if it's running. Some things to try: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/40285-ccleaner-not-deleting-google-chrome-history-fix/

If this is happening only under battery power while not plugged into the charging brick I wonder if it's related to a Windows battery saving power setting.

Might be worth running ChkDsk on the drive.

I wonder if all that testing and re-testing is just going to put excessive wear onto your hard drive- just to prove the point! It isn't like Drive Wiper/Wipe Free Space (and whatever else it's called in other programs) is something that should be ran too frequently. Like I stated at the very end of my post here, some people in the past have reported it doesn't work, however the results I suppose will vary system by system.

That usually only happens if for instance you use the portable version and move it to a different location, or if you go from using an installed version to a portable version or vice-versa. Easy Fix: 1. Open CCleaner. 2. Go into: Options > Settings 3. Untick/disable the following two boxes: * Add "Run CCleaner" option to Recycle Bin context menu * Add "Open CCleaner..." option to Recycle Bin context menu 4. Tick/enable them to restore the functionality. Tip: If you don't use that feature you can also leave them unticked/disabled which completely removes them from the Recycle Bin context menu.

I have a handful of that same error. I didn't associate it with CCleaner and didn't know where it came from, and since I don't use Internet Explorer I never gave it a second thought. Event Viewer shows errors daily for some things that seem as if they're failing, yet for whatever reason they seem to work.

If you didn't format the drive it's possible to convert the RAW back to NTFS without losing any data. You can do it via a Command Prompt, or you'd need a third-party partitioning tool to do it though, although with the freeware version of such tools I don't know if they'll allow you to do that. There's an article on it here from EaseUs, although they're also adverting/pushing their partitioning software in that article. Here's a search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=convert+RAW+to+NTFS