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Make Sure It's Enabled: 1. Open CCleaner. 2. Scroll all the way to the bottom. 3. Make sure 'Custom Files and Folders' is enabled/ticked, if it isn't custom cleaning won't work at all:

Group Policy Editor ("GPE") is only in Win10/11 Pro, albeit there are ways to make it install and work on Home Editions because it's technically already installed on those systems too. I've had that box toggled to Enabled in GPE for ages at this point (so long ago I forgot when I did it since back then I didn't write a comment like "Enabled on: <date, time>"), and Windows ignores it. Problem with GPE is some things can get outdated and no longer used.

May also try right-clicking the CCleaner shortcut, and choose: Run as administrator

They'll eventually update CCleaner to clean it, they're always going to be playing catch up with changes to web browsers however.

Didn't know anything about that but searching reveals there's an AVG version and Avast version - same company btw. Probably best to ask on either AVG or Avast since they're the people making it depending upon which one you installed since this forum is for CCleaner specifically.

I personally use CCleaner's Wipe Free Space, and Drive Wiper tools, never once had any issues using them and no active needed files being mysteriously nuked by it. I have used said rubbish ones in the past, maybe 20 years ago. ---------- And as far as IOLO goes, I don't trust them for various reasons; rubbish registry cleaner for umpteen years ago that would nuke the Windows registry, and the very public probable/supposedly theft of an anti-malware vendors signature files.

Edge Chromium is just annoying, I don't like it at all, and don't like that it's forced upon my sysstem! That's why I don't use it, but since it's the system default browser it must be kept up-to-date.

To my knowledge those are normal to be excluded for Windows 10 and newer. Something CCleaner is protecting against removing with the registry cleaner. Edit: They're excluded on my laptop too, so it isn't unique to just your computer.

There are good wipe free space tools that don't wipe actual files... ...and then there's some rubbish ones that aren't coded correctly or that are so buggy that they will wipe files including Windows OS files. By the time someone figures out they're using a rubbish one it's too late unfortunately.

I found out on my system at least that during one of the umpteen updates for Edge Chromium that it has places itself to run on startup in the Windows registry in one of the Run key areas. It can be disabled or deleted from doing that in CCleaner, instructions: 1. Open CCleaner. 2. Go into: Tools > Startup > Windows (tab). 3. Locate the Edge reference and highlight/select it and choose to either Disable or Delete it. 4. Close CCleaner. 5. Recommended but not necessary: Restart the computer. If it was located in the Windows registry Run key area it will likely get placed in there again sometime in the future during another Edge Chromium update.

It "may be remedied" by an upcoming Windows Update for this month that fixes various issues. One in particular being Windows Defender ("Microsoft Defender Antivirus") blocking some binaries from running.

It will install 32-bit and 64-bit versions. I'm up to eight of them currently. Most programs that install them leave them behind as-is if/when the program is uninstalled. On very rare occasions some programs during uninstall will also uninstall the version they installed.

Another reason it takes so long may be that it doesn't give up trying to phone home soon enough for offline usage, so that involves a wait that's too long. Same happens with Recuva (old version from years ago), no internet connection equals an unusually long wait. With how allot of software operates nowadays I'm surprised so much of it works at all offline, i.e.; no phone home capability equaling unusable - that's how some video games work with their DRM check/validation.

It's been that way for umpteen years. I agree it should go into a user temp folder, one that CCleaner is capable of deleting the contents of to self-clean and get rid of it's own temporary creation.

Since WinXP is old it could be an OS issue with the installed antivirus being unable to read the signed digital signature of the installer since WinXP can't read modern digital signatures, and if an installed antivirus on that OS also can't somehow read them they have the potential of just outright blocking installation. Although it could be some other issue. You should be able to unpack the installer with 7-Zip or 7-Zip Portable.

This most won't likely fix Edge browser issues, however something worth knowing is that the monthly updates for Win10 and Win11 are known to sometimes (too often actually) cause corruption. Just looking around the web there are various forums where people state they use DISM and SFC to scan and possibly repair any corruption with each and every monthly update because it happens regularly. More often than not SFC finds corruption monthly on my laptop which is always immediately after installing Windows Updates, so I run this and reboot: DISM /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth SFC /SCANNOW

A laptop is going to have sensors, i.e.; temp sensors, etc.! The problem is Speccy's age and the lack of support for modern hardware. Try something that's updated very regularly to support modern hardware such as (both are free) HWiNFO or HWiNFO Portable.

Only problem with PortableApps.com is sometimes the unpack/installer isn't digitally signed which will undoubtedly cause some antivirus' to falsely flag them or not allow unpacking. Microsoft Defender Antivirus doesn't play nice with unsigned unpackers from them such as Paint.net Portable, etc., and won't allow extraction so it has to be circumvented by manually unpacking with 7-Zip.

Just wait until there's a malicious and smart enough A.I. on the Internet.

Could be corrupt CCleaner registry settings, or perhaps the install isn't clean, i.e.; something being left behind when you think you uninstalled it. Perhaps try this (no guarantee it will work either): 1. Uninstall CCleaner with Revo Uninstaller Free, and have Revo scan for leftovers and delete them. 2. Restart the PC. 3. Re-download CCleaner Free, get the Slim build (just in case it actually is your antivirus causing the issue), and install it.

Probably an HDD such as the SP Silicon Power Armor A60 which they've been making for ages. Windows 10/Windows 11 can damage the file system on their own whim out of nowhere for whatever reason (bugs) on external/portable USB HDD/SSD drives. I've seen it countless times which is why it's important to have at the bare minimum 3 large capacity drives that have duplicate/exact backups. And when messing around with things like OS images (Windows setup files, etc.,) use USB 3.0/3.1/3.2 Flash Drives instead keeping the large capacity backup drives safe and out of the mix. Nowadays allot of external/portable drives use exFAT to be compatible with both Mac and Windows, and maybe it's safer to instead use NTFS if only dealing with Windows PC's and no other hardware for the resilience of NTFS.

As long as there's no further writing to the SD card you can safely use Recuva or whatever other tool to attempt the recovery. Recovering will not make it impossible to try different tools to attempt recovery. There are other tools available, some are freeware and it would be advised to use whatever you can to get your files back. You would need the SD card inserted in order to recover files from it.

You could try to recover them to another location such as into a New Folder on the Desktop, and then see what you get. While what you're attempting to recover may be overwritten "sometimes it's possible to get a part of a file back" such as partially recovering a text document, etc. As to why other files elsewhere were also deleted automatically without selecting them is unknown. Unless of course the SD Card has some file corruption, or even some level of file system corruption which can sometimes be tricky to figure out with NAND Flash based drives (SD Card, SSD, USB Flash Drive, etc.,) and sometimes traditional error scanning tools find nothing wrong.

My install of uBlock Origin for Firefox doesn't block "https://www.ccleaner.com" or "https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/builds". Why your install of uBlock Origin blocked it I can only guess it was something to do with the redirection from Piriform.com to CCleaner.com.

That's why I started having CCleaner delete it, seemed odd it would have references to other programs, etc. It was somewhat alarming seeing all the stuff it had inside it, and is perplexing why a browser would even need to keep a cache like that. Seems sort of like some data-mining for profiling the user, they all want our data at no cost.