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  1. 2 hours ago, chashot said:

    I did add *.rft

    MS Word / WordPad uses: .RTF

    When scanning with recovery software it's important to use the correct file extensions.

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    I'd recommend backing up important files regularly onto at least three external backup disks. Aside from accidental deletion; File corruption, OS crash/freeze, PC crash/freeze can corrupt and make files unusable even on modern SSDs, and SSDs can make recovery more difficult.

  2. On 28/01/2023 at 19:30, diverjer said:

    got 24 files listed.  Looked like system files.

    Possibly was because modern versions of Windows always annoyingly in my opinion place a hidden 'System Volume Information' folder and some files inside that folder on all drives attached to the system. It even does that on USB flash drives formatted as FAT, FAT32, exFAT - think it would just be reserved for just NTFS but no it's every file system that I've seen. It's one of the reasons those USB flash drive full capacity write testing tools that check every byte on a drive to make sure it isn't counterfeit complain at the very end of the test that they couldn't check a certain amount of bytes.

  3. It would be nice if CCleaner worked like so many other programs where you don't have to fiddle around with Windows zoom/scaling globally at all. Instead we'd be able to just modify the CCleaner shortcut (and actually main .exe file) itself in 'Properties->Compatibility->Change High DPI Settings' but that does NOT work at all in Windows 10!

  4. 5 hours ago, ErnieP said:

    I'm so glad mictosoft has edge run all the time without the user's permission.

    It can be easily disabled, even the auto updating feature which is what I've did. If disabling the auto updating feature it can still be manually updated from within the browser itself. I just wish they'd put the updating into Windows Automatic Updates.

  5. I had forgot that I made exclusions on Win10 probably two or so years ago to protect parts of Cortana/Search to prevent errors on my system.

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    The exclusions are listed below they were made using Win10. They'd have to be tested to see if they stop the errors on Win11. Of course these "might only be useful" if you use Custom Clean in CCleaner, otherwise they'd be ignored if using the automated cleaning process.

    Search Reg Exclusions:
    Exclude1=REG|HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StreamMRU
    Exclude2=REG|HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams
    Exclude3=REG|HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
    Exclude4=REG|HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams

  6. I don't know specifically, but in the past using winapp2.ini I had to ditch what they had available and use something less powerful to stop damaging Cortana/Search in Win10.

    In Win10 cleaning these registry keys doesn't seem to break anything (at least not in my testing):
    RegKey1=HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\SearchHistory
    RegKey2=HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search\RecentApps

    Also the cleaner in winapp2.ini that doesn't seem to break anything is: [Cortana *]

  7. PGP is rare to see used nowadays, it used to be commonplace however. For example downloading some antivirus say like 20+ years ago like F-PROT where people downloading the software could also download the key to verify the antivirus had not been tampered with.

    Piriform ("CCleaner") to my knowledge has never used PGP. In recent years they were however publishing the MD5 and SHA-256 of the downloads that people could use to verify a download was authentic using a free third party hashing tool such as with HashTab, Nirsoft HashMyFiles, or from some portable hash verification tools hosted by PortableApps.com, etc,. Typically in the Announcements area of the forum when a new version was released they used to post the MD5 and SHA-256 hashes, however they haven't been doing that for awhile now.

  8. I don't necessarily think this is a "new" development because with the default Tmp/Temp paths on Windows it will cause allot of issues changing their paths.

    I found out nearly two decades ago it's better to create the new Tmp/Temp paths you prefer to use such as C:\Temp, D:\Temp, etc., and then manually change settings in each individual program one at a time that will allow you to change the Tmp/Temp path in their settings. Programs that don't allow you to change the folder path setting would continue using the default paths that Windows assigned. Doing it that way doesn't "break" some programs.

  9. Typical, it wasn't offered to my laptop so I did the whole image download thing yet again which at this point I'd do anyways because I actually want the full setup files archived after Win10 nuked itself earlier this year and was very corrupted.

    Did the usual:
    1. ChkDsk /F all drives.
    2. Full disk image backup with Macrium Reflect.
    3. Downloaded the installer and made the USB Flash Drive version which was rather fast this time since I used a USB 3.0 Flash Drive for the first time.
    4. Watched the setup loop several times re-doing things it had already done or attempted, then it finally got past the looping looking for updates glitch it was having before it actually started. No errors displayed though, but it was weird and easily doubled the time it took.
    5. After setup ChkDsk /R the OS drive, then in Windows I had to restore all of my non-standard "tweaks" and settings that it always nukes.
    6. Had to restore the setting for Windows to automatically create a registry backup, it always nukes that setting.
    7. Ran the corruption fixes with DISM and SFC, and as typical it had corrupted something and automatically fixed it.

    Interestingly enough all those restarts it does installing look to me like it's just pulling the plug, and when I looked at the S.M.A.R.T. events for my boot Micron M.2 SSD it does seem to be doing that as they were logged as unexpected power loss events. Now I'm wondering if that's when it seems to always corrupt something!

  10. I discovered that Windows 10's Power Options can have a negative impact on a laptop if creating and using a "High Performance" profile.

    For example I noticed with USB 3.0 external/portable SSDs a small yet significant enough increase in performance and speed of 40-50 MB/s (which I'll gladly take) when I switched back to using the Balanced profile.

  11. 8 hours ago, mentorron said:

    This method did not work for me.

    Not sure what the difference was, as I double-checked your method and it was set up correctly per those instructions.

    However: The following method worked great !!!

    https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/get-classic-full-context-menu-windows-11/

    I bookmarked that!:)

    That's one of the reasons I was avoiding Win11 since I use allot of context menu audio programs, and them hiding all those by default would have greatly increased my time and frustration.

  12. SanDisk doesn't offer or have any tools that can reinitialize/reinstate a drive putting it back into "factory new" like state with a working readable partition, etc., like what Transcend has with their free Jetflash Recovery Tool for their USB Flash Drives. And since it's a SanDisk one big caveat is on any Windows OS newer than WinXP (since old XP doesn't actually full format any of them) never full format a SanDisk since Windows will rather quickly kill the drive causing it to become either write-locked or actually completely killing the drives usability, seen it happen umpteen times.

  13. 13 hours ago, Haapy said:

    I think we have a misunderstanding.

    I understand that you are advising me to get a 3rd party tool correct? If so read on.

    Why should I use a 3rd party tool when CCcleaner should be doing that or have an option checkbox?

    I am already using "CCleaner Options, Include" to remove these JS files, a lot simpler than using a 3rd party tool.

    I am asking CCleaner to update their product.

    Thank you.

    I didn't misunderstand you, I had just re-read the whole topic before posting again because I didn't even remember posting in it before.

    I just thought after re-reading the topic that it's coming up on a year of you asking for it to be cleaned by CCleaner and perhaps the community made cleaners for Edge Chromium offered via the winapp2.ini file would be accepted this time around, and if not that's fine it's just an alternative to what you've already implemented by creating an "Options > Include" which achieves the exact same results of getting rid of those files.

  14. Like I had mentioned before it's already been in winapp2.ini community file and it's still in there as I just looked at it. This is exactly what and where it will clean (which in your case would delete those 'Code Cache' files):


    [Edge Code Cache *]
    LangSecRef=3006
    DetectFile=%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Edge*
    FileKey1=%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Edge*\User Data\*\Code Cache|*.*|RECURSE
    FileKey2=%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Edge*\User Data\*\Storage\ext\*\def\Code Cache|*.*|RECURSE

    Edit:
    If you go the route of using winapp2.ini you'll find that there's allot more than just Code Cache to clean in Edge Chromium, I'm regularly watching CCleaner clear a ton of stuff from it and I don't even use that browser.


    The winapp2.ini community file topic:
    https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/32310-winapp2ini-additions/

  15. It states that because "it's supposed to run TRIM" on an SSD drive. Problem is it will sometimes detect the drive incorrectly thinking it's an HDD (see other posts on the forum about that) and instead do an actual defrag of the drive. SSDs of old this would be very bad news on them, especially in low capacity sizes.

    With modern enough SSDs from well known reputable brands with a high enough SSD DWPD and TBW values it's not good for them but also shouldn't kill them outright.

    Windows via it's automatic maintenance/Optimize Drives will run TRIM (making 3rd party defrag tools unnecessary to use on an SSD drive) and Windows will also occasionally defrag an SSD because even on flash based storage fragments can become too numerous and will eventually cause issues.

    Windows Optimize Drives is however not that useful on HDDs if you're looking for a better more thorough defrag which in turn means a much more time consuming defrag (could take hours, or even days depending upon drive capacity and the fragmentation level), that's were a 3rd party defrag tool is still necessary if that's what you want to achieve.

  16. There was a data recovery guy on YouTube that states differently, that "there's ways to get some files back" off flash based storage including SSDs, however his service is crazy expensive. Last time I saw him in a video was maybe two years ago and he was charging $300 USD per incident regardless of the amount of files, regardless if they were readable/usable, and even if he found nothing at all he was still owned the full $300 for attempting.

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