Andavari

13 grand? They would've hated my grand prize: "For your ingenious effort here's a complimentary lollipop, balloon, and whoopie cushion."

Well it's probably going to be impossible to correct unless someone has one of those systems that it happens on. What I would do if I didn't have a registry backup: To figure out which registry key is being removed, etc., by: 1. Creating a temporary Admin account that has never had the registry cleaned. 2. Backup that temporary Admin account registry with ERUNT. 3. Run an installation watcher such as Total Uninstall (Freeware) before using that Advanced cleaning routine to find out which registry entry is being effected. 4. Once the entry is found it should be written down (the location), and then use the ERUNT registry backup to restore the registry. 5. Open RegEdit and export the good registry information for the QuickLaunch Toolbar to a .reg file, and then switch to your main user profile, and import the good registry information into your main user profile to fix it.

Runtime errors in CCleaner can be corrected by downloading and installing Microsoft VB Runtime. This will also allow other programs that require the runtime to function correctly - and there are allot of programs that require the runtime.

A Wiki has my vote! Especially if it would incorporate a plethora of questions (perhaps redundant) that always seem to be asked again and again.

Good news, now the Hotfix Uninstaller will be corrected.

Yeah it will probably boot itself while you have your fingers inside the case playing with the PCI slots just for the hell of it. And then Windows will go to virtual prison have all it's hardware beaten out of it, and for a finale become the b*tch of a MAC for the next 20 years to life. No need to apologize, as I didn't take it as a bad comment.

Silly.

You can get good and thorough registry cleaning using CCleaner, EasyCleaner, and RegSeeker in a combined usage, e.g.; you have to use all three of them. In EasyCleaner you'll of course have to exclude some detections. In RegSeeker you'll have to exlude even more so that it doesn't delete some valid entries, and with RegSeeker you have to pay close attention to what it wants to remove and even investigate it by double clicking the entry it finds to make your own determination if it really should be removed, left alone, or excluded from future detections. From my experiences using commercial registry cleaners on a trial basis I've come to the conclusion that most of them either aren't very thorough and don't find squat that a few freeware registry cleaners would find, or are completely dangerous and have the ability to wreak havoc upon the Windows registry. A registry cleaner that is first safe, and second thorough in my opinion is the way to go. ---- Edit: And of course before trusting your system and current install of Windows to an unknown registry cleaner you've never used before get into the habit of using System Restore to manually create a restore point before using a registry cleaner. Better yet is to make a known good registry backup using ERUNT.

Huh? Now you've got me confused, what does that reply from another thread have to do with this? And no I'm not infected with wsaupdater.exe. ----------- Back to CCleaner removing the QL Toolbar. I tried it again and couldn't get it to remove it, after rebooting the QL Toolbar was still there. So who knows why it messed with it before on my system and won't do it this time, and why it still bites some people and not others. Doesn't make allot of sense.

I was also thinking that defragging would aid a tool in this paranoid way of securely wiping data, however then there's also the case of files that defrag won't move - not because they're locked, but because of their size.

The running for a long time can be caused by anti-virus real-time protection hence the installed anti-virus will scan the files, and since some temp files are difficult to scan such as those used by an installer "GLB##.TMP" compressed ("ASPack, UPX", etc) or even protected ("ASProtect", etc) it will slow things down if there's a rather large amount of files.

I know.

Your installation must have went kaput then. Remember this, sometimes if something isn't working correctly to reboot - that will sometimes fix the issue such as a memory problem, etc.

Actually you need to run CCleaner separately for each account Admin, User, etc. There's allot of stuff that a Limited User account won't have the proper rights to deal with - this is Windows itself "protecting" itself and will occur using any cleaning program and not just CCleaner. However with that said to enable registry cleaning on a Limited User account you can temporary enable Admin rights for the Limited account while you're logged in as the Admin, just remember to set the Limited account back to having limited rights after you're done.

Once it cleans it, it is g...o...n...e! You'd have to use RegEdit to fix it, or use a System Restore point to just before using CCleaner. How to fix it I don't know hence I'm not going to enable that option again because I'm constantly using links in the QL toolbar.

You missed the point of my cryptic post. What I was saying is they don't know as much as they proclaim or elude to know. It's in the know!

Perhaps reinstalling it "may fix it." Sun's JRE 1.5x I don't like that much therefore I'm using the good ole 1.4.2.

The batch file listed below will remove common prefetch junk, for instance from installers, uninstallers, Microsoft updates, etc., that you most likely won't be using again anytime soon. 1. Copy into Notepad, and save to a file with the .bat extension, e.g.; "Clean Prefetch.bat" 2. Run Clean Prefetch.bat to clean out some of the most common prefetch junk files. DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\AU*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\ARPIDFIX*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*.BIN*.PFDEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\DXDLLREG*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\FLASH*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\GETFLASH*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\GLB*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*HOTFIX*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*INS*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*INCLUDES*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*INSTALL.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\INSTALL*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*INSTALL*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*ISDEL*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\KB*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*KB*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\MSIEXEC*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*NSISU*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\PATCH*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\RUN*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*SET*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*SETUP.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\SETUP*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*SETUP*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*TMP.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\TMP*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*TMP*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\UN*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*UN.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*UN*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\UNWISE*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\UNINS*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\UP*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*UP.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*UP*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*UPDATE.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\UPDATE*.PF"DEL /Q "%WINDIR%\PREFETCH\*UPDATE*.PF"

The problem is within the default CCleaner setup under Advanced and has been that way for over a year now. If it's causing the exact same problem to multiple users I would highly suspect it's a bug. Perhaps (not verified) CCleaner is removing the whole registry entry not just the settings which is causing this.

With your Admin account you shouldn't have any problems with CCleaner removing all the junk it can remove. As for erasing your web history in your browsers there's a forum member who couldn't get the drop down site history to remove no matter if he used CCleaner or some other utility that he was told to use - although you most likely won't have that problem. With your Limited User account CCleaner shouldn't have any problems deleting junk files, however the registry cleaning portion ("Issues") won't be able to remove everything it lists or won't be able to remove anything it lists.

Yeah that would protect from a horde of malware. I however will continue not trusting/using IE.

If you're using the MS Windows JAVA version I suppose that could happen. You could download Sun Java Runtime.

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Many professors know so much they know nothing at all.

Don't know, however it's "supposedly later this year," "but probably not." I don't know what the price would be therefore I won't speculate, although from what I've heard even the blank discs are supposedly going to be expensive too.