Andavari
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I second what DjLizard said!
CCleaner is a safe cleaner, having it mess with whole profiles or windows backups would make it an unsafe cleaner that the average user would eventually make a grave mistake because they wouldn't know what they're doing, hell even an experienced user could shoot themself in both foot. I can only image the complaints that would spawn up all over the forum with people saying it deleted a profile, it deleted a Win backup and now a service pack can't be removed, etc.
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The problem im having is for some some reason windows defrag is not defraging a load of music files i have i have
Don't know if this will work or not, since it's for forcing defragmentation on low disk space.
Command Prompt, type in:
defrag -f c:
replace c: with the drive letter you want to to work with.
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Nope, no automatic registry backup in NT based versions of Windows, you can read about it in erunt.txt:
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An excerpt from the Spybot SD help file:
II.b. Warranty
I can also give you no warranty that Spybot-S&D will remove every spy on your system, or that it will give you no false positives.
I've been getting false positives for months now about some CoolWebSearch sites I block in the HOSTS file.
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...and maybe a service pack.
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There's a Nokia (don't remember model number) on a T.V. commercial here in the U.S. that supposedly has it.
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I don't know what 139.com tries to do or not and ain't to interested to find out, however it started showing up a few years ago in my firewall log's. I've been blocking it for many years now via Internet Explorers restricted sites, and via the HOSTS file.
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Read erunt.txt, pay close attention to what's in Introduction.
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CCleaner doesn't touch or mess with with:
C:\Windows\System32\Shell.dll
C:\Windows\System32\Shell32.dll
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I recently saw a in depth report on police searching Mozilla caches re: a virus writer. It seemed to indicate there were 4 caches for examination. Possibly CC cleans ALL 4 and I just don't recognise the name of the 4th in the list. I would like to know also.
Most of the in-depth report was completely over my head !!
Below listed in the code is what Mozilla Suite does.
Its the default cache files only, if you download file(s) for instance a setup file it will create one especially for it.
C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\User Profile\*.slt\Cache_CACHE_001__CACHE_002__CACHE_003__CACHE_MAP_
It also doesn't save files as people are used to in Internet Explorer, they have no extensions. This could possibly be a reason why it's more difficult to get virus, and spyware infected via Mozilla Suite, and Mozilla Firefox.
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Has anyone else seen this TeaTimer GUI bug? Notice how the action buttons are only about 10% visible.
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I hope so with v1.3 it takes 12 minutes on my old Win98 system.
Some of the new features in v1.4:First native multi-installation scanner
On PE boot CDs as well as on any system with multiple installations of Windows 2000 or later, Spybot-S&D 1.4 is able to scan the other installations as well, including the registry. From what we know, Spybot-S&D is the first anti-spyware solution that offers inactive registry scanning as a native feature.
Speed boost-ups
Spybot-S&D 1.4 should work noticably faster than 1.3 during scans. And if you still don't like to wait, you can play our easter egg while scanning.
Improved tools
We've improved the Tools section that Spybot-S&D offers in advanced mode - the process list now offers a list of open network connection per application (Windows 2000 or newer only), helping you to quickly identify which applications are local and which do use connections to the outside. Our detection mechanisms have also been updated, from detecting and cleaning services over protocol filters to the afore-mentioned scanning in inactive installations registries.
Graphics remake, and more
We've replaced the old home made icons with a bunch of great graphics provided by the guys at Yellow Icon Studio to make the user interface look smoother. But while this is highly visible on the surface, there have been more than 104 important changes underneath.
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A good example is:
Buy a Kodak digital camera, install the EasyShare bloatware, oh look it installs BackWeb Lite as the updater component, those sneaky software developers, can't fool me or my firewall. Ad-Aware doesn't detect BackWeb Lite. Spybot SD partially removes BackWeb Lite, however with a little manual labor searching the disk and registry it can be completely removed.
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Good one! That comment made it even funnier after I read everyone else's reply.
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I use CCleaner multiple times each day, sorry I don't keep a count. Perhaps CCleaner should keep count of how many times it's used each day.
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I've seen allot of diagnostic suite's, however I've always wondered if those that come pre-installed on a utility partition from the PC manufacturer's are any good.
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I use Word 2003 practically everyday therefore I just un-checked in CCleaner 'Applications->Applications->Office 2003'
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I agree. Without programs like CCleaner letting things like that go unchecked would litter the registry.
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Since you obviously know so much about the registry try it yourself, or do as you wish.
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This is taken from RegSeeker, it's supposed to fix tha Add/Remove feature, however I haven't tested it and can't verify if it works.
1. Copy the text in the code listed below then save as a .reg file such as: FixAddRemove.reg
2. Double click the .reg file and select Yes to merge the data.
3. Restart Windows.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htc]"Content Type"="text/x-component"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.hta]@="htafile""Content Type"="application/hta"
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That's good, show the invalid keys no mercy!
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There should be less problems with it because now 2.0 has a blacklist of things that shouldn't be removed, there was no such thing in 1.7f. However to keep things safe and running on your hdd I don't recommend using the Duplicates button.
Registry optimizer?
in CCleaner
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Take a look at this thread:
http://forum.CCleaner.com/index.php?showtopic=801