Andavari

Malwarebytes has always been high on RAM usage from what I've experienced. Personally I only use it as a second opinion scanner.

That's straight to the point.

Microsoft themselves used to have a registry cleaner I'm thinking it was back in or near the Win98 era, it would break their own Office program if used, then fast forward a few years and they had one built into their online antivirus scanner and it too would damage Office and other some other stuff. The point of CCleaner is it's extensible, just look at the winapp2.ini topic to learn more. Sure Disk Cleanup in Windows will clean allot if properly configured to do so, and you can even use things like Sageset and Sagerun to extend it more (see here, and here), but it won't clean MRU's in a program, Wipe Free Space, etc.

Folders in the Recycle Bin are normal, at least they were on Windows XP. Also if you were for instance on something like Windows XP or whatever other version, then for instance plug in your external drive into a Windows 10 computer they each have their own separate/unique Recycle Bins. The different OSes and any 3rd party cleaning utilities running on a particular OS will ignore another OSes Recycle Bin not associated with it - at least that's what I've observed on my external USB hard disk which isn't too much of an issue to manually delete the contents of, if whatever version of Windows you're using at the time doesn't lock you out of doing such.

Since this is rather important I've pinned it.

Usually when Windows 10 all of a sudden doesn't like a program (guess they're called apps nowadays) is to do as you've already stated above; uninstall the program, and then reinstall it - of course making sure you have the newest version that's available as trying to use an outdated version of CCleaner may not go well with Win10. For awhile Win10 would disable CCleaner, and it would have to be reinstalled. It's the reason I put the portable version of CCleaner on my mother's Win10 laptop back when all that was happening and it never once caused an issue with CCleaner.

I don't know the depth of how those work having never truly being interested in them, however just looking at some YouTube malware removal videos has shown that some malware is able to still damage stuff even on virtualized systems. So perhaps having a known good full disk image backup stored off the system is still a very good practice for people depending upon virtualization to save their bacon in case of system damage from malware or buggy/shoddy software.

Good that someone is having a nice go with a Linux distro. My issue has always been Printer/Scanner support issues, and not one of them have been able to allow me to have working audio. The printer/scanner thing I can deal with but with having no audio I ditch them. I do keep a disc with SLAX burned onto it handy, but only for the ability to use an anti-virus software outside of Windows for those just in case moments for paranoia's sake that thankfully hasn't ever been needed yet.

That's sounds like what happened to me many years ago when I went from using Avira Free Antivirus to the paid version... ...nothing but problems.

Probably just got lucky! Edit: I just remembered one cause in the past (maybe it still exists) when the Pro version would stop automatically updating could be due to the Root Certificates in Windows needing to be updated from the Microsoft Updates website.

The registry cleaner may work good with still supported older OSes such as Windows XP, but with Windows 10 there's allot more to break, and you're really entering unknown territory using or even trusting any registry cleaner not just the one in CCleaner. Since Windows 10 is a constantly evolving OS it's best to refrain from cleaning its registry. Registry cleaner's depending upon how aggressive they are can produce false positives - that's where they become damaging. The truth is they're only useful if people have the patience to manually investigate each and every entry they deem as invalid because if that's not done there's the potential of breaking something. I personally will not run a registry cleaner on Windows 10 not even CCleaner's and even though it's considered as being non-aggressive it can produce a false positive. Also if you look at security software such as Malwarebytes when scanning it will flag some registry cleaners as potential malware or unwanted software (even if they're not actually infected).

I think MB having their own experimental extension is alright, however I'd hope for more to be honest. I'm surprised they haven't just coded their own very security focused clones of Firefox and Chrome/Chromium that are automatically sandboxed with strong malware protection (perhaps cloud-based) built in, and what that extension is for -- that way if something were to get through the browser's protection the installed version of MB (or a traditional AV product) would then be tasked to deal with it.

Misspelling a very popular website address URL and you can wind up with an infected computer if your browser's security and AV solution fails.

I'll point an admin who's a Piriform employee to this topic. Not using the Pro version myself I can't really answer the question because I don't know. -------------------------------- I do however know for many people they've had update issues, as in they download the installer and for whatever reason it refuses to install, however if they reboot or try to install in Safe Mode it may successfully install.

He's not a newbie mod, he's been on here for years and the only information we know as volunteers on the forums is that it's a 1 year subscription, and then if not paying for an additional year when that 1 year subscription has expired some things will become disabled, while others will remain active.

Perhaps post in the CCleaner Suggestions area and ask them to support 7Star browser.

Based upon that then and since I notice you've listed that it has a Default path pointing it to User Data should be enough, but with it not working using CustomLocation perhaps Piriform will have to officially add it into CCleaner for it to be properly supported.

1. HOSTS File. 2. Browser addon/extension: uBlock Origin in Firefox and SRWare Iron. 3. Hardware: Only a handful of the very popular over-used ad servers I've blocked in my DSL modem, which only allows maybe 30 entries due to memory limitations I'd suppose and then it starts getting confused. If only it had the ability to load from a text file the URL's, IP Addresses, etc., of what to block but it can't do that at all.

If 7Star is a Chrome/Chromium based browser is there not a Profile folder located in there for it? Usually the Profile folder is the path you want to point that CustomLocation to.

Inputting your registration information into the standard download will convert it into your paid Pro version.

I'll lock it then.

It wasn't an active URL link, it was just the name of the registry cleaner the user was using. I proactively removed it in case it was spam.

If you're attempting to add a browser using ccleaner.ini is probably the easiest way to do it in my opinion, you can do this by opening CCleaner and then go into 'Options > Advanced' and Save all settings to INI file, then look in the CCleaner program folder for ccleaner.ini. Examples of how to properly map to a custom browser location (including portable versions of browsers): CustomLocation1=FIREFOX|C:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortableESR\Data\profile CustomLocation2=CHROME|D:\PortableApps\IronPortable\Profile

The ability to see what extensions ("addons") are installed works for me with Firefox Portable ESR. It however does not work with Chrome/Chromium-based SRWare Iron Portable.

Registry cleaners more than likely will not fix Windows error codes, in fact using a registry cleaner on a Windows 10 system can damage it especially if it's an aggressive registry cleaner. You could contact your PC manufacturer for support and perhaps they can fix it remotely, if they however can't instead of trying to chase down some error code you could restore/reinstall Windows.