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Andavari

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  1. Backup your data, then run chkdsk /r on the drive as it be a bad sector(s) which most mechanical hard drives will eventually have. chkdsk /r can take hours to perform on a 2TB hard disk.
  2. Also make sure files in the CCleaner folder are not marked as read-only.
  3. If you've been having issues with it not automatically updating by itself perhaps visit the Microsoft Updates/Windows Updates site, and download any update that states it's for Root Certificates. Sometimes updating Root Certificates when an update is available may fix the issue.
  4. Just bookmark this page and don't bother with the others: https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/builds
  5. I got that one too Hazelnut, but it seems to be an old update they've re-released.
  6. Only use this page http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/builds and it should always download from Piriform.
  7. It's Windows 10, as soon as you clean some stuff with CCleaner it will almost immediately be re-downloaded. One thing I found is to go into Settings, and start turning Off allot of the Privacy settings which are all On by default - doing that alone helps stop allot of the stuff being added back in after cleaning.
  8. Some antivirus software adds stuff in there too, not sure what would happen if it were removed. One example is Avira Free Antivirus adds this in there:
  9. Just a quick note: If you use uBlock Origin, and also Avira Browser Safety they are incompatible with each other - so choose one and uninstall the other and definitely don't have both running and installed at the same time. I personally uninstalled Avira Browser Safety in favour of uBlock Origin which is much more useful to me. When both are combined: * As of uBlock Origin version 1.12 in Chrome/Chromium it was cause several issues, including a possible browser crash. *As of uBlock Origin version 1.12.4 in Mozilla Firefox when exiting/closing Firefox it will crash.
  10. Could be the reallocated sectors, then again some drives can be old with a pre-failure / old age flag on them and keep on working for a very long time. I'd recommend downloading another tool that can see if the drive is damaged. Try something like GSmartControl it can perform surface scans of the hard disk(s) - as long as they're installed internal hard disks. Or instead you could use free software from the drive manufacturer Seagate to check the drive.
  11. Good info to know rxgeek, and welcome to the forums!
  12. GbMb Data Units Conversion Runs in: Web browser URL: https://www.gbmb.org/ Not a software, just a useful site that allows for a dizzying amount of data units conversion. For instance convert Megabyte (MB) into Gigabyte (GB) or Terabyte (TB), etc.
  13. People have reported erroneous high file size amounts of cleaning before, so it's something unresolved over many versions. That number you provided equals according to: https://www.gbmb.org/megabytes 6760668.996226 TB
  14. Also AV companies like to have installers submitted to them, some will auto-upload without user interaction if configured to do so, and scanning on sites such as VirusTotal will have it submitted to them. Although some brands of AV are more prone to false positives.
  15. MVPS Hosts File updated 16 May 2017. URL: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
  16. Ransomware on a washing machine. Gonna be some dirty clothes!
  17. Don't feel too bad it doesn't properly clean on older versions of Chrome/Chromium based browsers either which I I use Chrome's (SRWare Iron to be exact) built-in cleaners to do it, then you won't be waiting for them to update/fix CCleaner to do it. You can even create a shortcut/link in Chrome in the Bookmarks Bar to make it more quickly accessible with this in it as the URL (well at least it works in SRWare Iron that I'm using): Bookmark Name: Clear Browser Data Bookmark URL: chrome://settings/clearBrowserData Screenshot:
  18. Speaking of a toothbrush with a phone app, I looked at an electric toothbrush review last week on YouTube that would show where you didn't brush your teeth long enough and areas missed.
  19. Does the System Restore tool in Windows quickly show what Restore Points you have available? One thing that was discovered a while back is corrupted Restore Points can give CCleaner issues, see here: https://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=44795
  20. How many overwrites are you trying to perform? The general consensus is nowadays with modern hard disks (even from many years ago) that more than a 1-pass overwrite isn't necessary.
  21. Today I switched back to Avira Free Antivirus v15.0.9.504 found on OldApps.com here, it's the last version that works for Windows XP, and although it will update the program files it remains compatible. Now I'm not having to put up with all the bugs I was encountering with Panda Free Antivirus, good riddance to it.
  22. Even though the old versions on FileHippo aren't portable you can unpack them with 7-Zip or 7-Zip Portable which negates having to install them. Old versions of CCleaner are also available at: http://www.oldapps.com/ccleaner.php http://www.oldversion.com/windows/ccleaner/
  23. I don't really care, however it's usually frowned upon. Kind of a forum etiquette thing.
  24. I don't understand why a government would even use Windows (especially Win10 with it's built-in keylogging). One would think they'd use Linux to eliminate allot of malware issues, etc., then they could periodically scan with something like ClamAV just to be safe.
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