Glenn

What app are you using? What is the file format (e.g., .wav)? How big is each file? How many files do you have in the one folder? What file system are you using on your drive (i.e., NTFS or FAT32)?

You said it's a CD-ROM ... if it is, it can't read a blank CD.

Sorry, no idea. Unless you've run up against the FAT32 or NTFS limit (unlikely), or ran out of available drive space, I'm not aware of any general limit on file or folder size. Any such limit is probably set by the app you are using (a limit on file size is common but one on folder size seems strange).

Do you mean the temporary internet files folder? If so, for which browser?

Perhaps try running CCleaner with only one category selected at a time to see if it's caused by a specific item being cleaned.

Check to see if Options > Settings > Automatically check for updates to CCleaner is enabled. That is the only reason CCleaner should access the internet. Can't help without more detail. What kind of stuff? ... Windows? Applications? Issues? (and what subcategories?)

By any chance do you mean the index.dat files? Those always regenerate immediately after deletion.

You should also: 1. Stop broadcasting your SSID. 2. Enable the MAC filter to only allow authorized clients to connect.

Have you tried to open one of the recovered files? I have heard that some recovery programs can sometimes recover the name of a shredded (overwritten) file but not the contents.

Are you using the secure deletion option?

Just as a point of information: Because of this thread, I happened to check my C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download after the April Windows update. Although the updates were all successful I had 6 folders and 1 file left in the folder. I found one article stating that the C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download folder emptied itself 10 days after the update, so I checked the folder daily. The folder contents were there late on day 9 and gone first thing on day 10.

You may not have a standard version of Windows. See this article US military gets its own secure version of Windows Edit: P.S., If you do have an unauthorized copy of the military version, you may have bigger problems than uninstalling SP2.

See this thread Muliple users CCleaner will just clean the cache for the application not the app itself. The extension is .lnk. They are only shortcuts and cleaning them will not affect the actual documents. However I wouldn't recommend selecting Office.

Use Cleaner > Windows > Advanced > Tray Notifications Cache. Then you must manually stop and start explorer.exe using Task Manager.

Are you actually losing the Restore point folders and files in C:\System Volume Information? Or are you losing the functionality (i.e., the use of the Restore points)? The latter problem has been reported by others in this thread System Restore Problems.

Determine which cookies you need to keep. The names should make it obvious but, if in doubt, open each cookie using Notepad (some of the contents may be in hexadecimal but you should be able to recognize your passwords). Then, in CCleaner, use Options > Cookies > Cookies to Keep to protect the cookies which you need. Use CCleaner to clean the cookies rather than manually deleting them.

Oops! Sorry, I (and apparently medab_1) thought you meant Google Toolbar. If you're just using Google search from their site, AFAIK there is no special Google search history. It should just be your browser cache / forms history (I don't use FireFox).

You can also deselect Options > Search > Configure Search Box on Toolbar > Save the search history across browser sessions. Then the history will clear every time you exit the browser.

WARNING! Read the posts on the Eraser Forum. Eraser 5.8 appears to be a beta and, despite several revisions (which don't appear to be clearly identified), serious bugs are still being reported.

mred: How are you trying to delete the files? After selecting the file(s), are you using the right-click context menu, the File and Folder Tasks menu, the Toolbar > File menu, or the Delete button on your keyboard? Whichever method you are using, try selecting only one of the problem files and using one of the other methods.

Some possibilities to check: 1. Were all the cookies kept? 2. Is the CCleaner Options > Cookies list showing all cookies? The failure of CCleaner to do this has been reported in the past by several users. Confirm by comparing with Cookies displayed by Windows Explorer. 3. Are the settings saved in incrementally numbered cookies? Some websites create a new cookie each time there's the slightest change and alternate version numbers, e.g., user@news.google[1].txt then user@news.google[2].txt then user@news.google[1].txt. I have found some sites that rotate through 1 to 3 for no apparent reason. If that's the case, protecting cookie[1] may not protect cookie[2] or [3].

It looks like Google Toolbar (or at least some of it) is required for Google Earth, so you can't delete the registry key. You could edit the winapp.ini entry for Google Toolbar but you would have to remember to re-edit it every time you upversion.

Use Options > Cookies > Cookies to Keep to protect the cookie(s) that contain your settings.

According to winapp.ini, the key that triggers that item is HKCU\Software\Google\NavClient\1.1 Use regedit to verify it exists.

I notice that you recommend a smaller setting than most. I know Microsoft's 1.5X to 3X RAM isn't logical and that there's no advantage to setting virtual memory size larger than my programs will use but (assuming I have the drive space) is there a disadvantage to a larger setting?