joeg

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I've done what you suggested several times, and the result is always the same. Here's what I found today. And it's always the same, except that the CLSID and the name of the .dll differ each day. And as I've said, I've NEVER been able to find even one of the .dlls on my machine. It's really weird. Thanks again for your reply.

I've been using the free version of CCleaner for a couple of years now, and I'd like to express my sincere thanks to Piriform for making this excellent tool available. It does what it claims it does and is relatively easy to understand and configure. I use it every night as the second-last step in my "computing day". The last step is making a Restore Point. I'm now using CCleaner v.5.316105 (64-bit) on a Win7-SP1 machine with all the latest M$ updates, etc. In the last couple of weeks, I've noticed that every single night when I use CCleaner's Registry Cleaner function, in addition to identifying registry entries that "make sense" to me, CCleaner finds something like this It's always an "ActiveX/COM Issue", it's always in the system32 folder, it's always a .dll, and the name always has a string of letters like the one above (8-9 letters). And it's always an HKCR\CLSID key. The problem is that when I run regedit and search for, e.g. in this case, bokieaim.dll, it doesn't find anything. Furthermore, when I go into my system32 folder, it doesn't find it either. This is always the case, no matter what the name of the file is. Furthermore, when I search for the .dll in Google, it never comes up with anything. I've written the names of several of them down and there are never two with the same name. I've feared might have a virus or trojan or whatever, but I have Norton Internet Security, MalwareBytes, and MS EMET. I've also run lots of "external" scans: BitDefender, MSERT, and several others. Nothing's ever found anything. And on a purely subjective level, my computer, which is not "state of the art", but which has a good Samsung SSD, 12gb of RAM, and a reasonably powerful Intel Xeon CPU, is running as fast and smooth as ever. Where, please, is CCleaner finding these entries? Thank you. P.S. This is the report from today (04 July)

Hi from Berlin, I've been using CCleaner daily on several computers for over a year. I update it whenever a new version comes out - I'm now on 2.20.920. The program works exactly as it says, and thank God I've never had any problem with it that I didn't cause myself. :-( I recently bought a Buffalo Link Station Pro NAS drive. Its software has an idiotic feature that puts everything you delete into a folder called the "Trashbox", which has to be emptied "manually". This feature cannot be disabled and there's no way to get around it, e.g. like in Windows by hitting Shift+Del, which bypasses the Windows Recycle bin. I was very happy when I saw that I was able to add this folder to CCleaners custom files and folders. As always, CCleaner does what it says, but in this case, when the file(s) involved are over 50mb or so, it takes a long time - up to a minute or more. When I delete them directly from the drive manually, it only takes a second. By the way, when the same amount of data is directly on my computer's HDD, deleting with CCleaner it goes much faster; the problem is only on the NAS drive. I've used both the one-pass and the three-pass options, and the former (of course) is considerably faster. Having said that, I prefer the three-pass option. Is there any solution for this except - heh-heh - deleting the data on my NAS drive manually and using CCleaner only to delete the stuff directly on my computer? Thanks very much. JoeG