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Yes - http://docs.piriform.com/ccleaner/introduc...em-requirements Happy upgrade

Wow ... you must accidentally delete a lot of files

+1 Good idea.

Edited to remove dumb comment because I misunderstood the original post

System Restore is used to revert system state, not data. So as you allude to, this will not work for these data files. What it potentially will do is undo changes that the user has made to their system that they may actually want. Since we know the data won't be retrieved, at best there will be no advantage to doing this. At worst, elements of system and application state would be lost. So I would advise against running System Restore.

Is that different to what's on the current sysinternals site from the link in the post above??

+1 Excellent idea. Common sense design for any vendor's application menus. Aside from ease of use, it reinforces the 'brand'; the idea that these are all part of the Piriform suite of applications ... not a disparate assortment of software.

chkdsk checks a whole volume. As you probably know chkdsk /? will give you the available options. Have a look at this if you're getting a problem with a specific file ... http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_fix_a_cyclic_r...opy_a_file.html

Like IEHistoryView, IEX allows you to delete individual history entries; i.e. individual URLs. I believe that's one of the functions that the OP wants. I think it's easier to do that from an app like that then from within IE, though personally I agree that I wouldn't pay for that either. From the quick look I had I think you can also 'edit' the address-bar URL auto-complete entries. In IE you can't do that, and afaik in IE you can only clear those entries by removing the entire history.

I don't think they are things that would be technically difficult to imlpement, it's just whether it would sit right with the product (okay it's still 'selective cleaning' ... just how far do you take it?) and how well would having a history editor fit in with ccleaner's compact, fairly simple GUI. I'm not shooting these ideas down ... that was only my view ... everyone else might think they'd be really useful ... so keep the suggestions going

Hi deek72. To say that a feature is 'missing' implies it should have been there in the first place, which I think is a little unfair to ccleaner. What you are asking for is quite extended functionality behind just one of ccleaners many functions. After all, ccleaner is far more than an IE history cleaner. My personal view is that to provide what is effectively an edit facility on your IE history is just too specialised for ccleaner. If you do go with ieHistoryX I hope you continue to use ccleaner for everything else it offers though PS Try nirsoft's free IEHistoryView ... don't think it will clear address bar URL auto-complete entries though.

Open source doesn't have to mean distributed development. But it does give visibility to what's there and as angros47 said originally it does allow people to develop add-ons and extensions. I don't see why. Not if the development of the core product is kept to the current team. Here are two very good examples of open source products: TrueCrypt file encryption and Free Download Manager.

That can't be right ... must be a 'feature' of that VM build, surely? Aside from anything else, when I'm using a 3G dongle on my netbook I can't connect until I'm logged on!

Nope ... just anywhere else on the drive. I often copy files around ... the 'recuvad' file could have been another copy of the file that had previously been deleted.

Nope.

Nice one

'Nasty temp folders' ... the mind boggles I must admit I can't think of any examples of folders that I'd either want or need to regularly delete ... especially on my data partition! Most programs don't assume a non-system partition (I presume you're saying you have something like C: for your system partition and D: for a data partition), and so will only create files there if you specify a particular location. For example my download manager downloads to a folder on my D: drive ... but only because I've specified that. So I'm just wondering what programs you have that not only randomly write to your data partition, but write to random locations on your data partition! Also, the fact that you want to add these to ccleaner implies that they are being re-created (otherwise how would you know what names to look for). So either i) you need to recurse from the partition root because you don't know where they'll reappear, which doesn't seem particularly efficient, or ii) they are being recreated in the same place ... so what's the point in constantly deleting them ... they're taking up almost no space and you can add the folder locations to ccleaner to tidy up the files within them? If you're doing a deep recurse, you would have to be damn sure that your specified folder name isn't legitimately in use elsewhere in the folder structure, or you could really mess things up. Since it's largely junk files that take up space on your drive and which ccleaner already removes, I'm not sure why you feel the need to be able to delete folders in a similar manner ... I can't see the practical value. Perhaps if you could elucidate on the nature of temp folders you mentioned originally it might help to explain your requirement. I have to say Mike (and purely my opinion of course - everyone has different needs) I see no real use to such a feature. Outside of the system folders, 'program files' and 'documents and settings' there are almost no folders on my machine that I haven't created or instigated the creation of myself.

As far as I know, deleting the file to the recycle bin doesn't normally (ever?) create another copy - it just changes the disk pointers so that file now appears to 'live' in the recycle bin. Same applies to moving a file - it's the pointers that change; the file doesn't get moved if it's on the same disk volume. Only copy actually replicates the file on disk.

Your previous suggestion was for it to be password protected - you can't have it both ways. Err - you can give the password to whoever does need to run it. Your requirements in this post seem to have changed somewhat from your original ones!!

Workaround: Put the ccleaner exe inside a password protected zip file. That way only you can run it.

Congratulations Dennis

I wish my biggest software problem was an icon in slightly the wrong shade of red ... I'd be laughing!

Ah with you! 1) You had files in 'My Pictures'. 2) You deleted them so they went into the recycle bin. 3) You ran ccleaner with 'Empty Recycle Bin' checked and 'Secure Deletion' set. 4) You were then able to recover the pictures. Sorry ... probably me being slow Did you look in the recycle bin before you ran ccleaner to make sure that the files were there before you ran ccleaner? Could these files have existed elsewhere on the drive first ... maybe copied to 'My Documents' from somewhere else? Also ... to convince yourself that secure deletion works ... do a right-click on one of the files in Recuva and securely delete it ... then run Recuva again.

But why would you expect ccleaner to clean this folder? ccleaner is supposed to clear out junk ... not 'good' files. Unless of course you specifically added that folder location to ccleaner ... in which case it will delete all of your pictures and documents every time you run it. No-one is doubting or criticising you - we're just trying to understand what's happening

'Run CCleaner when the computer starts' isn't an accurate description. This adds an entry to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. In other words this is a log-on setting, not a machine start-up setting. So 1) you would have to do this for each account and 2) this would only run when each user logs on.