JDPower
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2 hours ago, nukecad said:
If you want to remove junk files and get lightweight then you neeed to use seek-leaner.
I pronounce it seek-seek-leaner
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30 minutes ago, Andavari said:
It was called Crap Cleaner before I even joined the forums some twenty years ago, don't know when it was changed to CCleaner, but that doesn't really matter.
FFS, you just made me feel REALLY friggin old
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5 minutes ago, Nergal said:
Um necro post. But it's C Cleaner
Some of us have been here long enough that we still call it Crap Cleaner
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Just as the world is starting to fight back against phoning home and telemetry in software, along comes Recuva with an update to add exactly that. You have to wonder just how tone deaf the owners of Piriform products are.
Oh well, another Piriform software to add to the "only use old versions" list
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On 04/11/2021 at 18:41, trium said:
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On Windows, there will now be fewer interruptions because Firefox won’t prompt you for updates. Instead, a background agent will download and install updates even if Firefox is closed.
Seems like every new version of Firefox lately there's some new 'feature' that sends me googling the off button. And ooooh, look, new colours. What is going on inside Mozilla lately
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30 minutes ago, trium said:
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Introducing Firefox Suggest, a faster way to navigate the web. Learn more about the experience and locale-specific features.
"Beginning in Firefox version 92, you will also receive new, relevant suggestions from our trusted partners"
" For sponsored results, our preferred partner is adMarketplace."
Excuse me while I just go find the big "kill this" button
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On 27/10/2020 at 05:04, hazelnut said:
Don't forget to let us know if the old ''dab of glue'' fix worked !
(hope so)
It worked
Certainly goes down as one of the more unusual issues I've come across lol, and would have driven me mad if I'd not actually noticed the battery tray was moving.
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19 hours ago, hazelnut said:
JD it could be your board
No screensavers or anything?
It's nothing to do with anything running, it's resetting the time when it's been left off for a while, exactly as you would expect with a dead bios battery.
10 hours ago, nukecad said:Do you have a multimeter to test the battery output?
If it's OK for a week or two before cropping up again then you may just be fitting old or duff batteries that are dying after a week or two, especially if you're getting them all from the same source.
They have a long shelf life but it's not infinite.
Plus if you are getting cheap/counterfeit ones then who knows, and unfortunately there are many fakes out there even on places like Amazon.Other than that then as you say check the contacts, a pencil eraser is good for cleaning contacts.
Also I'm sure that you already have but check that your Time Zone setting is correct and it's not resetting to a different time zone.
(Something niggles me that I read somewhere that using a VPN to say that you are in a different country can sometimes have an effect on the time zone settings?).Then a good malware scan just to make sure that it's not an infection that is causing it. (Unlikely but possible).
Yeah, I have a multimeter (electronics used to be my thing many moons ago). As I said, the batteries were brand new (bought new as I also thought the ones I was using were maybe duff stock), proper brand from a proper shop (and dated, so not old stock).
So opened it up tonight. Checked the battery voltage of the one I'd put in, and was registering virtually full, so wasn't some strange battery issue (I had considered maybe there was a short or something draining the batteries flat).
What I did notice though, and I'm hoping was the problem - the plastic holder the battery sits in seemed loose on the board. There's one slightly springy battery contact on the base of the holder and one on the edge. The one on the edge comes up from the motherboard through the bottom of the plastic holder and when putting the battery in, the upward pressure of the slightly springy bottom contact could push the holder up away from the board a couple of mm, and potentially breaking contact with the battery. It would stay down if pushed down, but it took very little pressure to make it lift up, certainly a slight knock of the laptop could make it spring up. So have put a dab of glue under the battery tray and fingers crossed that was it. Will find out when I turn it on again tomorrow I guess
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My laptop keeps losing the system time, have replaced the BIOS battery a few times now and it doesn't seem to fix it for long. The current battery has only been in about a week or two, and already the system clock is resetting on every restart again (brand new, proper brand battery).
Anything obvious spring to mind before I take it all to bits looking for a physical fault? (I did check the battery contacts when I put the last battery in and it appears to making perfectly good contact with the battery) -
2 hours ago, nukecad said:
We did have a thing with double 'digest' emails recently but that was fixed and hasn't reappeared.
Let me check my email inbox though.
You can always go to your profile and turn off all email notifications.
I have done now (160 notifications in), but not ideal as I subscribe there for notifications of Piriform updates and I can't be the only one subscribed there getting an email fired at them for every post ever made, for a second time (And on a side note, surely risks email servers deciding piriform emails are spam due to volume being fired out)
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Aaaand the inbox overload has started AGAIN. About 100 emails so far, and still coming
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Probably long overdue, but just wanted to say thank you to Trium for being a one man Firefox notification service for us here
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1 hour ago, surpriseantivirus said:
Essentially the Ccleaner installer has an x% chance of silently installing an application that can honestly be considered spyware, without the users consent. There is no angle that this can be looked at for it to be considered acceptable.
I actually agree with this point. If this were any other software we would be kicking off about it installing spyware without user permission. That the software in question is (formerly) reputable should make no difference.
Also it's becoming increasingly difficult to believe the "fix coming soon" that has been promised for a ridiculous time now is anything other than deliberate delaying to keep up Avast installs. It's such a simple fix that it is inconceivable to believe that a billion dollar company couldn't have fixed it straight away, let alone a year or two down the line! -
2 hours ago, Andavari said:
I'm on 68.4.1 which is Quantum from the PortableApps build. Nothing all that much different for me, although under the hood there's more files making it as of writing this a hefty 497 MB.
Yeah, I occasionally use (current version of) Tor and the difference doesn't bother me much. Just laziness and sticking with what I'm used to. But as my laptop also uses Win7 I can't really stick with an old browser as of today anyway, so not updating FF sharpish would be lazy AND dumb lol
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On 09/01/2020 at 04:24, Andavari said:
A "delightful experience" would be for them to replace the hamburger icons with donut icons!
I'm still on the last pre-Quantum release on laptop, so FF is still quite delightful lol. Though I think I've given it long enough for addons that broke with FF60 to become functional again. Plus I quite like the privacy and anti-tracking functionality being added to FF at present, so will finally be making the jump to the NEW 'delightful' Firefox at some point. Probably
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9 minutes ago, trium said:
...a more delightful experience...
Who wrote this? Mozilla or a dodgy chinese junkware dev
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1 hour ago, hazelnut said:
JD you will just have to accept the fact that Piriform loves you
I know I don't come here much anymore, but this is going too far
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I spoke too soon, another 34 emails this morning
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1 hour ago, Dave CCleaner said:
The experts are all in bed at the moment, but given that this did not seem to happen to any of the early announcements or to other forum areas I suspect it was the "Mr G" announcement robot going nuts on reposting for some reason. It has been a little cantankerous of late. @Ben CCleaner is, amongst other things, our resident robot wrangler and he will check to make sure that it hasn't become self-aware and planning to go Skynet on all of us.
Well it does have a habit of sending 2 email notifications for any new post there, but 200 (or 212 to be precise) is a little OTT
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Well it SEEMS to have stopped now, none for the last two hours
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22 minutes ago, Nergal said:
Notifications have been hit-or-miss lately. I haven't got any in about two weeks. Are you getting old ones you've read already? Dave should see this thread and inform us mods what's up and we'll inform everyone else (or he'll just inform everyone, he does things like that).
But, from someone who can't do anything about it, sorry for the deluge.
I'm getting one for every thread ever started in the announcements section.
A small selection (there's 212 in total, so far):
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Just had my email inbox fill up with notifications for every post ever created in the announcements section
EDIT: And they're STILL coming. About 250, over last 5 hours
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6 hours ago, trium said:
can i really delete this many "entrys"?
You don't delete EVERYTHING. After it's loaded drivers you can click the "Select old drivers" button and that will tick entries that probably aren't needed and can delete them if you want. Drivers which were installed on the computer when you got it may not be able to be deleted, so don't try to force delete any that it says can't be deleted. But as with anything like this, the risk is yours, make sure you have backups in case it all goes wrong. Personally I only use it to delete old nVidia drivers (which took up a big chunk of space), anything else takes up such negligible space it's not worth messing anything up for.
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2 hours ago, trium said:
"no entry loaded" + "there are one or more open sessions" ?
ah, after a while ... there alot of stuff :-) after refresh is the screen white :-(
something seems hanging in my w8.1 with rapr
"No entry loaded" at startup is normal, it usually takes 5-10 second to load (maybe longer). Same if you click refresh.
"There are one or more open sessions" suggests you've multiple copies of the program running, check task manager to make sure there's not a copy running/hanging in the background.
Winapp2.ini additions
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