JDPower

It's extremely unlikely CCleaner would have deleted your photos but aside from that, you could try Recuva to see if you can get back the pics if they were deleted (and asap before they are overwritten): http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Just the usual hip and trendy indie types that always end up on those lists for the most part. And out of 100 I like two

Add one more to that list

Open CCleaner, go to Options>Advanced, and see if "Only clean temp files older than 48 hours" is ticked

Hmmm, seems I'm more sane than I thought, just 19.886363636363637% insane Though there should have been two more questions: Did you have to look up the word 'tesselate'? Were you worried that the word wasn't in your online dictionary of choice?

Yes. Welcome to the club

The links in the top section are dead (the bit that's currently alternating between "Chrome Privacy Protector" and "Try out Google search's new look"). Also it would be good if clicking on the pic next to the story took you to the story as well as the, relatively small, 'Continue reading' button

You could add the cache folder as a folder to clean in Options>Include

I generally make a C drive image once a month (or whenever I remember) using a free copy of Paragon HD Manager that was given away ages ago. Although I am bad in as much as I backup the image to a partition on the same drive so if the HD died I'd be screwed (Note to self, make long overdue investment in external HD )

You're teching the piss now

Well they have said why but I'm pretty sure they got fed up of answering the same thing all the time, year after year, when a search would probably find the answer. Which, in a word, is bandwidth.

Isn't a full screen mode a full screen mode regardless of player, what does VLC's do that others don't? (or am I being dense and missing the point)

When I click the link I get a page that says (translated with Google):

Is that site for real?:

That's a good idea

You mean this page? http://www.ccleaner.com/download Those are just donation links, the download links are directly below.

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25348

You can just download the installer and run it, it will keep all your settings and is the way most of us update. Just to be on the safe side

Funnily enough I did some Googling and reading up on Google DNS yesterday when I saw it posted somewhere and it seemed the general consensus was ODNS was faster, though I guess it will be slightly dependant on the location of the DNS server. As Google don't state where any of their DNS server locations are there is no way of knowing which will be closer. I won't be using it anyway, I know they state there is currently no data stored past 48 hours but this is Google and I don't doubt it will be on their roadmap for targeted ads etc in future so will be sticking with ODNS

I did, and most of that still didn't work when I tried it a while back. So have installed Greasemonkey instead and using scripts to achieve the same functions. On a side note I wish we knew what happened to the original developer, he was a regular updater and poster on the CG Google group and suddenly without warning disappeared and never posted again. I do hope nothing happened to him

Nice link, pretty much sums up my opinion on prefetch cleaning (I would like to see it removed from CC but unfortunately suspect it never will be) and some interesting discussion in the comments section.

A couple of cracking extensions I've stumbled across recently: CheckPlaces (link): Checks your bookmarks are valid and the pages still exist. Also checks for duplicates and for empty folders and can restore missing favicons. (This was a great find for me after upgrading to FF3 and finding my trusty AM Deadlink didn't work with FF3) Form History Control (link): If you ever had to clear your entire form history because you keyed in a password in the wrong form field, or you just want to easily correct misspelled entries, this is the extension for you. Form History Control will display all form data that has been saved by the web browser. Each entry can be edited in the interface which is very helpful to correct misspelled entries in the history saving the hassle of deleting and entering the data anew. Individual or multiple entries can be deleted right from within the interface. And seeing as there's been several FF versions since I originally posted my extensions, here's my current list: Adblock Plus Element Hiding Helper Adblock Plus CheckPlaces CookieSafe Lite CuteMenus CrystalSVG DownThemAll Duplicate Tab FEBE FlashBlock Form History Control Googlebar Lite McAfee SiteAdvisor{26.6} Menu Editor Personas QuickJava Redirect Remover Session Manager TryAgain OpenSelectedLinks

See this thread about the one flash file CCleaner excludes: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showto...hl=settings.sol

Well the Avast forums seem to be completely dead atm (according to downforeveryoneorjustme.com) so your links aren't working. Probably blown up under the strain

No apology needed, you were right and your advice was good