JDPower

Do you have the 'Wipe free space' option ticked in CCleaner's advanced section?

How much free space do you have on the hard drive and how long do you leave CC running?

http://docs.piriform.com/ccleaner/advanced...eaner-ini-files

But that's a cake, surely it should be a mince pie chart

I just got lost in thought. It wasn't familiar territory

Seems I missed a couple in my last post. Also use Unlocker and TreeSize

Depends what you want to use it for. I use Irfanview for for basic photo editing (cropping, levels etc) and GIMP for more serious photoshopping type stuff

This could make for a very interesting topic, its not something I've really looked into. QT Tabbar and Findexer look interesting, shall certainly be trying QT out (why have tabbed Windows never occurred to me before as an idea worth looking up ). Only things I have installed that would maybe be considered and explorer addon would be Eraser (5.7) which I use as a right click replacement for the standard delete, and Styler to pretty up the explorer toolbars. Tried Teracopy a while back but never found it particularly advantageous for my uses.

Yeah think I did miss that. My reasons were almost solely based on not having any interest in the added bloat now in it and the 08 version is problem free for me (important for a software of this nature), though I did have a glance through their forum when my 08 version ran out and it just proved my decision right from what I read (and I now have the 08 installer backed up for when it runs out again next year ).

And I thought I was the only one sticking with the 08 version

IIRC this particular file was removed from the Flash Player cleaning due to complaints of Flash settings being reset (I have it as a custom file to be deleted)

Thanks for letting us know

The odds are they are just being recreated after they are deleted, if that is the case deleting them in regedit would just have the same result. If they bother you could exclude them in Options>Exclude to stop them showing up all the time.

Click the run cleaner button and CC will delete them. If you want to keep any, eg for sites requiring a login, go to Options>Cookies first and move the needed cookie from the 'Cookies to delete' to the 'Cookies to keep' side.

Who said anything about accidentally deleting files? Some people, me included (and by the sound of it Sharktank), use it to overwrite all recoverable files, saving on the additional disk wear (and time) of overwriting all free space.

Which no doubt everyone will be eventually

At the risk of repeating myself, it already does.

And is that what you consider members of this forum to be

Have just done the above again to to see if I could repeat it and sure enough running disk cleanup's "Remove old restore points" after deleting all old RPs with CCleaner removes more data than CC did. Surely a bug or CCleaner missing something it should be deleting.

That's not true, it's great for giving 35 times more wear on your HD every run

Gotta love the irony in this comment: "IObit would like to work with all anti-malware vendors"

It already does. Who the hell's Bill P??? (Oh and your email addy in your sig is not a great idea )

Huh?!?! Are you two the same person? I'm sure I am seeing the same issue actually. As I suspected there to be a discrepancy I let my restore points build up over the last week, used JKDefrag to move system volume information folder to some free space to see it clearly. Deleted all available restore points with CCleaner and the block of files shrunk by about 30%. Then ran disk cleanup's delete old restore points and the block of files shrunk to about a tenth of the size. WinXP Home, CC2.21 (I know it's an old CC version but as far as I'm aware the restore point code hasn't changed in subsequent releases so though it was worth posting)

Me too, I thought I'd seen it here but could be wrong

That would be possible with a batch file, if the OP is interested I will pass on a batch file newbie guide I wrote for exactly what he wants to do (ie one click to stop services of choice, launch game and have services restarted on game exit).