JDPower

Oh dear - "Download IE8 or people may starve to death", Microsoft really are getting desperate lol

I really like the principle behind the new results list but think having to click through to each section to view the files is clumsy. Surely expandable sections would work better, ie click + sign to expand. And also have the option or have it remember whether the sections are expanded as now the results page hides what is cleaned unless clicked on which is slower and a PITA quite frankly, would be far preferable to have an expanded list split into sections so all files are still visible at once but in the individual sections they now are. Good idea, just the implementation that's not quite right IMO. (Oh and on the plus side the search option in the cookies section is a cracking addition )

Well an amusing situation I found myself in this week. I'm 32 and this week my nephew turned 18 so went out for his first legal drink and I got asked for ID!!!

I use DownThemAll for most downloads.

It depends on what you class as working well. It may not find as many entries as some more aggressive reg cleaners but that is deliberate as it is designed to be a safe reg cleaner, whereas some of the more aggressive cleaners can cause more harm than good.

Although that only backs up bookmarks AFAIK and he/she did say they didn't want to reinstall all their addons again as well as bookmarks.

As suggested use FEBE to back them up, that way if the worst happens you still have a backup of your bookmarks and addons.

Indeed, I tried a few a while back and some of what they wanted to remove as duplicates was extremely dangerous. I think the one I found was the best I tried was CloneSpy (though I uninstalled it as I subsequently had no use for it) but I would still suggest exercising extreme caution

Um, Dennis, surely you mean exclude

Then I would guess they are probably Flash cookies as these (AFAIK) don't show up with regular cookies on your computer. You could do a search on your computer for all 'settings.sol' files and temporarily delete the ones in Flash folders to the recycle bin then open CCleaner and see if the cookies are still showing up in CC's cookie list. Theres no damage done then as you can safely restore the files from the recycle bin afterwards.

Hmmm, interesting. 2.18 does delete that Flash cookie file. Looked at the changelog for 2.19 and it says "Added support for Flash Cookies"?! So it cleaned all Flash cookies before, they added Flash cookie support and now it doesn't clean them all

Of course, always have had. Have you checked (on an XP system?) if the cookie file I mentioned is deleted? It certainly isn't here (I found sites listed in it that I haven't visited for quite some time) and would explain the other posters also experiencing not all flash cookies being removed.

Yup, same here. I seem to remember them adding a publisher column to the uninstall list a while back and that too has never shown in XP. Hopefully they will get round to fixing them both sometime.

It hasn't been fixed, as I said in my post above CC is not detecting one of the Flash player cookie files.

It was that post of yours that lead to me going digging and discovered that settings.sol and that it contained sites from a while back and it wasn't being deleted by CCleaner, have now added it as a custom deletion in CC. Incidentally, didn't need a program to examine the contents, just opened it in notepad.

After digging around having just read a similar thread I discovered a flash cookie file not being deleted, located at: C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys\settings.sol (WinXP)

Thanks for the headsup, that is when I'll be updating to 3.5

Just noticed they've now listed it as a seperate add-on on Mozilla : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9449

The Easylist filter subscription on ishan's link works great for me, have been using it for some time after previously using FiltersetG.

Well if you got bored what would you do with them?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdD9ypqoBk4

I tried it a while back to see if it added any additional safe cleaning that CC misses (as I tend to do with new cleaners) and found a little additional media player cleaning that hasn't caused me personally any issues, though I take no responsibly for anyone else's computer (disclaimer lol). This is the winapp2 entry I made for these additional files: [*Additional WMP files]LangSecRef=3023Detect=HKCU\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\PlayerDefault=TrueFileKey1=%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player|*.wmdbFilekey2=%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player\Art Cache\LocalMLS|*.*Filekey3=%allusersprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player|*.bin

This is what I mainly use Recuva for (quicker and less HD wear than overwriting all free space), I do this once a month and never had any issues caused by it.

Nope, had no update issues at all since I started using it a coupe of months back.

Well I have only had it happen once recently and that could have been coincidence. Certainly won't stop me using it (unless it suddenly gets worse of course) Nice one, wasn't aware you could kill the startup splash screen

It was also suggested recently on this thread and I completely agree - the default action on double click for the uninstaller section should be uninstall, I don't think that's particularly strange logic