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  1. Welcome to the forum. :)

     

    If you are talking about MS Office recently opened, start CCleaner, click on the Applications tab and un-check the Office 20XX check box.

     

    If you are talking about Recent Documents off the Windows Start button, start CCleaner, make sure the Windows tab is selected and under the Windows Explorer section un-check the Recent Documents check box.

  2. I don't know if Thunderbird is like Outlook Express, but OE's mail store is a group of files (.dbx) that contain email messages. When you delete an email from within OE, the message is not removed, just flagged as deleted. To actually remove the deleted message from the OE .dbx file, I had to do a "Compact Folders" from within OE. Maybe Thunderbird operates in a similar way, but I don't know it's mail store file structure.

     

    Does Thunderbird have something like a "Compact" function?

  3. Once made I personally never defrag a back up image.

    +1

     

    I never defrag my backup images either. Since they are not frequently accessed (except to recover) there is no need and, as Dennis posted, there is an increased risk of corrupting the image.

  4. I did a web search on the full path name C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows and the results were all related to the Windows Search function, not Live. I use the Windows Search function a lot on my Win7 laptop so I started CC & did an Analyze. Three files showed up under Windows MS Search:

     

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    I let it clean and did another Analyze. All files were cleaned including the 3 Windows MS Search files on the 1st running of CC:

     

    post-37617-0-22423800-1315256568_thumb.jpg

     

    I'm using CC v3.10 and those Windows MS Search files were cleaned (I had Windows Explorer opened to that folder and watched as those 3 files were deleted). The .log & .jrs files are part of the Windows Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) that Windows Search and other Windows applications use (like Live Mail & Live Messenger but in different folders). Each file is 1MB.

  5. Are you running the latest Speccy version released yesterday - 1.12?

     

    v1.12.265 (24 Aug 2011)

    - Added detection of software RAID.

    - Added list of running processes to Operating System.

    - Added list of Environment Variables to Operating System.

    - Improved detection of temperature on newer NVIDIA cards.

    - Fixed bug that could cause virtual memory to be incorrectly calculated.

    - Improvements to PCI data interpretation.

    - Added background check for updates.

    - Added wildcards to search (* and ?).

    - Fixed bug that could incorrectly report SATA drives as ATA.

    - Scheduled tasks should no longer be missing items.

    - Fixed rare hang with older motherboard types.

  6. Hi all,

     

    Below is a winapp2.ini entry that I wrote for the Lenovo (formerly IBM) ThinkVantage System Update program. This is a software/driver update program installed on many late IBM and Lenovo desktop and laptop systems. The winapp2.ini entry cleans out the session directory, which holds all downloaded installers and temporary files and can easily grow to multiple GB in size (see many complaints about this across the web). I have tested the entry on ThinkVantage System Update version 4.01 running on Windows 7 and partially tested on ThinkVantage System Update version 3.15 on Windows XP (in a VM, which prevented full testing).

     

    [ThinkVantage System Update*]
    LangSecRef=3024
    DetectFile=%ProgramFiles%\Lenovo\System Update\tvsu.exe
    Default=False
    FileKey1=%ProgramFiles%\Lenovo\System Update\session|*.*|RECURSE
    ; Must exclude system dir or program will not launch
    ExcludeKey1=FILE|%ProgramFiles%\Lenovo\System Update\session\system|*.*
    ; Need to exclude tvsutemp dir and updates.ser file to preserve hidden updates
    ExcludeKey2=FILE|%ProgramFiles%\Lenovo\System Update\session\tvsutemp|*.*
    ExcludeKey3=FILE|%ProgramFiles%\Lenovo\System Update\session\updates.ser
    

     

    I hope you find it useful.

    Owning a T410 myself, I find this intriguing. Are you really sure it is safe to clean the session folder? Mine is 5GB with over 8,300 files & 1,200 folders. Is the installation history retained? Would you still have the ability to uninstall an update, if needed? Is there any other "downside?"

  7. Apparently, Speccy gets it's Hotfixes data from the Windows Update History (WUH). After re-imaging my Win7 SP1 x64 laptop, the WUH was cleared, but all the updates are still listed under Installed Updates. A web search for the problem gave many topics on the subject, mostly on MS forums, but no real solution. Most replies were of the, don't worry about it, no big deal variety, so I'm not concerned. This topic pretty much describes my scenario. The WUH will populate from this point going forward as updates are installed.

     

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    post-37617-0-57421900-1312905201_thumb.jpg

     

    As a result, the Speccy Hotfixes section is now blank.

     

    Previous Speccy Snapshot showing Hotfixes.

     

    Current Speccy Snapshot showing no Hotfixes.

     

    I decided not to open this topic in the "Bug" forum, because I don't consider it a bug, per se. I just wanted to let other users know what happens if the WUH gets wiped out.

     

    Also, I wanted to let the developers know that the WUH can get wiped out and maybe there is a more reliable source, like the "Installed Updates" list from which Speccy can pull it's data. :)

  8. Do you have a:

     

    %userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows Live\Setup

     

    folder? If so that is what I will also need. and a HUGE thank you for PF.ZIP too

    No Setup subfolder. The only thing there is:

     

    %userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows Live\SqmApi

     

    The SqmApi folder is empty.

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