[Clean for all accounts on local computer]

I agree with 'Mr Don'.

 

BTW, as all MSP, we're making choices for maintenance reasons so this case :

"My dad ran ccleaner on our computer and deleted a bunch of stuff I still needed"

won't arrive because 99.9% of managed computers are single user (but each user as its own login/password).

 

The only way to clean all in one click is to use network agents which run as SYSTEM.

 

It has been discussed hundred of times but maybe with wrong arguments ;p

[Clean for all accounts on local computer]

I like your idea, but how would it be possible to clean password protected user accounts?

 

LOL.

A password protected account it not enough to disable access to its personal folder. ;p

If current user has admin rights, it can access to every folder by default.

Who has specified Private Datas for each account (since Windows XP) ?

 

A Service has all rights too to access everywhere on the hard drive so it's not a problem.

^^

[Clean for all accounts on local computer]

Consensus says that this is not a viable thing (to clean all users). also running as a service would cause CCleaner to clean "system user"

 

=> You can retrieve all local users using netapi32.dll with functions like NetUserEnum() in C++

=> Then browse all folders ?:\document and settings\<user>

 

So why is this not viable ?

[Clean for all accounts on local computer]

Hi,

 

the question has already been posted inside the forum maybe not in suggestions.

 

Running CCleaner as a service could be useful to clean all users datas instead doing this session by session.

 

Thanks,

 

Vincent

[CCLeaner as Windows Service]

I think we've the same problem.

 

Here's an explanation.

 

Computer A:

username: Paul

password: luaP

 

Computer B:

username: John

password: nhoJ

 

Both computer have a software deployment tool (OCS, DesktopCentral...)

Using the network agent of these tools will grant SYSTEM credentials

so %TEMP% will NOT be:

c:\Document and Settings\John\Local Settings\Temp

but

%WINDIR%\Temp

 

We can create a local admin account on each computer but it's TEMP directory will not be the real user one.

 

So, a parameter is missing for cleaning TEMP, Browser cache... for ALL COMPUTER USERS.

 

++

Vincent