PierreS
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18 hours ago, PierreS said:
I'm using Windows Defender, the built-in anti-malware protection. No other resident protection. If you need more specific info, don't hesitate to ask.
@Ben Piriform I just sent a crash report. I used the same email address as here so you can identify me.
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1 hour ago, Ben Piriform said:
Are you able to provide some further information to help with our investigation. For example what anti virus solution are you using?
I'm using Windows Defender, the built-in anti-malware protection. No other resident protection. If you need more specific info, don't hesitate to ask.
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3 hours ago, Nergal said:
Do you have skipuac enabled in ccleaner preferences?
Yes I do. It's been enabled ever since that setting became available.
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3 hours ago, hazelnut said:
How about 'Restore Default Settings' under Options.. Advanced?
It worked. Fortunately I didn't have too many non-default settings… Thanks!
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2 hours ago, nukecad said:
In the past you sometimes had to toggle it on, run a clean or analyze, and then toggle it off again to reset the dialogue.
I'm not sure why its not working now, they must have changed something? (Maybe a bug?).
As hazelnut says you could try resetting to default, but make a note of all your changes, includes, and excludes first in case it resets those as well.
Resetting to default worked. Thanks!
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47 minutes ago, nukecad said:
Try unchecking Options>Advanced>'Hide warning messages'.
Edit - sorry that used to work but seems to have stopped? I'll try and find something else.
(Because I've turned mine off now and can't get it back either).And that setting is already unchecked in mine
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Hello,
CCleaner free version (latest version) will not clean Edge's cache unless all instances of Edge (even the hidden ones) are terminated. It displays a dialog to that effect, and there's a checkbox "don't ask again", which I checked. I believed it would set CCleaner to terminate Edge automatically without asking, but instead it now simply ignores it. How do I reset this so it asks again?
Thanks!
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Hello,
Using Windows 10 Professional build 17744 (Insider preview, slow ring) and CCleaner free edition 5.46.6652.
I have the same problem: CCleaner is set to clean on startup, but doesn't actually do anything. Every other function appears to work well.
Great program!
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On 13/03/2018 at 19:32, jaddorf said:
Thanks for the latest 5.41 update. The new "Summary" results page is nice, but the old Advaced Results page was just fine and is no doubt preferred by some of us longtime users.
Some things didn't need improvement
Totally agree. Please add an option to display the old report format instead of the new one.
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Hi, I don't know whether this has already been suggested, but here's my suggestion:
CCleaner currently lets you add "run" and "open" ccleaner options on the context menu when you right click the Recycle bin. I don't use my Recycle bin (I have files permanently deleted and not sent to the bin when I delete them), so I have disabled the Recycle bin icon. However, I do use CCleaner a lot and it would save time if I had the same "right-click, run" option on the CCleaner desktop icon instead of having to enable the Recycle bin just for that. I know I can Open ccleaner, click run and then close it just fine, but it seems like if any icon should have a "run cleaner" option in its right-click menu it should be the CCleaner icon itself. Forgive me if I'm wrong but to my knowledge only the Recycle bin can have this option.
Putting it more simply: could the CCleaner desktop icon have the same "Run CCleaner" right-click option as the Recycle bin?
What's wrong with the current double-click? I mean, right-click then clicking on "run" or double-clicking the icon like any other application's is the same number of clicks, so what would the advantage be?
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P.S. In XP you can leave the install at the path; C:\Documents and Settings\User\Start Menu\Programs\CCleaner but then you have to copy that to the actual name of the User you want to in XP, you can't just copy it to 'All Users', I tried it, doesn't want to work for me in XP Pro SP3 on a Limited Account...
You can if you open an instance of Explorer as the machine's administrator (right-click, "Open as?").
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Glad to help
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This is my first post on this forum - I fully support what DasFox had to say regarding having ccleaner available for all users! I would like to ask you Alan_B, is it just a matter of moving (or Copying?) the Startmenu icon to the All users file?
Could you explain how to do this for a newbie? I for one would be more prepared to pay for the program if it was readily available for all users!
Cheers,
GeoffS
Not Alan_B here, but yes, it's a simple matter of moving the icon to the public Start menu. Under XP, the public "all programs" menu is in "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start menu\Programs". Under Vista and Win7, it's in "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start menu\Programs", and "ProgramData" is a hidden folder, so you'll need to first set Explorer to display hidden files and folders. The private Start menu is under "C:\Documents and Settings\{your login}\Start menu\Programs" for XP, and under "C:\Users\{your login}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start menu\Programs" for Vista and Win7. "AppData" is also a hidden folder.
In order for the proper permissions to be set for the shortcut, you should first copy it to its public location, then delete it from its original private one. When you move a file, it keeps its full set of original permissions, which may not be appropriate.
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Reading this thread has made me very nervous about doing anything online ever. It gives off the message that your never ever safe ever. While its probably true, that doesn't mean we should deny ourselves a very VERY helpful tool like an auto-updater due to fear.
I love all of Piriforms applications, but the only problem is the updating. I love how much it gets updated, but a lot of the time when i am running maintenance i don't have/wait my internet browser open. A built in updater just makes sense to me.
If its a security issue, cant people just have an option to turn it off?
An automatic updater could be included along the lines of the one in VLC (another excellent freeware): when a new version is detected, it opens a pop-up to tell you about it, and it offers to download and install it in stride – or just download it for later installation if you so wish.
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offtopic: About the last post, the whole comodo thing. Comodo is an great free app but it is not for beginners, you can simply click "yes" or "no" on everything and you'd still end up with holes in your defence, the fact that firewalls like say Norton Internet Security (or whatever that crap is called now a days) it's build for users that have no clue how to answer sayed questions, this does make it easier to use but it also makes it more vulnerable to attacks etc. because the AI structure in the program decides wich programs are good and wich aren't, having sayed that program requests can be faked and a False Positive will arise opening ports for trojans or what not.
Next to that most built-in virus scanners do a bad job on finding known viruses and do a even worse job on heuristic scans IF that is even included in their program or they could just rely on a cloudscanner making you pretty much vulnerable for 0 day viruses/trojans/ezploits.
The plus points of the firewall in Comodo itself is that it is pretty well programmed by default (i add stuff myself aswell like "block IP IN from all IP where protocol is any" for instance but the basics cover ICMP echo's and pings, Dos attacks and if you select all the extra options fragment controle etc.) wich is honestly really good for a Windows firewall (You can't beat a custom made IPtables linux firewall but this creates a good defence), the problems you are having are with the Defence+ Module wich monitors all the programs trying to access the internet/egistry or other important places, this can be a hassle at first but if you program it well you won't get a popup at all.
The new version (4.x) has a sandbox aswell, it needs alot of improvement but will eventually take over the need for programs like sandboxie, as for now it's pretty crappy but the latest "stable" release of comodo isen't more then a RC if you ask me (but then again if you look at microsoft, XP is stable, Longhorn was Alpha, Vista was Beta and Win7 isen't more then a RC itself either (my opinion ofcourse but i'm sure most agree) so it's not to bad for a firewall, it blocks and controles enough to be released as a RC).
Well hope that helped
Greetz,
Saint.
Off topic: No firewall worth its salt is for clueless beginners. Even the Windows built-in firewall in its default settings prompts the user once in a while, and I'd rather remain polite about its "advanced" GUI
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Cool.
What if they include the yahoo toolbar in the auto update, & the give the user the same option to install it as they do in a normal installation?
Combine the toolbar with the update & still give them the same options, minus the trouble of re-downloading it to "reinstall"?
Would that work?
It works for Java runtime updates, there's no reason why it wouldn't for CCleaner?
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Maybe I'm naive, but IMHO this is begining to be more of a flame war and less answering the OP's question, which actually seems to have been Answered.
If the OP doesn't reply in the next few days, I'm going to stop watching this topic, I've stayed because I've been wanting to aid him/her.
That said, I feel like Both Alan and Pierre are fighting here, and have three times now felt like reporting it. I haven't because maybe they are making valid point, I just don't see them, in their multiple long bear poking posts.
Nuff said, just my opinion
You are perfectly correct. For some reason I don't understand, Alan seems to take everything I say as a personal attack. I've decided to put an end to the pointless bickering.
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@Alan_B:
You're willfully distorting what I'm saying to accomplish your own agenda. It all started with a simple suggestion that CCleaner should be able to clean up all existing profiles on a given computer, remember? You don't want it, so be it. If that feature gets implemented, you don't have to use it, I don't have to use it, nobody has to use it. But anyone who wants/needs it can use it. That's all there is to it.
Now get off your high horse and stop insulting me. I will thereafter no longer respond to any of your posts, you've wasted my time enough.
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So you advocate teaching a painful lesson to the naive user ?
I agree that a little knowledge is dangerous,
Do you have to discourage the gaining of knowledge by punishment at every opportunity ! !
Of course not. I advocate education, always. But I also don't believe in giving a loaded gun to ignorant people. The command prompt is such a loaded gun, so a naive user shouldn't be made aware of it unless its potential is fully described. Afterwards, everybody should be allowed to make their own mistakes.
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well, there are some exploits and methods to silently run elevated code in windows with uac on but I dont think this is the place to discuss such things
. Try google for some answersI agree this is neither the time nor the place?
I thought you were referring to means available to "ordinary" users. -
Would you care to elaborate?
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@Alan_B: a real novice isn't even aware of the command prompt
Your lifelong habit of overcaution rears its head
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You do not risk using the registry cleaning option - You are more cautious than I ! !
Not really. I just don't see the point in removing registry entries that do no harm and only use up a few hundred bytes at most.
I keep on telling you about important "completion on reboot" files which should ONLY be removed after use upon reboot. What do you not understand.
Have you never seen complaints by many users that something failed due to CCleaner.
Have you never seen the recent complaints that standard junk cleaning has removed the logs of some A.V. product.
You show no care or regard for the many people who vastly outnumber you, and do NOT know the need for caution,
and having downloaded CCleaner they promptly tick all the boxes to get maximum benefit, and damage/kill the computer. After this they make their first visit to this forum to be told the things they never knew they needed to know.
It is with their needs in mind I have suggested, and will suggest again, that anything that permits one person to "clean" another person's profile without seeing what he is doing should NOT be a standard feature for the average home user, but ought to be restricted to registered business users.
Alan
Alan, as you must be aware by now, good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement ? with some luck.
As for the needs of other users, unlike what you seem to think, they're my bread and butter and have been for many years. If you go back through this thread, you'll see that I suggested that the ability to clean all profiles on a computer should respect each individual profile's settings. I also mentioned, although maybe not clearly enough, that this boot-up cleansing should only remove temp files and MRU entries. CCleaner by default does not remove temp files that are younger than 24 hours. Thus, cleaning them at boot or login time will not have any impact on newly installed software: even the most uncautious of people do not wait for a full day before rebooting after being prompted for it.
Finally, my experience tells me that the average business user is just as stupid as the average home user, computer-wise ? after all, they're the same people, in a different environment. IMO the person responsible for maintaining the home computer should be given the same liberty as the corporate IT administrator ? or more, because there may be children at stake; while the children may be more computer-savvy than their parents, they don't often have good judgement yet.
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v5.44.6575 not cleaning on startup
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I assume so, it occurred just as I was logging on to my computer, and CCleaner is set to clean at startup…