Sateros
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Unlocker did the perfect job, thanks nodles and kroozer. I thought it could not find the files, but it did that miraculously. Thanks to all folks who helped.
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I tried "del LUCKY" and "del Pregnant" (no quotes) at "C:\Documents and Settings\Sateros\Desktop" (no quotes ) and it says Could not find it.
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I tried to drag it into a folder, and also to rename it for the first time. And I tried Safemode to have full control over the files, but there were no security tab.
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Of course I did Safemode and also EMCO MoveOnBoot. MoveOnBoot says "it may not exist", apparently it could not find them because of zero size. But I try Safemode scan which I didn't.
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On my desktop, I have three "ghost files" which cannot be removed. I downloaded .torrent files and they were there among normal torrents. They came as a set of two with exactly the same name (which is strange!) with the size of 10 KB ~ 20 KB and they are easily removed. You can right-click on the "ghost files" to show properties , but unable to rename or delete because of zero size. I tried everything from CCleaner to AVG and no idea what to do.
1. They came in a set of two.2. The ghost files.
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The only other thing I can think of which may work:
1. Reinstall that version of Winamp.
2. Go into Winamp's file associations and untick/disable all of them.
3. Uninstall Winamp with Revo Uninstaller Free or IObit Uninstaller, either will work as they allow you to remove more/most of an application whereas the original uninstaller won't.
That worked fine. I missed Revo Uninstaller for removing Winamp, I used Windows "add and remove of programs" this time ( not Winamp's ). Thanks, both of you for helping.
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Right click on the CCleaner desktop icon, or start menu icon and choose "Run As", then select the Admin account or an account with full admin privileges.
I could not choose admin account, as that was password protected.
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XP lists a "Run As" listing, then a dialog appears to choose the Administrator level.
You mean right click on the folder at start-up? Then I can choose administrator, but that is password protected.
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I noticed there were registry keys which regenerate on boot up, as I used Eusing Registry Cleaner, this must be the same case. Sorry, I could not find administrator right as I right-clicked the CCleaner shortcut and there was no administrator right in the drop down. And could you explain more about autoruns?
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Is that true? I already tried may be more than twenty times. But if it's true, I would continue.
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I uninstalled Winamp 5.62 and used CCleaner for removing left-over registry keys. But once restarting Computer, all removed keys come back. How can I completely remove them?
They are
HKCU \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \FileExts.aac \OpenWitProgids
HKCU \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \FileExts.aif \OpenWitProgids
HKCU \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \FileExts.aiff \OpenWitProgids ......
21 keys in all.
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Track the installation with an install watcher like I've already suggested and they will log every detail of what was installed on your C:\ drive and in the registry. Albeit even with an install watcher you still need to manually remove some stuff, as is the case with security software; antivrirus, firewall, etc., that place keys in the registries CurrentControlSet areas which need their permissions changed to Administrator to remove them, however they're completely harmless if not removed.
Total Uninstall sounds nice to me. And as there may not be ways to eradicate them, better get along, it seems.
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On the whole those keys are harmless. However if you find one it is best to (as I stated) let the programs developer know.
That's right and that may have happened because I updated from AVG9 to AVG10 without manually uninstalling the former. BTW, I've tried a few registry cleaning software but it seems none of them cleaned up leftover keys completely.
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CCleaner doesn't really have a way to do that. Complain to Grisoft that their old program doesn't uninstall properly on update to 10
Really? Then we need to manually delete those leftovers as most applications may not remove keys completely when uninstalled. Are there any effective ways to find unnecessary registry keys?
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One solution is to always uninstall old versions of security software such as antivirus, etc., with Revo Uninstaller Free since it can remove leftovers, then reboot and install the newest greatest version -- clean install!
Or better yet get into the habit of tracking installations with install watchers like Total Uninstall (Last Freeware Version), or the more up-to-date ZSoft Uninstaller (freeware)
Every antivirus I've ever used and uninstalled leaves something behind in the registry.
Thanks guys for informative suggestions. The Registry key Aethec posted was exactly what Ccleaner picked up after the update. I deleted it and everything is OK now. I think it's desirable for Ccleaner detects this kind of leftovers and deletes automatically.
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It's probably because there are still some AVG 9.0 registry keys which CCleaner is picking up. I would uninstall AVG and then do a clean re-install.
Clean install may be a good idea. But I hope Ccleaner would solve this in future update, because although non-existent entries are meaningless they don't do harm at all. Thanks for replying.
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I updated AVG AntiVirus 9.0 to AntiVirus 10.0 and I also deleted AVG9 folders from my computer, but AntiVirus 9.0 still stays ( Cleaner>Applications>Utilities>AVG AntiVirus 9.0 ). How do I remove this which no longer exists?
New version 4.03 DISABLES my SpywareBlaster app protection lists
in CCleaner Bug Reporting
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Same thing happened to me. I suspected Spybot S&D and AVG AntiVirus 2013 first, but that's not the case. After every CCleaner check, "Protection Enabled" for Firefox was disabled.
Now thanks to hazelnut the problem was cleared. Unchecking CCleaner's "Site Preferences" of Firefox does work! Thank you.