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CCleaner usually does everything it says it will, but for some reason the latest version is a little "broken". I'm not sure if it's only with Vista or not. In any case, you can open the Tools menu in IE and use the Delete Browsing History function, for now, to clean up your IE7 History. You can even clean the index.dat file, but a restart is required for that (I think.)

In options, under Cookies, there's a place to tell CC to save desirable cookies.

I'm running Vista home Premium. If I run a cleanup using CCleaner 1.39 maximized, it causes a "CCleaner has stopped running" error. But if I use the "CCleaner.exe" /AUTO" shortcut on my desktop, it runs fine and causes no error. Here's the event: Faulting application CCleaner.exe, version 1.39.0.502, time stamp 0x461fbd15, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0x4549bdc9, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00091978, process id 0x8bc, application start time 0x01c781c88626670b.

If you're running Vista, you can't even look into the C:\System Volume Information\ folder. (Maybe you can with UAC turned off . . .)

Do you have external power to it?

Oh, this is real, OK. I also found that CCleaner isn't wiping index.dat in Vista, either. Works fine in XP, but not it Vista. I also tried using Run as Administrator when I run CCleaner. No luck.

It doesn't seem that CCleaner is shredding in Vista. I tested this by moving a 100mb file to the recycle bin, and then running CCleaner (set to NSA 7 passes, just for testing). The file gets deleted from the Recycle Bin, but it's way too fast for writing 100mb 7 times as evidenced by my disk activity light. This feature used to work for me under XP. In any case, CCleaner is still a great tool!

If you set a browser to "clean" cookies on exit, they clean all cookies, including the ones you tell CCleaner to save. If I set Firefox to clean up everything except cookies on exit, there's still a bunch of stuff left over for CCleaner to clean, otherwise I wouldn't be running CCleaner everytime I close Firefox. Additionally, if it's "not very important since the major browsers already have this feature" then why does CCleaner have browser cleaner options?

CCleaner works fine in Vista, for me. Didn't have to do anything different.

CCleaner is pretty damn perfect IMHO! Just about the only thing lacking is auto-cleanup after browser shutdown. Good work! Thanks!!