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Thank you Hazelnut. I'll try that and cross my fingers.

Anyone besides me having problems using I.E. 10? I've had a problem with loading web pages, and it began on Tuesday. I'll enter a web address, like www.abc123.com, have the page load, then get no response when I try to scroll or click on a link. After several seconds, I get the message "abc123.com is not responding" displayed on the bottom of the browser window, along with a button marked "recover webpage". Sometimes the recovery works, and sometimes I receive a message to close the browser. This is something new to me, I've never had it occur prior to Tuesday. I know an update to I.E. 10 was a part of the patch, and I know my version number has changed - 10.0.9200.16721 vs. 10.0.9200.16688. Any ideas what to do? Or is it yet another problem I must learn to live with? Edit: I was just at Microsoft's website looking for more info and yet another problem with several of their webpages: "Microsoft.com is not responding due to a long running script" along with the button "stop script"! It appears that die wunderkinder at Microsoft have fixed one problem and created several more in the process. I'm glad I have Pale Moon and the Tor browser to use while they sort this out.

Hello darkulX and welcome to the forum. Is this the error you encountered? http://pcsupport.abo...p0x0000007b.htm If you can't start Windows or enter Safe Mode, your options are very limited. I can only offer one suggestion, and I cannot make any promises that it will work. Did you try accessing System Recovery? Hold down or tap the "Escape" key immediately after pressing the power button. If Escape does not work, get out your manual and find out which key is used to access the Startup Menu (or system BIOS). You should see several options on the Startup Menu, one of them being System Recovery (It's F11 on my machine, but may be different on yours). It may take a minute or two before the System Recovery menu appears. One of the options in the System Recovery menu should be Repair Windows Startup (or similar wording). This is the procedure to follow if you have a recovery partition installed on your hard drive by the manufacturer. If not, then you need the Windows 7 DVD set you used for installation. Instructions how to start recovery and repair Windows startup using this option are here: http://pcsupport.abo...rtup-repair.htm Edit: After reading that first link in it's entirety (you should as well), I think your problem extends beyond any settings you made with Defraggler. The list is long and some of it is pretty ugly. I would suggest starting at the beginning and working your way to the end in order to find the solution to the problem.

Oops. Looks like I misunderstood the question entirely. Good catch Alan.

It depends on which version of Windows you have Jimmy. It's always been a part of the cleanup options in Win8 and Win8.1, and it's just been added to Win7. You might have missed it, Hazelnut had it in her first post. http://support.micro...b/2852386/en-us If you have Vista or XP, I don't know what to tell you, other than the fact that support for XP is ending in April, so I wouldn't expect Microsoft to be adding much of anything between now and then.

...which is why I don't have a Google account. Or a Facebook account. Or a Twitter account. Or just about any other account. The less they know about me, the better I like it. If you trust your privacy to these mega-corporations, you will find out that your privacy is very low on their list of priorities, regardless of whatever they publish in their privacy statements.. The priority they all have in common, the one above all else, is making money. Period.

If you don't mind me asking, Hazelnut, just how long did it take to remove the 6GB? That's just over twice the amount I had. Did it take four hours or so? I noticed your battery nearly let you down at the end.

But that's my problem, Winapp2. When it comes to computers, I have no luck at all.

Larry, welcome to the forum. That is a great idea, if someone can figure out how to make it work. Another +1 from me. Have you ever tried using that option? Let me share my experience with you and everyone else. I bought this laptop in June, went through the first round of Windows updates, and ended up with about 55 updates in total. After several weeks, I discovered that feature and decided to try it. Windows informed me that I would gain back 2.8GB in disk space, so I thought why not? After the first 15 seconds or so, I heard my laptop's fan begin to spin up. And it just kept going faster and faster, until it was screaming, going faster than I ever heard before. I had the Speedfan utility running in system tray, and when I brought it up, I found my processors(4) running between 60 to 80 percent constantly. And their temperature was 75 to 80 degrees C - very hot in my opinion. And it was at that point I realized there was no going back. There is no way to stop the process, no way to pause or cancel it*. So I only hoped that it would be brief. WRONG! About two hours later, I finally heard the fan slow down. Then Windows went through several restarts and it was over. Later I visited AMD's website and found the absolute max for my processor is 95 degrees C, beyond that "your processor may be permanently damaged". So Windows 8 came very close to killing my 3 week old machine with that wonderful little feature. It probably shortened it's life to some degree. In retrospect, I should have just lived with the extra 2.8GB on my drive. *You might try stopping it via Task Manger - but I don't even want to think about the chaos you would create in the filesystem; you'd probably end up re-installing Windows by doing so.

"Mind, or I will help you not. Clean prefetch, or clean prefetch not? Difficult to answer. Prefetch clouds everything. Dark is prefetch, hard to see, always in motion. When you clean prefetch, careful must you be. Reckless be not. Named must your prefetch be, before banish it you can. Once you clean prefetch, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will. Once you start down the path, turn away you cannot." - a message from Master Yoda Take his advice Bob. You are not ready.

I was only going by your original statement Mike. And it was not very specific. You implied that their security software is lacking to some degree. If you do work with servers, then you already know that that the software they offer to the public, for free I might add, is entirely different than the software and hardware used to protect their servers. To me that's irresponsible. People who don't know any better read a statement like that and come away with a bad impression. Besides, how can you criticize either company when they offer the public a decent piece of security software and do it for free?

Keep in mind that only about 30% or so of all the internet servers in the world run Microsoft based software. The other 70% is split between BSD, SUSE, Red Hat, Oracle, Solaris, Unix, and others. And remember that security on your personal computer and security on a server system are two entirely different concepts: On your personal computer, you're trying to keep people out of your system, period. On a server system, you're inviting people in, but trying to strictly control what they can or cannot do once they're inside. A much more complex and difficult task.

Do you have cookies blocked in your browser's security settings? Or maybe set to delete cookies when closing the browser? I'm not very familiar with Mac systems, just going by what I know from using I.E. and Firefox.

Thanks for the links Alan. I had no problem getting VMware to initialize after installing, so I "turned a blind eye" as far as that particular thread was concerned. Maybe I just got lucky for once. And I don't have the need to drag and drop files between systems, so I avoided that pitfall. My only problem was being a little too conservative with memory settings at first. I was attempting to see what the bare minimum was for certain Linux OS's. Also, my reasoning was that it would be better to crash the virtual machine rather than the host. Windows 8 has been behaving itself since the last episode, so I didn't want to invoke the wrath of the Microsoft gnomes living beneath the keyboard. And thanks for the tip about internet access where the VM is concerned. Better safe than sorry.

Hello E_Nose and welcome to the forum. How to exclude cookies is explained here: http://www.piriform....cookies-to-keep Highlight the cookie(s) you want to keep, then use the arrows to move them from the left (delete) side to the right (keep) side. Edit: I just realized the illustration is missing from that page. Hope you can make do without it. Maybe one of the mods or admins can look into it.

Thanks for replying to this post Alan. You've "been there, done that" when it comes to a lot of different software, and I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience. I did visit their forum several times so far, and most of the people posting were concerned with boot issues, crashes, or getting specific hardware to work. However, I didn't have the time to go back two years or more. Which version of VMware Player were you using at the time? And were you using it to run Windows within Windows? I'd like to know because I think the reason I haven't had any issues so far is the fact that I've been using it for an entirely different purpose. I've been running 32 bit Linux systems in order to evaluate their processor and memory load running various desktops and using different Linux applications. Any files stored on my hard drive by VMware are Linux based, so in the event of the virtual machine crashing, would it pose the same risk as Windows based files would? Or does the risk lie within VMware itself? I think I'm safe in this regard, but I would appreciate your opinion nonetheless.

Hello finnipinni. I have a machine similar to yours and noticed the same thing happening, but only if I tried to start CCleaner right after booting Windows 8. Keep in mind that Windows 8 uses a new process called "hybrid boot". An article on the subject is here: http://www.zdnet.com/windows-8-hybrid-mode-brings-faster-boot-3040093896/ I personally think that this is done to give the user the impression that Windows 8 starts very quickly, when in fact Windows 8 is still going through the boot process long after the Metro screen appears. Trying to start CCleaner under these conditions could be the reason for the long delay.

http://xkcd.com/1197/ Use the blue buttons to navigate. Some of these cartoons are pretty funny, some are silly, and some are downright bizarre. Have fun!

Thanks Dennis. Here's one I installed just over a week ago, and I wish I had done it much sooner: VMware Player (v6.0.0) Download: https://my.vmware.co...oduct_downloads Description: A real timesaver for running an OS from the ISO image. Great for evaluating and testing an OS without having to install to hard drive or to USB and run live. Options to configure system memory, number of processors used, allocate hard drive space, and configure hardware. Comments: The default memory settings are set too low, the default for processors is set at one. Change these before trying to boot, or you will be very disappointed when it hangs or crashes. (Note: This very much depends on your machine; I have a four core processor and 8GB of system memory available.) On the plus side, it booted and ran two systems I could not get to boot from USB.

Hello minmn and welcome to the forum. I'm going to suggest something that seems almost too simple and may or may not work: Uninstall CCleaner, restart your machine, then reinstall CCleaner. If this doesn't work, post back, I have another suggestion that's a lot more involved.

If you're really concerned about government surveillance, here's an example of how to beat it: Don't own a computer or have any connection to the internet Don't have cable television Don't have a telephone Don't own a car - no registration or insurance Don't live in an apartment and pay rent Don't own a house and pay a mortage or property taxes Don't have a job and pay income taxes - work "off the books" and get paid in cash Don't have any credit cards - pay cash for everything you buy Don't have any nelghbors - live in a 10 foot by 12 foot cabin in the middle of nowhere, in a state like Montana for instance Don't have heat or electricity so you have no utility bills Don't have any friends, so nobody knows anything about you This sounds pretty crazy, doesn't it? Well it worked for Ted Kaczynski (a.k.a. The Unabomber) for nearly 18 years. And if it wasn't for the fact that his younger brother David called the F.B.I. and turned him in, he might still be out there.

Thank you Hazelnut. I've wondered for some time what software was used to make those Youtube videos with an on screen tutorial straight from someone's desktop. This explains it. Record Your Desktop VLC can load your desktop as an input device. This means that you can use the Convert / Save feature to save a video of your desktop, effectively turning VLC into screen capture software. You could also use this in concert with the Stream feature to broadcast a live stream of your desktop across the network or Internet with no additional software required.

Disappointed Winapp2? Then in the spirit of Halloween, a big black cat! Note: The image in the link is 1280x720. Scroll down and hit "full size" for 1600x900 resolution.

Glad to hear you're all right. I was going to suggest either restoring the registry or using a restore point. http://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner Read this before using CCleaner. Good advice how to use it and stay out of trouble.

Did you use it to clean files, or did you use it to clean the registry? Or both? You should always use the backup feature when cleaning the registry. That way you can undo it if you encounter a problem.