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Hello Johnoo. Someone had a similar problem recently, read this thread first and see if it's any help to you. If not, post back, we'll take it from there. http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=39289

Sorry Nobby, looks like we misunderstood each other on your original post. Like you, I just use Defraggler, I didn't write the code. If I understand your second post, you're asking why some files are being displayed but are not being defragged? I can only point you to some of the settings options, then maybe you can check to see if the file in question is included or excluded by your settings. Click "Settings", then "Options", then look at the following tabs: 1.) Quick Defrag Tab: Default or Custom: If you have Custom enabled, then files will be excluded based on your settings. I leave this set on Default. 2.) Exclude Tab: Any files listed here will be excluded. 3.) Advanced Tab: See if the "Use custom fragmentation settings" line is checked. If it is, click the "Define" button. You then have the option to exclude the restore point files or the hibernation files. I leave these settings checked, excluding them during a defrag. I hope this helps you. If not, you'll have to wait for someone with a bit more knowledge than me to answer your post.

Yes and no. Keep in mind just how fast read/write operations take place on your hard drive. If every single filename was displayed, you would see nothing but a blur on your screen, provided your graphics display kept pace. What you're seeing is there just to give you a sense of what's going on. It's only a fraction of all the files being processed.

Hello and welcome to the forum. Instructions for using the back-up function are found here: http://www.piriform....ve-run-ccleaner I've never had any problems cleaning the registry with CCleaner, but there's always a first time. When you go to delete the registry entries, don't be tempted to do everything at once. Check off small batches of entries for deletion, save your backups, and keep all the backups in your Documents folder until you're absolutely sure that Windows or none of your other programs has a problem. A small item: You should post any future questions about CCleaner in the CCleaner section of the forum. Makes it easier for other members to find them.

I had a similar problem. I was trying to save my settings for startpage.com via saved cookies. Like you, I entered startpage.com under the section "Cookies to Keep" and wondered why my cookies were deleted and my settings for startpage.com always returned to the default settings. The problem wasn't with CCleaner; Norton Internet Security detected these cookies as "Tracking Cookies" every time I ran a scan, and deleted them. You have to go into Norton's scan settings and change the setting for cookies from "Delete" to either "Ignore" or "Ask Me". If you don't have Norton, look for similar settings in whatever AV product you use.

I think the point the Germans are trying to make is that this vulnerability did not occur by accident; it was deliberately designed that way.

From one of Microsoft TechNet's pages: "The state of the TPM exists independent of the computer’s operating system. Once the TPM is enabled, activated, and owned, the state of the TPM is preserved if the operating system is reinstalled. If your computer has a TPM 2.0, these states of existence do not apply. A TPM 2.0 cannot be turned off from within the operating system environment"

Redo. I was on the Investment Watch website and found an interesting story. It seems security analysts working for the government of Germany have found what they feel is an exploitable feature in Windows 8, Trusted Platform Module, or TPM for short. The full story is here: http://investmentwat...-links-the-nsa/ The next day, the website Computer World UK had a follow-up story: http://blogs.compute...ntrol/index.htm After a brief Google search, I came up with a couple of similar stories plus links to Micosoft Technet concerning TPM implementation and management: http://technet.micro...y/jj889441.aspx http://technet.micro...y/jj679889.aspx So someone tell me: is this a cause for concern? Out of curiosity I ran Regedit, clicked Edit, then Find, and entered a search for "TPM". The result: 96 entries that clearly reference TPM, and several more that were somewhat ambiguous. So it is on my machine. However, after reading one of the Technet articles, I found the command tpm.msc and ran it. The panel that opened claimed that TPM 1.2 was not enabled. So now I'm really confused. I know it is supposed to be a security feature, but if it is indeed an exploitable feature, how secure are Windows 8 users? Your comments please.

Sorry Hazelnut. Please be patient. I was in the middle of cutting and pasting several links and closed the Piriform tab by accident. Starting over (sigh).

"Es nutzt nichts" means "That's no good"

You should get the opportunity to briefly play the game "Missile Command". Youtube did it to acknowledge the thirtieth anniversary of the game. I guess they never disabled it. Why do you ask? You didn't get a link to a porno from 1980, did you?

Hey Dennis! I really liked that. Here's another one: Go on Youtube, and start any video. Wait until it starts to play (after the commercial), and place your mouse cursor on the screen. Then type "1980" (without the quotes). See what happens!

I had no idea it went missing. http://www.foxnews.c...test=latestnews

...is located between your ears. http://gigaom.com/20...83k-processors/ "If computing time scales linearly with the size of the network (a big if; I have no idea if this would be the case), it would take nearly two and half days to simulate 1 second of activity for an entire brain."

Hello and welcome to the forum. What version of Windows are you using? I have Windows 8 and I might have some different names in my directory, but it seems you have a problem with search indexing. By default the index contains references to your browser history. Here's how I fixed it: 1.) Go to Control Panel>All Control Panel Items>Indexing Options; a new panel opens, Indexing Options; it contains three items; Internet Explorer History, Start Menu, and Users 2.) Click Modify; a new panel opens, Indexing Locations 3.) Uncheck the box for "Internet Explorer History"; then click OK; this panel closes 4.) The first panel, Indexing Options, should now only have two items: Start Menu and Users 5.) Click Advanced, and on the new panel that appears, click Rebuild; this will create a new search index without the Internet Explorer History Be patient; at first it seems like nothing is happening, but soon you'll see a counter slowly increasing as the new index is being created. When it's done you'll see the message "Indexing Complete". I started with over 6,800 items in my search index; now I have 963. Post back if you need don't understand these instructions or have a problem.

Wow! Thanks for the trip in the Wayback Machine, Mr. Peabody! (If you know what television show that's from, then you have some idea how old I am.) I remember the first personal computer I ever laid eyes on. It was a Commodore 64 that belonged to a friend of my mother. And lay eyes on it was all I got to do. I remember reaching out to touch it and my mother gave me an elbow to the ribs and said "Don't Touch!" (I was in my thirties a the time, but that's just how my mom was. How embarrassing!) The first personal computer I actually got to use was an Apple IIe. It belonged to a friend of mine who didn't buy it but acquired it through bartering. Two applications came with it, a very simple word processing program and one game, F-15 Strike Eagle by Microprose. Each program booted from a floppy disk. And I remember just how primitive it was. A blue panel on top representing the sky and a green panel in the middle representing the ground. No terrain features at all. If you saw nothing but green, you were flying nose down, nothing but blue, you were flying nose up. At the bottom was a small cockpit panel with a radar screen in the middle, altimeter, airspeed and fuel gauge to the left, and a display on the right showing how many bombs and rockets you had. The enemy planes looked like crude stick figures, and ground targets were a simple "x" on he ground. But the really primitive thing was just how slow the refresh rate was. It seemed that instead of being measured in frames per second, it was more like seconds per frame. Actually, it was probably about three or four frames per second, but it just seemed much, much slower when you were playing. If you were following an enemy plane, it seemed to jerk all over the sky, going from one side of the screen to the other in each frame. You constantly over corrected trying to stay on his tail. And if it came at you head-on, you saw a very small dot, then a small stick figure, and next a very large stick figure that was right on top of you. Air to air collisions were avoided by simply having the plane fly right through you! You ended a mission by flying toward a "B" on the radar screen and seeing a black rectangle, representing the airstrip, on the solid green panel representing the ground. You approached it from one end, throttled back, lost altitude, and aimed at the closest end. But try as we might, no one could land the stupid thing! Every mission ended in a crash, resulting in no credit for the first mission, and no chance to advance to the second. A frustrating game, to say the least. Thanks for the trip to nostalgia-land Dennis, I'll talk to you soon. Take care.

Hello Qwertius and welcome. You'll find the members here both knowledgeable and helpful. I'm a newbie also and have already solved a problem thanks to help from Alan_B. Take care and talk to you soon.

I came across an article concerning AdBlocker. It seems that representatives for the advertising industry feel that AdBlocker is costing them money and may go as far as a legal action. The full story is here: http://www.thedrum.c...-away-adblocker I find commercials repetitive and inane, which is the prime reason I no longer go on Youtube or watch much in the way of television. I make it a point to DVR the few programs I do watch so I can fast forward through the commercials. How do the rest of you feel? Do you think the lawyers have a chance? Or do we suffer another small loss in the fight for free and unbridled use of the Internet? Your comments please.

Hello Alan. Thanks for the link. I read the article about System Recovery and the article about File History. Good website, I made it a point to bookmark it for future reference. Fortunately I haven't enabled File History since I don't have much of anything to save other than a dozen or so wallpapers and several Linux ISO images. Looks like I should stay away from it until Microsoft sorts it out. I found the real culprit yesterday. The strange behavior of the paging file was only a small part of the problem. For the last two months I had this little window popping up at random asking me to register with HP. I got tired of looking at this thing so I decided to fill out their little form and send it. Before the window closed it informed me I could uninstall HP Registration Service via the Control Panel. I did it and found I was getting rid of 55 MB or so. Seemed like a win-win situation. WRONG! Because of the fact I was uninstalling a piece of their precious software, HP automatically created a new restore point. The System Volume Information File now stood at 7268 MB. Ouch! My total file system was back up to 47 GB. Here's what I did to fix it. I deleted both restore points, then went into the system performance settings and disabled the paging file. Did a restart, then started Defraggler and let it run. Then set a new restore point. The result: System Volume Information had shrunk to 926 MB and my total file system was at 39 GB! Success!! I re-enbled the paging file, re-booted, and that was that. I guess that closes this thread. Thank you for your help Alan. Without Treesize as a reference, I would have never figured this out. Talk to you on another thread. Take care.

Nikki605: I found this link a while ago and thought I would share it. This person claims it works, but I can't vouch for it since I don't watch Youtube a lot and haven't had a need to try it. He claims the problem is in your router settings, specifically I.P. filtering. Read it, see what you think, and give it a try. http://www.worldofashishb.com/2013/04/youtube-buffering-fix-for-verizon-fios.html

I thought I had felt a disturbance in The Force. This explains it.

Hello Hazelnut! Thanks for your reply. When did CCleaner come on the market? I distinctly remember buying that machine in late '99 and several of my friends calling me an idiot for buying a computer 3 months before the dreaded Y2K Bug was going to render every electronic device on the planet useless. I did use that machine for quite a while, even a year or so after Microsoft dropped its support for 98SE sometime in 2006(?) or so. I do remember using CCleaner, maybe towards the end of that time? Or is senility finally catching up to me? Anyway, thanks for the reply, talk to you again soon.

I believe I have found the culprit thanks to your advice. There was no change in Windows, in System Volume Info, in SWSetup, in Program Files(x86), or in Program Files. The big change occurred in pagefile.sys, going from 4608 MB down to 1152 MB after restart. When I went to the virtual memory settings, I found the box checked for "Automatically manage paging file size". The chart at the bottom of the page read "Minimum 16 MB", "Recommended 4471MB", and "Currently Allocated 1152 MB", matching the info reported by Treesize. I can only assume that every time I ran Defraggler, it was taking into account the growth occurring in the paging file. Rather puzzling, since there is 8GB of memory installed in this machine, I would think that the paging file would not need to grow that large. But I guess that is Windows behaving like Windows. Thanks again Alan, now I know what to expect the next time.

Back again Alan. Just a quick follow up. After installing Treesize and posting here I did a restart and checked C drive. I dropped from 50.9 GB down to 48.5 GB! This matches where I was at on 8/13 after installing the Windows Updates. I'm going to run Treesize now to see what changed. I'll keep you posted.