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Hazelnut, you are indeed a temptress! If only I weren't so involved with Zorin OS9 at the moment, I'd take you up on your offer.

Hello saurabhdua - I'm glad to hear that you have created a recovery USB flash drive for your system. This is one of many steps on the way to installing Ubuntu and having a dual boot machine. >> I have always observed installation of OS through CD Disks. Do I need to make any special provision (like enabling First Boot device) to make use of this USB based Recovery when required? How do we access the options for making the "First Boot Device" with HP AIO machines? I'm operating under the assumption that your HP AOI machine and my HP laptop have similar BIOS settings and use the same keys to access and change these settings. So please be aware that there may be differences between what I describe here and what you may actually have to do on your machine. Your user's manual and HP's support website are helpful in describing what the exact procedure is for your particular machine. This is what I do to initiate system recovery on my system. With the machine powered down, press the power button and immediately start tapping the Esc key. If successful, you will see a start up menu similar to this: F1 - System Information F2 - System Diagnostics F9 - Boot Device Options F10 - BIOS Setup F11 - System Recovery Now press the F10 key to enter BIOS Setup. Use the left/right arrows on the keyboard to scroll over to "System Configuration" and press Enter. Now use the up/down arrows to scroll down to "Boot Options" and press Enter. Scroll down to "Secure Boot" and press Enter. Now select "Disabled", then press the F10 key to save the change and exit BIOS. The next screen you see will ask you to confirm this change by entering a four digit code. Do this and press Enter. Now your machine will reboot. Power it down and insert your USB recovery flash drive. Now power up and immediately hit the Esc key. This time, press F9 to select Boot Device Options. Look for the USB flash drive and select it. From this point onward it's a matter of following the on-screen instructions to initiate a system recovery. Once initiated, it's then a matter of waiting for the process to complete. >> Now since Recovery Media can be made only once, is there a way to create Discs out of the Recovery backup stored on the USB Flash drive? I have no idea if this is possible. I suggest that you treat your USB recovery flash drive as if it were gold. Put it in a safe place and do not let anyone else near it. This is simple - when you need it, you want to be absolutely sure it will work. You don't want to find that a family member or friend reformatted it to put pictures or music files on it! >> Is the purpose of a Disk Imaging Software (like Macrium Reflect) goes similar to creating a no. of Restore points on your machine, generally what is achieved by turning on "System Protection" or "System Restore"(Prev. version of Windows)? Will the installation lead to any kind of slowdowns? I take this approach - I like to have as many options as possible to repair or restore my operating system. I have System Restore activated and make a habit of creating a new Restore Point prior to installing any new software or making major changes to my system. I have the recovery partition on my hard drive and all of it's options available to me. I have the recovery USB flash drive available so I can re-install Windows if necessary. And I have created backup images using Macrium Reflect. There are two advantages to using Macrium: I can restore my system in about 35-45 minutes, and it is restored to the exact same condition as when I created the images. This is a huge time advantage compared to re-installing and then updating Windows using either the recovery partition or the recovery USB flash drive, either of which can take 4-6 hours. >>On the basis of the attached screenshot( & the ones attached earlier), can I make way for Ubuntu's installation too within the existing setup? Absolutely. Just be aware of this - you want to do this by shrinking only the Windows C: partition. You do not want to alter any of the other Windows system partitions on your hard drive. How much shrink to apply depends on you and what your intentions are regarding Ubuntu. Do you want to install it just out of curiosity or just to see if you like using Linux? Do you intend to use it as a secondary operating system? Or are you planning to use it as your primary operating system and have Windows playing a lesser role? Trying Ubuntu - This is hard for me to suggest because I have no idea how much memory is installed on your system. At the minimum, you need to create a root and a swap partition for installation, and you want to make the size of swap equal to the size of your installed memory, otherwise you will not be able to hibernate the system. I'd say to be safe, shrink the C: partition by 32GB (=32768MB). This way if your have 16GB of memory installed on your system, you will end up with both root and swap at 16GB each. This is adequate for a minimal installation if you just want to try out Ubuntu. If you have less than 16GB of system memory, then swap will be correspondingly smaller and root will be larger by the same amount. Ubuntu as secondary - I'd say go a bit further, maybe shrink C: by 80 GB(=81920MB) to 120GB(=122880MB) to make a decent amount of room for Ubuntu. Ubuntu as primary - Again, hard to suggest. You do not want to shrink the Windows C: partition excessively only to find out later on that you went too far! Because then you would have to delete your Ubuntu partitions, extend the Windows C: partition accordingly, then re-install Ubuntu. I'm only making a suggestion here - you really need to decide this for yourself - if you leave Windows with 120-150GB, that would provide Ubuntu with 300-330GB of available disk space. Please refer to the guide I provided in post #3. http://itsfoss.com/install-ubuntu-1404-dual-boot-mode-windows-8-81-uefi/ This is a pretty complete installation guide. There are two things to note: Do not make swap 1.5 times system memory as the author suggests, making it equal in size to system memory is more than enough. And when you get to bottom of the Installation screen, be sure to select dev/sda2, your existing EFI boot partition, as the place to install the bootloader!!! DO NOT use the default setting, which is dev/sda!!! Edit: I just noticed on one of your screenshots that you made a note in red mentioning Ubuntu 10.10? If you're going through all of this trouble to install Ubuntu, I would suggest installing the latest version, Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr". Version 10.10 is no longer supported and you will not be able to download/install updates from the repository! Please read here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/253594/say_goodbye_to_ubuntu_linux_10_10_maverick_meerkat.html

Hello saurabhdua - Sorry for not getting back to you sooner, but I've been away for the last week and a half. I had a look at the screenshot you provided back on post #6 and #15, the one showing Windows Disk Management on your machine. I have the very same anomaly on my HP Envy DV7 laptop, where the Recovery partition is listed twice in the upper panel, but only appears once in the lower panel. I would not worry about it. I have examined my hard drive using several other independent partitioning tools, and have found that there is only one Recovery partition, located at the very end of the drive. So the error is in the upper panel, and why this is, I do not know. It is just Windows being Windows as far as I'm concerned, and I don't lose sleep over it. As far as having no unallocated space available on your hard drive, it is up to you to create it by shrinking your C:\ partition. See here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309169.aspx

Hello norel - I don't know how to prevent those two SSD's from being displayed in the top panel. But I do know how to prevent Defraggler from defragging them. Open Defraggler, click "Settings", then click "Options". Next click the "Exclude" tab in the Options menu, then click the "Add" button at the bottom. Select "Drive or Folder", then hit the "Browse" button. Scroll down and find the line containing the first SSD, click and highlight it, then click "OK". Repeat this process for the second SSD. They are now on the excluded list. You will find that although you can select these two drives for defragmentation, Defraggler will not initiate the process.

Hello Alan - I did a Google search using the phrase "purge entries for deleted files from MFT" and came up with three possibilities for you to consider. 1.) BCWipe by Jetico, $39.95 USD. Go to this link:https://www.jetico.com/products/personal-privacy/bcwipe Click the "Features" tab, then scroll down. I think this describes what you want to do: Wipe MFT Records and Directory Entries Prevent recovery when you delete files. The file system records the names and attributes of files to a special area of your disk drive (so called 'directory entries' for FAT and MFT for NTFS). When a file is deleted, the corresponding directory entry is modified by the file system which makes it invisible to Windows and to you. However, most of the information still exists and the name and attributes can be restored using any recovery utility. BCWipe shreds directory entries and MFT so that the information can never be recovered. 2.) Directory Snoop by Briggs Software, also $39.95 USD. Here is the link: https://www.briggsoft.com/dsnoop.htm Scroll down the page and find the Flash Demo for "NTFS Filename Purge", then watch the demo. It appears that this software can be used to filter then delete MFT entries based on user defined parameters, so caution is needed. As long as you get the filters right, everything is fine. Get it wrong and you wreck the MFT beyond repair. Your call if you want to consider using this one. 3.) Eraser by Joel Low, freeware. Here is the link to the homepage: http://eraser.heidi.ie/ And here is the download page: http://eraser.heidi.ie/download.php I'm not too sure about this one being able to do what you want. I downloaded it but haven't had the time to install it and try it out. I included it based on the developer's statement found in this link: http://eraser.heidi.ie/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8864 Look for Joel's reply: "Eraser's erase features are non-destructive for data you want to keep. So although we do clean the MFT, we only erase entries which already are deleted. MFT erasure comes as part of doing an unused space erase. There's no option to turn it off or on at this point."

Hello saurabhdua - I would suggest that you should first prepare a way of reinstalling or recovering your Windows 8 operating system before thinking about installing other operating systems on your hard drive. Your HP All-In-One probably has a Windows Recovery Partition (labelled WinRE) as the very first partition on the drive, and a partition labelled Recovery as the very last partition. The WinRE partition allows you to boot into the Windows Recovery Environment and the Recovery partition contains the image files necessary to reinstall Windows 8. This is good to have, but if either of these partitions are lost or corrupted, you will lose the ability to reinstall Windows 8. If you have not already created recovery media for your HP system, please read this link: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03481733&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en#N1180 You have a choice of using either 4 DVDs or one 32GB USB flash drive to do this. This is important because it provides a way to reinstall Windows 8 that is independent from your hard drive. Another good way to backup your Windows 8 installation is by imaging. I use Macrium Reflect to create backup images of the Windows partitions on my hard drive. You can download it here: http://filehippo.com/download_macrium_reflect The instructions for imaging are here: http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50074.aspx The instructions for creating a bootable Windows PE USB stick: http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50165.aspx Note: The USB stick with Windows PE is necessary for two reasons, it allows you to boot into a rescue environment in order to restore your saved images, and it can also be used to fix boot problems if you find that you cannot boot into Windows 8 from the hard drive. I like using Macrium Reflect for this simple reason: It can restore your Windows 8 system to it's present (or near present) condition, as opposed to reinstalling it and starting from scratch with your system in "day one" condition. This is up to you if you want to take the extra time and effort using Macrium. Now onto other operating systems. I think that trying to install Windows XP and dual boot with your current Windows 8 system is going to be very difficult if not impossible. For one thing, I don't think Windows XP or Vista can be installed on a system that uses UEFI boot. I know that Windows 7 does support UEFI boot, but installing it and having it boot successfully is a little tricky to do. Another thing is this, even if you were successful with installing Windows XP, you may have a very difficult time finding all the XP compatible drivers that support the newer hardware in your HP All-In-One. Some XP drivers just may not exist for your current hardware. As far as installing Ubuntu 14.04, here is a fairly good guide explaining how it is done: http://itsfoss.com/install-ubuntu-1404-dual-boot-mode-windows-8-81-uefi/ HOWEVER, at the very end, he misses one very important step. If you look closely at the very last screenshot he provides, you will notice "Device for boot loader installation:" and "/dev/sda" is selected. THIS IS NOT CORRECT. Doing this would result in the boot loader, or Grub, being installed to the MBR area of your hard drive, and you would find you cannot boot Ubuntu. The boot loader MUST BE installed to the same partition that Windows 8 uses for UEFI boot. You will find the correct partition by examining the partition table at the top of that panel and finding the small FAT32 partition (about 260MB) labelled EFI System Partition(in Windows) or simply EFI boot(in Linux). You must select the correct partition for boot loader installation before hitting the "Install Now" button. Please note there are alternative Linux operating systems that are based on Ubuntu. Two that I like are Linux Mint 17 and the soon to be released Zorin OS 9. Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop is my personal choice, but I recommend Zorin OS to people transitioning from Windows to Linux, due to the fact you can configure the desktop to look like Windows XP or Windows 7, as well as using the traditional GNOME desktop. Another bonus with Zorin OS is the fact that it has WINE already installed. If you are interested in installing and running Windows XP apps from within a Linux OS, this might be a good choice for you, and probably much simpler than trying to install Windows XP. As far as installing an Android operating system on your machine, I am clueless. Perhaps another forum member can advise you on how to do this.

People who run straight pipes on their Harleys are both obnoxious and clueless. The purpose of straight pipes, also known as drag pipes, are for drag racing, where the engine operates at 4,000 rpm and above. They tend to produce a terrible "flat spot" in a V-twin engine's powerband between 2,500 and 3,500 rpm, which is exactly where you do 90 percent or more of your riding. I have a S&S Super B carburetor installed on my 1971 Harley Sportster XLCH, and the instructions for jetting the carb make it perfectly clear: If you run straight pipes, you will never be able to properly adjust the carburetor's intermediate jet due to engine surging. S&S carbs require a certain amount of exhaust backpressure to respond to tuning, and straight pipes do not provide this. People might think they sound great, but they are seriously compromising smooth running and good throttle response in the engine's midrange, and this could make the difference between accelerating your way out of a dangerous situation or finding yourself with a Buick parked on your chest.

The good news: 0 to 60 mph in just under 4 seconds. Probably faster than any current production Harley other than the V-Rod. The bad news: A reported range of 53 miles, and 3.5 hours to fully recharge the battery using a 220v outlet. Great if you like riding around town, not so great if you want to go from New York to Bangor Maine, a 450 mile trip. That would entail a total of 9 hours of riding time plus another 28 hours spent charging the battery. I think I'll pass on this one. http://www.wired.com/2014/06/harley-davidson-livewire/

The scariest moment in my life happened a long time ago. I was driving southbound on Interstate I-95 and was south of Baltimore and north of Washington. There are three lanes in each direction seperated by a very wide median, probably 300 to 400 feet wide. At that time, there were no barriers of any kind, it was an open median. Southbound traffic was literally stop and go, traveling 15 to 20 feet in between stops. Northbound traffic was probably moving between 40 to 50 mph. I was in the right hand lane southbound. During one stop cycle, I saw two cars on the northbound side hit each other, it appeared that one of them tried to change lanes without seeing the other car. The one in the left lane, a large Ford station wagon, went out of control and began to cross the median, heading directly at me. I was driving a Toyota Corolla at the time. There were cars in the center and left lanes on my side, but there was a large enough gap for me to watch this taking place. It almost seemed to play out in slow motion. And then the unbelievable happened. Halfway across the median, the driver of this station wagon opened his door and jumped out, rolling alongside the car briefly and then sliding to a stop. Now this 4500 pound projectile is bearing down on me with no chance of slowing or stopping. I could only hope that it changed direction somehow or that another car in either the left or center lanes would get in between us. At the very last second, the car in front of me began moving, so I cut my wheel hard right and floored it, escaping onto the shoulder of the road. The woman behind me was not so fortunate. Apparently, she did not have the same angle of view I had, and was completely unaware of the situation. If she had just stayed where she had stopped, the station wagon would have passed between our two cars and hit the guard rail. Instead, she pulled forward into the same spot were I had just been and a second later it was all over. The impact drove both her car and the station wagon across the shoulder and right into the guard rail. I immediately turned my car off and jumped out. The driver's side of her car was now on the car's centerline, and the passenger side was up against the guard rail and pushed in about foot. I jumped over the guard rail and ran to the open passenger side window. Her head and upper torso were lying face up on the floor of the passenger side, and her legs were not visible, they were somewhere beneath the mangled metal. She was motionless. The left side of her skull was fractured so badly I could a small portion of her brain. I took one look at her face and realized there was no helping her. She was dead. I reached in and put my index finger on her neck trying to find a pulse. Zero. Another man came running up and asked what he could do to help, and I replied "Unless you're a priest, there's nothing you can do." He stared at me for a second before realizing what I had said. Then he just looked down at the ground and shook his head. About three minutes later a state trooper came flying up and began barking questions at us in rapid fire "What you doing?", "Is there anyone in there?", "Why aren't you doing anything?". I replied "You'd better take a look for yourself." He looked in briefly then asked "Was she alive when you got here?" We both replied "No." Then he took down our names, addresses, and phone numbers and told us we could go. I got back in my car, and when I tried to put the key in the ignition, I realized my hand was shaking so badly I couldn't do it. So I just sat there for a few minutes. The same trooper came up and asked "Are you O.K.?", and I replied "I'm all right, I just don't feel like driving right now." Then he told me I had to pull up so they could get an ambulance in there. So I slowly drove down the shoulder about a quarter mile, stopped, got out of the car, walked over to the guard rail and threw up. I immediately felt much better. Then I got back in my car and continued my trip. But I'll never forget that day. If things hadn't occurred exactly the way they did, it would have been me and not that poor woman who died that day.

It's simple really, just eliminate all the governments, all the religions, and all the money in the world. Those three things account for 99.9% of all the conflicts in the history of mankind.

Hello darrenvox - I can only see two things affecting the outcome when using CCleaner, how it is configured to clean (as explained by mta) and how often it is used. Case in point - I installed CCleaner on my brother's HP Mini netbook after he had already been using it for a little over two years. The first time it ran, it listed 2.1 gigabytes of data to be removed. Subsequent runs were much, much less, in the tens of megabytes.

Hello bilwil72 - As long as your operating system is Windows Vista or newer, you can shrink the Windows C: partition using Windows Disk Management, accessed by Contol Panel>All>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management(in the left panel). Using this method is very safe because Windows will not allow you to go too far and risk losing data. However, if you are using Windows XP, then MiniTool Partition Wizard can be used. Just be sure that the box for "Enhanced Data Protection Mode" is checked before proceeding, this will also protect you against data loss. Read here for more details: http://www.partitionwizard.com/help/resize-partition.html

My father served in the U.S. Army in World War II, and he really didn't talk much about the war until very late in his life. Two stories stand out in my mind. The first occurred on the very first day, when he enlisted. He had taken the train into New York and went to the Whitehall Armory in Brooklyn. After the physical exam and mental evaluation, everyone was given an interview. My father was asked by a Staff Sergeant "What do you think you would be good at in the Army?". My father replied "I'd like to be a door gunner in a B-17". The Sergeant looked at my father for a moment, then looked down and stared at his paperwork. At that time, only men between the ages of 18 and 29 were being drafted. My father was 31 at the time, so he knew from reading the paperwork that my father had enlisted voluntarily. He then looked up and said "So, you want to shoot at airplanes, do you?", and began writing at the bottom of the page. Then he handed the paperwork back to my father and told him to report to another room. My father read the paperwork and realized he was being assigned to a ground based anti-aircraft unit. In light of the heavy losses suffered by the Eighth Air Force bomber groups in late 1942 and early 1943, that Sergeant probably saved my father's life that day. The second occurred very late in the war, after the Battle of the Bulge. Since the German Luftwaffe had been all but obliterated by that time, and the front was advancing so rapidly into Germany, rear echelon groups like my father's anti-aircraft unit were given a new task. The front line units would "leap frog" from one large town to the next and leave job of searching and clearing the smaller towns in between to units like my father's. In the spring of 1945, they entered one small town that had a large warehouse on the outskirts. My father's company was ordered to search the warehouse. Inside they found over 800 large crates and opened one to see what was inside. It was a machine of some sort that no one recognized. The officers in charge ordered the unit to guard the warehouse and let no one in. The next day, a Colonel arrived early in the morning, and about an hour later a large convoy of trucks pulled up. All of the crates were loaded into the trucks and taken away. Everyone in my father's unit was told not to talk about anything they had seen. Years later, my father came to realize what they had found that day: more than 800 jet engines, enough to power 400 or more Me-262 jet fighters. The Germans had the engines but no planes to put them in. Imagine if they had. Here's a link to the website for my father's unit, if anyone is interested: http://www.skylighters.org/mainmenu.html

Hello login123 - I've been using Tor for Windows for a good 8-9 months now, and I have noticed a difference starting with the 3.5.x series of releases (Current release is 3.6.1). There probably have been changes to the software itself that contribute to this, but that's probably not the sole reason. I believe that in light of the recent NSA revelations, more and more people are volunteering to run relays within the Tor network, and that more than anything else would speed up the flow of internet traffic through the network.

Three things I can see as potential problems with solar roadways: 1.) Before I retired, I was involved in road construction. There were times when the contractors I worked for applied for and received overweight permits from the New York State Department of Transportation. These were temporary permits that allowed our trucks to operate with a Gross Vehicle Weight rating of 120,000 lbs. during specific phases of a road construction project. I wonder how well an interlocked series of glass panels could stand up to that, even for a brief period of time. 2.) Looking at the texture of these panels, I would not want to transition from normal pavement onto these on a motorcycle doing 60-70 m.p.h., the resulting speed wobble could very well prove fatal. Have you ever ridden a motorcyle across a steel deck bridge? Scary, even at low speeds. 3.) Floods. No matter how well you think you have engineered and tested the way these panels are interconnected, or how they are connected to the power grid, water will eventually get in. Look at the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, or any other hurricane for that matter, could you imagine replacing all the roads that were submerged?

Hello Kas - If you'd like to read a very interesting story concerning one man and vast sums of money, google "Leo Wanta".

Hello Kas - There are several things to be aware of, to look at, or try. 1.) Be aware that Windows likes to stick System Restore Points out in the middle portion of the C: partition, and Defraggler doesn't move them. Sometimes I will delete all these restore points (provided my system is not experiencing any problems), do a full defrag, then set a new restore point. 2.) Look at this: http://postimg.org/image/qvejttstl/ Make sure you have all the same boxes checked. 3.) Try defragging the freespace itself. Start Defraggler, then select Action>Advanced>Defrag Freespace. 4.) Try a boot time defrag. Settings>Boot Time Defrag>Run Once.

Hello neurovir and welcome to the forum. Alan_B is correct, Windows will not allow you to either format or wipe the entire C: partition while Windows is running. There is one utility I use to securely erase conventional hard drives or SSD's, and that is Hiren's Boot CD. The download link is here: http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/ Warning: DO NOT click any of the green bars on this page, scroll down the page and find the .zip file (Hirens.BootCD.15.2.zip). Extract the contents and burn the .iso file to a CD or DVD. If you wish to create a bootable USB flash drive with the .iso file, I suggest using Rufus to do so: http://rufus.akeo.ie/ When you boot Hiren's, you will find a small menu, select "Linux based rescue environment (Parted Magic)". Once you boot to Parted Magic's desktop, click Drive Eraser. You will find 5 options that are referred to as "External", which basically write zeroes to individual partitions, to all partitions, the MBR area of the drive, or the entire drive. The last option is referred to as "Internal", and uses the drive's firmware to perform a Secure Erase - this is the one I prefer to use, providing the drive's firmware supports it (and the only one to use on SSD's!). Be aware of this - I recently wiped a 160GB SATA2 hard drive using this method, and it took about 55 minutes. So a 500GB drive will take about 3 hours, and a 1TB drive will take roughly 6 hours. So plan accordingly!

This is the very definition of the term "horse sense"; he was the only one with enough sense to run away!

Hello rridgely - Did you get just a blank screen, period? Or did you see the grub boot menu first, then a blank screen when the desktop was supposed to appear? In the first case, I would suspect a corrupted .iso file was used to create the bootable USB stick. This is solved by doing a MD5Checksum first to validate the integrity of the .iso file. It could also be the utility software you used to create the bootable USB stick. Try using Rufus, I've found it to be the most versatile and reliable. The link is here: http://rufus.akeo.ie/ In the second case, if you saw the grub menu, I would suspect a video driver issue. In this case, when the grub boot menu appears, try booting in Compatibility Mode and see if you get to the desktop. What brand and model is the video device on the system? Linux Mint does have driver issues with some of the newest AMD and Nvidia devices, but there are ways to get around this. Post back if this is the case, I'm a member of the Linux Mint forum, and the people there are more than willing to help.

Hello jmcgroove and welcome to the forum. If this USB flash drive does not show up in Windows Explorer, try opening Windows Disk Management and see if it appears there. If it does, it will probably be displayed as either unallocated or RAW format. If it's unallocated, right click the device and create a new simple volume, then format it FAT32. If it's RAW format, right click and delete the volume, creating unallocated space, then follow the previous directions. After doing so, it should show up again in Windows Explorer. I think what happened was the wipe operation overwrote the FAT area on the USB flash drive, and Windows Explorer has a difficult time recognizing a drive without a file table.

The wait is over. Linux Mint 17 LTS was released today! This is the final version and will be supported until April 2019. Linux Mint 17 with Cinnamon Desktop: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2626 List of new features for Cinnamon: http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_qiana_cinnamon_whatsnew.php#lts Linux Mint 17 with MATE Desktop: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2627 List of new features for MATE: http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_qiana_mate_whatsnew.php The KDE and Xfce versions should be along shortly. Enjoy!

Hello 2mg - Look here and see if you have the same boxes checked: http://postimg.org/image/qvejttstl/

Hello zxcvbnmhelp1 and welcome to the forum. One thing you should look at first: open CCleaner, then click "Options" and then "Advanced". Look at the second line and see if "Only delete files in Windows Temp folders older than 24 hours" is checked off or not. Uncheck it to see if these files get deleted or not. Also try right clicking CCleaner and select "Run as Administrator" to see if this makes a difference or not. I remember Nergal posting on this issue a while back. It seems Win 8.1 likes to store many more file in Windows Temp than the previous versions of Windows, and cleaning out these files takes quite a bit longer. If he spots this post maybe he can shed a little more light on your problem.

LuLu, I remember you mentioned being a fan of Greg Lake around Christmas time, so here's ELP's album cover from "Brain Salad Surgery", courtesy of H.R. Giger. Does she qualify as a woman or a skull? Or both?