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Indyrod

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  1. they don't care, they have taken a perfectly good piece of software, and made it a piece of crap.  I have not upgraded since 4.17, and never will.  if anybody says anything about this, they close the thread immediately which makes me think they could care less anymore, so why should any of their customers.  since their monitoring  function has been forced on users, the developers have become totally incompetent.  I don't need that, but they seem to relish its competence.  too bad, it used to be a good product, but now it sucks.  wtg Piriform, that's what happens when you become incompetent, and refuse to listen to your customers.

  2. Indyrod, you've made your feelings known quite a great deal; it verges on seeming like your continued postings are just there to twist some imagined-knife into some imagined-body. If you're here for more than just trolling, please do that. If you want to stick with 4.17 that's fine too, do that and stop trolling.

    I'm not trolling, I'm a long time user, and all I  was doing was agreeing with the users before me, that wanted the same, what should be a simple change on the install.  if that's trolling, then sorry for enjoying your product, which I use all the time, before the monitoring feature.

  3. it doesn't make any difference, they have truly screwed up a decent piece of software.  I will never update past version V4.17, which does not have the monitoring default.  that is ridiculously stupid, to not offer that option on install, that  I have no confidence in the company anymore.  release all the versions you want past that one, they all suck, and will not get close to my computer.

  4. Version 5 cements the new unwanted features as deafults:

     

    Version 5 registers itself to run at Windows start up. So a program many people use primarily to clean cache etc. on demand is inserting itself to run at startup BY DEFAULT.

    Version 5 informes you that now it is is PERMANENTLY running by deafullt -  MONITORING your computer...

     

     

    This is not what most users want. We don't want CCleaner running permanently, by default. It's so much easier to just install version 4.17 and never upgrade.

     

    this is ridiculous, I'll never upgrade from 4.17, and turned the automatic upgrade off.  if they can't relent to users request, then they have no interest in us, and I'm very satisfied with NOT having a feature I do not want, automatically installed against my wishes.  big mistake on Piriform's aggressive updates, and they can keep their updates to themselves, I have no interest.

  5. Because there is nothing personal about this, I am inclined to agree that a lot has been done to make the program seem to work like it used to in version 4.17.

    I am curious if the program still tries to register itself to run at windows startup on clean installs? It tried to in 4.18 upgrade but not in 4.19.

     

     

    I think it's important to clarify what this is about. The program had options to disable monitoring in version 4.18. Those options did not work as we found out the hard way.

    So options are still there but and hopefully they now work, this should have been mentioned as fixed in release notes.

     

    At any rate, even if fixed:

    Who thinks that the majority (more than 50%) of users want CCleaner permanently running? I don't think we do, so it's just easier to be installing 4.17 where we don't have to bother with options on each computer we install this on.

     

     

    P.S. Firefox > Right click > Languages... really does activate spelling on this forum, thanks for the tip.

     

     

     

     

     

    My reply is clear, until Piriform changes the default to not include monitoring, I will never upgrade past 4.17.  the whole thing stinks, and who in the hell requested this any way?  I can't believe ANYONE did, but they had to do it for some unforeseen reason, which makes me skeptical period.  this has to be one of the worst software upgrades I have ever seen, for any windows tool.  it went from a highly useful tool, to something I can't explain, but I want no part of it.

  6. Nobody is forcing anything. An accidental enabling of an new option is not as big an issue a spyware, or even PUP. Uncheck the options and you're gold.

    yes they are, they are forcing me to have to disable something, that apparently nobody wants.  if they can't change that,  then they have a motive, that is suspicious.  I don't like suspicious software at all.

  7. right, and how hard can it be, to not install without the Monitor enabled?  I've been a programmer my whole life, and being forced to have to disable something that people don't seem to want anyway, stinks to high heaven, and makes me very skeptical about the product.  I don't want Monitoring at all, and because they force it down your throat, makes me wonder what they are doing.   I'm losing any confidence in their software, reminds me of adware or spyware.

  8. so version V4.19 is released, but unless it "does not" enable the Monitoring by default, I will not download any new versions of CCleaner, and stay with V4.17 forever.  it's ridiculous for it to be enabled, after it's obvious from these discussions, that most people do not want it.  give me a version that does not enable Monitoring by default, and I'll continue to upgrade.

  9. right, there's no better way to screwup your software product, than something like this.  forcing new releases to use a new option that nobody wants.  I've lost confidence in CCleaner, because of their own negligence in testing out their so called improved release.  very poor major testing of a new release, that programmers should be ashamed of themselves.  if customers lose confidence in their credibility, then they are done, as they should be.

  10. thanks  APMichael but until a final released version is fully tested and ready for the public, I don't feel convinced everything is as it should be.  as a former programmer myself, I know how these things go sometimes.  I don't feel like the Monitor option is fully tested to work as intended, and I still don't know what it is supposed to do.  I don't like enabling new features, when I have no idea what it does, and why I would want it.

  11. Not every installation uses the ccleaner.ini. Just uncheck Enable System Monitoring and Enable Active Monitoring and you are fine. Both options have to be disabled.

    Enable Active Monitoring was not checked on my 4.18 install by default, only the Enable System Monitoring.  I turned it off, and it would still not go away, so not sure what you are talking about.  I had to go into the Task Manager to kill it, but I'm fine with going back to v4.17.  I hope somebody explains what the Monitoring component is supposed to do anyway.

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