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  1. https://blog.avast.com/welcome-piriform-to-avast

     

    Time to panic guys!!! CCleaner, Speccy, Defraggler and Recuva are all going bye bye, Avast are going to turn these programs into bloated disguised ads... Okay maybe not.

     

    Discuss.

     

    I predict CCleaner will turn into bloated adware eventually.  Why?  Because when it comes to $$, they (Avast) can't help themselves, that's why.

     

    Speccy gone

     

    Defraggler, gone

     

    Recuva, gone

     

    Yup...

     

    ... I assume a lot of AVs are going to be struggling soon with some of the changes Microsoft is doing to Windows Defender in Windows 10 and it's only going to get worse for third party AV companies as time goes by any more people switch to windows 10 and beyond.

     

    Thing is, Windoze Defender is junk.  It hardly detects anything.  I know after using it for a year and having to switch over to Bitdefender.

     

    So far, M$ isn't blocking 3rd party AVs from installing, but like with the Kaspersky example, I hope they get sued and let the courts have the final say.

  2. Nobody that has posted in this topic is affiliated with Piriform, i.e.; not employed by Piriform, at least as of this post of mine. We're just all regular users of the software that volunteer some time to help.

     

    ​I'm sure that's technically true, but this forum is directly linked to piriform.com's website, so they are in some form or another sanctioning this forum in some way.  And I would find it hard to believe "they" aren't reading this and getting feedback from it even though "they" claim not to directly participate here.

    ​I did find the HKCU\Software\Chromium entry in there and deleted it, but it still shows up in the menu so that didn't solve the problem.  I suspect this is a bug and hopefully it will be corrected at some future date.

  3. might solve the problem but i prefer if dev able to find the problem without "uninstall and reinstall" method

    this is not the first time people use it to solve cc problem

     

    Sounds like other people have had this problem too.

     

    Yeah, I would rather see the developer (I think you're one of them, right?) see if they can fix this with a future update.  These empty ghost entries that can't be removed.

     

    Another suggestion would also maybe at least allow us to see where those entries are pointing to when right mouse clicking (for example) the "Google Chrome" main heading in CCleaner to Analyze or Clean, even if there's no data in that entry to clean out.  Just an empty pathway or position being pointed to.  That would give us a clue.

  4. try Analyze and check which browser/location the rule detect

    check your cc settings for CustomLocation just to be sure there are no CL

    open cc > Tools > Browser plugins > Chrome > right click any plugin/extension > Open containing folder

     

    Yeah I opened cc > Tools > Browser plugins > Chrome > right click any plugin/extension > Open containing folder and the chrome tab is empty.

     

    I don't know what you mean by "Custom Location"

     

    And when I Analyze and watch the paths go by real quickly, I don't see anything with "Chrome" listed in there.

  5. :blink: too many chrome-based browser

    new opera and Vivaldi should be under chrome too

    can you share the screenshot of cc for the chrome section?

    please rename winapp2.ini to something else like Xwinapp2.ini so we can exclude winapp2.ini as the cause of this problem

    also try Analyze and see the result which browser the rules detect

     

    ​Screenshot of chrome section here:

    http://i.imgur.com/PBQ8FYj.jpg

    ​After changing winapp2.ini to Xwinapp2.ini, the Chrome section looks like this

    http://i.imgur.com/lPCvE8M.jpg

    Smaller, yet still there

  6. ​...read again 1st post.... :D

    in post 7, he wrote it happen after he update winapp2.ini so better remove it first or rename the file

    please check for CustomLocation in ccleaner.ini/registry

    does the chrome entries got * at the end of each rule?

     

    When I used to use CCleaner Portable, I knew where to find the .ini file, but on my desktop I don't know where it is.

    see image (I've un-hidden the folders/files under the Tools menu)

    http://i.imgur.com/2fDpaWi.jpg

     

    I should also mention that I use Opera and Vivaldi on my portable apps drive as well.  Do they show up as Chrome cloned settings under the Applications tab?  Because I don't see them as distinct and separate.  In fact I don't see entries for them at all.

    If not, then why weren't they detected?

    The reason I ask is I still only see one group for Chrome and none of these browsers are installed natively on my C:\ which is the reason why I started this thread in the first place.

    The Pale Moon settings were easy to remove.  Google Chrome is not.​

  7. Also note the changelog for the latest ccleaner includes "Optimized detection and cleaning of portable browsers" so it maybe due to that.

     

    So it will automatically detect it and clean it, even if the path is G:\ or H:\ or I:\ or whatever the next letter is available?

     

    I don't have to go into the .ini (?) file and manually change the path each time?

  8. Yes it was a PortableApps version.  I also recently found out about having your Settings Locked Per PC by plugging my flash drive into another PC and seeing my stored Chrome extensions disappear right before my eyes.  Still yet another reason to get rid of crapware Chrome off the flash drive and installed portable Chromium to take it's place instead.

    Is there anything else you would suggest?

    Thanks

  9. ​No response about WINAPP2?  

    ​I've already deleted Portable Chrome since it's causing these kinds of problems.  I don't like the way it embeds itself in my system and I can't get rid of it if I want to.  I realize all browsers leave some kind of trace, but I was able to easily delete traces of Pale Moon through the registry and that removed it's entries from CCleaner's Application Tab.  Why not Chrome's?

  10. Interesting older thread.  Nothing is showing up in Autoruns, Control Panel, regedit (except for lower case chrome Zone entries), Revo and msconfig.  Only shows in the CCleaner list under the Applications tab.  

    I also un-hid whatever hidden files and folders that were there and did a search.  I then did another search focusing on the User/Appdata folders & files that Andavari was pointing out and nothing there.  The only thing showing up is (lower case) chrome entries for Firefox and Ironkey backup.

    I did notice they appeared not long after I updated WINAPP2 to the latest version.  I had an old one in there that was a couple of years old, so I updated it.  I also have the trim.bat file in there as well in order to compact the entries and ran it.

    Would that have something to do with it?
     

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