nukecad
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I always let it run alone, but that's my choice.
You can keep using the computer and while that will slow down the cleanup, it shouldn't noticably slow down using the computer.
Of course while you are using the computer it will be writing new temporary files, but that shouldn't be the ones we are trying to clean up here.
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It's the Disc Cleanup that will take the time, especially if it the first one or if it's not been done for a while, the others should be fairly quick if you do them in the above order.
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I believe that both Edge versions are shown by default, whether you have them or not.
Presumably once legacy Edge is removed by MS in April's Patch Tuesday update it can also be removed from CCleaner.
It may hang about for a while though, not everybody does updates when they should, and legacy Edge will still be available for some businesses and endpoints.I suppose the next question has to be when will MS get around to scrapping/removing IE?
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If you can't get to the maximize button, and can't do the 'shaking' thing as Andavari suggested then try this:
Right-click on the CCleaner Desktop icon and select 'Properties'.
In the box that opens go to the 'Shortcut' tab and set 'Run:' to 'Maximized', then click 'Apply'.
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Thanks for the screenshots, (and thanks to the others joining in to help).
It looks to be those "System volume information" files that are causing the fragmentation. (All the red squares).
They will be either open or protected so that Defraggler can't work with them.So to start with; yes you can delete those old restore points, that may/should remove some of those System Volume files.
You can do it from CCleaner, or the next step here (Disc Cleanup) should do it.Next I would run the Windows built in Disk Clean-up with 'Clean up system files' selected. That can take some time cleaning up the system files.
Just in case you've not used Disc Cleanup before: https://www.dummies.com/computers/pcs/how-to-use-disk-cleanup-in-windows-7-and-vista/That should further reduce the number of System Volume files.
Next I would do a "Boot time defrag" which can defrag system files before Windows loads.
In the menu a the top left of Defraggler select: Settings>Boot Time Defrag>Run Once
It should give you a prompt asking if you want to restart.
Restart your machine and Defraggler will run before Windows loads to defrag the system files that it can. (Because Windows isn't yet loaded you'll only see some lines of text).Once Windows has loaded try a Defraggler analyze again to see what it says the percentage fragmented is now.
Come back and let us know how it went.
That all takes a while to do, but once you can get things cleared up and defragged keeping it that way is easier.
(PS. You can change the settings so that it doesn't keep as many restore points in future, but let's try and get things cleaned up first).
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1 hour ago, KEL1 said:
I also, "defragged by file" for a really fragmented file, but that didn't have any overall impact.
Try doing that for ALL the fragmented files, as it shows in that second link above.
If there are lots of files with a small number of fragments that can affect the overall fragmented figure more than one file with a lot of fragments.
PS. A reboot is not necessary, in fact it will probably write more temporary files which may be fragmented.
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It depends how you have defragged.
From the time it took I'm guessing you just clicked the 'Defrag' button after analyzing.There two processes that are both referred to defragging - Defragmenting and Consolidation
By default Defragler does a mix of both, and Consolidation can actually leave some files more fragmented than before which seems to be what you are seeing here.See these links,
The first is an explanation of the two diffrent defrag types, and how each type works
https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/58715-deffragler-dosnt-complite-the-defragmatation/?tab=comments#comment-321773This second one is step-by-step how to do a 'files only' defragment without the consolidation, which will get the files in one piece each and the fragmentation percentage down
https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/59792-need-3rd-option-besides-quick-defrag-and-defrag/?tab=comments#comment-326076 -
Recuva can only look at drives that you physically have there, it can't touch cloud servers.
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Yes, it was also in the Patch Tuesday updates I got which took a long time to install.
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2 hours ago, RBMunkin said:
.I decided to restart the computer (why not a shutdown?). It's not restarting. Just says it is and to not turn off the computer.
With Windows 10 a Restart actually does more than a Shutdown/Reboot in terms of installing updates and checking for errors and fixing them.
In Windows 10 Shutdown doesn't actually fully shutdown and start from scratch when you boot, with Win 10 Shutdown hibernates the kernel (savs it to disc) and reloads it at boot to make booting faster.
You need to do a Restart to finish installing most Windows Updates, It may download them in the background but then needs a Restart to complete the job.
If you haven't done a Restart for a while then there could be quite a few updates pending.
(Do you 'Check for Updates' or do you just let Windows do them automatically?).I'm guessing it was taking so long because it had found either pending Windows Updates or some error that it was trying to fix.
(There again this weeks Patch Tuesday updates took about 45 minutes installing on this laptop, there were quite a few security fixes).
If it was my machine I would do another Restart and let it finish this time. (Hopefully it's already done most of what it wanted/needed to).
PS. I believe the number of post per day thing is only for new accounts, it's an anti-spam measure to prevent a new account posting multiple spam posts in one day.
(A spambot can make hundreds of posts in one minute).
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Sometimes Windows Task Scheduler seems to keep the update task rather than removing it like it should. Not sure why, but it's happened to a couple of users.
This was for a slightly different problem when the automatic updater was first added to Free last November, it was all to do with the order in which things were turned off.
If yours is still playing up then you could try turning both Smart Cleaning and Automatic updates ON and then following the five steps given here, in their exact order,
https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/59567-cleaner-5748198-runs-smart-cleaning-even-though-i-unchecked-smart-cleaning/?tab=comments#comment-325149Alternatively CCleaner is about due for it's next update, you could try waiting for that and see if it changes things for you.
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@Franz333 Please read the second post above in this thread.
The icon is put there in the system tray by either 'Smart Cleaning' or 'Keep CCleaner updated automatically' (or both) running in the background.
If you don't want to see the icon again then turn both of those functions off.
'Exiting' from the icon will stop those features from running in the current session, but will not change the settings in CCleaner itself.
So they will start again on a restart/reboot and put the icon back back in the tray.
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Emergency fix for a new wifi bug that can cause a BSOD:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-releases-emergency-fix-for-windows-10-wifi-crashes/Fix for a 12 year old 'undiscovered' privilege escalation bug:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/12-year-old-windows-defender-bug-gives-hackers-admin-rights/ -
That should be safe enough, it's one of the things that reg cleaners are meant to be used for.
Again it's not really necessary, (but we all like a 'clean' computer).
PS. With Windows 10 those leftovers should eventually get removed anyway, either at the monthly Patch Tuesday or more likely at the bi-anual Feature (version) Updates.
Those are also the times when you'll most often see new system entries that the reg cleaner doesn't recognise, although other smaller updates can also change the registry.
It's those regular changes that make it unwise to use a reg cleaner indiscriminately with Win 10. -
We saw a few cases when automatic updates first became available for Free users where it took Windows Task Scheduler a while to sort the new background task out.
(Opening both Smart Cleaning and Automatic Updates and then closing them in a particular order usually gave Windows the poke it needed).Yours seem to be working as it should now, if it starts playing up again give another shout.
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That seems quick for Disk Clean-up to have run a system files clean up, especially just after a Patch Tuesday.
Did you select Clean up system files? Were all the boxes ticked?
And just in case it helps work things out, what is that filename at the top of the CCleaner results window when it's stuck?
You could try using Health Check to see if that will clear it, but I suspect it will also get stuck.
Be aware that Health Check Uses it's own rules and does not respect the ticks/unticks from Custom Clean.If you have not done a "Restart" (not a shutdown) for a while then that can often 'unstick' system files.
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Odd, that shouldn't happen.
You can see here that it's ticked but there is no icon in the system tray.
But if I tick automatic updates instead then the icon appears:
Does the icon come back for you if you tick the 'Notify' box (only) again?
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The clean is getting stuck on 'System - Temporary Files'.
(I can't make out the filename itself; looks like 'Amd%.ini' or something similar?)You could try unticking that category to see if CCleaner will finish then.
But that isn't realy solving the problem, only bypassing it, so:Run the built in Windows 'Disk Clean-up' selecting 'Clean up system files' - It will take a while to complete, 30 minutes plus is not unusual.
That should clear out whatever system file it is that CCleaner is getting stuck on.
PS. It looks like you had CCleaner open (and stuck) while trying to uninstall it, that would stop it uninstalling until you closed it.
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Are you using Custom Clean or Health Check?
There can be different reasons for it sticking depending on which one you are using.
If you can post a screenshot of it when it's stuck that would help us work out what may be the cause, and how you can fix it.
It also usually helps to tell us what Windows version you have, what CCleaner version, and what antivirus.
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The defaults in Custom Clean are simply the apps/items that most people would want to have cleaned, you can change them of course by ticking/unticking the categories.
If you use Health Check instead of Custom Clean than that also has it's own set of defaults, mostly the same as Custom Cleans defaults but with a few more.
You can tell it to leave something alone but you have to do that every time that you run Health Check. You cannot change what Health Check cleans by default.Just to refine the link that Hazelnut gave you, these describe the Custom Clean categories that you will see on the 'Windows' and 'Applications' tabs:
https://www.ccleaner.com/docs/ccleaner/ccleaner-rules/windows-tab
https://www.ccleaner.com/docs/ccleaner/ccleaner-rules/applications-tabIf you want to see deeper into what files each of the Custom Clean categories is finding on your machine then:
Right-Click on the category you want to look at.
In the popup menu click 'Analyze ........'.
In the results window click on anything found to see a list of files found to clean. (You can shortcut that by setting Options>Advanced>'Cleaning results level of detail' to 'File list').Of course that will only show something if there is something there to be cleaned.
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Do you mean "Skip User Account Control warning" in the CCelaner Advanced Options?
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I've not seen Canadian rye whisky on sale round here for a number of years, it used to be in the local supermarket. (About 12 years since I last bought a bottle of it).
It used to be about 3/4 the price of Scotch, Irish, or Bourbon - probably down to taxes.We now have a whisky distillery here in Cumbria, English Whisky is comparable to Scotch or Irish.
https://www.lakesdistillery.com/whiskymakers-reserve-i4754 -
It's only been 5 days since they said they escalated it but, @Dave CCleaner could you check on this support ticket please?
PS. Scotch Whisky (double distilled) doesn't have an 'e'.
Whiskey with an 'e' is the Irish (triple distilled) , nothing wrong with Irish whiskey.
Bourbon whiskey also uses an 'e'. (Irish migrant influence?)
Japanese whisky could be spelt either way depending on who translated it from where. -
Moved to CCleaner for Mac.
Cannot stop automatic launch at startup
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This thread is over 2 years old and so is well out of date.
You are missundertanding how the settings work now in CCleaner.
You can change the settings in CCleaner itself - but it's now 2 settings that you have to disable, because there is now a new function that can run in the background.
You will also get a CCleaner icon in your system tray if you have "Keep CCleaner updated automatically" selected in Options>Updates.
That's a new feature that was only recently introduced to CCleaner Free. (And it was also changed in CCleaner Pro).
If you don't want to see a CCleaner icon in the system tray then you have to have both automatic updating and Smart Cleaning turned off.
PS. "Launch the CCleaner app each time the computer starts" has nothing to do with this.
That simpy runs a clean in the background on start and then closes itself.