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Helping on here I'm often uninstalling/reinstalling CCleaner, as well as sometimes doing odd thing with the settings to try and replicate what is being reported. So as well as having backups of my .ini file I have screenshots of my CCleaner settings backed up, so that I can reset them manually if needed. (Just an idea).

That can/will happen if Wipe Free Space (or Drive Wiper) is inturrupted unexpectedly, such as by a power failure or unplugging an external drive while it is wiping. Drive wipes work by filling up the 'free' parts of the disc with one or more files containing random data, (typically X's and Zeros) and then deleting that data. That way any files that you have previously deleted get overwritten with random data, and so cannot later be recovered by recovery software. Of course if anything should stop the drive wipe before it has deleted the random data that it has written then that random data will remain, taking up space on the disc. That sounds like what has happened to you, the wipe has been unexpectedly halted and so couldn't remove the random data it had written. So you have to remove it yourself now. If you look in File Explorer then you should see one or more files (and/or a folder) with long, apparently random, names on the drive that you were wiping. They'll have a creation date of the wipe, and a big file size. If you delete them the free space should be back. Dunno why it's filled the disc like that; but it's possible that the Windows file table somehow thought that the size of the deleted files to be overwritten with random data was bigger than the remaining capacity of the disc? That might happen if you deleted one or more (large) files and then put new files in the space that the deleted files had previously taken. - It shouldn't happen but it might. eg. Windows wrongly tells CCleaner that a deleted file took up 1GB of space and so CCleaner wants to overwrite it with 1GB of random data, but there is no longer space to do that. (In your case above a deleted file larger than 581MB, which is all that's left on the disc). In which case there would not be space on the disc for CCleaner to write what Windows said it needed to, and so Windows stops CCleaner before CCleaner gets the chance to erase the random data it had already written. Unlike Nergal I don't think that running Wipe Free Space again will fix it automatically, because it isn't 'free space' anymore it's now got files containing random data in it. (I could be wrong on that but don't think so). PS. Once you have deleted the random files and got the space back then you might want to run 'System File Check' to check/fix the Windows system files. https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/929833/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system

That is a different issue then. Please start a new thread, and it would help if you can say what is being cleaned when it hangs.

Have you inadvertently told CCleaner to shudown the computer after a clean? (Edit- Hazelnut beat me by seconds).

You have to use the exact same name that you used when purchasing the licence. (If you are copy/pasting it from the confirmation email then check that there is no leading or trailing space being copied). Also if you have registered the licence in your name but are trying to put your partners name in for her machine then it won't accept it. This gives more info about registering and possible problems: https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/204043844--Problems-activating-or-registering-CCleaner-Professional

As you haven't got a reply then that's probably because nobody here knows the answer. (Or thought your post was a report and not a question). This hasn't been reported by anyone else, but maybe no one else has tried to publish a Speccy profile to the web recently? Having a quick look online; you would get that error if a requested URI has been moved or if there was a temporary redirect in place for some reason. Either of those would give an error code (301, 302, or 307) and request confirmation from "The User". ("The User" in that case would refer to Speccy and not to yourself). https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html Why you are getting this with Speccy I don't know, but it may be that you have the snapshot open in Speccy? https://www.ccleaner.com/docs/speccy/troubleshooting-speccy Other that that; if you are trying to publish a profile to the web then it may be an issue with the server at Piriforms end. https://www.ccleaner.com/docs/speccy/using-speccy/publishing-a-speccy-profile-to-the-web If it's still happening to you (and you don't have an open snapshot) then could you post a screenshot? The usual questions just for a bit more info in case it's relevant. Which Windows version are you using? Which AntiVirus? Which Speccy version, and is it Free or Pro?

I've not heard of that one happening before. I'll flag it up to the staff. I also suggest that as you have the Pro version you contact support so they can check if there is any problem with the licence itself, (we can't see licence information here), but that seems unlikely if you can re-enter the same one again. You should email them at: support@ccleaner.com If possible send your request from the same email address that you used when registering CCleaner. (If that's not possible then noting that registered email address in your request, if you can, will make it easier for them to find your account). You should get an automatic acknowledgement by return email that your request has been received and is in a queue for action, if you can't see one then check your email spam folder. Just for info in case its needed: Which Windows version are you using? Which AntiVirus? Which CCleaner version?

I'm not entirly sure so call this a semi educated guess. I suspect that it may be because the Operating System of a Kindle Fire is not truly Android. It's a Unix/Linux type OS that is based on Android open source but modified by Amazon. So any changes and/or updates made by Amazon may suddenly cause it to have problems with apps that are designed to run on true Android. Did your Kindle get an update recently? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_OS

Sorry no one replied. I'm by no means an expert on Recuva (I've never had to use it) but I believe that it cannot read RAW. Some have reported some success with using partitioning software or doing a "Quick Format" to NTSF to rebuild partitions and then recovering, but results can be variable. This old thread may help give you some ideas https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/47686-recuva-free-version-ssd-raw-file-system/

You can't. The settings for what Health Check cleans are fixed and you can't alter them. Instead you have to use Custom Clean and tell it not to clear the history (and possibly the sessions) for CCleaner browser. I don't have CCleaner Browser on this machine but you can see here that I have unticked 'Internet History' for Firefox, so Custom Clean will leave Firefox history alone. Again though those settings only apply to Custom Clean - Health Check always does it's own thing and you can't change that. You can set Custom Clean to be the default that CCleaner opens to by going to Options>Settings and changing the 'CCleaner Home Screen'. EDIT- You should also check that the CCleaner Browser is not cleaning the history itself when you close it. https://www.ccleaner.com/docs/ccleaner-browser/using-ccleaner-browser/cleaning-ccleaner-browser

CCleaner does not do that, if it changed defaut browsers and broke Windows settings then everyone would be shouting about it. (Firefox is my default browser and CCleaner has never changed that). One thing that might do that is if you accepted a bundled offer and downloaded/installed CCleaner Browser (or Google Chrome) as well as CCleaner itself, so that the new browser has set itself as the default. What browser is now opening as default for you? It's easy enough to set the default browser back to Firefox. https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/how-to-set-firefox-as-your-default-browser-on-windows/ Of course you need to get to settings to do that, and you say that is not loading properly. I'm not sure why that should be happening, but as you say this is a new computer then it may have been an automatic Windows update. Some previous Windows updates have been known to break settings and search in Windows. (I've had it happen once with settings). The first thing to try there would be a Restart of Windows 10 (Restart not shutdown/reboot) and see if the settings work then. If it's still not working after a restart then you could try scanning/repairing Windows using dism and/or sfc. See this article for how to do that: (Myself I'd use sfc first and if that doesn't fix things then I'd try dism). https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-dism-command-line-utility-repair-windows-10-image

Your renawal will start from when the old one ends. So if you have a month left then the new one should end 13 months later.

Unfortunatelty not. Health Check is designed to do things that non-technical users may want to do. One of those things is updating cetain apps. If you use Custom Clean then you have more control. And Custom Clean does not check for application updates anyway, that's a sepetate function in "Tools".

I don't believe that you can specify an actual time for Windows optimiser to run. (But I could be wrong it's not something I've looked at in depth). AFAIK it will normally run when the computer is on but not being actively used. ('Idle' state). Unless, as in the screenshot above, you have set it to have a higher priority if it's missed 3 scheduled runs because you were not being idle - in which case it will run in the background as you work. Again though, it will analyze but won't optimise if it's not needed. There no need for Windows to tidy up the disc if Defraggler has already done it.

As you say it may be an issue with Catalina. Unfortunately we don't have many (any?) knowledgable Mac users posting here. If you can run CCleaner Mac in debug mode the logfile may help pinpoint just where it is hanging. https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/204390300-Run-CCleaner-for-Mac-debug If you let CCleaner eventually open then you should see a large time gap in the log for the process it got stuck at.

That's one reason for using CCleaners Custom Clean rather than the browsers own cleaning. CCleaners Custom Clean gives you more control over which cookies to keep and which ones to zap than (most) browsers do.

Windows defragment/optimise is still active and still running, installing Defraggler does not turn it off. But if you have already run Defraggler then Windows defragment/optimise may well decide that another optimise is not necessary. It's not that unusual to see that it hasn't optimised for days or even weeks/months, it analyzes on a schedule but only optimises when Windows thinks it is necessary. I usually run Defraggler weekly and my Windows defragment/optimise hasn't done my C drive since 11/09/2020 (I must have forgotten to run Defraggler that week). If your computer is not switched on when Windows defragment/optimise is scheduled to analyze then it will simply try again at the next schedule point. You can change that schedule in Windows defragment/optimise itself.

Is this before or after you have entered your licence key and name? You need to enter you key/name before clicking the 'Register' button. I don't know why the button would not function but the first suspicion would be that the install may not have been complete. Try uninstalling your CCleaner then downloading the 'Slim' installer from here, install it and then retry registering by clicking Options>About>Upgrade to Pro. https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/builds See this for information about problems when registering CCleaner: https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/204043844--Problems-activating-or-registering-CCleaner-Professional

It is normal normal that some things come back again straight after cleaning. Browser syncing is one thing that will do it - even if your browser is not open/active it may be 'pre-loading' synced information and cookies. All those cookies seem to be from google. Are you using a Chromium based browser (that is synced)? You could check if that is what is happening by disconnecting from the internet (pull the ethernet plug out of the computet and turn off wifi), run CCleaner, wait a minute and run it again.

You have replied to a year old thread. Your information about defragging SSDs is also out of date for modern SSDs, although it was valid for early SSDs which had shorter write lifetimes. Windows own built-in defragmenter now ocassionally defrags SSDs automatically on schedule.

I'm not sure why the OPs local OneDrive directory is being displayed (without styling) as a browser page. Maybe the Firefox install had put something in OneDrive that the CCleaner browser was trying to display? When you install Firefox as the default browser it usually opens a welcome webpage. So if the OP had not made Firefox the default during the install then perhaps tried to open whatever browser was the default, in this case CCleaner Browser. But the local directory is certainly being displayed (without styling) in a browser, with the pathname in the address bar. I can do that manually in Firefox and the styled page is displayed as the screenshot below. The main difference I can see in the pathname is the tripple slash in my Firefox as opposed to a pipe it the OPs screenshots. But that could just be a difference between how the browsers display the pathnames of local directories in the address bar?

Here is a screenshot of one that just happened to me on Android, (sorry it's a bit large) as you can see the "Index of ...." is your first clue to what has happened. A refresh of the page displayed it correctly.

Yes you can get email notifications. At the top right of any page click on your name and choose 'Account Settings' from the menu that drops down. On the right of the screen that comes up choose 'Notification Settings'. You then have a page where you can set up notifications for different things and whether/when you get an email about them.

No, it cannot run when your PC is turned off. If you are at your PC then you should see an icon appear on the taskbar/System Tray when CCleaner is running a scheduled clean. (But it may not be there for long). You could also do an 'Analyze' shortly before and shortly after the set time to see the difference that it has made.

That kind of thing happens occasionally in any/all browsers, usually simply refreshing the page displays it as it should be. To be more technical it happens when for some reason the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) webpage styling is not loaded correctly by the page. So you just see the 'raw' page with no styling applied, and some of the background coding and other unstyled stuff will be visible. (The "Index of....." for instance is background stuff that you wouldn't normally see on the styled page). As said usually a simple page refresh cures it, if not try closing and reopening the browser. (I find it happens more often on Android than Windows and I usually have to close/re-open the browser on Android). But if for some reason the CSS is corrupted, missing, or not being called correctly, then it will take action by the page owner to correct the problem.