nukecad
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They become available if/when you have created one, or more, fuller search string (pathname) than just the drive letter(s).
eg. If you use 'Add' to create 'C:\Documents\*.*' to only search that documents folder (if nothing else is ticked), then by later selecting that string the buttons become available so that you will be able to edit or remove it.
You may benefit from reading the documentation for the Duplicate Finder which can be found here:
https://www.ccleaner.com/docs/ccleaner/using-ccleaner/finding-duplicate-files -
You can't remove a drive itself, just untick it and the Duplicate Finder will ignore it.
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Modern modern phones will tether to a laptop/PC by USB or bluetooth to use the 3G/4G/5G data without the need for any third party software.
Modern phones will also function as a portable wifi hotspot themselves, taking data over 3G/4G/5G and broadacsting a wifi signal.
(For Android go to - Settings>Wireless and Networks>More Settings>Tethering and Portable Hotspots).I frequently tether my 7 year old Galaxy S3mini to my laptop using USB when I have no landline/wifi available, no 3rd party software is required.
If your 3rd party app is blocking access then stop using it and simply tether the phone without the 3rd party software.
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Moved to CCleaner for Mac.
To start with try unticking 'Cache Internet' and see if CCleaner will then run for the rest.
If this is the first time you have used CCleaner then there may be a lot to clean which it taking time (or maybe confusing CCleaner).
Try an initial clearing of Safari cache and cookies using Safari itself, and then CCleaner should be able to do the job afterwards.
https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/clear-safari-cache-3496193/ -
After a new install there will be lots of temporary files found, files that were created during the install.
Although Health Check will call these files 'Trackers' they are not actively tracking you - but they could be read and used to 'track' your previous activity.
For a fuller explanation see here: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043
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GoDaddy notifies users of breached hosting accounts
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/godaddy-notifies-users-of-breached-hosting-accounts/
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It may be because of the size of the files themselves and the type of defrag that you are doing.
One issue is that the single word 'Defragmenting' is often inaccurately used to mean two different things, two things which are mutually exclusive.
- Getting each file into one contiguous piece, rather than split across clusters. (So that they load marginally faster).
- Getting all the files into as small a storage space as possible. (To give more free clusters on the disc).
The first is 'Defragmenting' and means that some clusters on the disc will inevitably have some unused space.
The second is correctly termed 'Consolidation', and means fragmenting some files to 'pack them all in' to the available clusters.So you can have all your files in one piece each, or have them packed into the smallest space by splitting some up. - You can't have both, and which you choose depends on what you want to do.
That consolidation could explain why your files themselves are getting more fragmented each time, to 'pack them tighter' into available clusters.
Defraggler does a combination of the two by default, but for more control you can specify which one you want instead.
In Defraggler:
'Defrag Drive' will do some of both, as it sees fit to get the best result.
'Defrag Files' will make the files contiguous (#1 above).
'Defrag Free Space' (Advanced) will consolidate the files to give the most free clusters. (#2 above) - but that means fragmenting some of the files themselves.With drives getting as big as they are nowadays whole disk defragging is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, it just takes too long. (Personally I'd call anything over hour too long)
Splitting the drive into smaller partitions/drives would obviously help as you could defrag each partition/drive as needed.Once you start talking terabytes rather than gigabytes then it's best to just defrag the files, that's what you want to do anyway to speed up read times, and it's unlikely (but possible) that you are short of free space on a terabyte drive.
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That sounds like you have a corrupted recycle bin, (on drive D), it happens.
See here for a link to how to fix it:
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The new registration, as of v5..66, only asks for a key in the registration box. (I'm not sure if it asks for a name later, I've not had to go that far).
We recommend that you copy/paste the key from the confirmation email, so as to avoid any typing errors such as 1 & I, or S & 5, etc.
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I take it that you are seeing this with games?
There are reports elsewhere that Windows Updates in March and April have caused frame drops/stuttering in games.
It depends on various parts of the system, graphics, settings, etc. which explains why some PCs see it and others don't.https://windowsreport.com/update-kb4535996-games-micro-stutters/
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Themes in CCleaner browser are not fully supported yet.
You can enable the experimental feature for themes in the CCleaner browser, see here:
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Losing Admin privileges is something that happens to Windows user accounts now and again, (if you google it you'll find plenty of hits).
In your case it sounds as if your User Admin account has lost some ownerership permissions.
The first thing that I would check if if your Windows security has anything set that could be causing this.
(I recall that at one time their early attempt at an anti-ransom meansure would not let you rename or delete things unless you were using an MS app to do it).Other than that you may need to reset your User Admin account(s).
You may have to enable the hidden Elevated Administrator to do that. The third link in the Microsoft article below tells you how to do that.There are instructions here on how to fix it, up to and including the drastic measure of having to reinstall Windows:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/lost-administrative-privileges-win-10-pro/f91f5a48-e7c4-4039-bd82-c9d7c6918972As you are already a Malwarebytes user then if you are still having problems you might also want to ask their experts to check over your machine for you, just to make sure there is nothing lurking deep.
It's a service that they offer for free.
https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/9573-im-infected-what-do-i-do-now/ -
That sounds like the old Edge preloading issue, (which that warning message is supposed to fix, if you click the restart now button).
Try the instructions for the 'Automatic fix' here: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/56335-solution-ccleaner-cannot-fully-clean-microsoft-edge-due-to-pre-loading/?tab=comments#comment-313491
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I'm not sure why you are using Recuva to transfer videos and photos.
Photos transfered from iOS to a PC being rotated is a known issue.
Try reading this for how to sucessfully transfer video/photos from iOS to a PC: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201302
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When resuming analog after reboot
When you see this message are you Restarting your computer, or are you shutting down and rebooting?The two processes work differently on Windows 10 and a Restart is what is needed.
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We have seen a couple of cases recently where a purchaser mistyped their own email when ordering, (@gmial or the like), so of course the licence confirmation was automatically sent to the mistyped email, and they never got it.
You need to contact support with your order details so they can check what has happened in your particular case; it's not something that we can do on the open forum.
There is a contact form here: https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
Or you can email them: support@ccleaner.com
Please don't raise more than one ticket, they are dealt with in order and raising multiple tickets can actually slow down the response.
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The Health Check 'Security' button being greyed out is not the same issue as the original post.
Is your CCleaner Professional correctly registered, or does it show "(Unregistered)" like this?
If CCleaner is Unregistered (or the free version) that that button may be grey if there is software found to update.
As a double check; what do you see if you run 'Software Updater' from the Tools menu?
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Again it could well be your antivirus that is temporarily preventing Windows from accessing/running CCleaner, which AV are you using?
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4 hours ago, Judesman said:
I now see that I have two folders with the same Activities Cache files in.
Again I'm guessing but that may be because you have both 'Store my activity on this device' and 'Send my activity history to Microsoft' ticked in Settings>Privacy>Activity history?(I recall that One Drive would also use two folders, one for local storage and one for syncing. - OD is another MS 'inovation' that I quickly disabled).
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It isn't what you are thinking of as a 'Tracker', no one is tracking you it's just what Health Check calls a cookie.
See this for a fuller explanation:
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After renaming or moving the file(s) then you probably need a restart to clear the timeline already in memory, and yes Windows will create a new, empty, timeline and file(s).
Like I said I never use the timeline, or the Task View, when it first came along I could see that it might be useful for some but I didn't want MS saving what I'd been doing so they could snoop on it later, and you can open/close/minimise things you are working on anyway, so I don't realy see the point of Task View it's just another way of doing things.
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The fact that it stopped running and then came back on it's own a few days later could be a big clue.
That sounds that something was blocking it for a few days, the most likely culprit being an antivirus programme.
There was an issue for a few days last week when CCleaner was updated to v5.66 and some AV's were slow to recognise it as genuine.
It's something that ocassionally happens that AVs are slow to recognise updates, but they seemed to be particularly slow to remove their blocks this time, maybe because of C-19 and working from home?Which AV are you using?
I would try making sure that your AV and it's definitions are up to date.
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You could try renaming it, say from .db to .bak, (or moving it into a different folder say your documents) and seeing if that fixes your issue?
That way you can always put it back again if needed.
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Did your searching find this suggestion?
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/greyed-out-files-on-windows-10-timeline-cant-be/3cbe66cd-83bb-4406-be3e-72bae08b33d8It seems to be what you are looking for, I don't use Task View/Timeline myself so can't verify if it works.
It may be worth reading the rest of the answers as well.
Cookies vs Trackers
in CCleaner Help Requests
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They are (mostly) the same things being found, it's just simplified wording used in Health Check.
Health Check calls all cookies, temporary internet files, download history, etc. 'Trackers', - Custom Clean calls them by their individual names.
Custom Clean is meant for more advanced users.
See these links for more information:
https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041169212-Why-are-there-so-many-trackers-found-in-Health-Check-Should-I-be-worried-
https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043
PS. When I said "mostly" above, that is because Health Check uses it's own cleaning rules that you cannot change.
Custom Clean on the other hand allows you more control to specify what is and isn't cleaned.
You can also use an 'ini' file, (winapp2.ini), to vastly increase the standard range of what CCleaner will clean with Custom Clean.