nukecad
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I'm struggling to follow just what you are doing, but as far as I can make out-
First you seem to be doing a drive wipe after fromatting a 4TB disc?
Doing a drive wipe on a 4 TB disc is going to take a long time, especially if you have specified multiple passes.If a drive wipe is unexpectedly stopped/interrupted it can/will leave junk files behind which you will then have to delete manually.
See this post for an explanation of why that can happen, and what to do if it does:Then you seem to be trying to run two instances of CCleaner, doing different things at the same time?
Never a good idea, it's not designed to work like that.
Do one thing at once and have patience.PS. When doing a drive wipe you shouldn't really be using the computer for anything else until it has finished.
Even if it isn't the system drive itself that you are wiping, best to leave alone while it's working. -
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I run nighty sweeps and backups
It might help to know just what those 'sweeps' consist of, it may be something other than CC which is clearing the thumbnail cache or otherwise causing it to update.There is also the possibility that it's Windows itself which is doing this automatically, especially if you have a lot of thumbnails:
Apparently Windows deletes/rebuilds your thumbnail cache at startup if it is bigger than about 700MB, see this article:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install/stop-windows-auto-deleting-thumbnail-cache-revised/5d09ef73-7777-4d59-8e47-965379fb91f0 -
Advertising / linking revenue.
Just ignore (be sure to untick) the Chrome offer if you don't want it.
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You do have 'Thumbnails' unticked in CCleaner so that they don't get cleared?
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You need to 'save settings to ini' in Options>Advanced.
This puts a file called ccleaner.ini in the CCleaner folder.
Copy that file to a memory stick or similar, and paste it into the CCleaner folder once you have installed CC on the new computer.
That will bring across all your current CCleaner settings to the new machine.
Just a warning - once you have created the .ini file you have to keep it, if you delete it then CCleaner will revert to the default settings.
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I am positive these files aren't used........ In file list is nothing.
? If there is nothing in the list then what files do you mean?
Could you post a screenshot of what you are seeing so that we can take a look.
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It sounds that CCleaner Browser has been set to be your default browser when it installed.
Simply change it back to make Chrome your default browser again, so that when you click a link Chrome will open.
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95417?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=enThen uninstall the CCleaner Browser if you don't want it. Once it's uninstalled then it's gone and can't bug you anymore.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4028054/windows-10-repair-or-remove-programsAs for how you got it;
It was probably offered when you installed a previous version of CCleaner and you didn't untick (maybe didn't notice) the pre-ticked box, so it installed the browser as well. -
If you untick 'System>Temporary files' and run a Custom Clean does it finish then?
If so, then that would indicate that there is a problem with one of those system files.
Another trick that often works if/when CC gets stuck like this is to run the built in Windows Disk Clean-up.
Because it's Windows itself it can force close problem files that CCleaner can't.
In this case I'd run it twice, once for normal files, then again but this time select 'Clean up system files'. I'd then do a restart (not a shutdown). -
It's simply because Health Check reports more things as 'Trackers' than Easy Clean did.
Using Easy Clean just now reports 8 'trackers' which are all cookies.
Using Health Check straight afterwards it reports 41 'trackers' which are the 8 cookies plus temporary internet files.So it's just reporting more/different things as being 'trackers'.
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Certainly,
Simply untick 'Empty recycle bin' under System on the Windows tab and CCleaner Custom Clean will leave it alone.Just to be absolutely clear -
Settings made in Custom Clean only apply to Custom Clean, - they DO NOT apply to Easy Clean/HealthCheck which will always use it's own rules.
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More targeted than that,
After using netflix open CCleaner and go to Options>Cookies.
Look in the list on the left 'cookies on computer' for anything netflix, click them one by one and use the arrows in the middle to move them into 'cookies to keep'. (Or you could right click to do the same).
Doing it that way means you can still clean other cookies but leave the netflix ones alone.
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If you mean tabs that you have always open when you launch your browser then you would have to use Custom Clean and untick 'Sessions' for whichever browser you use.
(You may also have to untick 'Cache' depending on just what the pages are and how you are loading them).
If you want to be sure then untick everything for that browser, of course that means it won't be cleaned at all.
TBH I just keep regularly visited websites ,such as this one, as a bookmark/favourite in the browser so that a couple of clicks opens them.
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Sorry for the late reply, your question seems to have been overlooked in all the fuss about the new version.
Easy Clean/Health Check is meant for simple use and has it's own rules for what it does, you can't change those rules.
If you want more control then you have to use Custom Clean where you choose what to clean or not clean.
You are presented with two tabs/lists, Windows and Applications, of things that you tick to clean or untick to leave alone, the lists are pre-pouplated with popular choices but you are free to change them.
In the Options you can further specify particular cookies to keep, and can even add specific includes for files that CC doesn't clear by default, and excludes for files CC would normally clean but you don't want it too.So in your case you want to leave your Chrome browsing History alone then you would se Chrome on the 'Applications' tab and simply untick 'Internet History' under Chrome in the list.
(You can have different settings for each browser this way).I don't have Chrome here, but you'll get the Idea from this which is the Firefox list.
This is set to clean the history, and everything else except saved forms and passwords.
If I didn't want the history cleared then I'd simply untick it.
If you want to use Custom Clean as the default then go to Options>Settings and under 'CCleaner Home screen' select Custom Clean.
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Simply download a new CCleaner and install it.
You can download CCleaner from the builds page here: https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/builds
If you had a Pro version then -
Once installed go to Options>About>Upgrade to Pro.
You will get a box where you can enter your existing registered name and key, and then click on 'Register'.Be careful when entering the key that you don't mistake numbers and letters, 1 & I, 2 & Z, etc.
PS. Sorry for the delay in replying, we must have missed your original post in the flurry of posts about the new version.
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Just because CCleaner calls 'tracking cookies' 'Trackers' doesent mean that they are actively following you around.
In fact CCleaner Health Check calls all cookies 'Trackers' now.
The deprecated cookie that I mentioned above is put there by Windows to remind developers not to save cookies in files there anymore.
It's a texfile and isn't doing anything other than just sitting there, but Health Check still calls it a 'Tracker'.I do see what you mean about the 'Found' and 'Cleaned' reports though.
That looks like a calculation error, someone has dropped or added a zero or two in one of the calculations so KB becomes MB.
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I'd first try the corrupted Recycle Bin fix, it often clears most hangs:
We seem to be seeing a lot of corrupted bins recently, maybe some problem with Windows?
https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/42673-corrupted-recycle-bin-fix/If you do at anytime need to download/reinstall CCleaner then simply go to Options>About>Upgrade to Pro, enter your already registered name and key, then click on 'Register'
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Good spot @larryg1516.
I also see them now I know to look.
They seem to be adding a new one every time you open CC, whether you run Health Check or not.
I'll flag it to the staff to look at quickly, we don't want an ever increasing ccleaner.ini file becoming junk itself.
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It seems to be saying that your MS Edge is pending an install/update of the new Edge Chromium.
You may get messages like that when Windows has updated something in the background but needs a restart to fully install it.
If a restart isn't doing it then I'd do a 'Check for Updates' in Windows to see if anything is still pending. (or needs another go because it didn't update/install properly first time).
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Good to hear.
I suspect that your original problems were not CCleaner related, it sounds more like you maybe had some kind of Adware which is why you installed CCleaner in the first place.
CCleaner is not designed to detect/remove Adware or other Malware, it's simply a junk file cleaner.
Whilst we can't give one to one malware removal advice here, forum rules forbid it, there are some things we can do to help, and we can point you where to get more help.
The first thing I would do is download and run AdwCleaner from Malwarebytes.
That is not a rival to CCleaner, it does a different job altogether.
It is made to target Adware and other unwanted/unneeded programmes, (as well as now removing junk programmes put there by the computer manufacturer).
It doesn't need installing, simply download it and double click to run.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/If you want to go further than that and have your machine checked over by an expert, then we have a list of where you can go to get that done for free.
Each one of the links on the list offers one-to-one online help to check and clean up a suspect computer.
If you use one then it's important that you follow exactly what they tell you and nothing else until they tell you that your computer is clean.
You can find this list of expert helpers in chapter 10 of the forum rules here:
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A dark mode/dark theme is at the top of the list in 'Under Consideration' in the roadmap:
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Good to hear you got it sorted out.
Removing the bin from the command lne' usually does the trick, but as you found there are other ways you sometimes need depending on just what has caused the problem in the first place.
I'm guessing that somehow the roll-back screwed up permissions which is why you needed that second step?But as long as it's now OK then that is what matters.
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Thanks,
The issue with cleaning new Edge on closing has already been reported, the staff/developers are aware and are looking into it.
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The first option there, using rd (remove directory) from an elevated (administrator) Command Window, deletes the entire Recycle Bin and so Windows will recreate a new empty bin.
I'm still not sure how WinSxS files ended up in the bin, it must have been sonething to do with rolling back?, something I've never done.
But the other option would be to reinstall Windows altogether. Which would be 1909 with no rollback option.
There again we are not far off 2004 so maybe you could put up with 1909 for a few weeks.
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That registry change is a work-around but not a fix.
What it is doing is reverting to Easy Clean without the Health Check functions.
Ccleaner erases Netflix Windows 10 app login
in CCleaner Help Requests
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A UWP app could be anything, written by anybody.
It's simply any app that has been written/designed to run on any device that uses Windows 10.
They are usually written using Visual Studio.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/universal-application-platform-guide