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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'

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.

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).

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: https://community.ccleaner.com/announcement/15-forum-rules/

A dark mode/dark theme is at the top of the list in 'Under Consideration' in the roadmap: https://ideas.ccleaner.com/roadmap

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.

Thanks, The issue with cleaning new Edge on closing has already been reported, the staff/developers are aware and are looking into it.

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.

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.

It does have it's uses as a repair tool, say following a malware infection, used by someone who is familiar with how the registry works. But it's not something that should be used on a regular basis. You might as well ask the same about a chainsaw, easily available and useful for some - but it can, and will, cause damage when used indescriminately or for the wrong purpose. As said above it's planned to move the Registry Cleaner into the 'Tools' section where it will be less prominent/tempting.

See how that goes and it you get up and running I'll point you to where you can get your computer analyzed by experts and cleaned of possible malware for free.

Which could explain why CCleaner got stuck on it as well. I'd suggest resetting the Bin as shown in this article: https://www.vistax64.com/threads/recycle-bin-corrupted-cannot-delete-file-or-folder.131294/

There have been one or two suspicious looking posts that I have given the benefit of the doubt today.

I'm not sure how WinSxS files have come to be in the Recycle Bin. Had you manually deleted them yourself? WinSxS files are needed by Windows for a time following an update, Windows will remove them itself after 30 days or Windows built in Disk Clean-up will remove them if its safe to do so. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/clean-up-the-winsxs-folder

Please stop making repeated posts on old threads. I have given you a reply here, it is a Windows Update problem and I also tell you how to fix it:

There should be an X to close the popup. If you can't see one then the quickest option may be to restart your PC.

You don't say what Windows you are running or what the update was, but it's almost certainly a Windows Update problem. It's known to happen that you can get a black screen following a windows update, but it's easily fixable. See this: https://www.howtogeek.com/425382/how-to-fix-a-black-screen-after-updating-windows-10/ (I've moved this from where it was orignally posted on an old thread and changed the title).

If you want Easy Clean back then you can modify a registry entry (for now at least). (Cfg)HealthCheck Set the value to 0 and Easy Clean will come back in place of Health Check. The usual warning - Modifying the registry could make your computer unusable, if you are not sure what you are doing then don't touch it.

If you mean that you want Easy Clean back then you can modify a registry entry (for now at least). (Cfg)HealthCheck Set the value to 0 and Easy Clean will come back in place of Health Check. The usual warning - Modifying the registry could make your computer unusable, if you are not sure what you are doing then don't touch it.

Thanks for the head up, I've flagged this up to the staff/developers.

It's normal computer behaviour, In particular one 'Tracker' that you keep seeing will be a cookie file called '%Userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCookies\deprecated.cookie'. As soon as CCleaner deletes it Windows re-creates it again, so you will always see it when you run CCleaner. It simply contains the text "Cookies are no longer stored in files. Please use Internet*Cookie* APIs to access cookies." Another thing that can do it is if you have your browser synced, so it's putting back what you have cleaned. See here for more information about 'Trackers' not realy being 'Trackers', and why some things come back after cleaning. https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043

I'd say that's a False Positive by only a single engine, the other 61 results there tell you that it's clean. (VBA32 is not very well known and is meant for use on networked systems). You always get some FP's on virus total, especially for new versions of software, some AV engines are slow to catch up with changes, will be cautious, and flag anything new. Of course it could be that one obscure, little used, AV has spotted something that all the big boys didn't, but it much more likely to be a FP. EDIT- I've just scanned the portable .zip with Malwarebytes which came back clean, that's good enough for me.

The option to review before cleaning is already there in Health Check. Once the analyze has finished click on any of the four boxes at the bottom for more about what has been found. For example when you click on the 'Privacy' box, the screen changes to show this: You can untick these before clicking on 'Make it Better' and they won't be cleared. TBH though you don't get a lot of choice, ie. for cookies it's all or nothing. It's similar for the other 3 boxes, untick anything that you don't want doing. 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 use Custom Clean where you choose what to clean or not. You are presented with two lists of thing that you tick to clean and 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. If you want to use Custom Clean as the default then go to Options>Settings and under 'CCleaner Home screen' select Custom Clean.

It's a 2 for 1 offer.

Be careful with entering the key, we often see people mistaking letters and numbers, eg. I & 1, Z & 2, S & 5, B & 8. If you are still having problems then come back and we'll flag it up to the staff to take a look from the licencing side.