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  1. Agreed, as it's a SSD then just leave Windows (and the SSD's own in-built controller) to look after it.

    That's what I do with my SSDs and only still have Defraggler for occasional use with my external HDDs.

    You might want to check Windows Optimiser to see that it's set to optimise your SSD on a schedule, weekly or monthly is fine.

  2. What kind of drive is this, HDD or SSD?

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    You talk of 'Optimising' which is more usually associated with SSDs.
    SSDs are always fragmented to some extent, it's the way that 'wear leveling' works on SSDs by spreading the files over the drive.

    Defraggler should not try to defragment an SSD, generally no defragmenter should. Instead they will Optimise them.
    (There is a special case for defragmenting an SSD, Windows will normally do it for you automatically if needed).

    A couple of your other comments are also intriguing. Particularly the one about not seeing the boxes changing colours.

    If it is an HDD then are you actually defragging or are you only analyzing?
    The drive map will be grey/black until the drive has been analysed when it becomes coloured.
    But nothing 'moves about' until you are actually defragging.

    Not yet analyzed:
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    Analyzed but not yet defragged:
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    As for why a HDD may remain at around 12% fragmented there can be a few reasons.
    If it's your system drive then Windows is constantly writing files to it. So are any other apps that may be running.
    So some files can't be defragged because Windows, or another app, has them in use.

    If you are uing Defragglers 'Quick Defrag' on a HDD it won't touch any fragments that are larger than 50MB. (A Full defrag or a files only defrag should do those).
    If you have changed any other Options in Defraggler that could also have an effect.

  3. I don't use Thunderbird but apparently that 'popstate.dat' file can become corrupted and give the problem that you are describing.
    It no longer knows which emails you have already seen so will show them all to you again.

    It doesn't appear to be connected with using CCleaner or any other cleaner at all.
    That advice you have read elsewhere is overkill. (Basically someone guessing).
    If CCleaner was deleting popstate.dat then there would be hundreds of users complaining about it.

    Unless you have a backup somewhere of popstate.dat then you are going to have to tell Thunderbird again that you have read those emails.

    http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popstate.dat

    Having said that  you can try making it an exclude in CCleaner, but I doubt it will do anything.
    From the above link:

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    Finding popstate.dat

    To find the file, open Thunderbird's Account Settings. Go to the account that you want to work with, then to that account's Server Settings page. Look at the Local Directory field (at the bottom of the window pane, next to a browse button) to see the location of the popstate.dat file for the account.

    Once you know where the folder it is located you can make that whole folder, or just that one .dat file, an exclude in CCleaner.

     

  4. It's  done a few odd things, but that may be because the Windows on that laptop is unactivated?

    All the normally hidden little partitions. eg. the System Recovery partition, have been given a drive letter and so now all of them appear in File Explorer. Plus my mapped network drive dissapeared.

    I've sorted them out but still odd that it did that.

    Be interesting to see if anything similar happens with the main laptop which has activated Windows when that updates.

  5. About 25 mins to do this months Patch Tuesday updates on the old laptop, then straight after restarting 3 mins to do 22H2.

    It is an enablement package, so it's just activating stuff that's been downloaded previously.

  6. Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows 10, version 22H2 (aka the Windows 10 2022 Update), now rolling out to all eligible devices.

    I'm not being offered it on 'Check for Updates' yet.
    EDIT- I just booted my much older, much less powerful, second laptop and that one is being offered 22H2 straight away without me even checking. Microsoft works in mysterious ways.

    It is available on the Update Assistant if you want to get it that way, (or if you want to create installation media):
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10

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  7. You do know that if the machine is capable you can still upgrade Win7 (or 8.1) to Win10 for free? (or even Win11 if the machine is capable)
    You have the option to keep your existing software and files during the upgrade process:
    https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-you-can-still-get-a-free-windows-10-upgrade/

    Even if it's not quite capable you can often still put Win10 on an old machine for minimal cost.

    As an example of what can be done for £50 -
    I got given an 'obsolete' laptop with XP Pro on it, it wasn't bad on XP but had only 1GB of RAM and a very slow 75GB spinning Hard Drive.
    I first spent £20 upgrading the RAM to 4GB and then installed the latest Win10 21H2.
    The Win 10 is unactivated, XP isn't eligible for the free upgrade to Win 10 and I wasn't paying £120 for a new Windows licence for an old machine.
    (Unactivated Windows is almost the same as fully licenced Windows but the Personalisation settings don't work. There are easy ways round that).
    It ran fine but was still slow so next I replaced the old/slow Hard Drive, I spent another £30 on a 250GB SSD for it.
    Those two hardware upgrades, more RAM and a new SSD are both very easy to do, and either/both can dramaticaly improve performance.
    It's now as good as my main laptop that I'm typing this on, in some ways it's better. And all for £50 and a bit of work.

  8. 38 minutes ago, mentorron said:

    I have to assume that I will have to reinstate the "fix" EVERY time MS releases a new version of W11.

    Possibly, but maybe not?
    Registry tweaks like that usually survive across Windows Updates, even Feature/version Updates.

    Of course it's always possible that sometime in future they will change Win11 and the tweak will just stop working.
    They often leave a few such 'backdoors' in new versions that later get locked out.

    There again it's also possible that if they get enough moans about it then they may just put the old style context menus back for everyone anyway, it wouldn't be the first time.

  9. 4 hours ago, BigMart said:

    Wow you are quick !   I am still peddling my way on Win 7 !!    Any special notes about that?

    nah, it was just coincidence that I happened to logon at that time.

    As it's Win7 then the Restart or Shutdown probably doesn't make the same difference, if I remember right they both do the same thing before Win10 (or was it 8.1?).

    I don't think there is anything to add regarding Win7 that you probably haven't heard before.
    ie. You should upgrade - but I know from experience that there are many reasons why you might want to stay with an EoL Windows.

    I've still got Windows 98SE on a desktop machine, there is some expensive CAD software on it that you can't even buy outright now, only subscribe for a fortune each month/year.
    I also used XP on a laptop for a number of years longer that I should have, couldn't justify the cost a new laptop. (until the old one died).

  10. It shouldn't make any difference at all which order you run them in.

    Usually you use one or the other depending on your needs, and/or level of experience.

    Remember that Health Check uses it's own rules and takes no notice whatsoever of what you have ticked/unticked in Custom Clean.

    But I can see the point of sometimes running both.
    I'll ocassionally run Health Check because I don't normally use Edge so don't have anything for it ticked in Custom Clean.
    So if I have been using Edge I'll just run HC to clean it rather than ticking it in Custom Clean then unticking it again.

  11. I have to say that you have baffled me somewhat with your explanation of what you are doing.

    I'm guessing that you are meaning that you are clean installing 32 bit Win 10 from an ISO image, it seems you have more than one ISO image.

    Just why you are installing different 32 bit Windows versions from different ISO's I'm not even going to ask.

    If it's just one 32 bit Windows version where you see the issue and not on others then that suggests that particular one is somehow different.

    My first check would be are there actully any restore points on it for CCleaner to find?


    PS. v6.01.9825 is not the current CCleaner version, it's up to v6.04.10044

  12. It is needed by Windows, and so Windows will always put it back if/when you remove it, you can tell CCleaner to ignore it. (better yet don't use the Registry Cleaner on Windows 10 at all).
    See this:
    https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/60608-speechruntime-reappear-after-registry-clean/?tab=comments#comment-329639

     

    There are various things that will come straight back after cleaning, and there are reasons why they do that.
    For a fuller explanation of why, and what you can do to stop some of it see this:
    https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files-not-cleaned-files-coming-back-solvedexplained/?tab=comments#comment-300043

  13. What Hazelnut said should stop Edge running in the background and stop the skipping.

    However other than uninstall/reinstall I only know of one other way (currently) that you can get that message to show again once you have told it not to show again.

    If you go to Options>Advanced there is a 'Restore Default Settings' - of course that is also going to reset everything else that you may have changed; but it's quicker than reinstalling.

    (You used to be able to manually edit the 'ccleaner.ini' file if you had one, to remove just one particular line/setting. But they have done something odd with the folder/file permissions and you can't easily do that anymore).

  14. It's a Windows 11 thing to truncate the context menus like that.

    For now at least you can switch them back to full menus,  like they used to be, by editing the registry:
    https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/windows-11-classic-context-menus

    The usual warning that any mistakes made in the registry editor can screw up your machine, if you are not confident about doing it then get someone who is to help you.

  15. 15 hours ago, PeterMatthias said:

    had a similar issue. After running ccleaner yesterday several programs ( including Chrome, Edge, Firefox which is very nasty) couldn't start again because the related  exefile was corrupted.

    I installed all programs and removed ccleaner. Now everything is working well but this is not the preferred solution.

    This sounds more like a different issue which is known about and is not a CCleaner issue, it's an issue with Avira antivirus which is triggered by running any cleaning app.

    For some reason Avira was/is storing needed files in a Windows temporary folder.
    So when a cleaner, any cleaner, clears that temporary folder some apps that you use regularly stop launching.

    Although it isn't caused by CCleaner (or any other cleaner) we do have a work around you can use until Avira fix it.

    See:

     

  16. Any way that you like.
    Neither should cause any further harm as long as you don't try to write anything to the drive.

    To avoid further dissapointment I'd regard the files as already lost, so anything that you might get back is a bonus.
    It then becomes a question of how much time and effort you want to put into it.

    Writing something new to the drive could overwrite what is still there meaning you then have no chance of getting it back.

    At the moment Windows won't let you write to it anyway, it thinks there is no free space.
    Recuva doesn't write to the drive it just scans/reads what it can. Partition wizard would write a bit but it should only be in the system part of the drive.
    I can't speak for what your friend with Linux might try.

    Like you I'd bin an unreliable drive and replace it, so at the moment it's just a case of seeing if you can recover any files off it first.
    If you don't want to get back any of the files that were on it, or if you have backups of them, then I'd just bin it.

    That's why it's always recommended to make regular backups of your files, either on a seperate drive or in the cloud.
    It's much easier to copy files from your backup to a new drive than to try and get the original data back off a broken or infected drive.
    Many go even further and make a regular 'mirror' backup of their whole system - Windows, installed apps, files, the lot - so it can all be restored if their main drive fails or gets corrupted/infected.
    But even those who do make regular backups/mirors of the stuff on their computer often forget to also backup any original files that have only been saved on removable drives such as thumb drives.

  17. I doubt that Event is relevant, it's from 2016 which is presumably around when you bought it and you have been using the drive OK since then.

    Interesting about your friend with Linux.
    It might just be that he can read it, Linux can read Windows drives and being a different OS it may be able to see something that Windows can't.
    If he can see the files then he can copy them off for you and put them on another Windows formatted drive, or up in the cloud, or email them to you, etc.
    (PS. You can get apps for Windows that will read Linux drives, but it's not built in).

    Other than that.
    I think your best option is to see if partition wizard, or similar tool of your choice, can restore the file system without losing the data.
    (It might be interesting to know what the tool says that it's formatted as currently, it must have some structure if Windows can give it a drive letter).

    Or see if you can reformat it and then try to recover the data.

    EDIT.
    Thinking about it though - Windows can see the drive, it's given it a drive letter, so it might be worth seeing if Recuva can get any data off it as it stands before altering anything.
    If you are trying Recuva then there's a section for it on this forum where experienced users can help if needed.

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