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  1. Are these your own files? or are they System Files? If they are System Files they are probably protected, or in a protected location. Some System Files need to have duplicates for your computer to work properly, and if you remove then odd things can start to happen. Unless you are an advanced user trying to fix a broken computer you should leave the System files alone, tell Duplicate Finder to Ignore them.
  2. Whether or not a driver NEEDS to be updated is a matter of opinion. Every such driver updater app is written by a different team of people with different opinions, so will recommend different things. Many advanced computer user do not use such driver updaters. And they will/may also prevent window from updating drivers unnecessarily. Unless there is a particular problem with a driver then they leave their drivers alone. (Old saying - If it isn't broken then why try to fix it?). In the end it's your choice whether to use one or not, and which one you use. Note that just because a driver has an update does not always mean that update is compatible with your computer, it may not be. (It may change nothing or in the worst case it may even cause things to stop working on your computer until you roll-back to the older driver). The other tweaks that you mention are Windows settings and nothing to do with drivers. But yes, advanced users will adjust some of those (as well as some others), your other app is just offering you a way to do that.
  3. Sorry, lots of questions to try and work out what may have happened: Which did you run, CCleaner, Defraggler, or both? You said you did an analyze, was that an analyze in CCleaner or one in Defraggler? Was Defraggler seeing the drive correctly as a SSD? (It will Optimize SSDs, not Defragment them). You say that you "tried to do analyze and the defragmentation" - did you stop a defrag running yourself, if so how did you stop it? If you ran CCleaner as well then did you use the Driver Updater? Is this an internal or external drive? If internal then is it a partion on a bigger drive, or is it a seperate physical drive? (Often a large capacity drive will be partitioned into more than one drive letter). And, it may help if you also tell us which Windows version (build) you are running. End of questions (for now). Presumably your system was seeing the drive before, so the first thing to do is to is a Restart of the computer (Restart, not Shutdown/Boot) to see if it can recognise the drive then. The most common causes of a SSD not being seen by the BIOS are: The SATA power and data cords are faulty/not fully connected. (USB to SATA cable if it's an external drive). The SSD drive is not initilised/formatted. The driver for the SSD is not enabled in the BIOS settings. (Or the driver is the wrong one). There is a physical problem with the motherboard connector pins. (Usually only a problem for newly fitted Internal Drives). The drive itself is malfunctioning/defective or broken. If your computer was seeing it before then the formatting shouldn't be a problem, nor should the motherboard connector pins (unless the computer has had a thump), but any of the others could be. Cables (and drives) come lose (or get damaged), drivers get mistakenly updated to a version that doesn't work, drives sometimes just stop working. If you could answer the questions above then we may be able to suggest which is the most likely cause, and how to try and fix it.
  4. As long as it OK now then that's the main thing. An occastional restart is always a good idea, and if you start seing browser skipping in CCleaner again you now know that a restart should fix that. It would be nice to know just what was causing it, but sometimes you never do find out.
  5. @MeganCCleanerIs there any update on this issue yet?
  6. @Yuppers Are you aware that you can still update your Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 for free if you want to? (Or even to Windows 11 if you machines hardware can support it). Microsoft said they stopped the free update years ago - but they never turned it off and it still works, this article was updated last month (Jan 14 2022): https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-you-can-still-get-a-free-windows-10-upgrade/
  7. Health Check will not remove restore points, CCleaner has a seperate tool in the Tools menu for managing existing restore points. Windows itself will occasionally remove old restore points, that can depend on how much space you have allocated for them, as well as other factors. Windows itself will automatically remove restore points that are more than 90 days old. That's because they will be so 'out of sync' with changes to the filesystem that they are probably useless anyway. Running Windows built in DisK CleanUp can also remove restore points. Having said all that - By default Windows System Restore utility only shows you the 2 latest restore points, you need to click on "Show more restore points" to see earlier ones. OR As said above CCleaner has a tool for managing restore points, that shows all the available ones. so you might want to take a look at that, in CCleaner click on Tools then System Restore.
  8. Those cookies could be coming from many things, not just from Edge. It isn't just browsers that can put cookies on your computer these days. Live Tiles on the start menu, News and Interests on the task bar, email apps, etc. - basically anything that can connect to the web can/will put cookies on your computer. Many of them will use Internet Explorer's storage spaces to save their cookies and files, but as IE will at sometime be discontinued some have started to use Edge's storage spaces. They use those storage locations simply because they are always there and it's more convienient than creating their own. Because the files are saved in those storage locations CCleaner sees them as coming from IE or Edge, no matter where they actualy came from. It is also not unusual for files, cookies, etc. to come straight back after you have cleaned them. For why that happens, and what you can do about stopping some of it, have a read of the second half of this: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043
  9. @rj79 Skipping like that indicates that something Edge related is still running, even though you have closed the Edge browser itself. Turning off 'Startup Boost' stops Edge from pre-loading, but if you have had Edge open then things can still be running in the background after you close it again. To stop Microsoft Edge from running in the background after it's been closed there is another switch, it's just underneath the one for Startup Boost: Open Microsoft Edge. Click the Settings and more (three-dotted) button from the top-right. Select the Settings option. Click on System & Performance. Turn off "Continue running background extensions and apps when Microsoft Edge is closed".
  10. Thanks for clarifying what you are seeing. CCleaner is now at v5.90 so you may want to update it, but I doubt it will fix your issue with the Acronis backup files. As you say that this warning is coming from Acronis and is happening 'almost every day' would I be right in thinking that you have Smart Cleaning enabled in CCleaner? If you are and want to continue to use Smart Cleaning then it will simply be a question of setting an exception for the Acronis files so that Smart Cleaning doesn't try to touch them. I suggest that your first step is to turn off CCleaner's Smart Cleaning which I believe will then stop the messages coming from Acronis. Then if you want to put Smart Cleaning back on we can work out which exclusions you need to make.
  11. The first question is when actually cleaning do you run Health Check or Custom Clean? To use customisations of what will be cleaned or not cleaned then you have to use Custom Clean. Health Check cannot be customised and will always use it's own rules.
  12. Did you read what I posted above? Did you do what I said to do? Are you actually losing the saved passwords, or are you just being logged out of websites and having to log in again? In Firefox if you go to Settings>Privacy & Security>Logins and Passwords>Saved Logins have your saved passwords gone? Can you screenshot your settings for cleaning Firefox like I did above? Are you using Health Check or Custom Clean?
  13. It's telling you there what file is going missing, so you can make that pathname an 'Exclusion' in CCleaner Custom Clean and it will then be left alone. This article at ABBYY tells you the same thing: https://support.abbyy.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005336829-Error-message-C-Users-Local-Temp-FRBatch-pac-was-not-found-appears-for-Screenshot-Reader To do that in CCleaner: Open CCleaner and go to Options>Exclude>Add In the box that opens, 'Drive or Folder' section, browse to: C:\Users\d1har\AppData\Local\Temp\ABBYY\FineReader\15\Bonus.ScreenshotReader Click OK, click OK. (You can copy and paste that path into the box if you don't want to browse, or if you can't see 'AppData'). Once you've done that it should look like this: Now when you run Custom Clean it will leave the reader alone. Note that the excludes only work in Custom Clean, if you run Health Check then the files will still be cleared.
  14. It could well be new cleaning, the release notes for v5.90 that was released this week do say: Expanding our cleaning Added new temp file cleaning for Chrome User Data https://www.ccleaner.com/knowledge/ccleaner-v5-90-9443
  15. This is a common misunderstanding. The entry you mention says 'Saved Passwords' and if you tick it then as it says it will remove all your saved passwords from Firefox. However what you are reporting is that you are being logged out of websites, which is a different thing. Your Saved Paswords have not been removed and are still saved in Firefox. If you go to Settings>Privacy & Security>Logins and Passwords>Saved Logins you'll see them all. To stop CCleaner from logging you out of websites: In Custom Clean untick 'Session' for Firefox. (It's that Session information that tells a browser which tabs were open and which websites you were logged into). Don't run Health Check, only use Custom Clean with 'Session' unticked. (Health Check uses it's own rules and ignores those ticks/unticks).
  16. OK, Win 11. The files are on a backup on drive D. Are you using Health Check or Custom Clean? Can you now tell us exactly what you are doing and what is happening to annoy you?
  17. Apparently it's been around for a while, this is from 2018: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/crashpad-dev/c/2YZHzOpeAT8 From the 3rd post there: The "BrowserMetrics-identifier.pma" files are the actual written-to files. One of them is live and any others are from previous runs that we'll be deleted once any final information is retrieved from them. The "spare" file is an optimization. it takes time to create and fully realize the file (done to minimize the possibility of disk errors while in active use) so one is created after Chrome has been running a short while. This empty (all zeros) file will be used on the next run so as to not delay startup trying to create one.
  18. Just a thought that may or may not work: Have you tried uninstalling Speccy and reinstalling it? Some entry/flag may have got stuck in Speccy itself?
  19. Sorry, I hadn't seen your post because I was editing mine.
  20. I think that I see why it's greyed out now - from the look of the drive map I assume that is your 1TB Data drive? (A big clue is that there is no pagefile showing there). I think that Boot Time Defrag is only available for the boot drive, which has the system files on it. (Select you Acer drive and BTD should be available for that). So for the drive shown in that drive map: I'd first run a 'files only' defrag (Ananlyze>View Files>tick the box at the top of the list>Defrag checked), and then a Defrag Freespace to consolidate the files on the drive. You appear to have Defraggler set to move 'Large Files' to the end of the drive, there's a big chunk of consolidated files there - so before using Defrag Freespace go into Settings>Options>Defrag Tab and ensure that "Do not move 'Large Files' during Defrag Freespace" is ticked. Note that doing all that defragmenting/consolidation is going to take time on a 1TB drive.
  21. As JohnCCleaner says, Recuva users in the past have found that Irfanview can open 'slightly damaged' recovered files that other viewers can't. And then you can resave them as 'whole' files again. As Irfanview is free then it's worth a try, John gives the link in his post.
  22. I've not heard of that happening before, it's available on both of my Win 10 machines. One thought: Are you using a Windows Admin account? I could see it not being available if you were not a Windows administrator. Just to note though - I've used Boot Time Defrag in the past to rejoin a pagefile that had become split into two blocks for some reason, but it didn't move the pagefile just defragmented it into one block at the same starting location as previously. ie. Boot Time Defrag defragments the system files (as it says it will) but it doesn't consolidate the disc; it's the same with the other system files they'll be defragmented but not moved from their original starting locations.
  23. Note that none of this should normally be done with a SSD, they work differently to spinning HDDs. SSDs should be Optimised and not defragmented (or consolidated). So as long as we are talking about a HDD then: What you are looking for is the 'Holy Grail' of hard drive consolidation - it can hardly ever be achieved. You can get close, but there is usually something that Windows says can't be moved. (For example the Windows pagefile stays in a set location on disc, as do some other files). To try and achieve it though what you need is drive consolidation rather than file defragmentation. Confusingly although they are different processes and do very different things most people still call both of them 'defragging'. There are historic reasons for that, in the days when discs had much less capacity than they do now consoildation then was normally what was wanted, so it's what 'defragmenters' did (and still do). With todays larger capacity drives consolidation is not that important, there is usually plenty of free space so it's more advantageous to have the files in one piece and not to care too much about where they are physically located on the disc. (PS. You may have noticed that the Windows built in defragmenter/optimiser no longer even shows a 'drive map' of where the files are, that's simply because it's no longer that important where files are on the disc). So, How to (try and) do it with Defraggler: By default Defraggler does a mixture of both defragmentation and consolidation as it sees being the best for your drive, but you can make it do either one or the other. To do a whole disc consolidation of a HDD and attempt to get your files all at the start of the disc/partition what you need is the 'Defrag Freespace' option which can be found on the menu under Action>Advanced. Note that there are 2 options there - 'Defrag Freespace' and 'Defrag Freespace (allow fragmentation)'. The first tries to put all your files in the smallest number of clusters while keeping the files themselves in one piece. The second one allows files to be packed-in to the available clusters by fragmenting some files to fill up empty space in the clusters - so although you will get them into the least number of clusters that is at the expense of some files being fragmented to fill the clusters completely. Also note that this process can take a long time, especially if your drive is 500GB or bigger - that's another reason why consolidation is not done much with todays larger capacity drives, it just takes so long. Again though, having said all that, what you are looking to achieve is something that is rarely ever accomplished. You may get close with a few runs of 'Defrag Freespace (allow fragmentation)', if you have the time, but there will always be some files that Windows won't allow to be moved. And also note that as soon as you use your computer the files will start getting fragmented again as Windows and yourself use them.
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