nukecad
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I think that 300% scaling may be the issue. What happens if you reduce it?
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I had to uninstall the wheel and the driver
That would suggest that the driver had been updated and the latest driver version doesn't suit your particular wheel.
Once you had removed it Windows then (eventually) reinstalled a driver version that does suit your particular wheel.It's not that unusual for some devices to need older driver versions, and not to work with the latest driver version.
So I'd stop updating that driver.
As it wasn't happening before then It's probably not the registry cleaner.
But it isn't recommended to run the registry cleaner as a regular tool so you may want to stop doing that, it's meant for particular issues not for regular use, see this:
https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/59952-i-get-a-registry-error-on-ccleaner-on-windows-10-i-have-scanned-5-times/?tab=comments#comment-326804 -
Just being sure, is that what you actually have showing in Windows settings, or is it what the monitor itself is capable of?
It's the graphics card in the computer that usually limits what maximum resolution you can display, even on a hi-res monitor that is capable of more.
Admittedly in a 4K laptop you'd expect the card to handle 4K.
Do you have any Scaling set? That can also make a difference.
As can any 'Ease of Access' Options that you may have set.
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The user interface has a minimum size of 1010 x 700 pixels, it's been that minimum size since 2019.
Yyou can drag the edges to make it bigger than that, but can't make it smaller than that.The options when it fills the screen like you are seeing are:
Change your screen resolution to show more pixels onscreen.
Use CCleaner at full screen (as you say).QuoteThe bottom stripe where system info & the check for updates is cut off.
If you don't want to change your screen resolution then I do recall seeing a workaround for if it's covering the taskbar like that.
If I remember correctly though it does involve deleting some registry entries, not everyone is comfortable with using regedit to alter the registry.
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MUI is the Windows "Multilingual User Interface", I'm not sure just how much it is implemented in Win 11 as of yet so wouldn't regard missing references as a problem. (Unless you are using a language other than English).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingual_User_Interface
However I wouldn't be using the Registry Cleaner, any registry cleaner, with Windows 11 (or with Windows 10 come to that).
With both Win 10 and 11 the registry changes too often for it to be safe to regularly run a registry cleaner on, you run the risk of removing something needed, or even bricking your machine and needing to reinstall Windows from scratch.
See this: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/59952-i-get-a-registry-error-on-ccleaner-on-windows-10-i-have-scanned-5-times/?tab=comments#comment-326804 -
And again if you can tell us just what CCleaner is doing when it 'locks up' that should help pinpoint what the issue may be.
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9 hours ago, TerryC said:
...the question is simple... WHY go through this time consuming exercise
Honest opinion? - You don't have to. Save your time and stop doing what isn't really needed.
Personally I'd say that 99.99% of the defragmenting being done around the world is unnecessary.
Hard Drive capacity and technology has moved on, processor technology has moved on. - But most peoples thinking hasn't caught up yet.
Many articles written about defragmenting haven't caught up yet.
Or don't want to because "It's not needed most of the time" doesn't make for a long article. (Or sell defragmenting apps).Unless your disc is in a real mess then you won't notice any performance difference between before and after running a defragmenter app.
Consolidation/defragmentation of a spinning magnetic disc could be important 10, 20, 30+ years ago - drives were smaller and slower, RAM was smaller, computer processors were slower.
It's not so important nowadays.Todays larger drives have plenty of space so don't often need consolidating. (only if they have been used a lot with a lot of deletes and re-writes over time).
For the average user it isn't a problem.Files being fragmented means they will load into memory (RAM) a tiny bit more slowly, we are talking about milliseconds difference with todays faster processors which means you will hardly notice the difference if you notice at all,
However, some people still like to see a 'tidy' drive when they run a defragmenter.
But that's a self fullfilling prophecy - If they didn't run a defragmenter then they wouldn't know it was 'untidy' anyway*, and wouldn't notice any difference.
So they are looking for a problem that isn't realy a problem.*You may have noticed that the built in Windows one doesn't show you a drive map anymore. That's so you can't see if the disc is 'untidy' or not, because it doesn't matter.
But if people stopped making/selling defragmenters, and especially if Windows didn't include one, then there would be moans and complaints.
As long as people expect to see one in Windows then it will still be there.Quoteall the time WINDOWS 10 is saying "0%" defragmented files
All defragmenters will report different things.
In this case Windows will be ignoring files below a certain size, or with less than a certain number of fragments.
Again, because it doesn't really matter.
(I'm guessing that over time the Windows defragmenter/optimiser will show less and less until it becomes simply another background maintenance task that doesn't have a user interface, removing the drive map and not showing all fragmented files look like just the first stages of that process). -
I doubt that it is intentional, the 'Sunset' version is still available to download/install.
I can still run v5.64 with no problem here, (albeit on Windows 10 not on XP).
Are you running it as the Free or Pro version?
At the top of the results screen can you see what it is 'stuck' on when it locks up?
About where this shows 'Firefox, Site Preferences':
As you say it works OK for you offline then this appears to be an internet connection issue.
Have you recently changed or updated your Antivirus app/Firewall?I'm sure that you are already aware of the security risks of using XP online so I won't go into those.
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Download the installer for CCleaner Free: https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/builds
Install CCleaner Free on the second computer.
Go to Options>About>Upgrade to Pro.
Enter the name/key as asked and click on 'Register'.
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As Hazelnut says it shows you the new licence expiry date to start with - and then twice a day the licence system updates things to add any time remaining from the previous licence so give it a day to update for you.
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In my experience with using Virus Total; sometimes programs will come back like this, and I report it and then the issue is gone.
That's because they are false positives, the thing that needs to be fixed is the AV that is getting it wrong.
Once reported they check and see that their AV is indeed giving a FP - so they change the AV definitions so that it stops reporting it wrongly.With Virus Total you have to look at the results and make a judgement.
All VT shows you is what a number of different AV engines think about a file or website, at any particular time.In the case of your screenshot only one AV engine flagged it as suspicious, the other 64 said it was clean.
So it's almost certainly a false positive by that one.You find that the lesser known AVs throw up more FPs, but the big names are not immune to giving the occasional one.
Of course it is always just possibly that the one is right and the 64 are wrong, so if you are worried check again later.
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Defragglers standard defrag does both a 'files defragment' and a 'consolidation' of files on the drive.
If you are seeing something that is not in the files list then it's probably unfragmented files that are being moved as part of the consolidation.
You can do a 'files only' defrag (without the consolidation) by clicking the box at the top of the files list and then selecting 'Defrag Checked'.
PS. The LCU folder is the 'Last Cumulative Update' folder which contains a backups in case you want to undo a Windows update.
There can be thousands of files in there.
Windows should clean it up after a while and only leave the latest ones, but you can do it yourself by running Windows built in Disk-Cleanup with the 'System Files' option. -
Many System Files and programme/application files do need duplicates in different folders to work properly.
I'm not sure about Ansys as you show in your screenshot but many design applications do have/need duplicate files in different folders (my AutoCad and NanoCad both do).
You should normally only use the Duplicate Finder to find duplicates of your own files - documents, photos, videos, music files, etc. and leave system/programme files alone.
If you set the following then Duplicate Folder will ignore the System files, and many programme/app files:
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CCleaner doesn't make a log unless you specifically invoked the 'debug' option from a command line (or the Windows 'Run' command).
If you would like to say what issue running CCleaner has caused for you then we should be able to tell you how to avoid it in future.
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The first thing I would do is a "Restart" of your computer. (Not a Shutdown but a Restart).
And then try the email again.
Just for information - I assume that in CCleaner you used Health Check and nothing else?
Does this only happen with one particular file, or with any/every file that you try to attach to an email?
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Just to add that I had been doing some testing yesterday and had reverted to an older CCleaner version.
When I opened CCleaner today it did take around 18-20 seconds for the window to come up - that was because it was doing an automatic update to v5.91 before opening.
Now it's done that update v5.91 takes about 3 or 4 seconds to open. -
I've taken a closer look at this and found that if I do a manual update as described then I also get two installation dialogues.
In my case one is directly covering the other and so I only see the one unless I drag it from it's default location to uncover the other.
It doesn't matter how many times I try it the one is always directly covering the other for me, so wouldn't be noticed unless you drag the top one aside.
From what @Sarexsays about sometimes getting an error writing the same file then it appears that it is actually doing two installs at the same time for some reason.
Whilst that wouldn't generally be a problem (apart from the occasional write-the-same-file error) it shouldn't be happening.I'll flag it up to the staff/developers.
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I was meaning a manual Windows "Check for Uptates" not a CCleaner check.
A Windows "Check for Updates" will bring the latest Defender definitions, which can change multiple times daily so may not have caught up until you check manually.
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Defender does throw FPs now and again.
When it does one here I do a manual 'Check for Updates' and then try the download again once the defender definitions have updated.
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Can you elaborate on what isn't working?
A screenshot of your Smart Cleaning window may help us to spot any setting issues.
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I suspect that you may have your browser synced? Have you read this:
If none of that helps then try doing an 'Analyze' with Custom Clean to give an indication of just what CCleaner may be finding.
It won't quite be the same as what Health Check finds but should be close enough for an indication.
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Looks like it's getting there eventually, if slowly, you are now down to 27 fragmented files from the original hundreds, and a 'guesstimated' 7 hours.
Im not sure if that's because you have collected/clumped them files into one or more rar's though.
And TBH I'm not sure if that was a good move or not, Defraggler now probably sees one very large file that needs to be defragged rather that a lot of smaller ones.
And it won't care just what is inside that file, just that the whole rar itself is in fragments.
Plus a larger file will need more space to put it into in one piece, so defraggler may now have to move more about to try and create that larger space.Personally I'd prefer to see quite a bit more free space for moving large files about, but unless you can temporarily move some files off the disc to elsewhere then you have what free space you have.
TBH I think that, again personally, as long as I had another 2TB of drive space available (say a couple of 1Tb discs, or 4x 500GB's), I'd move all the files off the drive then move them back again.
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After some testing I can confirm that the Wordle scores are currently saved in a cookie - www.nytimes.com
If/when you clear that particular cookie then the puzzle resets and shows no previous score(s).
To stop CCleaner removing your Wordle score you need to set that particular cookie to be kept.
- Open CCleaner and go to Options>Cookies.
- Click on the www.nytimes.com cookie and then the blue arrow, to move it into 'Cookies to Keep'.
- CCleaner will now leave it alone and not clear your Wordle scores.
NOTE - Be careful not to select the wrong cookie to keep by mistake.
You may see 3 (or more) 'nytimes' cookies, the one that you need to keep for the Wordle scores is - www.nytimes.com - the one highlighted in the screenshot below
You don't need to keep 'nytimes.com' (without the 'www') or 'a.nytimes.com' which are also shown in this screenshot, those two are different cookies for different purposes (and they may not even be there for you).
It should now be in the 'Cookies to Keep' like this:
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Hi, Let's see if I can answer some of that.
Nags:
They are what they are and all freeware contains them.
Once you have seen each of the nags it shouldn't show you it again for a while (but may show a different new offer if there is one).
However some people clear out CCleaners own cookies, (either by changing settings in CCleaner itself or using another cleaner), and if/when they do that CCleaner doesn't know that it has already shown the nag so will show it again.Of course buying a Pro licence will stop most of it.
You'll still get reminders and cut price offers when your licence is due for renewal.CCleaner doing things on it's own, running at startup:
A few settings can do that in CCleaner Free. (more in Pro).- If you have Options>Settings>"Run a one time clean with the Custom Clean tool when you start Windows" ticked then it will do just that.
- Options>Smart Cleaning if enabled will run in the background and ocassionaly clear built up junk. It will put a CCleaner icon in your system tray.
- Options>Updates>"Keep CCleaner updated automatically" if ticked also runs in the background, and will put the icon in the tray.
None of those should open the CCleaner window though, they run in the background.
I'm not sure what the defaults are in the Free version these days, but think that both Smart Cleaning and Automatic updates are on by default - You can turn them off if you don't want that.
As you say an automatic check for updates might fetch back a 'limited time/low price' offer to upgrade to pro. (Not sure but I could easily see it doing that).Controlled Folder Access:
CFA is off by default in Windows, you have to turn it on yourself.
I turned CFA on a long time ago when it first came out; and quickly turned it off again because it was always causing problems, throwing up false positives and stopping non-Microsoft apps from working properly.CFA is a bit of a nanny who likes to keep you 'safe' by never allowing you to do anything that a grown-up might do.
It will often block cleaners, Antivirus apps, and other grown-up, serious, software from accessing folders that it doesn't think a 'dummy' user should access.
(MS don't think much of their customers intelligence, or of any app not written by MS).
It's even been know to stop Microsoft's own software, and sometimes the Windows operating system, from accessing folders that they need to.Microsoft themselves say:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/allow-an-app-to-access-controlled-folders-b5b6627a-b008-2ca2-7931-7e51e912b034
QuoteOccasionally, an app that is safe to use will be identified as harmful. This happens because Microsoft wants to keep you safe and will sometimes err on the side of caution; however, this might interfere with how you normally use your PC. You can add an app to the list of safe or allowed apps to prevent them from being blocked.
For 'Ocassionally' substitute 'Often' (In my experience anyway).
If you google- "\device\harddisk0\DRO folder" you'll find just some of the issues that turning on CFA can cause with that folder and others.Of course it's your choice whether you want to keep CFA enabled or not.
If you want to keep CFA on but still let CCleaner do it's cleaning unhindered then you can make CCleaner an exception in CFA by adding it to the safe list, see that link above.
How to reduce oversized CCleaner Window
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I'm not at home at the moment but can post a link to that old post by Stephen CCleaner with the registry tweak later.
It isn't a change it's deleting 5 or 6 entries. (WINDOW_HEIGHT was just one).
EDIT - Here it is: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/53546-last-ccleaner-v5547088-window-not-resizing/#comment-304194
Don't know if it will still work (don't know if it worked back then) but suppose that it's worth a try.
I know what you mean with the resolution settings and making things too small.
If you aren't using anything that needs the hi-res then it might be worth considering setting a lower display resolution with no scaling?