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The closest at the moment is if you right click on one of the files found and select 'Open Containing folder'. That will open the folder with the selected file already highlighted for you to open in the viewer of your choice for that filetype. Note that each one you 'Open containing folder' for will open a new File Explorer window, so if you do a lot you will have a lot of FE windows to close again.

I'm not sure if you are saying you are having a problem with CCleaner itself or with the VPN? See this for how to overcome problems when registering CCleaner: https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/204043844-How-to-register-and-activate-CCleaner-Professional As you are not using copy/paste (I'm not sure whey you say that you can't do that) then you need to be careful that you type it exactly the same. A common error is mistaking numbers for letters, 2/Z, 5/S, 8/B etc. I think though that you are talking about the HMA VPN. I believe that your purchase confirmation for CCleaner Pro Plus with Premium should tell you about how to do that, and should include a weblink to HMA and a HMA Activation KEY. See this from the HMA website about activation keys for HMA: https://support.hidemyass.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000120528-Activation-retail-keys-how-to-activate-your-license https://my.hidemyass.com/en-eu/#activate

When all is said and done only you can decide which files you want to keep and which you don't. Nobody else can make that decision for you, and certainly an application can't do it for you. Duplicate Finder is a powerful search tool if used right, but like any tool you have to learn to use it and use it carefully. You are going the right way to start with, you just need to do a bit more. As you say you should leave the system files alone, always set duplicate finder to ignore them. (unless you have a specific problem with some system files). In fact if you don't know just (exactly) what any duplicate file found is then it's best to leave it alone. Only delete something if you are certain that you don't need/want it. In your case you say that it is accidentally copied/duplicated music and photo files that you are looking for, so there are a few things you can do to narrow that search down. To start with as they have been copied from the same place then any such accidental duplicates will have the same file formats and the same names. (unless you did something to change them during the copying). So when setting up the search path set it to look only for music filetypes. Those will typically be .mp3 or .mp4 files, but there are other possibilities. https://www.canto.com/blog/audio-file-types/ Let's say your music files are either .mp3 files or mp4 files. Use the 'Add' button to set the search path and filetypes. (Use 'Browse' to set the Drive/Folder). The below would set the search path to search for .mp3 and .mp4 duplicates in any subfolder of drive 'C'. (I've done both types at the same time here, but you could do one type at once). Then set the Match by and Ignore like this - this tells it to search all of drive 'C' and only find duplicate .mp3 files with the same name and the same contents, or duplicate .mp4 files with the same name and the same contents. So clicking on search would look in all subfolders on the 'C' drive for all .mp3 or .mp4 files that have the same name and the same contents. Note. You could search on name only and not contents, but then you should be doubly careful of the results - just because 2 files in different folders have the same name doesn't mean they are the same. But again - once it has found those duplicates for you then you still have to decide which ones you want to keep or not, only you can know that. The first question I would ask there is what app are you using to play your music, open that app and see what folder it is looking to play the music from. (Normally that would be 'C;\users\{username}\music' but it could have been set to something else if you store your music elsewhere). Whatever that folder is then that's probably the one with the files that you want to keep. As you say you think there are also accidentally duplicated photos then once you have done the music files you would do the same kind of search but using whatever image file extension you normally use. If none of the above helps then if you could let us know the full pathnames of any 2 files that you are certain are duplicates we should be able to suggest how to search for them. (Preferably 2 of the music duplicates and 2 of the photo duplicates)

As Anadvari notes they are 2 completely different browsers, and they work in completely different ways. It might have been better if Microsoft had called the new one a completely new name, but they didn't. If you have a recent Windows 10 version then you should just have the 'Edge -Chromium' version installed and the OLD Edge should have been automatically removed from your machine by Microsoft. However there are still some using older Windows 10 versions with the OLD Edge. Some (particularly some business users) have re-enabled OLD Edge on new Windows 10 versions for compatibility with particular software, and so they have both old and new Edge browsers. And for a while during the changeover most people had both Edge browsers on their machines, and could use whichever one they chose. So because the old version of Edge is still in use by some people CCleaner still lists it, and still cleans it if it's there. I suspect that in future that will change and CCleaner will do a check and only list OLD Edge if it is actually on the machine, but for now it just lists both.

TBH I've never selected it, I'll pass your comment about the documentation upwards.

I'm not sure why you are so convinced that CCleaner is accessing the net during a Custom Clean called from a command window? You do say that when you call CCleaner from your script it takes 8 seconds after your script calls it for it to terminate, and I agree. My testing using your exact command copied and pasted in agrees, I paste your command into a command window press return and about 8 seconds later CCleaner finishes and the command prompt comes back ready for the next command. It takes the same 8 seconds whether the computer has an internet connection or not. Interestingly, for a further test, I just opened the CCleaner GUI and ran a Custom Clean from there. And guess what? From clicking on the 'Run Cleaner' button until the clean finished and displayed the results took about 8 seconds. So all my testing is simply saying to me that a Custom Clean of an already fairly clean computer takes about 8 seconds to run. It doesn't matter if you do it from a command line or from the GUI, it's still 8 seconds. I think you are reading far too much into those 8 seconds (possibly prompted by some reading on the internet?), and 8 seconds is simply how long CCleaner is taking to analyze your computer for junk and remove it. I realise though that if you truly believe otherwise then you are not going to change your mind, no matter what testing I do for you or what I say. So in that case I can't think of anything further to add.

There are a few way you can do this. There should be a link in your purchase confirmation email to download CCleaner Pro. Click that link and follow the instructions. Or use the following link to download the CCleaner Pro installer. Double click the downloaded 'ccsetup###_pro.exe' file to install CCleaner - at the end of the install if you leave 'Run CCleaner' ticked it will ask you for your licence key . (If you untick 'Run CCleaner' then it will ask for the key the first time that you do run CCleaner): https://www.ccleaner.com/go/get_ccpro Or you could simply download the CCleaner Free installer from here and then register it: https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/builds If you have CCleaner Free installed (or an unregistered CCleaner Professional) then you have to register it to use the Pro features. Open CCleaner Free. (or unregistered Pro). Go to Options>About>Upgrade to Pro. Enter your registration key as prompted. Click on register. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More details about registering CCleaner can be found here, with advice and help for if you encounter any problems: https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/204043844-How-to-register-and-activate-CCleaner-Professional

Without saying that you are wrong: You keep asserting that the time you are seeing CCleaner take to run is due to CCleaner 'phoning home'. But you haven't said why you think that is happening, other than a vague statement that: Where/how did you "discover" that? It isn't what my testing shows, my testing shows the the time taken is the same even when CCleaner cannot even connect to the internet to 'phone home'. So I have to conclude that the 8 seconds or so that we are seeing is just the normal time taken to run an analyze/clean from a command prompt. 8 seconds or so to Analyze all of the possible locations where junk may be on your drive seems pretty quick to me. I'm also struggling a bit to understand why you think that CCleaner would run and complete 'instantly' without taking the time needed to analyze/clean whatever junk there may be to clean? If I called any app that finished instantly I'd assume that the call had faulted and the app had not run at all. (Wrong command syntax, wrong path called, etc). And of course if you have error reporting turned off in you script/batch then you wouldn't get an error message that it had faulted.

That seems to have covered everything. Except for if the files are already in use by some application, and I think you'd know if they were. It seems odd that Duplicate Finder can find them but can't delete them. Almost as if it was a permissions issue but you say you have ruled that out. I thought that it would be something to do with the way the external drives are connected and being seen by Windows? Although I do note that you say it sometimes happens with internal drives as well. So I think that whatever is causing this is probably with the files themselves, especially as you say it's the same if you copy those files to a different location (different machine?) and Duplicate finder still wouldn't delete them. You could try emailing support on support@CCleaner.com TBH though I'd probably just make a list, Duplicate Finder has a 'Save to Text file' to save the results after you have scanned, and then manually delete the ones that Duplicate Finder won't handle. CCleaner has already done the hard work of finding them for you.

Sorry. From your first post I thought it was just gmail that was being logged out, not Outlook itself. I'd still uncheck 'Session' in the browsers that you use if you want to remain logged into webistes you access through the browser. 'Network Passwords' under 'Windows Explorer' are your Wifi connection logins rather than application logins. From the documentation: https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047807132-Windows-Explorer-cleaning-rules#what-are-cleaning-rules--0-2 OneDrive and Skype cleaning can be found under 'Applications' on the Applications tab along with Office versions (Outlook is part of Office), so you may want to take a look at those.

Interesting. I tried your command from an elevated command prompt and can see the delay if you use the '/wait' parameter to pause command window processing until CCleaner terminates. (Without the '/wait' it comes back straight away of course). Now here is where it gets interesting in my own testing of your command line. Firewall on, connected to the net - I see the delay. Firewall on, disconnect from the net - I still see the delay. Turn the Firewall off - still disconnected from the net - I still see the delay. Firewall still off, reconnect to the net - I still see the delay. Firewall on or off, connected or disconnected from the net, it all makes no difference to me. If I use the '/wait' parameter then I always have to wait the 8 seconds or so for CCleaner to do it's thing. So to me it looks like CCleaner simply always takes 8 seconds or so (at least) to run from a command window. Have you confirmed that turning off your firewall means that the delay does not happen for you? EDIT - Just for interest I took my CCleaner back to v5.62 and ran the same test. Still a delay in all the above configurations but only 6 seconds or so, as you might expect because CCleaner now has more things to analyze/clean

I don't have Outlook, is there a section for it on the Applications tab under Applications (along with the entries for Office, etc.). If so then try unticking that. If not then try unticking 'Session' for your browser(s). Session is the information for that browser about what websites you are logged into, what browser tabs you have open, etc. when you exit the browser. The browser uses that information to open the tabs and log you in again next time you open the browser, so if you clear the information then it can't do that.

When you first install CCleaner Custom Clean will show you this message if it needs to close a browser to clean it: If you tick the box for "Do no not show me this message again" then it does exactly what it says and CCleaner will never show you that message again, instead if the browser is open then it will just 'Skip' the cleaning of that browser without asking you. As Nergal says it's always been like that. PS. Once you have ticked that box you can't undo it. If you want to make CCleaner start showing that message again: Uninstall/reinstall CCleaner. Or delete the 'ccleaner.ini' which will lose all of your customised/saved settings. (or you could manually edit the 'CCleaner.ini' file if you are an advanced user).

My CCleaner Pro 5.88 process closes (dissapears from Task Manager) as soon as CCleaner is closed, so it's probably a difference in our settings. Could be a CCleaner setting or a Windows setting. It may just be because you are running CCleaner from a command window. Although TBH I've just run CCleaner with /Auto from the command line it's that quick that I don't even see it in Task Manager. One thing stands out though seeing as your query is about waiting times: When you say you are using a "/WAIT function" how are you implementing that? It isn't one of the CCleaner documented command line parameters: https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047885872#command-line-parameters-for-ccleaner-for-windows-0-0 PS. Just to note that v5.39 is four years old so it won't be cleaning your browsers, etc. properly. Things change especially where browsers put their junk. eg. Both Firefox and Chrome (All/most Chromium based browsers) have recently changed how/where they store cookies, so v5.39 won't be cleaning them properly. But that shouldn't affect the process closing, and doesn't on mine.

If you had removed Instagram from you phone then CCleaner will have removed all the links to photos that you had saved at Instagram. It didn't think that, but if you don't have instagram on your phone anymore then those instagram links are useless - so they are junk. BUT that's only the links - The saved photos themselves were not on your phone - they were/are saved at Instagram on your account. So the photos themselves should still be there at Instagram, to access them again you will have to put Instagram back on that phone and login to your instagram account. Or login to your Instagram account from another device/phone. From you screenshot you seem to have put Instagram back on the phone already? And it seems that the 2270 images are still there, they are just not showing thumbnails. It looks as if the links/thumbnails just need rebuilding. What happens if you open one of those images?

That's the default setting, (although you can change it and even customise the colours). The standard reds and blues show both file status, Not-Fragmented/Fragmented, and indicates (roughly) how full each cluster is, The 'Drive Map' tab shows you what the different coloured boxes mean. This is the 'Original View' setting which has more saturated colours than the 'Modern View':

It's just a wording change on the button, so yes the guide is a bit outdated. Click on 'Review Selected issues' and it will ask if you want to make a backup of the changes before continuing. Note - it only backs up the things it will be changing not the full registry. Then you will be given another box where you can 'Fix all selected issues" or scroll through them 1-by-1. PS. Before using the Registry Cleaner tool you should read these: For the official Piriform advice on using CCleaners Registry Cleaner 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 Here is Microsofts stance on using any Registry Cleaner: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2563254/microsoft-support-policy-for-the-use-of-registry-cleaning-utilities

This is DaveCCleaners reply about this issue and the fix from the thread that Andavari Linked to: Further down that thread he says that it's expected that the new CCleaner version (v5.89) will be released next week.

That's correct - because you have specified "Defrag Freespace (allow fragmentation)" . That is known as a consolidation (or compaction) defrag where the purpose is to cram all of your files into the smallest number of clusters possible, to free up as many full clusters as possible. To do that and totally fill up the least number of clusters some files have to be split across clusters, ie. deliberately fragmented to squeeze them in. And that is what you are doing by using Defrag Freespace (allow fragmentation). (You could also use Defrag Freespace without the "allow fragmentation" which would do the best it can to fill the clusters without fragmenting files). It is what most people generally tend to think of as defragging, because it is what was wanted in the 'old days' when we all had much smaller drives. But nowadays as we all tend to have much bigger drives then consolidation/compaction is not realy needed so much. There are lots of free clusters anyway. Although there are times when you still might want to do it. And of course with a large drive a full drive consolidation will take a long time because the defragmenter has to look at every cluster on the drive. So with todays lage drives many of us tend to use a 'File Defragment' to simply get each of our files into one piece each so that they load a tiny bit faster, without bothering just where they are on the disc. It's also a lot quicker with large drives to do a file defrag than a whole disc consolidation. By default Defraggler does a mixture of both types of defrag - but you can specify one type or the other. A consolidation defrag is what you are currently doing by using Defrag Freespace, especially with the "(allow fragmentation)" option. To do a file defrag instead of a consolidation defrag: Open defraggler and analyse the drive. Click on 'View Files' or click on the 'Files' tab. Select the tickbox at the top of the list to select everything found. Click on 'Defrag Checked'. That will just defragment the files without trying to consolidate the whole drive. So it will be much quicker and use less resources. Like any tool that can be used in multiple ways what you get out of Defraggler depends on knowing how to use it in the best way to suit you. I think in your place I'd probably continue with the Defrag Freespace, just so it's been done. (although I'd probably do it without the "allow fragmentation" option). Then once that consolidation/compaction is done I'd do a file defrag to get the fragmented files back into one piece each, and then only do file defrags from then on.

Hi @Anyone The details in that article about 'Trackers' etc. are not intended as relevant to Mac users, apologies if you though it was part of my reply here. The link is part of my signature and so turns up automatically below the 'Quote' button in every post that I make, whatever sub-forum I happen to be posting in. (It will be added automatically to the bottom of this one too). The linked article itself was written to address questions that are frequently asked by Windows users. (Although in a general way it does apply to all operating systems the details are written particularly for Windows). (PS. You can see that DaveCCleaner has a similar signature below the 'Quote' button on all of his posts - his gives links to various CCleaner products, and appears automatically under every post that he makes).

Thanks for your screenshot, It shows that you do have a 'CCleaner.lic' rather than a 'CCleaner.dat'. That tends to confirm that it's the new 'CCleaner.lic' file type which is causing this non-admin permissions problem for some users. @MeganCCleanerhas already raised this issue with the programme developers. Hopefully they will have an answer and fix the problem quickly.

Sorry if you though my factual reply was rude. You asked why this had happened, I simply told you in a factual way why it had happened and what software would have done it.

As you say it's not realy necessary, but I understand why you may want to do it. It's going to take a long time on a 6TB drive. If you stop a defragment (actually a consolidation/compaction if it's the free space) then what has already been done will remain done until you use the computer again. So when you start defragging again it will not need to do that part of the disc again, (Well maybe a bit because defraggler will have taken a new look at what is now there). TBH getting everything at the start of the disk is a bit of a holy grail, it's hardly ever going to happen although you can get close. In 30+ years of computing I think I've seen it once where everything was at the start of the drive, until the computer started being used again.

That will be because all of the installers listed there are very old versions. They are all from 2016. (And they all contained the 'old style' bundler which didn't have clear 'Accept'/'Decline' buttons, so Microsoft didn't like it). As it was Patch Tuesday yesterday you have probably just had the Windows Security Updates, including the latest version of the 'Malicious Software Removal Tool' which runs automatically. MSRT downloads and runs the latest version each Patch Tuesday, along with the other monthly updates. The MSRT doesn't just remove 'malicious' things though, it will also remove old versions of installers, and other old '.exe's', which are out of date and which might adversely affect the latest Windows if they were to be run now. So it's probably (almost certainly) the MSRT that has quarantined those well out of date installers. Have you had those old installers on your machine since 2016? or have you recently downloaded them from somewhere?

Odd, We know that a Defender scan will ocassionally remove very old/outdated CCleaner versions, but it shouldn't be touching the latest version(s). Please let us know if the problem returns for you. (PS. If that does happen then I would then try an uninstall and reinstall using the Slim installer. It may be that you have an odd registry entry left over somewhere and if so then doing an uninstall/reinstall should cear that).