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  1. Oh, Computer name is stored in registry in two keys which has same value, I guess HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ActiveComputerName So, no need to that bother with the presence of that NetSetup.LOG. It can be found directly from registry. But, how to link this computer name to restore points? Thanks.
  2. One simpler method could be to show the "name" of the computer, for which a particular restore point it. The computer name is stored in folder C:\Windows\debug in the file NetSetup.LOG This file has history of name change and last line would be "08/28/2021 15:22:21:587 NetpValidateName: name 'ilLUSIon-81-500' is valid for type 5" from which we can find the name between "single quotes'. That is possible if the name of the pc was ever changed by user, or was named at all to begin with, and if the names of all Windows are kept different. Otherwise, if pc was never named, then also Windows allots a unique name starting with DESKTOP-XXXXXX, but I don't know where it is stored as it is not in above NetSetup.LOG file, actually even that file would not exist if pc was never name, I guess. Or if the user has deleted all Windows logs, then I don't know whether this file also gets deleted. Or I don't know whether the user might give same name to different installations. All this will lead to confusion, but that will make the user wise to pc-name all Instalations' differently. I am saying this because when we have turned on system protection for various or all drives and we go to restore the system, Windows dutifully shows the names of all drives for which protection is on, and even allows us to select which drives we want to restore system for. It is compulsory to restore for current O.S. on which the user is executing the restore command, but it advises that it is not require to restore system for other drives, though the user can restore for others also if he/ she so wishes. That makes me think that Windows is somehow able to connect restore points to PC's name, so we can also link. If such pcname - restorepoint connection is possible, then we can even add option in the ccleaner Tools-Restore screen whenther user wants to see the restore points of the current O.S. or of all installations, and then we can dim the latest restore points of each O.S. not allowing the user to delete it even inadvertently. Thanks.
  3. My box shows like this. There are 3+4+4 entries. I am unable to figure out which one is for which Disk, which partition, which O.S.? With two disks, when we boot from one or other, The Drive letters also change. And it is not showing Date Time of creation of these. I cannot tweak at all in it. Thanks.
  4. Andavari > "It all sounds like a recipe for disaster if you're relying upon CCleaner to "manage" restore points. " Ccleaner presented a new feature, I used it, Why should I have doubted a feature presented by somewith with high repute of ccleaner? -- Actually, Ccleaner is the only software, apart from Windows, that even mentions "restore points" and allows me to delete ones that I am sure I don't want or I have created fresher restore points since then that will do my work in case my box runs into problem. Windows itself doesn't provlde option of deleting any restore point. If you are aware of other non-MS software for the above management of Restore Points, please mention to me. So, I am very happy to consider possibility that Ccleaner will soon overcome this teething problem of introducing a new feature of deleting restore point, and then Ccleaner will become universal boss of handling restore points, it will become even better and more handy than mother Windows itself. So, I am keenly interested that ccleaner analyzes this issue and finds some solution. It will be sad that a budding feature gets discarded for ever due to the above issue. -- Once ccleaner solves this problem, I would suggest ccleaner adds option to save (backup) an existing restore point to elsewhere, and then restore from to Windows default location when we need that. There is no software doing this, and as you said restore points keep on disappearing right when we need them. Thanks.
  5. You are right in using the term "madness". And there is no information available on entire internet to figure out the fine points of it, I have been searching for it for years. Seems ccleaner has looked at some place to find the shown information about restore points, but that place has an "all encompassing" information of every restore point on entire pc. Seems there has to be some specific place in registry or somewhere where the information related to the current O.S.' restore points is stored. After all, Windows itself figures out about the restore points of the current O.S. only somehow when we go to anything in Systems - Protection. So that information has to be somewhere. So, ccleaner needs to find out whether such current-O.S.-specific restore points are stored or information about it is stored, and read from there instead. Firtly, the restore point has to reside on the same disk otherwise if we remove the other disk then we are left without access to restore points for the current O.S., that doesn't happen. Then, the restore point has to reside on the same partition as the O.S., otherwise if it is on some other O.S, partition and that O.S. fails to work and we format that other partition, then our current O.S.' restore points are also gone, that doesn't happen. So the restore points has to be on that very partition where that specific O.S. is installed. There is a folder "System Volume Information" in the root of all partitions, but its access is denied to users so I couldn't see what is in there. That could be one place to analyze. Thanks.
  6. On W8.1 it is showing these startup items, ditto as what task manager is showing. But, when I go to delete the third entry, it gives this error message. I don't know where the file should have been, how it got missing and what to do now. But ccleaner leaves it at that, baffling me the next time when I will come to that again after a few weeks. I think it should ask us "Remove that entry?" and should remove it if we confirm. There is no point having an entry whose file is not there so it cannot run in any case. Thanks.
  7. NO, no, there is a major problem. Please have a look at the pic The top restore point ccleaner is showing was created by driver easy today for other O.S., I don't know whether this one is for other w8.1 or other w10 installations, in both I ran drivereasy to update all drivers almost in the same hour. I seem to have forgotten to select my timezone to India, so it is taking window's default of some U.S. Area and showing tomorrow's date/ time. The second restore point I created just now in my current old w8.1, and thus it has correct date and time of today. (Other restore points that I had shown in previously sent images got deleted by MS when I configured sytem protection on other SDD (W8.1 or w10). Even the one that drivereasy had created while driver updation, also disappeared when I set configured sytem protection on next partition (w10 or W8.1), so only single one is showing. It always happens.) -- But you noticed? ccleaner has assumed the "last date-time" is the latest one for current O.S. so it will not allow me to delete that. But that one is not for current O.S. That is for other O.S. and that is protected but I am allowed to delete the latest single restore point of my current O.S. If I delete it I am left without any restore point for my current O.S. That goes against MS' and ccleaner's declaration that latest restore point (for current O.S.?) is not allowed to be deleted. -- Till you figure out some method of finding and showing Disks/ drives/ O.S.s for which various restore points are, you can immediately add an elaborate warning/ disclaimer on above screen that "it is is showing restore points of all Disks, all Drives, all O.S. and is protecting the one with last date-time, so the users use their discretion to find out which one(s) they really want to delete". Thanks.
  8. If the software can tell which O.S. (or the disk or partition volume name or partition drive letter) the restore point is for, I mean if it can be determined, then people will understand promptly and act in an informed learned way which one to delete and which one to keep. You are currently showing the date and time of creation of the restore point, that is also some help for recently created ones that we will remeber which os we were in at that day/ time, but as the restore points go back long time depending on the space allocated, we might not remember. I have named my restore point this way, but you might have seen that almost all other software don't bother to name the restore points this elaborately. Revo installer just mentions which software was uninstalled (I think not even date). Driver Easy just has the same name for all restore point (No other detail, not even date), so one might think that these are restore points for the current O.S. and would delete unknowingly. Seems all the major software as not equipped to handle multidisk, multi-boot, mutli-O.S. systems. Or, I think it is MS that has made this part so complex and had not bothered to improve it since when it was introduced. Thanks.
  9. I am a home user, having no classroom computer literacy. I am not aware about any technical aspects of restore point. So I am unable to add anything to it. I would be happy that you have taken up this issue and would be reolving it for all your milllions of users and they will use the software happily. Thanks for the wonderful software.
  10. In Tools, System Restore it seems to be showing restore points of all O.S. on all HDDs. I have 2 HDD and have two O.S. on each, As you can see in the attached pic, I am on W8.1 on one HDD, but it is very much showing restore points of other partitions of the same HDD (two W10 500GB ones), and also showing two restore points of other SDD. That is wrong. Windows works on the concept of current O.S.'s restore point, and we are used to it. So our deleting other Restore point might make that OS unrecoverable. And when you say that you have dimmed latest restore point so that it cannot be deleted by mistake, the other disks and other partitions all are having one latest restore point, so by your logic, that should be undeletable. But here we can very much delete them , and we will face the consequence. So I thing showing all Disks' all O.S.'s restore point is a bug. It should show "ONLY" current O.S. restore points. If it is showing other O.S.'s restore point, it should somehow highlight which DISK which partition that is about. It is my own nomenclature that made it clear to me that these are different Disks, different OS. but other might not name them like this and might end up deleting valid last restore points. Thanks.
  11. Slimcleaner is showing more "startup" entries whereas windows - task manager - startup and ccleaner - tools - startup is showing only one entry (ccleaner monitoring) of course, remaining are Microsoft's files only, so nothing to get worried, but still, why shouldn't ccleaner show everything that is there? On what criteria does ccleaner decide what is very much in startup but not to be shown to users? Thanks. -- Rawat
  12. I opened winapp2.ini I am noticing that all references to Firefox and thunderbird are referring to hdd folders FileKey1=%AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\* and FileKey1=%AppData%\Thunderbird\Profiles\* whereas I have moved my ff and tb to E:\MyData\ff\Profiles\ffprofile2 and E:\MyData\tb\profiles\tbprofile1 These are working well as I have put the relevant entries in profiles.ini files. So, does it mean that winapp2.ini is not able to help detect my moved profiles? But I find that ccleaner does clean my ff and tb and there are entries in the log saying so many MB cleared. probably default setup of ccleaner is able to detect my locations to new moved locations. so, could you please confirm again that I need to manually edit winapp2.ini file to change the hdd folder references to E:\MyData\ff\profiles\* and E:\MyData\tb\profiles\* And there I add Light's moved profile location also. Thanks.
  13. trim.bat issues. 1. at a point it said "OOPS - using not default ccleaner" What was that for and how did it affect me? I am on ccleaner 5.03. Did it mean that I was not having latest version? 2. at a point it said "Reporting "BAD" volatile Detections in file #_?_BAD_*_WINAPP2.INI" I selected "preserve". What was that for and how did it affect me? 3. first I had run trim.bat in my backup folder thinking that I would trim the file here and then more to ccleaner installation folder. but it didn't run. then I ran in ccleaner installation folder and ran. in my backup folder run, 3.a. it didn't give any message and ended. I kept waiting for it to end. Then I realized and ran in ccleaner installation folder. I mean, it should give message what it has done, and why it is not able to proceed. 3.b Then it had created #TRIMMER folder in my backup folder, which it didn't remove (nor asked me whether to delete or not, as it asked in run from ccleaner installation folder) housekeeping alert. :-) :-) 3. it left a @_#_7_BAD_FULL.LST file. What to do with it? Is it needed for winapp2.ini to work or should I delete it? If it is not required, shouldn't it be created in #TRIMMER folder itself so that it would have got deleted or not depending on user choice. And if it is related to my above "BAD" message (point 2 above) (as the name suggests), there should be a message suggesting the user what to do with entries in this file. Thanks.
  14. As winapp2.ini was taking a long time to load, I followed suggestions and ran trim.bat and now my winapp2.ini is reduced from 828kb to a comfirtable 81 kb, less than one tenth, and is taking no visible time in loading. Thanks for this help.
  15. Please help me with adding Firefox Light browser entries in cleaner. seeing suggestions in this forum, I added to ccleaner.ini - CustomLocation1=FIREFOX Light|E:\MyData\light\Light\Profiles\lightprofile1 but nothing is appearing in ccleaner. this is the folder where my Firefox light profile resides, with the nomenclature of standard firefox. What did I miss? Thanks.
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