DennisD
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It would be interesting to find out where it actually was downloaded from.
A quick research quickly popped up another 3 instances of people accidentally downloading Mysearchdial when intending to download CCleaner.
I've kept the links although there's no need for me to post them here.
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The anonymous participant could be the guy I mentioned in post #2.
JMHAAH of course.
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The devs do read these posts guys although they usually only respond to them if they require more information.
I'm sure they will be looking at this.
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I'm on XP and It did make a difference for me nikki.
I missed Andavari's post in this topic about the change and posted this ...
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Leon, with respect no one got the chance to pursue that topic and try find a solution as a couple of days after hazel responded to your question you did a reinstall of Windows.
And I have to say that there isn't any real evidence that the Intelligent Scan actually caused the cookies to be difficult to remove. It simply scanned and displayed cookies on your machine which were deposited by your browsers. CCleaners inability to remove them could have been caused by something completely beyond it's control.
And please don't take this as me simply trying to defend the Intelligent Scan. I have no affiliation with Piriform, and if I believed it to be corrupt or preventing cookies from being deleted I would be the first to say so, but every now and again on here we see cookie removal problems popping up and it can be difficult to pin down why.
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Hi PlaysGames11.
The only thing that springs to my mind is the fact that it's a "Games Machine".
Does the computer in question contain a lot of large "save game" files, which I believe can be really large (I'm not a gamer).
If you do have pretty large files to defrag, and not sufficient contiguous free space, then any defrag program would have to work quite hard to do it's thing. And do you possibly have the setting "Move large files to end of drive" active, which would add more difficulty to the defrag?
Since whatever update, Defraggler uses a lot more CPU time ...You don't say how much free space you have, and would a previous version do a better job?
I'm guessing as games become bigger and more complex, the "save" files are following suit.
We do have gamers on here who may confirm the above, or shoot me down in flames.
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Your topic header says you ran the "Intelligent" cookie scan".
The object of that scan is to automatically find for you the cookies which may contain login data for sites, place them in the "cookies to keep" column, and for you to then decide which you would want to keep, or not.
That scan isn't actually deliberately protecting any cookie, and on a new installation where I assume the potential user is yet to have accessed any sites, then CCleaner is probably struggling to give an accurate response to the requested "Intelligent Scan".
Just my opinion, but under those circumstances I don't see it as a bad thing that CCleaner assumes that it's own cookie may be needed. It is used for the storing of site data.
On a new install, I don't understand why you are running "Intelligent Scan", unless you are reading that feature to be one that selects cookies to delete, which it doesn't.
http://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner/ccleaner-settings/choosing-which-cookies-to-keep
Hope that helps.
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Do you have a drop of Irish blood running through those veins then Derek?
Happy St Patrick's to you too. (I'm not Irish, but I've worked over there).
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Same from me nikki.
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If you had malware on your computer, and it may have been eating your free space, then it isn't possible for us to ascertain as to how serious it was, or comment on whether your actions were enough.
I strongly suggest you visit one of the malware removal forums listed in Forum Rule #10 here ...
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showannouncement=15&f=13
... where they have trained experts who will check out your computer properly, and for free. None of us are sufficiently qualified to do that and wrong advice could have damaging consequences for you.
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You may be right, cant you just email ESET and find out ?
If I was a Piriform employee I may have, but as I'm not, I'll leave it to them to decide whether they should act on it. Or Not.
My interest stretches only to the fact that it's an interesting subject.
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Hi ririkko, and welcome to the forum.
Two things to begin with.
First. Yes, you could do a "Quick Format" of the stick which will initialize the file system but will not delete the files. Then scan with Recuva with "Scan for non deleted files" selected in "Options\Actions".
But I'm puzzled when you say that Recuva is ignoring 30,000 files and found 2 zipped files when you also say that it won't work and asks for the stick to be formatted.
Second. Do you still have the borrowed drive and has it been used since you moved the files off it. Although "moved" off that drive the files will still actually be on it although the space they occupy will have been made available for use.
You could scan that drive with Recuva.
But before you do anything, how big is the faulty stick? If a nominal size and you have the drive space, you could make a backup "Image" of that faulty stick, as it is now with USB Image Tool, and if the format and recover does not yield positive results, you could "restore" the "Image" to it and try to repair it. That's a possibility.
USB Image Tool: (Freeware)
I would help you as best I can with that if you needed it.
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I thought I'd seen a 5MB issue before with IE Temp Internet files.
Could the "Suggested Sites" setting in IE still be the cause ...
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=17693&do=findComment&comment=114110
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Potentially unwanted is a higher level threat compared to Potentially unsafe
Is it just me, or does that seem to be around the wrong way?
As an ordinary user, as most people are, I know which one would worry me the most.
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To add to Andavari's observation, if ESET insist on flagging CCleaner in this way then maybe they should change the "Potentially unsafe application" to at worst a "Potentially unwanted program" (PUP).
As far as I'm aware there isn't anything unsafe about the Google Toolbar. Unwanted? Possibly.
And if users are careful with the install, as they should be with all program installs, there is an opt-out.
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Apologies if you're already aware of this and it it isn't what you require, but in case you have missed it, there's already a "Shutdown after cleaning" option within CCleaner ...
The only thing to be aware of is the box doesn't auto-uncheck, but that wouldn't matter if the only time you run CCleaner is when you want to shut down.
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If it helps, you can delete the "Settings" file by holding down the Alt, Ctrl, and Shift keys as PhotoShop launches.
Works with my CS4 ...
The file itself, in my case, is Adobe "Photoshop CS4 Prefs.psp" found here ...
"C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Adobe Photoshop CS4 Settings"
Probably the same with later versions.
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Until clarified, I'm assuming sheldancer's corrupt drive has nothing to do with the unfortunate photo recovery attempts.
He/she may not be aware that corrupt drives can at times be fixed or photographs recovered from them, and if the recovery option proves to be a positive one, and the acquisition of another drive isn't possible, then any recovered photo's can be saved to the C: drive. Recovery from the C: drive looks to be a lost cause.
All supposition of course until he/she posts back.
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Well Dennis, you're sure well equipped. Can I borrow some stuff for CSIS?
I sold it all Razz, to a guy who insisted I meet him in a public place whilst carrying a newspaper and wearing a white carnation.
Who would've known. If I were younger I could see myself wanting everything on there, even if it didn't work as advertised (kind of like those paper X-RAY glasses I may have had as a child).
Those X-Ray glasses held so much promise. Huge childhood disappointment.
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Hi sheldancer, and welcome to the forum.
I'm afraid once a file has been "moved" from your C: drive the space it occupied is available to be overwritten so it isn't surprising that you're having difficulty recovering them. Your system drive is being written to constantly by Windows whilst it's being used.
It's possible you may have a better chance of a successful recovery from your corrupt external drive, depending of course on what happened to it. An explanation would be of help here.
What happens when you plug your external drive into your computer? What, if any, messages does Windows pop up, and does it still show a drive letter when plugged in?
Does it show up in Disk Management, and if you don't know how to do that we'll show you, no worries.
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... but its starting to go down again
If you keep on losing disk space something else is at work.
This is not the simple creating of Restore Points by the system is it? Running WFS may have caused Restore Points to be deleted and Windows is making new ones?
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Can't initialize plug-ins directory
That error message is sometimes caused by a problem with Windows Temp folder, which apparently Windows uses no matter where you download programs to or where you install them to. That is, according to some brief research I did.
Go to "Star\Run" and enter "%temp%" (no quotes) and press "OK", and try to delete everything you find in the folder which appears. If some items won't delete it will be because they're in use by another program. Just skip those.
You can't do any harm by deleting stuff in the temp folder, and if you can't delete anything, then it suggests a problem with the "Permissions" flag on the temp folder. Permissions on that folder do apparently get screwed up sometimes and cause problems with program installs.
Worth a try.
Which Operating System are you on by the way?
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Hi Divalnir, and welcome to the forum.
Recovering to the same drive isn't a stupid thing to do if you aren't aware of how important it is not to do that for the reason I stated in your quote above.
If some of the files you are trying to recover have been overwritten, then there isn't anything to be done as far as I'm aware. They're probably lost.
The best you can do is to scan the drive again and keep your fingers crossed that you will get positive results.
You simply must recover to another drive. A USB flash drive or even a camera card are fine for recovering files to if you don't have a second hard drive of any kind.
If possible don't do any more writing to that drive until you can either buy of borrow another drive other than the one the files are on.
I'm sorry I couldn't be more positive.
restored files are invisible but comsume diskspace
in Recuva
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Extremely fast is an understatement Alan. Using the MFT it scanned in 2.6 secs.
In case it isn't noticed, there's a small link to a portable zip download just beneath the main download button, Just thought I'd mention that.