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Travis Carden
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So your sure it's not spyware or something causing this?
Thank you, Aaron. I think you may have misunderstood my question. Let me clarify to be sure: I'm hiding the files in the Start Menu. I do that sometimes with shortcuts that I don't want to appear all the time but that I still want access to in a pinch. So I'm not blaming that on CCleaner. I hid the files, and I meant to hide them. It's just that those files, being hidden, CCleaner is for some reason unable to delete when it wants to. Is that clearer?
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CCleaner Issue Scanner seems to be unable to delete hidden Start Menu shortcut (.lnk) files. The issue is completely reproducible and definitely tied to the "Hidden" flag in the Windows file system (in that removing it always resolves the issue).
CCleaner v1.36.430MS Windows XP SP2Intel Pentium D CPU 3.00GHz, 1.0GB RAM, ATI FireGL V3100
Issue Scanner Can't Remove Hidden Start Menu Shortcuts
in CCleaner Bug Reporting
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Well, shortcuts actually are files, and they're what CCleaner is trying to remove in my case. Here, I'll brake the issue down precisely--it comes about like this:
Now, if I change the Hidden attribute on that file, CCleaner finds and deletes it just fine. So the problem, apparently, is that CCleaner scans hidden files but fails for some reason to manipulate them. Knowing, thus, precisely where the bug resides, I could imagine it being fairly easy to fix.