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Yes, it is running on XP Pro, with no service pack. I have AVG antivirus, XP firewall, & I have no known spyware per spysweeper, adaware, spybot search and destroy, and trend micro + ewido scans come up clean of malware/viruses/keyloggers/trojans. I do not use such scumware as the smileyface add on (with spyware? please!), or other things. I am picky about what I use and install. I am running a 1700 mhz intel pentium 4 processor, with a microstar international motherboard, 4x agp video with ATI all in wonder 23/3d acceleration with theater audio and mpeg 2 hardware decoding for dvd, plus onboard tv and it is an agp 32 mb card. My motherboard is running 4 128 mb rimm ramm capable of 800 mhz but running at 400 or so mhz at the moment, for total of 512 mb of 800 mhz ram. My harddisk is a maxtor 160 gb with 8 mb cache, formatted to around 100 gb, as i don't use the rest of it at the moment. This was done so through the ms management console, and the other 60 gb remains unformatted. My system supports up to 2 gb or more ram, but have used & tested win 98 & me before for certain things as i work on computers & ms documents that while xp handles additional mem well, that win 98/me could crack using additional mem. I have a memorex 52x cd burner, 8x liteon dvd burner, and i did have a kenwood 72x cd drive at one time (but it got too hot one day and gave up the ghost) This has nothing to do with the cooling on the pc however, for it is adequetly cooled, & all devices are run through an agp uninterruptable power supply unit. I have run the Recuva in the suggested /debug mode with it failing to load into debug mode as well. For some reason, recuva has worked on this same pc before, but I fail to see what can have gone wrong. I never had CCleaner conk out on me, so was wondering if it used a different programming language? Don't know for sure yet what could be the problem, only know that as for now, when you try to run it, it will not run at all. No splash screen, no program, no nothing. Everything else seems to be working fine though, except recuva. I really would love to know if there is a fix to make recuva run, sad it won't even work in debug mode. When it did work, I thought it is the best man, you guys really rock, you made it so simple to use, yet it was clean, easy, did a good job, just what i love about software. Even if you never used it before, instantly, you knew how to use all the features at once. Wonderful job, just wish I knew how to get it to work now. Am I missing a file? Registry entry? Is Recuva just hating on my machine? Thanks for all your help, your all the best!

I counted 6 clicks from scanning to removing reg entries with CCleaner. I was wondering why this is, because as the attached screenshot shows, Reg Seeker, just has a checkmark box for backing up, and it is only a 2 step (scan, then shows backup as box, your done). This option could be checked by default perhaps, with option to uncheck. Was wondering if this can be made easier, because other than that, CCleaner is wonderful. 2 other small quibbles are, the startup list is really handy to remove entries, but really wish there is a keyboard shortcut (like delete key on keyboard) to delete entries, and the ability to highlight multiple startup entries instead of doing them all 1 by 1. It takes a lot of time if you are on a system with lots of unnecessary startup programs. The second one is, CCleaner works great for removing dead uninstaller entries, but is there a way to remove the MSI type installers? CCleaner doesn't seem to remove these too well, gives an error about deleting an MSI file. Really wish there is a way to auto clean dead uninstallers that don't work or point to programs that no longer exist. Sometimes it also happens that MSI files try to "run" a setup when you launch a totally different program. IE, your installation of an MSI based program such as Easy CD & DVD for example, gets corrupted somehow where it won't remove it from the system with the MSI uninstaller, but it brings up the installing Easy CD whenever you launch other programs. This is so annoying and wish there is a way to remove these entries somehow so they won't do this all the time. Lastly, have seen a computer recently with a hijacked windows hosts file. Couldn't get on the web at all till the hosts file was cleaned because of a redirect to a swedish site. Google, msn, yahoo, all were blocked by this hijack. Is there a possibility of adding a host file cleaner to CCleaner?

For whatever reason, CCleaner seems to always work. I don't know if Recuva is written in a different programming language or what, but sometimes it works, and when it does, it is excellent, but have also seen times that you double click recuva while running an XP system, and it will NOT work. Re-installing Recuva fails to fix this. I do not know why it won't work on some systems like this, but it seems to be such a handy program. I wish this is fixed, cause I love the Recuva program, but that is my only downside is sometimes it won't work at all. By won't work, I mean, after you click the program, it fails to load anything. Hope this is fixed soon. Any ideas why this might happen? Never had any probs with CCleaner. Was wondering if if is re-encoded using the same program as CCleaner if this will fix it? Will be happy to know what the problem could be. Thanks for such a great program.

EDIT: CCleaner has since created a portable version that doesn't break existing installations. Prior content erased, since it is no longer relevant.