stanrames

I'm about done with this. I am happy with the version I loaded. I did discover, while researching timelines, that 5.27 was FEB17, about the time Piriform handed the company off to Avast. I also knew Avast folded AVG into their fold six months prior. I have my own opinions of AVG, being one of hundreds whose computers had entire files deleted, then enough of the OS to shut down. Experts thought that update for an Intel processor not an AMD like it seems everybody who crashed had. I did not know a week ago that Avast owned CCleaner. I looked at a new install of CCleaner with all the icons to click...including the monetezation "UPGRADE" icon, and driver updates I don't see on pre-Avast ownership. I don't need that. I don't need "just click the x and it goes away" until cookies get reset. I am looking into options,but never again will I use newer versions of CCleaner. I'll sign out now.

Oh,I know...fully. Just that it's there and still trucking along.

so.....just so I understand. The question was what installer did we use...and we thought you were asking about WIN7. Now research has shown maybe not. As in PRC hackers with first Piriform and now AVAST. Are you saying the possibility of a PRC hack into the CCleaner installer may be an issue with this? Maybe me finding 5.27 on a non-Piriform/Avast website eliminated the PRC component? https://www.zdnet.com/article/avast-no-plans-to-discontinue-ccleaner-following-second-hack-in-two-years/

snicker. Just opened my old laptop and checked CCleaner.3.27.1900.

Gave us some ideas to look into. AFAIK this was MS disc, with license key....I always thought those had their own installer (as in, my XP discs, when loaded, load an installer first, even on the bench with no ethernet) but at my age memory could be failing on that. Your warning about other programs loaded later...figured we were covered with Chrome, MSN, FireFox, Office, MalwareBytes and whatever else, and never a question of wrong language or failure of components to load as that BC thread indicated. All auto-loaded, no question of language ever as far as I remember.

Lit the machine off, searched, ONLY English (United States) is entered everywhere. Not sure what that means, but that's what I find.

I'll have to look into where the 7 installer came from. It was a disc, is all I can tell you. EN-US. Gonna take until after holidays to find out. 5-27 does work. Works with XP and 7. You folks think this 5.88 is great. Okay, it's great. Launch the program, wants you to do setup (and I am NOT going to do that again just so I get all the words right), but then it wants to do PC and/or health check. NO option I found to by pass that. Have to go through it enough to cancel. I am surprised it didn't demand I have a Microsoft Account before proceeding. In all these years of using CCleaner, never had a popup asking me to go pro, advertising for Black Friday, whatever. I have read this forum, and am appalled at come of the things I see. There is no way I'm loading latest and greatest any more. I am happy that my experience, which I tried to report here, has never been experienced by anybody else.

We czeched that first. And no, English (actually EN-US) is selected. All other programs, Office, Chrome, IE, and FF work fine and in english. Even Malwarebytes (paid). It does not INSTALL as Chinese.....it fully installs in English.....until you go Options, Settings, and it auto launches to the bottom of the list. If Cyrillic happened to be at the bottom, that's what it would do, methinks. You try to scroll up from there, as soon as you let go the Left Click it's off to the races running back to the bottom. It's the bottom of the page that's the problem, and the inability to overrride it, even when loaded and opens initially in English. In fact, if I did NOT do Options/Settings, I believe it would work fine.

I've been using CCleaner for what, 15 years...since early days anyway. Used to be, one uncheck to stop telling me about new versions, maybe another to stop updates, and never a popup. Still that way it seems on 5.27. I do NOT need anybody trying to update my drivers. I learned with Windoze Updates back in WIN95 to never accept updates without finding out what they hurt. Same with drivers. Don't need someone updating my drivers and borking my machine. I have functioned well for all these years....nowadays had to learn how to kill 10 updates and telemetry.... New CCleaner is way too "busy". I don't want a PC health check. Don't want to be unable to stop it or bypass it. Don't want driver or software updates. As bad as AVG used to be. I think we'll just save out the older CCleaner files and do older program installs when we have to rebuild a machine. Easier than this episode has been!

Haven't got a clue how to read or speak Chinese, so, no, not a choice. I know how to select language.....all four install attempts, went to check and uncheck boxes, "Options", "Settings" and language auto launched, scrolled to absolute bottom of list, everything on every page now in Chinese, uninstalled it. Four times. Not sure I even want to try latest version again. 5.27 loads and works without auto-launching language.

Fresh rebuild WIN7 Pro (going to a 92 year old who has a failing 7 box). Loaded latest CCleaner today....four times, add/remove uninstall after each failure. Loads fine (I think it's 5.88, don't remember). Went to options, language auto scrolled to bottom of list to Chinese (simplified) and no way to fix it I can find. Resolution was to load 5.27 like on my XP machine, that works perfectly (and NO update nagware). Any ideas what's going on? No warnings I saw about being not compatible with 7. Thanks. Stan