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Hi @MeganCCleaner, JFYI Updating SRWare Iron to version 97.0.4950.0 (Official Build) (64-bit) then "Cookies" file path does result changed from "%LocalAppData%\Chromium\User Data\Default" to "%LocalAppData%\Chromium\User Data\Default\Network" while "History" file path remains the same "%LocalAppData%\Chromium\User Data\Default". After that change version 5.88.9346 no longer works here even for "Cookies" file. 5.89.9401 does work for "Cookies" file only just as the previous one. So there is still the need for the user to manually add an Include entry for the "%LocalAppData%\Chromium\User Data\Default\History" file.

Really more than one thing, but right now I've no intention to be pitiless. Thank you. Yep, even because it is just when things become clear that it's said they are "in the end"...

@hazelnut Hi, Please allow me to answer you as follows. Sometimes it can happen that you start to travel a path believing that it leads you to a place and instead it takes you to a different place. It is exactly what happened here: I didn't know what those 8 seconds meant and first of all I asked if there was a technical reason for that and then I believed they were in some way related to my firewall. Then I noticed that instead they seemed related to the status of the network connection. Then I could guess that CCleaner asked for Internet access and that my Firewall was involved in some way in the delay. Soon the question has become a different one: why does CCleaner ask for Internet access even if all related settings are unchecked? So I just thought to install a modern firewall to see what would happen in a more detailed way, since my existing (and loved) firewall is a bit outdated and not very informative. Now I know for sure both that CCleaner asks for Internet access even if all related settings are unchecked (sorry if I don't like this way at all, hoping not to happen in future) and that my old Firewall for some reason was involved in the observed delay of 8 seconds. JFYI Running the modern firewall the delay no longer occurs at all. Cheers

Well, no. If you follow a thread, please follow it carefully. It seems to me that you "are not going to change your mind", not me. You stay fixed on what you think and think to have understood about the topic, but instead it doesn't seem to me that you have read at all what I describe and then all my furter clarifications seems you do not make any difference (no offence intended). I'm repeating you (and repeating, and repeating) that everything I describe also occurrs without running CCleaner in a cmd file and that the 8 seconds start after CCleaner is closed, but you ignore it at all. So, please stop here: I don't know what are your tests you are talking about, but certainly they are not my test and not my issue so they have no relevance compared to "my" topic, at least not when described your way. Are you telling me that CCleaner even if set with all Internet-related settings unchecked does not ask for Internet connection? Are you telling me this? Please reply to this simple question, thanks! Cheers

Hello, First of all please note I never said that CCleaner "calls home", but I said it "asks for home" (just like on the other hand they do practically all the programs that require the Internet access for any reason: version update, database update, virus update, etc, you know?) and it seems to me quite obvious that if it asks for Internet access it will certainly not want to contact the house of others. Also please note that if CCleaner asked for home while its Internet settings was checked then that would be the most expected thing in the world! What is not expected (at least by me) is that CCleaner requires the Internet access even when all its Internet settings are unchecked. That said, without saying you are wrong, I'm forced to kindly point out to you that the 8 seconds used by CCleaner to make the process disappear from Task Manager start after CCleaner made its job and after it's closed: AFTER it is closed, okay? Frankly doesn't seem (at least to me) as a small issue. In other words, after CCleaner has used all its time to clean up all your things from your PC then - after it's closed - it takes 8 seconds to end its process in Task Manager. I really hope it's clear enough. Also, if you open CCleaner without making it do absolutely nothing - that's no task at all - and then close it without it to have done absolutely nothing, it will also take 8 seconds to end its process disappear from Task Manager. All the above does not occurr nor if I grant CCleaner access to the Internet (although all Internet settings are unchecked) nor if I completely disconnect the network card from the network cable (offline status). Now, If this issue doesn't seem clear enough this is surely not my fault. Cheers P. S.: Finally, please also note that I never said (nor thought) that all over is a maliciously done, I think it may be a bug: however - meanwhile, I don't kindly get an adequate and authoritative reply - I'm sorry if I remain reluctant to grant the Internet access to programs that are set up to not require it. IMNSHO

Needless to say, the most obvious way to solve the Issue would be to allow CCleaner access to the Internet through the firewall, but generally spoken I'm rather reluctant to do so for any program if all the internet-related settings are unchecked. So I'd like to ask CCleaner programmers if they could kindly avoid the above maybe in the next version, Just as a matter of principle, a kind of clarity pact between the software-house and the "final user". Simply because I can't answer the following question: if all of the Internet-related settings are unchecked why CCleaner continues to repeatedly request the access to internet? Thanks

Thank you for your appreciated reply! Actually the issue is related to a huge delay running CCleaner flawlessly installed in Program Files directory and I've no anti-virus program installed. A trivial workaround would be remove the /WAIT parameter from my CMD file, but the issue remains the same launching regularly CCleaner from its shortcut. However I think the debugging is clear enough for me: if CCleaner did not ask for home even if all Internet-related settings are unchecked the Issue would be completely solved upstream and running it in any circumstance. Cheers

Just to clarify the fact that the described Issue does occur the same way even when launching CCleaner from its shortcut without nor /AUTO parameter nor any kind of CMD involved .

This report does appear strange enough to me. At least here I can confirm the issue is totally firewall-related (third party program) nay connection-related and totally cmd-unrelated. Please note I mentioned my CMD task delay just to highlight what kind of issue it was for me since that CMD file is quite complex, but - as said - totally unrelated. I made any kind of related trial and all of them confirm as far as I reported. As I'm sure you know the parameter /WAIT in a cmd file involves the fact that it does not switch to the next line until the current task is ended: so I do not understand why in your case it should delay the process starting from command prompt: your issue seems to me once again a different one. However a fact remains: CCleaner seems to ask for home even if all Internet-related settings are unchecked. I would like to avoid that this occurred, but I'm not the CCleaner programmer. However I made a further test because already in the past I noticed that some programs react in a different way to the Internet connection status even during their installation: and as matter of fact if I disconnect the network cable from the LAN RJ-45 port (offline status) then is no longer important if the firewall is enabled or not: the task ends anyway with no delay. I suspect that some programs feel the active network beyond the firewall and feel the access denied by the firewall so they "insist" repeatedly in their access requests, from which the delay in ending the process.

Thank you for your appreciated reply! Please note both that I mentioned version 5.39 just as a term of comparison of the respective process duration times (half a second compared to 8 seconds) and I already know what you kindly say about the fact that previous versions do not work for the recent Chromium-based browsers SRWare Iron 'Clear browsing history' issue. The following is the line in my CMD file START "" /WAIT "C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCleaner64.exe" /AUTO However I just discovered that CMD is unrelated at all to the issue. I found this report very interesting and so I have further investigated about issue. What I discovered is that CCleaner asks to contact home even if all Internet-related settings are unchecked. And if not, it does that anyway and repeatedly: just for 8 seconds. Now i know the issue is Firewall-related: so If my firewall is disabled then the process ends soon without any latency. Maybe it would be welcome if you could completely avoid that CCleaner asks to contact home even if all Internet-related settings are unchecked, but I'm not the CCleaner programmer. Cheers

Just noticed at least here CCleaner 5.88.9346 leaves the "CCleaner64.exe" process running for 8 seconds after quitting the program while version 5.39.6399 (my favorite one for a long time) ends just after half a second. Is there a technical reason for that? I run CCleaner with the /AUTO parameter (and the /WAIT function) within a CMD file so the above makes a huge difference. Thanks

You are welcome.

Thanks to both of you for your appreciated replies! I know SRWare Iron is a Chromium-based browser so it seems to me strange enough that - as said - its profile path is correctly recognized with no user's customization at all and that both Cookies content is properly cleared and History file is not in the related list of Internet History at all even if both the files (Cookies and History) are just in the same directory (that as said is properly recognized). Maybe I'm just wrong, but it seems to me a different issue than those already reported. Cheers

My 1st post here: hi all of you! I don't know if it's a bug, but trying Professional Edition 5.88.9346 under Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit running SRWare Iron browser 96.0.4900.0 (latest version) then the history file "%LocalAppData%\Chromium\User Data\Default\History" is not deleted nor does it appear in the list of files to be deleted (please look at the attached screenshot). However please note that the profile path is correctly recognized without any customization. Cheers P. S.: JFYI I haven't a Google Account (then no Sync issue here) and "Continue running background apps when Iron is closed" is just unchecked.