[No more Excel, Word & Outlook after de-installing CCleaner]

Problem is solved with film below: 

 

[No more Excel, Word & Outlook after de-installing CCleaner]

I tried your 7 steps, but nothing changed. Cannot find Excel.exe

 

[No more Excel, Word & Outlook after de-installing CCleaner]

On 15/08/2022 at 18:28, nukecad said:

OK, so your is a different issue.

If you are clicking an excel file to open it and it isn't opening then it may simply be the file association that has somehow been lost.
That's easy to put back, but to find out if that is the problem then try this first:

What happens if you go to the file location (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\...etc) in File Explorer and double click excel.exe?
Does excel open?

Nope. Only when i use open as administrator

After uninstalling Ccleaner , i get the message Excel.exe not found.  I Uninstalled reinstalled Office but the messages stays

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1 hour ago, nukecad said:

OK, so your is a different issue.

If you are clicking an excel file to open it and it isn't opening then it may simply be the file association that has somehow been lost.
That's easy to put back, but to find out if that is the problem then try this first:

What happens if you go to the file location (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\...etc) in File Explorer and double click excel.exe?
Does excel open?

Nope , won't open. Only if i use right click--. administrator

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7 minutes ago, hazelnut said:

@Denden1978

Are you using the registry cleaning part of CCleaner?

Yes i do

 

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7 hours ago, nukecad said:

But you are using Avari Free Security? (if so you may find that other programmes have also been affected).

Do you have "Hidden Items" turned on in File Explorer'sView menu?

Note that this Avira problem is not just seen with CCleaner, it has also been reported as happening with other cleaning tools, and on Avira's own forum.

If any cleaning removes that Avira temporary folder (which should only contain temporary files) then Avira will 'wipe' programme executables.
The excecutable file(s) is still there but it is empty.
(It seems to be programmes that have been run since you installed, or maybe since you last updated, Avira that are affected but that is not yet confirmed).

As Redwolfe_98 says the only currently known soultion if it happens to you is to reinstall the affected programmes.
If you contine to use Avira and a cleaning tool then you have to make that "C:\windows\temp\sentry_temp" an exclusion in the cleaning tool.

Personally I would be uninstalling the Avira and either letting Windows Defender (Windows Security) protect my system, or getting a different 3rd party AV.
An Antivirus should not be 'breaking' programme files when something simply cleans a temporary folder.
Defender will turn itself on when you uninstall Avira.
Windows Defender (Windows Security) has improved over the years and now does as well as most of the top paid for AV's in testing, and outperforms all but a few free AV's.
https://www.trustedreviews.com/versus/windows-defender-vs-third-party-antivirus-4206380

 

I am not using Avira, just Defender

[No more Excel, Word & Outlook after de-installing CCleaner]

for the exclusion part: i don't have such file in c:\windows\temp

[No more Excel, Word & Outlook after de-installing CCleaner]

I've installed the latest version ( 6.02). Since that time i no longer can open Excel and Word files and Outlook.

If i de-install CCleaner and open a excel file, it says that the file cannot be found, but it is still on the desktop!??  File excel.exe is still in  the right folder but cannot be found?

 

Any ideas?