CCleaner and Oracle VirtualBox

I am running Oracle VirtualBox on a Windows 7 64-bit machine, and twice now after running Ccleaner, VirtualBox doesn't want to work right. I end up uninstalling and reinstalling it. Anyone else experience this? Any recommendations on what to exclude?

The VMs themselves work fine after reinstalling, so it seems like Ccleaner may be doing something to the program files somehow (maybe messes with a cache?). I cleaned the registry, but re-adding everything from the .reg file saved changed nothing as well.

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

Welcome to the forum.

With luck no harm is done to the registry if it is cleaned and the backup is IMMEDIATELY restored.

Windows has been so unlucky for me in the past that I would NEVER depend upon a successful registry backup restoration.

I suggest that you should now determine whether it is the registry cleaning or the file cleaning which causes the problem.

Hello,

I have experienced a problem which may be related to yours

I have two Windows 7 virtual machines within VirtualBox installed on a Kubuntu Host

I have had problems with one of my Win 7 VM, when starting it it opened a window requiring a disk check, and it was taking a fairly long time before it fixed a lot of problems

I had this happen regularly until I noticed that it happened when I had done a CCleaner cleaning before closing the VM

The strange thing is that I had the problem only with one of my Windows 7 VMs and not the other one. Both had been built starting from the same Windows 7 CD, but I have different software installed (one is my machine, one is for my wife and guests !)

Now perhaps a difference between the two VMs is that the one that causes the problem is made with a fixed size vdi disk, whereas the VM where I have no problem is made with a dynamically allocated size vdi di

@jdcns,

I have used VirtualBox on this PC when it was Win7 and since Win8 was release to run a virtual XP.

No probs ever after running CC which I run about once a month.

Settings I have unticked in Windows Tab are Autocomplete Form History, Saved Passwords, Recent Docs, Run, Other Explorer MRUs, Taskbar Jumplist, Network Passwords, Font Cache, and all the ones in Advanced except Custom Files.

Obviously some of them have no relation to Oracle but I just list them all for completeness.