CCleaner keeps throwing "debugger" subkeys into the registry

CCleaner for Windows CCleaner Windows Bug Reporting
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@CarolPerez

Hi, Carol! Yes, it all seems to be OK and working as stated by APMichael above, but I have neither Avast nor Office on my PCs, so I can't check either of those. Otherwise, if you have a correctly installed version of CCleaner (with Performance Optimizer) and you put a program to sleep with PO, you will find a "Debugger" subkey for that program in your registry, and if you launch that program (the one you put to sleep before), CCleaner will delete the Debugger subkey and allow the program to start.

Best regards,

Wisewiz ?

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On 21/02/2023 at 21:56, Wisewiz said: 
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		Hi, Carol! Yes, it all seems to be OK and working as stated by APMichael above, but I have neither Avast nor Office on my PCs, so I can't check either of those. Otherwise, if you have a correctly installed version of CCleaner (with Performance Optimizer) and you put a program to sleep with PO, you will find a "Debugger" subkey for that program in your registry, and if you launch that program (the one you put to sleep before), CCleaner will delete the Debugger subkey and allow the program to start.
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Ok, thanks :)

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This has been terrible. I tried to uninstall CCleaner when none of my programs were running.

the "C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCleanerReactivator.exe" in the debugger section for all my programs was not removed.

I spend over a day finding that the uninstall F*ckUp everything by leaving these debugger sections.

I had bought the pro* license and I was way better off with the free version.

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Same nightmare but Revo uninstaller free seems to have taken out the reactivation of ccleaner without deleting in regedit and got firefox running again…. for now**
Affected so many other programs still sorting issues out
When it froze for hours and crashed it disabled out all my restore points in windows and would not let me in to refresh or repair options… a true horror that wasted days to save data by denying access… came close to just losing data… hint of what it must feel like to be hit by an encryption virus…
Am still going to have to reinstall system to clean it up… the account for pro still tries to get me to reactivate it
Never had an issue with CCleaner free in many years of casual use and would use it again when it is clean after CCleaner pro finish deleting my subscription