In the past 5 or so versions of CCleaner (and currently running the latest version), changes/removes Thunderbird as my default mail program. The problem is that none of the TB options are selected in CCleaner, and Thunderbird is my ONLY email client. What can I do to correct it?
Do you have anything ticked under the Ccleaner advanced boxes?
windows version?
any other CC enhancing or winapp.ini add-on?
do you run the registry cleaner?
what are you doing to make TB the default again - just answering the "TB is currently not your default email client, do you want to make it the default?" pop-up?
I don't experience this behavior on Windows 8.1 Pro x64 and Earlybird (latest), CC v5.06+winapp2.ini
Thanks for all the responses.
@hazelnut, nothing in Advanced is checked.
@mta, It's Windows 7 Pro 32 bit SP1, - I do not run the registry cleaner of CCleaner, or any others when this message comes up. It's actually called the System integration message, I just took a screenshot and included it. It is not like the Mozilla Firefox "default" message.
I see "winapp2.ini" mentioned in several places but have no clue as to what it is.
After reading up on winapp2, I installed it. It's impressive. But I still don't know why the message comes up. Oh well, I wil post the issue in the Mozilla forum. Again thanks for the replies.
Installed winapp2 and this resolved the Thunderbird default message problem.
Installed winapp2 and this resolved the Thunderbird default message problem.
I think you're seeing a correlation where there isn't one. All winapp2 files do is give ccleaner additional rules to clean. It wouldn't enable the program to fix the bug you previously attributed to ccleaner without winapp2.
I believe that it rebuilt ALL the rules (they were quite old and possibly damaged). I did have a problem with Thunderbird and CCleaner long ago which I posted on Mozillazine. One of the moderators helped me to narrow down the problem to Ccleaner and I cleared all rules for TB. This helped but it's been years since I had a clean install, only updates over updates of numerous versions.
A win is a win, but I'm with @Nergal, what you did should have had no correlation.
You are right, the problem has returned. Therefore, I suspect one of the Windows system selections. I guess, the best way is to test is to deselect all and reenable them one by one. Any other suggestions would be most welcome.
Before you try that try this. When the bug manifests, but before you apply the in thunderbird fix, open windows default programs (type default into start menu and you should see it) and see what it shows under email.
Before you try that try this. When the bug manifests, but before you apply the in thunderbird fix, open windows default programs (type default into start menu and you should see it) and see what it shows under email.
All e-mail related defaults are set to Thunderbird.
The issue is resolved, I just don't know how to mark this thread as such. The problem was the registry cleaner removing MRU files (Most Recently Used) Unchecking this option solved the problem