I'm not reporting this as a bug but more of a rare oddity since it's not a functionality issue but a speed one.
When running Analyze in the Cleaner section it's very slow verging on absurd and it spends perhaps upwards of 1 or 2 full minutes now with the newest update to v2.25.1025.
However the Run Cleaner button is functioning at normal speed.
My analysis moves very fast. Have you tried... Unchecking the items and running the Analyze, re-checking one item at a time until you find the one(s) casuing the performance issue?
"?Improved support for wildcards and RECURSE/REMOVESELF"
This is now working as supposed so if you have something like this:
FileKey1=%userprofile%|*.rmbak|RECURSE
it will recursively scan all sub folders under "%userprofile%"
Be careful with the RECURSE and REMOVESELF.
If I were you I would make sure that RECURSE is only used with a folder that doesn't have lots of sub folders.
This is a sample of a bad usage of RECURSE: (it does bring my scanning to a crawl)
[*Registry Mechanic]
; Removes registry backups after compressing the registry, and only the safe to delete logs
LangSecRef=3024
Detect=HKLM\Software\PCTools\Registry Mechanic
Default=False
FileKey1=%userprofile%|*.rmbak|RECURSE
FileKey2=%userprofile%|*.rrr|RECURSE
FileKey3=%userprofile%|*.rrr.bak|RECURSE
FileKey4=%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows|*.rmbak
FileKey5=%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows|*.rrr
FileKey6=%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows|*.rrr.bak
FileKey7=%allusersprofile%|*.rmbak|RECURSE
FileKey8=%allusersprofile%|*.rrr|RECURSE
FileKey9=%allusersprofile%|*.rrr.bak|RECURSE
FileKey10=%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\Guest|*.rmbak|RECURSE
FileKey11=%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\Guest|*.rrr|RECURSE
FileKey12=%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\Guest|*.rrr.bak|RECURSE
FileKey13=%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\LocalService|*.rmbak|RECURSE
FileKey14=%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\LocalService|*.rrr|RECURSE
FileKey15=%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\LocalService|*.rrr.bak|RECURSE
FileKey16=%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\NetworkService|*.rmbak|RECURSE
FileKey17=%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\NetworkService|*.rrr|RECURSE
FileKey18=%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\NetworkService|*.rrr.bak|RECURSE
FileKey19=%windir%\system32\config|*.rmbak
FileKey20=%windir%\system32\config|*.rrr
FileKey21=%windir%\system32\config|*.rrr.bak
FileKey22=%ProgramFiles%\Registry Mechanic\Log|compactlog.log
FileKey23=%ProgramFiles%\Registry Mechanic\Log|results.log
FileKey24=%ProgramFiles%\Registry Mechanic\Log|scan.log
Edit: Removed previous thoughts.
It could be recurse on my system too. That above entry that's posted is very old though and since it's in winapp2.ini it's an unofficial cleaner. You can always edit out cleaners in winapp2.ini that you don't need.