Does CCleaner Clean Foxit Reader 5.x Files?

CCleaner for Windows
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Is CCleaner able to clean Foxit PDF Reader recently used/history lists?

I currently have CCleaner v 3.08 and Foxit Reader 5.0 installed on my Vista 32-bit laptop. When I look on the Applications tab Foxit Reader is missing from my application list, but various posts in this forum would indicate that CCleaner should be able to clean Foxit Reader.

I have Revo Uninstaller and could perform an advanced uninstall and clean re-install of CCleaner when I upgrade to v. 3.09 but I'd prefer to avoid doing this since I have some important cookies in my "Cookies to Keep" exclusion list and don't want to risk losing my current settings.

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Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * CCleaner v 3.08.1475 * Foxit Reader v. 5.0.2.0718

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[Foxit Reader]
ID=2123
LangSecRef=3021
Detect=HKCU\Software\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader
Default=True
RegKey1=HKCU\Software\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader\Recent File List
RegKey2=HKCU\Software\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader\History

This is from the latest (3.09) Ccleaner

does Foxit 5.x still use the registry key listed under "detect"

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[Foxit Reader]

Detect=HKCU\Software\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader

does Foxit 5.x still use the registry key listed under "detect"

Hi Nergal:

No, I checked my registry and the path is slightly different:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Foxit Software\[b]Foxit Reader 5.0[/b]

I switched from Adobe Reader to Foxit Reader v. 3.1.2 back in October 2009 and CCleaner has never detected Foxit Reader (although the old uninstalled Adobe Reader still shows up in my application list as Adobe Acrobat 8.0). I did some more searching in the forum and realized that this might be related to my embedded .ini file so I went into CCleaner advanced settings and checked the "Save all settings to INI file". [b]A copy of my current ccleaner.ini file is attached[/b] as a .txt file.

Is it possible that the third-party applications detected by CCleaner are out of synch because I usually install updates over my old installation instead of installing a fresh copy, or is CCleaner only designed to work with older versions of Foxit Reader?

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[color=#A0522D]Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * CCleaner v 3.08.1475 * Foxit Reader v. 5.0.2.0718[/color]

ccleaner INI file.txt

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CCleaner is indeed only set to clean the old version

Until such time that the developers add version 5.0 you can clean it if you make a winapp2 file (if you don't know what that is check out the link in my signature) and add this to it

[*Foxit Reader 5.0] 
LangSecRef=3021 
Detect=HKCU\Software\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader 5.0
Default=True 
RegKey1=HKCU\Software\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader 5.0\Recent File List
RegKey2=HKCU\Software\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader 5.0\RecentFiles
RegKey3=HKCU\Software\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader 5.0\Preferences\History\LastOpen
;RegKey4=HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader 5.0\Preferences\Others|csInitialOpenDir

The last key is commented out because I could not get it to work, I've pinged our resident Winapp2.ini expert @Winapp2.ini to tell me what I've done wrong here.

(Entry tested on fully patched Windows XP SP3 with the latest foxit reader 5.0 released 07/21/11 )

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Try

RegKey4=HKCU\Software\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader 5.0\Preferences\Others|csInitialOpenDir

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Hi Nergal:

This is brilliant. I had no idea that users can customize their CCleaner INI file to clean third-party applications that aren't normally cleaned by the CCleaner application. When I posted my question about Firefox Reader v. 5.0, the most I was hoping for was a simple "yes" or "no" answer, but you've actually gone the extra step to provide and test the customized code. Your effort is greatly appreciated - ditto to Robert (Winapp2.ini) for his input as well.

I've downloaded the latest winapp2.ini file (wow!) and I'm also going to check out your link to the CCleaner documentation to learn more about this INI customization. I suspect that one of the reasons that the CCleaner developers haven't added cleaning of later versions of Foxit Reader to their base product is because Foxit has started changing the path to their registry entries in HKCU every time they release a major software update.

I'm actually unhappy about many of the changes that were made to the latest release of Foxit Reader 5.x and I may eventually end up installing a different PDF reader. Foxit Reader use to be a light, secure and easy-to-use PDF reader but lately it's become just as bloated and buggy as Adobe Reader.

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Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * CCleaner v 3.08.1475 * Foxit Reader v. 5.0.2.0718

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Try

RegKey4=HKCU\Software\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader 5.0\Preferences\Others|csInitialOpenDir

DOH [me=nergal]seems to have use copy paste and deleted the wrong part[/me] :P

I'll fix that and retry it and then submit this entry to you ( @Winapp2.ini )

EDIT: So yeah that worked, but foxit still remembered the location :blink: So I'll submit it but with the caveat that last open location still seems pervasive.

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I'm actually unhappy about many of the changes that were made to the latest release of Foxit Reader 5.x and I may eventually end up installing a different PDF reader. Foxit Reader use to be a light, secure and easy-to-use PDF reader but lately it's become just as bloated and buggy as Adobe Reader.

I once used Foxit. I now much prefer PDF-Xchange Viewer.

I use the free Portable version, but they have many other choices at

http://www.docu-track.com/downloads/users/

These are download links I used over a year ago, and they now give the latest and best versions :-

http://www.docu-track.co.uk/PDFX_Vwr_Port.zip

Download manual from :-

http://www.docu-track.com/PDFVManual.pdf

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I once used Foxit. I now much prefer PDF-Xchange Viewer.

Hi Alan_B:

Thanks for the recommendation. I've downloaded the PDF-XChange Viewer installation file and user manual and I'll give it test run.

I actually tried this PDF reader a few years ago, but back then users couldn't add/edit bookmarks and the free version automatically added annoying "DEMO" watermarks to pages whenever you saved a PDF document. I noticed both these problems have been resolved (watermarks now appear to be an optional feature you can disable during installation) so I'm going to give it another shot.

In the mean time I'd like to try Nergal's revised code for cleaning Foxit Reader files. This whole idea about customizing CCleaner INI files is a new concept for me and I'd like to see how it works.

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Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * CCleaner v 3.08.1475 * Foxit Reader v. 5.0.2.0718