Piriform on WinPE

Dear Piriform,

i'm a big fan of your tools and recommend them as often I can.

At this point i'd like to share my experiences:

I'm using your tools on WinPE! Except for Speccy, that crashes when with a "read" exception when reading Audio information, Defraggler works fine, CCleaner doesn't make sense as there's no offline system selector.

What I miss is, that I couldn't defrag pagefile.sys or System Restore from the offline system.

As a last thing I'm noticing quite often, that some users of CCleaner run the Registry tool: Run, Backup and Gone without to know what they're doing. I could sleep a quite bit better when you could hide that tool into Tools section or whatever, where the default user doesn't look and click around.

Greets from Germany

Piriform tools were never designed to run in this kind of environment so they're likely to crash or not work correctly.

Furthermore registry keys you're accessing belong to WinPE / BartPE so running CCleaner or Speecy would be rather pointless.

Richard S.

Okay, for current releases is CCleaner not that 'useful', except of wiping and MFT resetting...

Defraggler works very well! Interestingly it marks the offline pagefile.sys as 'special', fixed. I think because Speccy is initializing and loading fine, but stops on a 'read access ex' while searching for audio, it isn't too far away of being able to run (not 'support').

feature request: offline image mode for defraggler and ccleaner :D