I am a long time user and fan of CCleaner and it has always served me very well. For the last month or so, after running CCleaner it leaves a long list of cookies in the 'cookies to delete" list. I have uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail. I consider this is a serious issue. What am I doing wrong?
It isn't a bug (or at least not a serious one.)
If CCleaner shows that there is nothing to remove in the "Cleaner" tab when all the browsers are closed, it means all the cookies (that are there to be deleted) are deleted.
Cookies to Delete, basically lists the recent cookies CCleaner has detected and allows you to move them to "Cookies to Keep"
No biggie. Welcome to the forums
I just wanted to recreated this, and I can confirm the above.
they don't go.
They are associated with Opera whereas I haven't used Opera in months!!! I just have it installed in case I need it for testing.
Thanks for validating my experience. I can understand that some might not call it a bug but it certainly seems like a really BAD feature. I want (as do many others) CCleaner to eliminate ALL traces of cookies, not leave a record of what it once detected and/or deleted.
Does Piriform intend to address this?
Yep, the devs are always watching.
This is the same experience I have had using CCleaner (see thread @ My link).
It is not clear to me if the cookies are wiped and what shows (perpetually!) in the list is just some cookies that somehow get listed (most cookies are wiped from the list on cleaning) or whether the listed cookies are still there.
I have now taken to using another cleaner in addition to CCleaner - using that other does result in the listed cookies disappearing from the CCleaner list.
I had a similar experience using Internet Explorer 8. What resolved this problem for me was unchecking the Internet Explorer Index.dat Files box listed under the Windows Tab of CCleaner. Once it is unchecked, CCleaner will delete all the Cookies to Delete. From what I can tell this problem first appeared with version 2.35 of CCleaner and has continued on with each subsequent release.