i had the case that I wanted to do cleaning for a restricted user account. Windows asks for elevation, so CCleaner will be started in the Admin's user profile. Now, CCleaner does clean Admin's folder, but not the User's folder. May there be a DropDown to select User's accounts?
Windows Vista and 7 have a SoftwareDistribution\Download folder, that i'm cleaning manually today. Will there be CCleaner support? You could stop and restart WindowsUpdate service, to do it nicely...
Windows Vista and 7 have a SoftwareDistribution\Download folder, that i'm cleaning manually today. Will there be CCleaner support? You could stop and restart WindowsUpdate service, to do it nicely...
No, microsoft say that you should not remove files from that folder as it WILL cause issues when latter that component is updated.
i had the case that I wanted to do cleaning for a restricted user account. Windows asks for elevation, so CCleaner will be started in the Admin's user profile. Now, CCleaner does clean Admin's folder, but not the User's folder. May there be a DropDown to select User's accounts?
You misuderstand the difference between an admin account and UAC CCleaner requires UAC. This is because it removes regentries, even the cleaning part does. As a restricted normal user right click and click run as administrator. This does not run the program in the administrator's folder.
No, microsoft say that you should not remove files from that folder as it WILL cause issues when latter that component is updated.
I'm talking about the Download folder. I had never issues cleaning that folder. In fact, I had an issue with WindowsUpdate and found some bad sectors using chkdsk. After chkdsk, i cleaned the downloads folder and everything worked (updated) fine again.
You misuderstand the difference between an admin account and UAC CCleaner requires UAC. This is because it removes regentries, even the cleaning part does. As a restricted normal user right click and click run as administrator. This does not run the program in the administrator's folder.
Please try it out. A restricted user will not be prompted to run as administrator. The restricted user will be prompted to login as administrator. CCleaner is then executed in the administrator's account environment.
ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION
That sounds like me This may also be a suggestion: To hide the Registry somewhere in Tools. I know many people using CCleaner (i'm from south of Germany), they simply click to do it all 'right'. Mostly they don't even know that their backups are stored in their Documents folder, do you believe they know what the Registry is?