Hi. I never leave it open. What's more, I just tried re-downloading CCleaner from the link on the other page here that was discussing the same issue I have that others have (that thread is now closed), and I still have all the same issues.
Everything the Malwarebytes help tried to do, didn't help anything. I've wasted days on this. I miss my CCleaner.
Nothing seems to be happening with finding what is going on...it isn't anything to do with Malwarebytes...it is CCleaner. Simply because someone didn't find something, does not mean it is not there...it means it wasn't found.
Nothing is fixed, and I'm still having the same exact problems.
@Bethy54 Hi again,
Things have been happening, and after some testing the cause of the rising CPU usage and computer slowdown issue has been pinned down, how to fix it is known, and it will be fixed in the next CCleaner update.
(Apparently it was a problem with "<em>leaking device context handles").</em>
Hopefully that update will be soon, but I have no influence over when updates are released.
Your posts, and having your machine checked over at Malwarebytes, has helped pin down just what the cause was. Thanks for doing that.
From the testing that I did myself it does only happen when CCleaner is either left open on the dektop, or open and minimised.
(Because of the nature of 'device context handles' Task Manager doesn't show it using up the CPU when it is minimised).
Closing CCleaner stops it happening and frees up the CPU again.
If CCleaner is not open (or not open and minimised) then it can't happen. (Because if CCleaner is closed it can't be using device context handles).
What you did with AdvancedSetup over at Malwarebytes was simply to make sure that your machine did not have any malware/virus/other nasties, which is always a good thing to know and never a waste of time.
So thanks again for doing that, it helped.