23 hours ago, Tumasek said:
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I may just have found a possible permanent solution to the WelcomeScreen appearing in the installed version happening all the time or in some cases spasmodically. Looking back at the solutions recommended in this forum topic I first went to the registry at HKLM\Software\Piriform\CCleaner and as suggested by previous forum users I modified the item (Cfg)WelcomeScreen to "0" (it was indeed showing the default of "1").
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I then opened CCleaner and under "Options" unticked the boxes in both "Smart Cleaning" and "Updates". Then under "Advanced" I ticked the box for "Save all settings to INI file".
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As reported by previous forum members, the changing of the registry value to "0", does result in the Welcome Screen not appearing. "Great" I thought, but after a while my set value of"0" just kept reverting back to the default of "1" for no apparent reason, and of course the Welcome Screen then continued to return.
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I said some rude words to myself and the computer at this juncture, but decided to experiment further. I have now found that putting the value to "3" instead of "0" has just the same effect of stopping the Welcome Screen, as putting it to "0". But furthermore this value of "3" has not been somehow reverting to "1" as it did after modifying the value to "0". So far, after many days now, I have not had the Welcome Screen showing, and the registry value that I set at "3" has remained at "3" now all the time and thus I no longer see any WelcomeScreen. I just trust that this actually turns out to be a permanent solution.
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Hope this helps anyone who was having the same problems - it's now working fine for me, although I do suspect a future update may affect it again. Hence my turning off "Smart Cleaning" and "Updates".
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Incidentally, just in passing, the problem does not happen in any case in the "Portable" version.
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Interesting observation @Tumasek. I found that deleting "(Cfg)WelcomeScreen" or setting to any value that is not "1" (i.e. "0", "2", "3", "true", "whatever") has the same effect and doesn't show the welcome screen until the value gets reverted back to "1" after a while.
I tried it again using "3" as the value, but found it to make no difference. No later than 24h after "(Cfg)LastUpdate" timestamp CCleaner will make multiple requests to these servers:
http://a23-220-246-23.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
http://a23-220-246-59.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
https://28.176.160.34.bc.googleusercontent.com
As a result it will revert "(Cfg)WelcomeScreen" back to "1" and will (re)create any missing properties from the list I posted above.
This happens regardless if Update check is enabled and no matter how Privacy section is configured. Even with everything disabled CCleaner still sends some data to the mother-ship and there was already a lot of noise about this over the last few years.
I don't like any app sniffing on its own and uploading any data without my knowledge and explicit consent and am seriously considering to downgrade it down to a version before all this Avast bloatware was introduced, so at least v5 or maybe even v4.
For now I've blocked CCleaner at the firewall and everything works "fine".
I'm guessing there's some logic that determines all this (mis)behavior and there are other factors that influence it as not everyone is seeing the welcome screen at the same time, so it could be depending on the region, environment and/or something else.
22 hours ago, Wisewiz said:
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No problem. First shot is HKLM; second is HKCU.
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I'm guessing that what has been successful so far for me is this: I uninstalled/deleted CC completely, removing all bits of it from the AppData folder as well as the program folder; deleted the HKCU and HKLM Piriform keys completely. Installed (well, you know ...) the Portable CC on my D:\ drive with my other portables, and most importantly, <em>did not enter my license key</em>. I still have all of the features I use, and the registry has only populated with the entries you see for the past couple of weeks at least. Piriform is in both hives, and CCleaner is a subkey for each Piriform, but what you see is what I've got.
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Thank you @Wisewiz. I had "DUGuid" in HKCU, but after deleting everything it never got recreated. "AP" is set to "1".
I also don't have "StateSig" in HKLM and possibly had it before (should have made an export prior to deleting everything) and adding it with empty value made no difference.
Even if we figure it out I'm afraid it would work only for a bit and then developers would change it and start annoying us again, or will introduce yet another feature we don't care about :(
I thought I'll never say this, but after a very long support for every app and spreading Piriform love around me, I will look into Winapp2 alternatives as after all I just need a simple tool that will clean files and registry based on a list of rules. The only reason I haven't done that by now is because that list is updated according to what CCleaner does out-of-the-box and doesn't have redundant rules.