Windows 10, Microsoft Edge Cache Database - please make it stop!

Uh I meant zero offence to you, and only explained the situation as it is. My emphasis on the word user seems to have the triggering factor, and thus for the use of all capital letters I wholeheartedly apologize.

It is not, of course, forbidden to post your opinion nor your frustration. Nor is it insulting for me to inform you that as a paid customer you have the developers' ear more than most here (including moderation staff); that it is a way to get an answer from them faster, and more likely, than it is by posting frustration (and using the second person "you" pronoun) in a user forum which, by design, sees little developer interaction, which was the single fact I attempted to explain in my paragraph about the user forum.

My next section was specifically separated from the fact section with opinion tags. By doing so I was stepping away from moderation duty and, like you, expressing my understanding of the bug at hand. I acted with zero condescension nor sarcasm; the latter was not even present in the conspiracy theory section, which is actually my belief but for which I have scant evidence.

Again, I meant no disrespect in any of my sections you and I just have different opinions about the ease of fixing this bug. I've no intention of banning you. I have not, nor will I even give second thought to this discussion until the next time somebody posts here.

To note I agree it's frustrating that Edge cleaning is messed up I just have respect enough for the developers to assume fixing this is at the top of their list, and if a fix has yet to be found that there's good reason for it.

[unfounded guess] It may take until Microsoft adds add-on support before third party software will work properly.[/guess]

just ran ccleaner, for some reason Edge was cleaned. I did nothing different in using the laptop.

that seems to be the experience with others as well.

CC doesn't always clean it, and the flip side, it doesn't always NOT clean it.

I spent some spare time trying to “find something” about this and, although it may not be conclusive, here’s what I got so far.

Running a Fresh install of CC 5.11.5408, on:

1. Windows 10 64: Acer Aspire 4252 V497, AMD V140 Processor 2,30 GHz, 6 GB RAM.

2. Windows 10 32: Workstation 10 VM on an Asus N56V, Intel i7 3610 QM 2,30 GHz, 6 HB RAM.

3. Windows 10 64: same as above.

In all systems:

1. I opened a bunch of sites with Edge, then checked history. All sites there. Close.

2. I opened CC, running the default config (except “disable monitoring”) and hit Run Cleaner.

Here, the thing: on the two alerts that pop up,

- “permanently delete files” and

- “close Edge Cache DB and Internet Explorer”.

there’s a “Do not show me this message again” option.

Well, I just had it checked for the first message (that is now hidden) and, when it comes to the Edge Cache message, I just hit YES (and leave the “do not show again” unchecked).

Surprise! CC stopped showing the “Edge Skipped” alerts and now CC report shows Edge cleaning results (History, Cache, Cookies, Session etc)!

Then I opened Edge and its history was really clean. Also, clicked Analyze on CC and it showed “0 bytes to be removed”.

So, maybe the BAD GUY is just the checkbox “Do not show me this message again”?

Maybe? Well, I went back and checked the two “do not show me this message again” and… and…

the Edge skipping messages were back!

Sorcery?

What happened, in images.

Image 1: after using Edge, I openned CC and hit Analyze.

Image 2: then I hit Run Cleaner, left the “Do not show…” message unchecked and hit Yes.

Image 3: cleaning details, which shows Edge files delected. No skip warnings.

Image 4: hit Run Cleaner again. Nothing to be cleaned.

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Kill dllhost.exe process and keep the task manager open while you're running ccleaner to see if the process doesn't start up again, because this process has the habit of starting and stopping itself frequently.

I opened Process Explorer to see what was happening when I opened and closed my browser (Internet Explorer 11). It looks like Edge continues to run in the background through multiple dll's. I opened CCleaner and placed the two windows side by side. Through PE I killed the process 'dllhost.exe' and immediately ran the cleaner. I didn't get the usual 'Internet Explorer and Edge need to be closed' notice and there was no indication that Edge files were skipped.

Because you have to act quickly (the dll host will restart immediately after you stop it) you might try using a .bat file? I don't know if this is exactly right, but close:

@echo off

taskkill /f /im dllhost.exe

start “” “C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCleaner64.exe” /AUTO

Hope this helps.

I opened Process Explorer to see what was happening when I opened and closed my browser (Internet Explorer 11). It looks like Edge continues to run in the background through multiple dll's. I opened CCleaner and placed the two windows side by side. Through PE I killed the process 'dllhost.exe' and immediately ran the cleaner. I didn't get the usual 'Internet Explorer and Edge need to be closed' notice and there was no indication that Edge files were skipped.

Because you have to act quickly (the dll host will restart immediately after you stop it) you might try using a .bat file? I don't know if this is exactly right, but close:

@echo off

taskkill /f /im dllhost.exe

start "" "C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCleaner64.exe" /AUTO

Hope this helps.

You are correct once dllhost.exe aka Com surrogate is ended CCleaner can clear EDGE, any eta when CCleaner will do this for us instead of us have to do it manually? I was wonder why there is always 1 instance of that running now i know why

What worked for me on Win 10 is to go to Internet Options -- either via Control Panel or Cortana, and delete browsing history and temporary files, remember to tick "delete browsing history on exit" under Browsing history. Then run CCleaner and Edge will be cleared without skipping any files.

Hi. I'm not sure if this is still an active issue/thread, but I just upgraded to Windows 10 and found this thread via a google search. I was able to change this behavior (I think) with a setting change and a reboot.

Go to Settings -> Privacy -> Background Apps and Turn Microsoft Edge off and reboot. I did so and now CCleaner removes temp files that Edge uses, and kills the running process that CCleaner doesn't stop and thus, skips.

Sorry if this has been fixed already.

The solution is pretty easy. CCleaner thinks your browser is still open.

Open CCleaner and run it.

After it finishes and you see the skipped items....

Click on Options

Click on Cookies

It will tell you something is open and do you want to force a close?

Say yes

Go back and run the cleaner again and it wont skip it

:)