rabbit Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Hi all, two things I want to find out before playing around with the portable CCleaner. 1. If I use a portable install of CCleaner on a computer that has CCleaner installed on its hard drive, will running the portable version mess with the .ini or any other settings of the install on the host machine? I recall reading something about that on the PortableApps forums. 2. Reading this forum post: Does portable CCleaner need to access the registry on the host machine at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted July 11, 2011 Moderators Share Posted July 11, 2011 CCleaner Portable is all self-contained in the folder where you run it from since it has a portable.dat file which tells it it's the portable version, and it only uses settings from ccleaner.ini. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabbit Posted July 11, 2011 Author Share Posted July 11, 2011 CCleaner Portable is all self-contained in the folder where you run it from since it has a portable.dat file which tells it it's the portable version, and it only uses settings from ccleaner.ini. So if I run the portable version on a machine with a local install of CC I don't have to worry with it changing the ccleaner.ini on that machine? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted July 11, 2011 Moderators Share Posted July 11, 2011 Correct! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_B Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 I recall reading something about that on the PortableApps forums. Some of their Apps never touch the registry, Some make extensive use of the registry and clean up after use - unless the App crashes. Portable CC never touches the registry. Before I upgrade CC I always unzip the latest to another folder, and I run and Analyse both of them side by side and compare results. They do not interact during analysis. Were I to launch the CLEAN action simultaneously then they might conflict, but I hope to stave of senility for a few more years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabbit Posted July 11, 2011 Author Share Posted July 11, 2011 Some of their Apps never touch the registry, Some make extensive use of the registry and clean up after use - unless the App crashes. Portable CC never touches the registry. Before I upgrade CC I always unzip the latest to another folder, and I run and Analyse both of them side by side and compare results. They do not interact during analysis. Were I to launch the CLEAN action simultaneously then they might conflict, but I hope to stave of senility for a few more years. I'm probably at the senior senility stage; BUT I think I can avoid launching them both at once. My main interest with the portable install is to help out friends who ask for assistance on their computers, could show them what it does and insist they do a local install of it and use it. Thanks for the replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted July 11, 2011 Moderators Share Posted July 11, 2011 "Touches" can mean two things in this question CCleaner Portable, it is true, writes none of it's own entries to a machine on which it is run However Yes, Ccleaner Portable DOES still remove certain registry entries if a particular check box removes a reg entry for example [Adobe Reader 9.0] ID=2137 LangSecRef=3021 Detect=HKCU\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0 Default=True RegKey1=HKCU\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\AVGeneral\cRecentFiles FileKey1=%LocalAppData%\Adobe\Acrobat\9.0\Cache\Search|*.* FileKey2=%LocalLowAppData%\Adobe\Acrobat\9.0\Search|*.* will still remove HKCU\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\AVGeneral\cRecentFiles if run from a portable build. ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabbit Posted July 11, 2011 Author Share Posted July 11, 2011 "Touches" can mean two things in this question CCleaner Portable, it is true, writes none of it's own entries to a machine on which it is run However Yes, Ccleaner Portable DOES still remove certain registry entries if a particular check box removes a reg entry for example [Adobe Reader 9.0] ID=2137 LangSecRef=3021 Detect=HKCU\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0 Default=True RegKey1=HKCU\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\AVGeneral\cRecentFiles FileKey1=%LocalAppData%\Adobe\Acrobat\9.0\Cache\Search|*.* FileKey2=%LocalLowAppData%\Adobe\Acrobat\9.0\Search|*.* will still remove HKCU\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\AVGeneral\cRecentFiles if run from a portable build. So in your example what CCleaner portable is doing is removing Recently Opened Files from Adobe or Foxit or Office, whatever is checked, and leaving an empty registry entry; am I correct? Just doing its job for the items I have checked. Hope I'm reading the example correct, so far with the CCleaner I have installed on my computers it has never corrupted anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted July 11, 2011 Moderators Share Posted July 11, 2011 in essence yes that is what it is doing. It's is deleting the cRecentFiles entry completly. The next time Reader starts it will recreate that entry in a fresh clean state. ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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