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catt.thre

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I have a different issue. I was having a slow file deletion issue on my pc ( OS is Vista Home Premium) PC is about 5 years old. Dell XPS 410. 1 GB Ram) amd contacted Dell who helped me speed up PC. Recommended I install the Piriform CCleaner. Currently when I click the Analyze Button, the program scans and highlights the results. However, when I click the cleaner button the deletion process starts but the green bar shows only 2% complete after almost 30 + minutes. Does it depend on how much junk needs to be deleted? I thought it should be within seconds with this program once you click the clean button. I just downloaded the program last week; so I am new to it's functionality. Has anyone experienced this long deletion process? Do I need to uninstall and reinstall the cleaner? I generally have to end task the cleaner since the delete process bar seems to hang at 2%. Today its been almost 2 hours and the bar has not progressed any further.

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running it again right now and it has been 15min stil at the same spot as before, it says system/temp today instead of windows/temp. when it finished yesterday I made sure there wasn't anything in any of my temp folders. before I ran it now I made sure there wasn't anything in them now. started running at 10:40 and is still at 30%. when it is done will go back to previous version which I didn't have this problem.

 

time it started was 12:40 still at same spot

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Even that's fairly long. Just ran this so you could have something to compare with.

 

ANALYSIS COMPLETE - (8.534 secs) 50.8 MB to be removed. (Approximate size)
Secure file deletion enabled - Simple Overwrite (1 pass)

Internet Explorer - Temporary Internet Files	2 KB		7 files
Internet Explorer - History			32 KB		1 files
Windows Explorer - Recent Documents		20 KB		7 files
System - Windows Log Files			393 KB		8 files
Utilities - Sandboxie				51,590 KB 	399 files

 

I suggest you revert to 3.13 and try again with v3.15 when it arrives. Maybe 3.14 just doesn't mesh well with your setup.

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Are you using Secure Deletion.

Gutman 35 pass is a different user experience :wacko:

 

Are these temp files all held in C:\,

or on other partitions and drives, possibly via reparse points which could make CCleaner think were on C:\

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