****** Interface

[brfghr]

THIS screen tells me that when I am hitting "start clean" it will to the stuff on the left.

 

 

 

But instead it is doing all the stuff in the next part also, without telling me.

 

 

 

Now my Session, Cookies and History in chrome i needed for work badly is GONE. THANK YOU!

Edited September 24, 2012 by Nergal
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[nodles]

Obviously? You should've checked the next ("Anwendungen") tab and untick/tick entries before cleaning or you could've analyzed ("Analysieren") first.

[Winapp2.ini]

I would consider the 'Anwendungen' tab a sub category of 'all the stuff on the left'

[Andavari]

First time usage blues? It happens!

[Nergal]

I don't believe anything stopped you from reading the documentation before use

http://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner/using-ccleaner/cleaning-your-pc/cleaning-your-pc

 

German translation

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=de&a=http://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner/using-ccleaner/cleaning-your-pc/cleaning-your-pc

[mta]

Ouch, that sucks, just makes you appreciate a good backup regime.

Old PC saying drummed into me at Uni: backup now, backup often.

[pwillener]

First time usage blues?

I don't think so; brfghr is using CCleaner 3.13, which was released in November 2011. Never bothered to check the Applications tab in almost one year...?

[Nergal]

 

I don't think so; brfghr is using CCleaner 3.13, which was released in November 2011. Never bothered to check the Applications tab in almost one year...?

good catch, I missed that one

[Guest Keatah]

If the OP had been using this 3.13 version for a year, then why all of a sudden the upset at cleaning the Applications tab? Those options would have been cleaned in previous usages, right?

 

Well whatever.. Luckily it was just browser history and nothing important like a lifelong photo album. In any case I'm not here to pick on the OP. This is a classic example why backups need to be done before working with *ANY* type of system maintenance software. Well.. Having said that, I've found CCleaner to be among the best and most-stable and clearly thought-out utility of its kind. And I say this with 40+ years of computing experience behind me.

 

And since this is "for work" data, you can just restore from a backup. You and/or your IT department do perform backups of mission critical data?

 

Back in the 1960's I quickly learned to keep copies of things that I, well, want to keep! It is a lesson every computer user learns sooner or later. I'm just happy to have learned it back then, that's all.

[Guest Keatah]

I don't think the user interface could be changed much here. Other than a warning saying both the left and right columns' items will be cleaned. But that would look awkward. Typically, when a computer presents multiple sections like this, or multiple categories.. but only one "activity" or "do" button.. This single button will typically affect all categories.

 

It is implied, that by having one single action button, that everything on both lists will be processed.

 

I mean CCleaner's programmers could make two sets of "Analyze" and two sets of "Run Cleaner" buttons. But is that necessary? I don't believe so.

[mta]

the interface is fine.

the poor bugger just got caught out like most of us have at some stage.

by simply missing a tick box or not going through the default settings, the program did something he wasn't expecting.

As Keatah says, it may have ticked him off but in the grand scheme of things, there are worse things that can happen.

 

Life goes on...