SMalik Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I think there should be an option to erase and restart the system in CCleaner to wipe the locked files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted January 21, 2015 Moderators Share Posted January 21, 2015 I see where you're coming from, but feel it may be too complex for what is supposed to be a daily (or weekly or regularly scheduled) cleaner and more a job for a single-file-at-a-time deleter like unlocker. It would be harder for ccleaner to determine if a file is righteously locked or not. In my opinion, not all locked files should be deleted outside windows, which is what a reboot and delete program is doing (example: windows system file can be deleted outside of the environment and boy does that make problems). It's not that ccleaner doesn't have the capably to do this - it used to with index.dat for ie and the need to restart explorer for the old systray entry, but these are special cases and done relatively without the user's intervention. 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...
Moderators Andavari Posted January 21, 2015 Moderators Share Posted January 21, 2015 At minimum it does need the ability to delete on reboot several competitors have that feature and it has needed the ability for over a decade now. In the past just limiting it to IE's index.dat files never sufficed for me. Although I don't know how "wiping" would be done in that "special" Windows mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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