Being told that Microsoft Edge Cashe Database & IE need to be closed before CCleaner can clean

[Tobus]

"Microsoft Edge Cache Database and Internet Explorer needs to be closed to clean Internet cache. Do you want CCleaner to close Microsoft Edge Cache Database and Internet Explorer?" Can anyone help me with why I keep seeing this. And, maybe help fix it,too?  Oh,that's the exact message I get.

 

[nukecad]

You get this message because Edge and/or IE is still running in the background when you are trying to clean them.

(You will get a similar message if Firefox, or  Chrome, or any other browser is still running when you run CCleaner).

 

CCleaner cannot clean out a browser if it is still running, so asks if you want to close it.

 

You can either

click yes to close the browser and clean its files-

or

if you don't want to see the message go to 'Options' in CC and select the 'Hide warning messages' option.

(This will leave them alone if they are running in the background and not give you the message; but obviously then won't clean them).