billb Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Whenever I try to scan for registry issues ccleaner crashes with no errors. This happens every time. If I uncheck "ActivX and Class Issues" scanning it runs fine. I am running the latest CCleaner version on an XP Home Edition machine with SP2 and all the latest updates. Virus software is McAfee Security Center. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamj Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 I'd like to second this bug... I am getting the same issue. I went through each of the other options one-by-one and had no problem. Then i ran the ActiveX/Class Issue scanner. It finds a LOT of entires but hangs the machine about half way through the scan. I keep trying to slide the scroll bar down but can never get it to land on the last item being scanned. It is definitely choking on something in the list... I have WinXP Pro SP2 with current Updates and Hotfixes installed. I use Avast AntiVirus and have a few programs in the tray on startup: Daemon Tools, Logitech One Point, Creative Labs Audigy Control Panel, and HP DeskJet Printer Tray Utility. After my computer starts up, I close/exit/disable all of these (including the AV scanner) and then open CCleaner. It crashes everytime, causing me to power my computer down to recover. With so many in the list, I am really anxious to get this part of it working. =) I am curious if the application will run in (or should be run in) safe mode. I was worried that it might report a lot of false positives, since many services and startup apps are disabled in safe mode. ---- Okay, so I'm a risk-taker... I booted up in safe mode and ran the AcctiveX/COM/Class scan ONLY. It went slowly up to the percentage at which it used to freeze and then jumped to 100% in the blink of an eye. It found 613 orphaned ActiveX/COM references. I scanned through them briefly. Most of them were references to some apps which I used to have intalled on another drive, so I just fixed them all. So far, so good! ;-) No problems... I recommend you backup important files before trying this yourself... Good luck, billb! ---- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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