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[nicklad]

The following two features would be exceptionally useful for me:

1. The ability to delete the remenance of any roaming profiles from a hard disk. (In the documents and settings folder.)

2. The ability to delete any folders in the windows directory that begin with a $. (Such as the $NTUninstall*$ directories and $NtServicePackUninstall$).

Cheers and thanks for an awesome program!,

Nick

[DjLizard]

#1 is extremely risky because of the rare possibility of deleting a real account... and the difficulty. It's also not something the average user will be doing often (or ever). If you're an administrator and have to do this often, write a script or applet.

#2 is not recommended out of sheer principal.

[agumon]

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1. The ability to delete the remenance of any roaming profiles from a hard disk. (In the documents and settings folder.)

2. The ability to delete any folders in the windows directory that begin with a $. (Such as the $NTUninstall*$ directories and $NtServicePackUninstall$).

make these option optional if decided to add into CCleaner... i want to keep my...

[nicklad]

Can anyone tell me what I have done wrong with this rule? - It doesnt seem to have any effect...

[Windows Backups]
LangSecRef=3025
Default=True
FileKey1=%windir%\|$*|RECURSE

[TwistedMetal]

$* this is not a vaild CCleaner command. You need the full path name.

[Tarun]

TwistedMetal, on May 14 2005, 11:37 PM, said:

$* this is not a vaild CCleaner command. You need the full path name.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That shouldn't be the problem.

FileKey1=%windir%\|$*|RECURSE

Should be:

FileKey1=%windir%|$*

[nicklad]

Tarun, on May 15 2005, 03:30 PM, said:

That shouldn't be the problem.

FileKey1=%windir%\|$*|RECURSE

Should be:

FileKey1=%windir%|$*

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Still doesnt work

Does it make a difference that these folders are, by default, hidden, read only and compressed? Or is it the $ character that is confusing CCleaner?

[MrG]

This won't work, for security reasons, as the second parameter "$*" only applies to files and not folders.

[nicklad]

This could be achieved with:

Public Sub CleanPatchArchive()
    On Error Resume Next
    Dim fs, f, f1, fc
    Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set f = fs.GetFolder(Environ("windir"))
    Set fc = f.SubFolders
    For Each f1 In fc
        If f1.Name Like "$*$" Then
            fs.DeleteFolder Environ("windir") & "\" & f1.Name
        End If
    Next f1
End Sub

[Andavari]

I second what DjLizard said!

CCleaner is a safe cleaner, having it mess with whole profiles or windows backups would make it an unsafe cleaner that the average user would eventually make a grave mistake because they wouldn't know what they're doing, hell even an experienced user could shoot themself in both foot. I can only image the complaints that would spawn up all over the forum with people saying it deleted a profile, it deleted a Win backup and now a service pack can't be removed, etc.