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[Shodan]

Not sure if there is a bug in V2 beta 491, or if I am just missing the obvious. Simply trying to clean TMP files out of my root folder in Vista. Winapp2.ini entry is as follows:

[Misc Apps]
LangSecRef=3021
DetectFile=%ProgramFiles%\CCleaner\CCleaner.exe
Default=True
FileKey1=%rootdir%|*.tmp

The 'test.tmp' file that I placed in my root folder does not delete. Would someone kindly confirm an error in my entry or the possibility of a bug? THANKS !

[Andavari]

Yeah I've never been able to get the %rootdir% parameter to work in CCleaner via winapp2.ini.

You instead have to use:
%systemdrive%


This is the correction:

[*Misc Apps]
LangSecRef=3021
DetectFile=%ProgramFiles%\CCleaner\CCleaner.exe
Default=True
FileKey1=%systemdrive%|*.tmp

Note that we're currently using * in front of the winapp2.ini entries to distinguish them against cleaning routines that are installed by CCleaner's installer.

I'll PM TwistedMetal so that he knows of this.

[Shodan]

I changed my entry to %systemdrive% (copied and pasted your reply) and still no luck. Were you able to get it to delete a tmp file in Vista ? If I simiply change the folder the tmp file is in, it works like a charm, so I am wondering if it could be either a bug or a privs issue. I dont think it s a privs issue because I am the admin and I can add and delete files in the root folder at will...

[Andavari]

Shodan, on Aug 29 2007, 12:04 PM, said:

I changed my entry to %systemdrive% (copied and pasted your reply) and still no luck. Were you able to get it to delete a tmp file in Vista ?

Don't know what to tell you then, and no I'm not using Windows Vista here. I wonder if it's just the parameter itself that is not working in Vista, but since I don't use Vista I have no way of finding out. It's probably going to take someone that uses Vista and knows some other parameters to find out what the proper one to use is.

[Shodan]

Thanks for trying ! ! I do believe it is a Vista thing. Hope someone reads this thread and tries it on Vista just to confirm it's not only mine. Thanks again !

[Shodan]

EUREKA ! Problem resolved for Vista, and it was not a bug in CCleaner. Found this KB article on the MS website. Turns out you have to CREATE the
%rootdir% environment variable on Vista - it's not already there as in previous versions of Windows. Once I created it, following this KB article, CCleaner wiped the TMP files out of my C:\ folder like a charm. Hope this tip saves someone else some agony.

KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931715

[Andavari]

To help clear things up which cleaning parameter worked for you %rootdir% or %systemdrive%?

[Shodan]

[*Misc Apps]
LangSecRef=3021
DetectFile=%ProgramFiles%\CCleaner\CCleaner.exe
Default=True
FileKey1=%rootdir%\|*.tmp

BUT, only after I created %rootdir% as an environment variable in Vista.