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If that would've been a laptop mobo I would've guessed either a socketed or soldered on Wi-Fi card, but with a desktop no.

Google Chrome / Chromium Based Browsers: As for all Chromium based browsers it nuked Comodo Dragon so bad (over a decade ago on my old XP PC) it never worked correct afterwards and even a clean re-install didn't work. I found out that certain browser profile folders located in sub-folders named 'Extension State' and 'Local Extension Settings' had to be excluded. I exclude both whole folder locations in any Chromium browsers profile folder after the Comodo Dragon incident and it hasn't broken a Chromium based browser since then for 12 years. They can be excluded in CCleaner at 'Options > Exclude'. Example using Microsoft Edge Chromium I exclude these two paths (in Windows 10): * C:\Users\UserProfileName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Extension State * C:\Users\UserProfileName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Local Extension Settings ---------- Mozilla Firefox / Firefox Based Browsers: This info is many years old however after having it brick a Firefox profile I always have these disabled/unticked in CCleaner under the Firefox section so that it never cleans them: * Session * Site Preferences (this is possibly the most important one) I also have it exclude various things in Firefox (Firefox Portable ESR is what I use), this is primarily because of what I mentioned in the Chromium based browsers comment for paranoia's sake - now rather these are necessary in Firefox I don't know, but I'm not taking any chances: ..\PortableApps\FirefoxPortableESR\Data\profile\*\|*.sqlite-shm;*.sqlite-wal ..\PortableApps\FirefoxPortableESR\Data\profile\browser-extension-data ---------- Edit: If you use the community Winapp2.ini file (https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/32310-winapp2ini-additions/#comments) that might possibly clean too much. Edit 2: You must use Custom Clean in CCleaner in order for it to honor exclusions, and not clean what you've disabled/unticked! If you have it just automatically clean it doesn't use any user preferences.

If it's a Chrome/Chromium based browser look to see if it's in the community Winapp2.ini - https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/32310-winapp2ini-additions/ If it isn't in Winapp2.ini, and if you know where to find where the files are stored you can modify a pre-existing Winapp2.ini entry to clean it. Note: If you go that route it's highly recommended that you backup (copy to another folder, or ZIP) your web browser profile before cleaning it, that way any issues that can or may arise can be quickly and very easily undone.

Other than the GDPR licensing updates which they would've been forced to update for I think the fair answer is they're way more involved with continued development of CCleaner, and the other software suffers being neglected because of it. As for a freeware alternative to Speccy there's HWiNFO and HWiNFOPortable (from PortableApps.com), and others that are kept up-to-date with current hardware.

Modern SSDs at least 2016 and newer models don't need wipe free space/drive wiper tools ran on them since they can use TRIM which is built into modern OSes. Old SSDs from reading now ancient articles online people used to use such tools when TRIM wasn't available in the OS. As for needing/wanting to secure wipe an SSD you need to use the manufacturer provided SSD toolkit to "safely" do it, some call it Sanatize. Big enough and reputable brands such as Crucial/Micron, Samsung, etc., have such capabilities in their free SSD toolkit. Note this is not a wipe free space, it will destroy all data on the SSD, such as when wanting to completely retire the SSD or sell it.

For restoring web browser data you would've needed to have already made a recent profile backup before the issue to fully restore from. You could try Piriform Recuva to see if it can restore the data. Making regular web browser profile backup to a ZIP or other archive format (say once per week) is an important task to do. It's important in case of corruption which can on rare occasions happen during updating a browser to a new version that introduces an incompatibility with old profile versions, and in that event you'd at least be able to restore some of a profile (not necessarily all of it) such as the bookmarks. Manual Backup To Local Disk: https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?q=how+to+backup+google+chrome+profile+data Sync Backup: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+backup+google+chrome+profile As for the custom fonts listed on that website you linked to: If the fonts weren't installed on the system per the normal way of installing fonts then you'd have to re-configure whatever it is that website does.

I've been using SumatraPDF Portable (https://portableapps.com/apps/office/sumatra_pdf_portable) for several months and like how simple it is. It's not bloated at all, has a no-frills easy to use GUI, and it's Open Source (GPL).

Was the recovery partition the last partition on your drive? If so, that's probably why it was successful if they've magically auto-resized it. Speaking of 3rd party tools like AOMEI, etc., supposedly according to info online when cloning a disk they don't copy the OEM recovery partition that's used to reset a PC back to the factory default image.

I had downloaded something (don't remember exactly what it's called at this time) to disable that particular update, and two supposed driver updates; 1 from Acer which I have a years newer version of already installed, and 1 from Intel that has no description.

A possible workaround is to create a "protection" file in that folder location, it could be named anything such as DoNotDelete.txt, ProtectedFolder.txt, and then type in an brief description so you know why it's there in the future, i.e.; Protects this folder from being deleted by 3rd party cleaning tools. Then set the file attribute to read-only (and possibly also set it to hidden and system). Then input the file as an exclusion in CCleaner in 'Options > Exclude' to prevent the whole folder from being deleted, and the added benefit is you may not have to mess around with editing winapp2.ini files to fix CCleaners behaviour. I personally do this in some folders that I want it to clean, but where the folder must remain intact, i.e.; for audio and video encoding, etc., that programs expect to always exist.

That isn't going to work with the quotes around the command: 4- Add Exclude Rule: "%APPDATA%\Discord\Code Cache\*.*" See if these work: 4- Add Exclude Rule: %APPDATA%\Discord\Code Cache\*.* 4- Add Exclude Rule: %APPDATA%\Discord\Code Cache\|*.*||0|0|24

GRC ValiDrive License: Freeware Publisher: Gibson Research Corporation Supports: Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 Website: https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm Overview: Validate USB mass storage drives. Helps determine if USB mass storage drives are fraudulent/fake/counterfeit. Quickly spot-check any USB mass storage drive for fraudulent deliberately missing storage. Note: USB mass storage drives with low quality NAND flash (many are even from known brand names) will take a considerable amount of time to validate vs. high quality NAND flash which validates quickly.

On my Win10 Home v22H2 laptop that's located in: C:\Users\UserProfileName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\IndexedDB\ I only have 2 folders with 3 files in each folder, totaling 78 bytes in size. It seems like a database/logs for extensions. That whole IndexedDB folder and all of its contents on my system is 128 MB in size. Edit: However I do NOT use Edge Chromium, and only have uBlock Origin installed as an extension that I occasionally check for updates. If you regularly use it perhaps that's the cause, but it seems like too much. You having 52+ GB in size would make me wonder if it isn't some sort of bug in Edge Chromium, perhaps not properly self-cleaning itself, or perhaps you've found a bug that can be reported to Microsoft. As for controlling the size of that folder there's 'Options > Include' in CCleaner. I've noticed that none of the Edge Chromium cleaners that I use from the community Winapp2.ini and those I've made myself don't target that folder at all.

Exactly. Some drive wiper/wipe free space programs (not referencing CCleaner in particular with this comment) have the potential of damaging the drive contents (files, and the filesystem) that they're wiping free space on such as the Windows OS drive if exited in an incorrect way such as forcing them to close. I had such a thing happen over 20 years ago (not with CCleaner), and I found myself minutes later reinstalling the Windows OS.

uBlock Origin Users Start Regularly Checking Your Trusted Sites List: I discovered that over the last week of looking for a new TV that some (not all) display manufacturers have automatically without my express permission added themselves into the uBlock Origin Trusted Sites list. I definitely didn't manually add them into the Trusted Sites list (like how it's supposed to work) especially for a one time visit to look at the specifications of a particular TV. I would consider this a security violation.