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When checking through the list of files displayed when attempting to clean, I find that several important files in the excluded folders are displayed. I am glad I checked as many of these were in the mirrors of some of my websites. In addition several .jpg files in the My Pictures folder were listed. I fail to understand why this is happening. I am running  CCleaner Professional v 5.13.5460 on my Windows XP Home SP3 machine.

(Yes, I know XP is obsolete but I have a vital piece of software that will not run on later versions and for which there is no available updated version)

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G'day Tony and welcome,

 

that does sound very alarming.

can you provide a few screenshots, say, of the Analyse list of files showing the JPG files.

and one of your EXCLUDE list.

 

also, any reason why you haven't gone to v5.29 of CC?

 

do the files listed for cleaning(that shouldn't have been) have anything unusual about them, like the location of their parent folders, or they get indirectly listed due to some INCLUDE list, or do you use winapp2.ini or some other CC enhancement?

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I tried to add the two images just now, but it failed. I shall try again (failed again: "Upload Skipped (Error IO)")

v5.29 not loaded because I had not spotted that an update was available!

Nothing unusual about the files AFAIK. The web image files are in Virtual Acorn, which historically is buried in the Program file for Virtual Acorn (Virtual Acorn emulates the RISCOS used extensively in the UK education system in the past)

I have no INCLUDE list AFAIK and I am not aware of what winapp2.ini is

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I have created text files which I tried to attach, but they failed.

Here they are embedded:

Analysis Complete - (0.612 secs)
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566 MB to be removed. (Approximate size)
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Details of files to be deleted (Note: No files have been deleted yet)
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Internet Explorer - Temporary Internet Files    1,015 KB    50 files    
Internet Explorer - History    144 KB    4 files    
System - Empty Recycle Bin    535,216 KB    54 files    
System - Temporary Files    42,865 KB    7 files    
System - Windows Log Files    186 KB    8 files    
Applications - Adobe Acrobat XI    9 KB    1 files    
Applications - Office 2003    47 KB    37 files    
Applications - Office 2007    47 KB    37 files    
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C:\Documents and Settings\Tony\My Documents\*.*
C:\Program Files\VirtualAcorn\*.*

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well, there are a few weird things happening there, as you said.

based on what you have provided, the two EXCLUDES are indeed not being excluded.

and despite the excludes not being honoured, some of those listed files shouldn't be there, for example, EXE's in your Download folder and XLS's in VirtualAcorn - two file extensions that should not be covered by CC.

 

it sort of points to some underlying Windows corruption.

is the PC behaving normally otherwise?

 

try this, in CC, go to Options, Advanced and tick the box to save all settings to INI file.

try and send a screen shot of the INI file which will be in your Program Files\CCleaner folder.

and yes, install the latest version too.

 

as to adding those screen shots, make sure they are saved as JPG's.

there is a Snipping Tool (if you have used that in Windows 7, 8, or 10) available for XP here; https://xpsnipping.codeplex.com/

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I could not get back before for personal reasons. I have updated CCleaner but the problem persists ( and occurs on my Windows 10 laptop also)

There is an awful lot on the file. Do you require the whole lot? The attached shows the end of the file with reference to Virtual Acorn. I do not hold out a lot of hope for an image to be uploaded as I get timeouts forfor large files due to very slow upload speeds here ( about 500 bits/s) (It fails: Upload Skipped (Error IO))

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Further investigation reveals that the option 'Empty Recycle Bin' reveals these Virtual Acorn Files. If I manually Empty the Bin first they no longer appear. Now I have to reset all the options I want.

It is misleading to have the original locations revealed rather than the actual location.

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