smcpoland

This is definitely thinking out of the box and may indeed help a lot of people. However, it will not work for everyone. For example I only state one of my drives,the 1.5TB Raid drive. What I don't tell you is I already have over 8TB on my machine with 13 of the possible 26 partitions already used. Your solution assumes a novice user who generally has one or two drives and limited requirements. I run up to 4 VMs at a time (including the base OS that's 5) (yes it is one Mother Freak of a machine). I have all my music and Video already on separate drives etc. Pictures not, however. Your idea is not without merit, but shunting has been along ever since defragging started. It would be good to recognize it and do something about it, and you confirm it in you very first statement regards

Hi, Windows 7 64 bit fully patched, situation on 1.5TB drive (raid) 400GB used. Ok I defragged the drive once, noticed a lot of chrome temp files so ran ccleaner and defragged again. what I noticed was that once Defraggler got to the JPG and other image files it basically shunted approx 75GB of images from block x+1 to block x. While this is extreme notation Defraggler took over 2 hours to shunt all these files for no-good reason as (using the legend) they were already def'ed. Now, I like the maths behind defragging - it can be considered quite amazing and I acknowledge the difficulty in designing an algorithm that works in every case, but "there has to be a better way", Frankie goes to Hollywood, Warriors of the Wasteland, approx 1984, I digress. I think there has to be a situation where Defraggler has to recognize the possibility of "Shunting" especially of large lumps of defragged used blocks, and allow say 95% block usage prior to large area the Shunt area rather than just filling it up by shunting. Does that make sense? Or filling in from the end of the drive rather than from the front when a possible shunt area is recognized, that is move from the end of the drive inwards, of course only if the data fits. I hope that makes sense. Anyway love the product, better than most. Could be a world beater though. regards Sean

Hi there, Windows 7 64 bit, fully patched nVidia 295 latest drivers. 2 screens When using Defraggler I notice that it opens full screen, when I click on the Restore Down button I cannot get to the sides or corners to resize the window. regards Sean

Hi, in Office 2007 it is possible to pin frequently used items, such as spreadshhets etc. It would be good to have an option in the CCleaner Options that said "Do not Clean Office 2007 Pins?" If checked then do not clean the pinned items and clean only the ones that are not pinned. default should be clean all, this should be an opt in option, many thanks in advance regards Sean McPoland

c:\Windows\Installer is a massive repository for general c@#$. Microsoft have confirmed this as an issue but have done nothing to help. It would be nice if CCleaner could have an option to clean Orphaned MSP packages as in the following recommendation from MicrobumpallyourC2456here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274533 Thanks and reagrds Sean WORKAROUND WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk. To work around this problem, you can manually remove each orphaned .msp file, after you search for each file in the system registry and do not find the file. To do this, follow these steps: 1. Using Windows Explorer, open the \Windows\Installer folder. NOTE: You may need to customize your folder options, so that you can view all files. Please refer to your Windows documentation for more information. 2. Make a note of all files in the folder with an .msp file extension. 3. Click Start, and then click Run. 4. In the Open box, type Regedit and then click OK. 5. In the left pane of the Registry Editor, click My Computer to select it. 6. Click Find on the Edit menu. 7. Type the first .msp file name in the Find What box, and then click Find Next. 8. If you receive the message "Finished searching through the registry", the .msp file is orphaned and can be deleted. Make a note so that it can be deleted. If the Registry Editor finds a LocalPackage name with the .msp file extension in the Data column, the .msp file is referenced and should not be deleted. 9. Repeat steps 5 through 8 for each .msp file that you noted from step 2. 10. For each .msp file that you noted for deletion, right-click the .msp file in Windows Explorer, and then click Delete on the shortcut menu. Click Yes to confirm the deletion. Back to the top STATUS Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Hi, a colleague of mine has recently installed RegistryBooster 2 and given me a heads up...I use CCleaner exclusively. We did a side by side comparison and found that registryBooster found 500+ entries more than CCleaner...What's going on I ask... Anyway I have attached a copy of the RB log so you can haev a look and advise...change CCleaner so it can get back to the top of the roost... Many thanks regards Sean problems.txt problems.txt