danodemano

LOL, sorry, I should have said something about that. Since that log came from my desktop at work, those are the programs that we use to do key logging on all the systems throughout the network. hazelnut, I believe that small remnant (you will notice the "no file") is what was left after I removed the toolbar installed at the factory. As for IE 8, I don't believe so as I have been using it since the first beta which has been some time now. Though I did recently switch to beta2 of IE8 which could possibly have something to do with it. I will post in the spyware forum but I would be almost %100 that there is nothing malicious on this systems. It sits behind a firewall, iSensor (thoroughly inspects each packed), and multiple levels of AV scanning. edit: I have posted on the Spyware Hell forum, post is here: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=18037

So these are the results of my latest testing and observations: 1) The latest nVidia driver had no effect at all. 2) After a reboot, the problem came right back, taking almost a full 2 minutes to open up CCleaner. I watched it in ProcessExplorer and the funny thing is that it does almost nothing during this time. It's using <4MB of RAM and the CPU usage would VERY occasionally blip to .5% or so during that time but that was all. 3) In safe mode, running as the administrator, it will open almost instantly. Not really sure that the means other than it must be something that's running and messing with it. The really odd thing is that this just started to happen recently with the newer builds of CCleaner. I am posting my HijackThis log with the hope that maybe that will help shed some light on the problem. hijackthis.txt

Haven't tried, I will give it a shot and let you know.

No, I do not, I have the 176.14 driver on my laptop and the 175.19 driver on my desktop. I will try to update the drivers and see what I can come up with.

No effect at all, all three have been killed and I still have the same problem....

Both graphics cards are NVIDIA, as listed in my post with my system specs.

I do run the SpyBot resident on both machines, but disabling it seems to have no effect. As far as tweaks, I tweak things all the time, I just did one on Vista to get it to work correctly with Samba. I can't think of anything that would have any effect on CCleaner, and I don't think that there are any common tweaks between the systems. The programs the they share (that run resident) are these: RealVNC Daemon Tools SpyBot Winamp (agent) XAMPP (Apache, MySQL, Filezilla Server) BitMeter That's all I can really think of.

It just started happening in the more resent builds. I'm not sure exactly which one, but it used to do the same for me. It used to open almost instantly. I actually managed to get into my system at home and had better luck there with the slim version. Startup time was <5 seconds.

It's still a bit slow, but not nearly so much. It opened in about 20-25 seconds on my desktop here at work. I won't get a chance to try the laptop until the evening to see how it works there.

Full version with the toolbar unchecked.

I have actually been having this exact same problem on both my desktop at work, and my laptop at home. CCleaner takes over a minute usually to open. I don't have the Yahoo toolbar installed on either machine. These are the specs of both machines: Desktop: Windows XP Professional AVG 7.5 Intel Core 2 Duo E8300 @ 2.83GHz 2GB DDR2 5300 RAM 250GB 7200RPM SATA Drive NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB Laptop: Windows Vista Home Premium (32bit) Avast! 4.8 AMD Turion X2 RM-70 @ 2.00GHz 3GB DDR2 5300 RAM 250GB 5400RPM SATA Drive NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G 256MB I have the very latest version of CCleaner on both machines. Both systems are fully up-to-date including SP3 for XP and SP1 for Vista.