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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.

The problem you had years ago with SSDs is understandable and is documented online with some SSD controllers having serious issues, etc., or drives wiping themselves clean leaving nothing on themselves for no apparent reason. More modern name brand SSDs (avoid no-name/no-brand drives) from 2018 to current are much better than SSDs released for example 10 years ago when they were overly expensive and some having serious issues. SD Cards just like USB Flash Drives are unreliable, slow, and very easy to loose slow SSDs that don't feature TRIM to help speed them up after so many writes start to make them unbearably slow! SSDs with a DRAM Cache are going to be way more reliable. SD Cards and USB Flash Drives are alright for temporarily storing files and then moving files around from one system to another, but nowhere near as reliable as HDD for archiving purposes. But as always multiple copies of each disk/drive are going to be required in case one fails. The first HDD I've ever had fail was running nearly non-stop for 13 years 2 months, just happened January 2024.

HDD technology will of course continue, and that's why defrag software also needs to keep up with advances instead of having some old versions that don't properly work or just barely work with modern HDDs. Some defrag tools take too long to just Analyse an HDD, let alone defragment one sometimes with rather outdated algorithms in my opinion such as; "why is it even bothering to move that" and "why isn't it moving that at all" comes to mind. Something a few years old at this point in papers is the use of Zoning in HDDs, and some can take advantage of a TRIM command. Then there's also the supposed upcoming speed increase that will get some of them near enough to SATA 6gbps SSD speeds (probably only sequentially). But then comes the noise levels, I look at my Disk Network set top box and think it makes so much noise and it's because of the HDD inside it constantly making allot of clatter.

Allot of defrag tools are now several years old at this point. Be happy that it still works in modern OSes, and in particular if it doesn't crash. The crashing is why I don't bother with Defraggler at all, although I do have it archived on several external backup disks. Perhaps the lack of updates in many defrag tools has something to do with the adoption of SSDs, and their price drop over the years.

Possibly something to do with Explorer in Windows not refreshing and updating the view. Try This: * Sign Out, and then Sign In to your Windows user account. * If that doesn't work Restart the computer.

How new is the motherboard? If it's relatively recent that could be the reason, because at this point with modern hardware Speccy would be considered a "legacy" program that's too outdated for allot of modern hardware.

Probably the best course of action is to not allow CCleaner to run on startup sitting resident in the background. It kind of defeats the aspect of paying for it doing that however since it's annoying people with pop-ups that's a solution to look into. Then only use it as a free user would which is on-demand, and that way it will only run when the user has actually started it manually, and when done cleaning and exiting its essentially off again.

That's why for years I've used GRC InSpectre to disable the Meltdown and Spectre patches so my Intel 4 Core 8 Thread laptop CPU does run like ****.

It may not be technically adverts if everything in CCleaner that's possible to disable it, but pop-ups in general coming from software will anger allot of people, especially if it's from a disk cleaning tool that would normally not announce its presence at all if not opened directly by the user.

It will be 10 years in April of this year that they discontinued Windows XP updates, and I still run an old XP desktop for audio related stuff. And in those nearly 10 full years that old XP desktop hasn't had one damn thing (Microsoft) mess it up - of course using real-time protection antivirus on it and don't browse any websites whatsoever on it either.

Like practically all defrag software that runs on Windows including Defraggler is using the Microsoft Defrag API (the safest way to defrag Windows) and to my knowledge that has never had a feature to set the Memory Buffer Size. That isn't how defrag works anyways because it copies the file(s) to the new location (sectors), verifies it was copied correctly, and then deletes where it used to be in the old location (sectors), rinse, repeat until defrag completes. Not really much for volatile RAM to help with since it's all done on disk itself, the safest approach. If RAM were involved I'd image that would be a serious risk of causing file corruption if it were copied into RAM then back to disk, just think OS crashes, power surges, etc, that the disk is usually rather immune to. About the only "speed up" option is when using the default Defrag ("Optimize Drives") tool built into Win10/Win11 which has an /H switch for the command line version that will use more resources to finish the defrag "quicker."

It tried to install again on my laptop last night, failed again. And they seem to be pre-loading something in C:\$WinREAgent with a new update.wim.

It might instead be in Task Scheduler, some things that start at system boot can alternatively start from it. Edit: Then again it's possible to have null dead entries remain when for example uninstalling a program.