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That's one of the issues with registry cleaners as smart as they may seem they're dumb as bricks and require a human to make the decision - possibly one of the reasons why CCleaner's registry cleaner never got an auto-cleaning feature even though it's been a requested feature umpteen times. Some registry data points to what appears to be nothing but isn't necessarily safe to remove, it's been that way in every version of Windows I've used since the Win98 era. The problem here is with Windows 10 being an actively updated operating system messing around with it and references pointing to the OS folder "C:\Windows" is possibly a recipe for disaster, and I'd personally think that the AppData and ProgramData folders should be off limits too.

Not necessarily! Windows is configured to automatically defragment by default and so do some other defrag tools if it's scheduled, i.e.; set it and forget it, and some 3rd party defrag tools can be very aggressive with a high frequency of auto-defragmenting.

It's sort of damning isn't it! The only other way I can think of how such files could be deleted without using an "Include" is if the files were stored in a Temp folder that CCleaner will normally empty by default such as the user profile Temp folder, and "C:\Windows\Temp" where left-over generally unwanted files reside from installers, uninstallers, temp files, etc. And do note over the years some people have incorrectly stored files in a Temp folder and have come onto the forum wondering how they were deleted and how to get their files back.

If you deleted everything associated with those games then you've essentially just manually uninstalled it. What's left behind showing an invalid Uninstall reference in Windows Add/Remove and in CCleaner's 'Tools > Uninstall' is what's considered an Orphan uninstall entry. CCleaner can easily remove it: 1. Make a System Restore Point. This is a fail-safe in case you delete the wrong entry detailed below. 2. Open CCleaner. 3. Go into: Tools > Uninstall, and highlight the Orphan uninstall entry (you can even try the Uninstall button to make certain it's the correct one to remove). Once you've determined it's the correct one to remove select the Delete button. Done.

With two drives inside the enclosure with RAID that makes restoration more tricky. If it were just a single drive I'd recommend trying in different enclosure since the interface on enclosures is known to eventually fail at some point. Perhaps your best action would be to ask on forums or sites dedicated to RAID that are knowledgeable with it before doing anything on the drive(s) that may be considered destructive.

I wonder why this one LITTLE thing is so blown out like it's a huge issue. It's allot of nothing really!

It doesn't always compact a web browser's database. I don't know what they have it configured to do, however I've noticed any compacting happens on a rare occasion.

Confirmed with what Nergal's instructions are above this post. I did just that before seeing the post and it allows CCleaner to remove cookies, etc. Although with Edge Chromium installed CCleaner takes a little bit longer to clean, I didn't time it but it's just a few seconds.

Some nefarious variety could likely be used for mining. If antivirus is not detecting anything one way to sort of know something is going on is if the browser is using too many resources in the background for no apparent reason like when only one tab is open.

If that drive uses SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) defragmenting an SMR drive can be exceptionally slow.

It needs to have a file system, such as NTFS which the drive would've had by default. Of course there are other recovery tools if you search the Internet which can read and restore from an unformatted or RAW drive without a file system however those are often not freeware.

Already discussed here: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/59965-speechruntimeexe/ Topic closed.

Then why make a topic for it! Already discussed here: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/59965-speechruntimeexe/ Topic closed.

Removing a registered web browser always has some caveats, and that's one of them. Even removing a 3rd party browser can end up with broken extensions like HTML if it was registered as the system default web browser. Often it can be fixed by having another browser register as the system default, but it doesn't always work. It's the sole reason I only use the portable version of 3rd party web browsers since I don't feel like correcting broken file extensions.

Starting in 2014 I began inputting exclusions into CCleaner since it was impossible for me to figure out why it was removing the saved data of extensions in Chromium/Chrome based browsers (Comodo Dragon, SRWare Iron, etc.,) and what eventually worked was excluding the "Local Extension Settings" folder in the browser(s) profile folder. Obviously that's completely different from logins being removed, but it could potentially be a clue that perhaps input an exclusion ('Options > Exclude') of the exact folder where those settings are saved as a possible remedy and then test the results.

With that article reporting 30K infections I doubt it was a merely "nice tap on the shoulder" just to get some attention without it actually being able to do something.

One thing to try is this: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/40285-ccleaner-not-deleting-google-chrome-history-fix/ May seem unrelated and old but can fix issues with CCleaner being unable to clean Google Chrome due to it being resident and running in the background.

Something else too is if you actually like Avast they also have a Free version, although it won't have all of the features of a paid version. Although some people refuse to use a free antivirus for various reasons.

It's interesting that so many still think MacOS is immune to malware.

Topic closed. This was already being discussed in another active topic located at: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/59965-speechruntimeexe/

Topic locked. This was already being discussed in another active topic located at: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/59965-speechruntimeexe/

There's already an active topic about this located at: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/59965-speechruntimeexe/ This topic is closed so as to not have multiple duplicates about the same exact thing.

The registry has stuff in it that points to seemly nothing and even settings for something that isn't even installed, some of it is for compatibility in case something is installed at a later time. But not all of it gets flagged by registry cleaners (speaking registry cleaners in general not just the one in CCleaner). Edit: I've found out it's also related to WinSxS folder, and that alone is like a can of worms to even mess with.

Here's an official response posted not that long ago (i.e.; it does not work with NAS): https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/59944-cccleaner-pro-v5768269-win10-pro-did-not-clean-double-songs/?do=findComment&comment=327024

Most people will have no ideal how to mount a drive in Windows 10 as read-only, furthermore Windows just automatically mounts drives anyways such as USB disks. One exceptionally annoying thing in modern Windows such as Windows 10 for example is it always writes System Volume Information onto a drive or device like an external HDD/SSD, USB Flash Drive, phone, etc., plugged into the computer which it will always create even if System Protection/System Restore is "completely disabled" on the drive and if the service is disabled - maybe that's a quirk or bug in Windows, I don't really know. That small amount of a 4kb folder (NTFS default size) and a few bytes in files it writes could potentially overwrite a very small portion of something critical that needs to be recovered.