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Probably spammed because the old hardware is still valid for retro gaming systems for playing games without emulation, and can still be bought as new old stock or even brand new production from certain China websites.

Reverting registry changes using backup .REG files isn't always successful and simply restarting the computer can make them useless especially with things like even slight hardware changes that happen. Windows 10 back in April 2018 turned off the making of automatic registry backups, I manually re-enabled it because who knows if/when it could save me a bunch of headaches. Here's how to manually re-enable it (note that it's probably considered a power-user or advanced method since it details manually editing the registry itself): https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-turn-on-automatic-registry-file-backup-in-windows-10/

Years ago I was used to Firefox damaging my profile in it after allot of the auto-updates it would install, which is why I switched to Firefox Portable and also why I now make a regular backup copy (ZIP archive) of my Firefox profile.

Some computer manufacturers have YouTube videos on how to fix it, such as Dell. It's rather common and there's many YouTube videos showing how to potentially fix it. YouTube Search: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hard+disk+at+100+percent+usage Edit: One solution would cost a little money, and that is to install an SSD (at least 240GB to 256GB) as the main boot drive Windows is installed on. Then re-purpose and use that HDD as mass storage for games, music, video, etc. Even if the CPU isn't modern installing an SSD as the boot drive is the most significant upgrade where the results are immediately noticed.

I can confirm "Search Google, or whatever search engine is set to the default," and "Take Screenshot" being there since I have those. Restoring a registry backup is unlikely to fix Firefox since it uses its own database for its settings. You may be able to get those Firefox settings back to the way you like them by making changes in its Tools > Options.

It doesn't have the ability to do a full registry backup. To do a full registry backup you could make a System Restore Point, or use a 3rd party tool such as the freeware Tweaking.com Registry Backup.

Thank you for sharing that. I've now anonymized myself on there.

Disk Cleanup was the first thing I ran before I posted about WinSxS, it didn't do anything. Neither did using that Task Scheduler command in the link you provided, and that's as far as I'll go and I'll leave well enough alone because messing with the WinSxS folder is like opening a can of worms.

I searched the registry but that's not really a problem, I only removed one reference to it. This is what caught my eye in the WinSxS folder: C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.1_none_fdfd5401e6c802a9\activex.vch C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.1_none_fdfd5401e6c802a9\Flash.ocx C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.1_none_fdfd5401e6c802a9\FlashUtil_ActiveX.dll C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.1_none_fdfd5401e6c802a9\FlashUtil_ActiveX.exe C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.172_none_815470a5fb446c4e\activex.vch C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.172_none_815470a5fb446c4e\Flash.ocx C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.172_none_815470a5fb446c4e\FlashUtil_ActiveX.dll C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.172_none_815470a5fb446c4e\FlashUtil_ActiveX.exe C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.356_none_816e1571fb309416\activex.vch C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.356_none_816e1571fb309416\Flash.ocx C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.356_none_816e1571fb309416\FlashUtil_ActiveX.dll C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.356_none_816e1571fb309416\FlashUtil_ActiveX.exe C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.656_none_816e1b23fb308b8b\activex.vch C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.656_none_816e1b23fb308b8b\Flash.ocx C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.656_none_816e1b23fb308b8b\FlashUtil_ActiveX.dll C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.656_none_816e1b23fb308b8b\FlashUtil_ActiveX.exe C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.901_none_819f2efffb0c7898\activex.vch C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.901_none_819f2efffb0c7898\Flash.ocx C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.901_none_819f2efffb0c7898\FlashUtil_ActiveX.dll C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.901_none_819f2efffb0c7898\FlashUtil_ActiveX.exe C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.1140_none_3952653acc5f8b3e\activex.vch C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.1140_none_3952653acc5f8b3e\Flash.ocx C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.1140_none_3952653acc5f8b3e\FlashUtil_ActiveX.dll C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_adobe-flash-for-windows_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.1140_none_3952653acc5f8b3e\FlashUtil_ActiveX.exe

Whatever that Microsoft "update" (let's call it a remover instead) does it leaves Flash Player intact on the system. May not be able to use it anymore, but I would've thought they'd nuke it off the system. Running the Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller doesn't get rid of the leftover of it either. The only thing I can see that's happened invisibly in the background when running that Microsoft remover was it removed the Control Panel icon for Flash Player settings, and made the .SWF extension useless.

Stopping a defrag doesn't destroy data since all defrag software is using the Microsoft Defrag API in the background which is relatively safe. You state the built-in Windows Disk Optimizer won't let you defrag the drive, that's just the GUI interface that stops you from defragmenting certain file systems or drive types (such as it won't let you defrag a USB Flash Drive), whereas via an admin Command Prompt you can use the command line defrag regardless of disk type or file system that's supported by Windows, I use it all the time. Here's a search for "Windows 10 Command Line Defrag": https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=windows+10+command+line+defrag

Yes here in the U.S.A. that is indeed true. There's a different throw-away aspect and that's how much trash is just littered across the country, if there's a store around that sells food items (dollar store, gas station, or grocery) near a neighborhood people seem to think the ground and peoples land/yards are for their trash. In my city it has gotten out of control, it didn't look so trashy 15 years ago when there wasn't as much littering. I'm so fed up with it because my house is near a dollar store and a grocery store. If I was in the government making laws I'd try to make the fines for littering obnoxiously expensive; first offense $2500, second offense $5000, third offense $10000, fourth offense $20000 including prison time.

I've seen that image before for years (even on album covers) but never knew what it meant until now.

Back in the day that was useful to have in a defrag tool when wanting to partition/split a single HDD drive into multiple HDD drives.

Something else I forgot but have just remembered is if that drive uses Shingled Magnetic Recording ("SMR") that alone can make it painfully slow, and they do their own internal "maintenance" moving data around.

Windows 10 loosing a Wi-Fi connection is very common, here's a search about it: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=windows+10+keeps+loosing+wifi On a laptop you can sometimes get Wi-Fi to reconnect simply by Signing Out, and then Sign In. And sometimes it takes a reboot/restart.

70-ish GB of fragments taking that long is way too long in my opinion, it should've finished a few hours later after you started it. 48 hours is beyond my level of patience and I would've cancelled it after getting past the 12 hour mark myself (although I would never subject my backup drive to that much time of "defragging"). That plus it's allot of time for the HDD and if it's a backup drive with your important backups stored on it you might want to consider cancelling the defrag and use something else that will finish ages quicker like the Optimize Drives feature built into Windows 10. If it's an USB 3.0 External HDD be aware those can be very slow with a lack of performance after a particular Windows 10 update disabled write cache on them - but that's likely only helpful to have write cache enabled when writing to them. One thing I've seen on Windows 10 is some USB 3.0 External HDDs take forever to defrag, i.e.; it seems impossible because of how slow they defrag. Plugging those drives into an old PC with only USB 2.0 and Windows XP finishes ages quicker - odd but true.

Could just put it into 'Options > Include'. There's a number of programs I've did that for over the years, but never bothered making a winapp2.ini entry for them since .dmp would literally be the only thing getting cleaned.

If the PC hasn't been rebooted since that happened give it a try.

It was probably the Romulans!

The UAC "autorun" added into Task Scheduler is there so Windows doesn't always prompt/warn when launching CCleaner and prompting if it's ok to start it. It's easy to disable in CCleaner itself by going into: Options > Advanced As for not liking software connecting to the web and subsequently annoying you in the process there's the Windows Firewall to block access, and the Windows HOSTS file to block addresses.

I've seen some really weird descriptions on Amazon from China. One in particular was for paper towels and including in the title description that it was also "toilet paper", etc., they can have the goofiest and longest descriptions on some things with them seemingly trying to cover all bases. BTW paper towels aren't made for butts no matter what the China manufacturer's claim.

Same error was reported earlier in another topic: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/59663-strange-error/

You can download the freeware version at: https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/builds And to avoid any issues download the Slim build from that page.

Also don't use the 'Secure Deletion' feature.