Andavari
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Should this be added into Microsoft Edge Chromium cleaning?
Don't know if it's safe to clean or not, but I've been nuking it on my system with no ill effects. Would need someone else to test and verify if it should or shouldn't be cleaned before it's just blindly added into the community winapp2.ini.
"C:\Users\UserProfileName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Module Info Cache"
[Edge Module Info Cache *]
LangSecRef=3006
DetectFile=%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Edge*
FileKey1=%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Edge*\User Data\|Module Info Cache -
Probably consider yourselves lucky it couldn't clean Microsoft Defender Antivirus!
Defender is easy to mess it up, and even Microsoft's own new beta cleaning tool causes nothing but grief when it cleans it (which is ticked by default to be cleaned) since Defender has to seemingly rebuild it's cache or whatever it's doing that takes way too long for it to finish rebuilding. It takes several minutes even with an SSD as the OS drive, and the rebuilding can continue upon the next reboot as if it were corrupted. In my opinion it's better left alone!
The only thing that's ever been "safe" to clean in Defender is from a now old entry from Winapp2.ini. Using it doesn't cause a very long cache rebuild or the thought that Defender has been corrupted. Instead Defender just barks softly about needing to run a system scan, and that's it, no damage done.
This is what's cleaned from that mentioned old Winapp2.ini entry:
FileKey1=%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Network Inspection System\Support|*.txt;NisLog.txt.bak
FileKey2=%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\BackupStore|*.*
FileKey3=%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\CacheManager|*.*|RECURSE
FileKey4=%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\Service|*.log
FileKey5=%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\Store|*.*
FileKey6=%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\MetaStore|*.*|RECURSE
FileKey7=%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\RtSigs\Data|*.*|RECURSE
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The only way to increase the font is to change the Display scaling in Windows settings. Of course that changes everything in the OS too, so it may be undesirable when other programs which are legible start running off the bottom of the screen.
It's been suggested in the past in the help docs to change the font size in settings and perhaps they didn't explain it well enough because there's nothing to change in CCleaner itself, it's a Windows OS setting that must be changed.
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On 10/08/2023 at 07:32, OliverQueen said:
One is detected as a HDD & the other as a SSD!
Sometimes if uninstalling Defraggler, then reinstalling it the detection will be correct after the reinstall, weird but sometimes that works.
Same goes for their other software too which can also have the incorrect detection such as CCleaner stating an HDD is an SSD and subsequently warns you when attempting securely wiping free space.
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Udo Dirkschneider - Kein Zurück (2022):
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Having a hard disk as the boot drive and only 3 minutes to start and then be able to launch a program of choice in Win10 or Win11 is actually rather good. I've seen some PCs with a hard disk and Win10 installed onto it take 5-10 minutes to settle down before they can used in a responsive state.
One way to avoid the startup time is to just Sign Out, or use Sleep in the case of a laptop. Then occasionally once every few days do a proper Restart to refresh the available RAM and resources.
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Even with the portable version I'd think there would still exist the possibility of things going completely wrong especially on the system drive with just the general running of Windows itself. Recovering from a secondary drive, or external/portable drives with no OS may fair much better without things being generated by Windows like logs, prefetch data (just running Recuva will cause Windows to automatically create prefetch data for it, registry data is likely too since it like to keep a record of what programs have been executed), etc., that could possibly overwrite a file that someone needs to recover.
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MP3Gain updated:
* Separated log cleaning, and registry cleaning.
* Removed ChangeLog and ErrLog registry cleaning because MP3Gain will just add them again if they're removed.Reason for separating is the registry wipes clean the desired startup path, and if using aacgain.exe as a replacement for mp3gain.exe it makes it very annoying.
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Updated:
[MP3Gain (Analysis StartUp) *] LangSecRef=3023 Default=False Detect=HKCU\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\MP3GainAnalysis Warning=Removes the last path MP3Gain opened. If you regularly open the same path don't enable this. RegKey1=HKCU\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\MP3GainAnalysis\StartUp|AddFilesPath RegKey2=HKCU\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\MP3GainAnalysis\StartUp|AddFolderPath[MP3Gain (Logs) *] LangSecRef=3023 Detect=HKCU\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\MP3GainAnalysis FileKey1=%LocalAppData%\VirtualStore\Program Files*\MP3Gain|*.log FileKey2=%ProgramFiles%\MP3Gain|*.log--------------------
Original:
[MP3Gain *] LangSecRef=3023 Detect=HKCU\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\MP3GainAnalysis FileKey1=%ProgramFiles%\MP3Gain|*.log RegKey1=HKCU\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\MP3GainAnalysis\StartUp|AddFilesPath RegKey2=HKCU\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\MP3GainAnalysis\StartUp|AddFolderPath RegKey3=HKCU\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\MP3GainAnalysis\StartUp|ChangeLog RegKey4=HKCU\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\MP3GainAnalysis\StartUp|ErrLog -
Can the date be added to winapp2.ini to know exactly when it was updated/released instead of it just being clandestinely the version number?
Original: ; Version: 230316 ; # of entries: 2,669Would like it to have: ; Version: 230316 ; Released: ##/##/2023 ; # of entries: 2,669 -
Sounds dumb, and why name it Winamp. The screenshot looked nice though, but blah. Perhaps d.o.a.?
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Updated: Added FileKey2 and FileKey3.
[EaseUS Partition Master *] LangSecRef=3024 Detect=HKCU\Software\EASEUS\EASEUS Partition Manager FileKey1=%ProgramFiles%\EASEUS\EASEUS Partition Master*\bin|*.log|RECURSE FileKey2=%WinDir%|EPMBatch.ept FileKey3=%WinDir%|OutLog.txt -
One such free solution is Avidemux (or Avidemux Portable from PortableApps).
https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=Avidemux+Avidemux+PortableInstructions (does not re-encode the file):
1. Open the MP4 with Avidemux.
2. Set 'Video Output' to: Copy
3. Set 'Audio Output' to: Copy
4. Set 'Output Format': MP4 Muxer"If the file is recoverable" Avidemux will write a new header so that it can be played.
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That doesn't make sense.
Wonder if they're pulling it from some installed certificate(s) or the web somehow.
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20 hours ago, hazelnut said:
This is mine
Microsoft doesn't have consistency with that then because for the Drive Optimizer GUI/Defrag GUI ("dfrgui.exe") they have:
Quote(C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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I haven't timed it however it's probably around 2 seconds. At least it isn't starting to load pages before that and then seconds later removing ad's from view that have already been displayed, tracked the user, etc.
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Yeah it's pretty damned annoying and for the longest while it was the reason I didn't even bother coming to this forum. It started acting up again a few days ago.
At least it is consistently BROKEN!
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It's doing it again!
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uBlock Origin v1.48 and newer icon shows a yellow badge at browser startup:
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I sometimes will use Wipe Free Space on USB Flash Drives when they become unbearably slow and that fixes the speed issue. Although I haven't killed a drive using Wipe Free Space note that doing that can/may outright kill a USB Flash Drive if it's already worn out. In my opinion using CCleaner to Wipe Free Space from experience is "safer" than having any modern version of Windows do a Full Format which also securely wipes the drive but with Windows it's more-or-less guaranteed to kill specific brands every time such as SanDisk by write-locking the drive and continually trying to fix it kills the drive.
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When it's doing that the only other alternative is to use Wipe Free Space, although it isn't really all that feasible on modern 1TB and larger HDDs since it will literally seem to take forever if the disk isn't already very full.
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Font size settings in browsers can cause that garbled looking text too. If the default font sizes are increased that can cause it.
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13 hours ago, Willy2 said:
- What remains is that CC doesn't ask the user whether or not "RP 20" should be closed the 1st time I run CC. CC simply says "Skipped". See picture above. And that could be a bug.
Maybe because it isn't a web browser would be my guess.
I know that with my cleaners for portable web browsers for example Firefox Portable it just lists "Skipped", probably because it isn't an installed version and isn't coded to deal directly with a portable.
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New:
[Sumatra PDF Portable *] LangSecRef=3021 DetectFile1=%SystemDrive%\PortableApps\SumatraPDFPortable\SumatraPDFPortable.exe FileKey1=%SystemDrive%\PortableApps\SumatraPDFPortable\Data\settings\sumatrapdfcache|*.* -
20 hours ago, lmacri said:
I've been using CCleaner for almost two decades and I personally don't trust any feature in CCleaner these days except Custom Clean.
The whole incorrect install date thing was something I've ignored for so many years, so I just went in to look at what it had listed and it's interesting at how it's guessing because a few of my OEM drivers have listed that they were installed today, when in fact those drivers were installed many years ago.
I wonder why they just haven't been removed it from CCleaner and be done with it.
Website: Tweaking.com
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Well whatever they changed on Tweaking.com the website is accessible again without malware alerts. My ISP's built-in McAfee auto-protection blocked it for absolute ages as did Firefox when I was trying to find the old version 3.5.3 of Registry Backup since newer builds have a VSS included that's completely broken for old XP systems.