Andavari

CCleaner has command-line parameters, so it's as simple as creating a new shortcut that tells it to clean and shutdown the PC. See here: https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047885872

Bluestacks has a wealth of support articles on the official website: https://support.bluestacks.com/

I personally just ignore the install dates it shows because they can be wrong sometimes.

That's why I made certain exclusions in ccleaner.ini on my system at least going on two years by now when trying winapp2.ini cleaners done by others. Getting the Folder view settings nuked in the past was a pain in the ass to say the very least, especially when Win10 itself doesn't sometimes play nice with the end-user when using global settings preferences for all folders.

It was called Crap Cleaner before I even joined the forums some twenty years ago, don't know when it was changed to CCleaner, but that doesn't really matter.

MS Word / WordPad uses: .RTF When scanning with recovery software it's important to use the correct file extensions. ------------ I'd recommend backing up important files regularly onto at least three external backup disks. Aside from accidental deletion; File corruption, OS crash/freeze, PC crash/freeze can corrupt and make files unusable even on modern SSDs, and SSDs can make recovery more difficult.

Possibly was because modern versions of Windows always annoyingly in my opinion place a hidden 'System Volume Information' folder and some files inside that folder on all drives attached to the system. It even does that on USB flash drives formatted as FAT, FAT32, exFAT - think it would just be reserved for just NTFS but no it's every file system that I've seen. It's one of the reasons those USB flash drive full capacity write testing tools that check every byte on a drive to make sure it isn't counterfeit complain at the very end of the test that they couldn't check a certain amount of bytes.

Options > About > Upgrade...

You could alternatively just do a full format using what's built into Windows which will actually securely wipe the whole partition of the USB flash drive. Warning: Doing a full format of USB flash drives with for example Windows 10 built in format tool is a very effective way of killing drive making it locked/write-protected.

At this point that's a very old bug going back many years and is in many versions of CCleaner.

It would be nice if CCleaner worked like so many other programs where you don't have to fiddle around with Windows zoom/scaling globally at all. Instead we'd be able to just modify the CCleaner shortcut (and actually main .exe file) itself in 'Properties->Compatibility->Change High DPI Settings' but that does NOT work at all in Windows 10!

It can be easily disabled, even the auto updating feature which is what I've did. If disabling the auto updating feature it can still be manually updated from within the browser itself. I just wish they'd put the updating into Windows Automatic Updates.

I had forgot that I made exclusions on Win10 probably two or so years ago to protect parts of Cortana/Search to prevent errors on my system. ----- The exclusions are listed below they were made using Win10. They'd have to be tested to see if they stop the errors on Win11. Of course these "might only be useful" if you use Custom Clean in CCleaner, otherwise they'd be ignored if using the automated cleaning process. Search Reg Exclusions: Exclude1=REG|HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StreamMRU Exclude2=REG|HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams Exclude3=REG|HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Exclude4=REG|HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams

I don't know specifically, but in the past using winapp2.ini I had to ditch what they had available and use something less powerful to stop damaging Cortana/Search in Win10. In Win10 cleaning these registry keys doesn't seem to break anything (at least not in my testing): RegKey1=HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\SearchHistory RegKey2=HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search\RecentApps Also the cleaner in winapp2.ini that doesn't seem to break anything is: [Cortana *]

Windows Defender ("Microsoft Defender Antivirus") when the setting "Cloud-delivered protection" is enabled it can cause something similar to what was described when launching some software, with effected software it can cause them to take many seconds before they'll load - it's the reason I have it turned off.

PGP is rare to see used nowadays, it used to be commonplace however. For example downloading some antivirus say like 20+ years ago like F-PROT where people downloading the software could also download the key to verify the antivirus had not been tampered with. Piriform ("CCleaner") to my knowledge has never used PGP. In recent years they were however publishing the MD5 and SHA-256 of the downloads that people could use to verify a download was authentic using a free third party hashing tool such as with HashTab, Nirsoft HashMyFiles, or from some portable hash verification tools hosted by PortableApps.com, etc,. Typically in the Announcements area of the forum when a new version was released they used to post the MD5 and SHA-256 hashes, however they haven't been doing that for awhile now.

I don't necessarily think this is a "new" development because with the default Tmp/Temp paths on Windows it will cause allot of issues changing their paths. I found out nearly two decades ago it's better to create the new Tmp/Temp paths you prefer to use such as C:\Temp, D:\Temp, etc., and then manually change settings in each individual program one at a time that will allow you to change the Tmp/Temp path in their settings. Programs that don't allow you to change the folder path setting would continue using the default paths that Windows assigned. Doing it that way doesn't "break" some programs.

Read that. Although I wonder what uBlock Origin is sometimes updating it for then?

Just noticed even my internal boot Micron M.2 SSD is faster with big sequential writes by +57.5 MB/s, and small random writes by +19.7 MB/s according to CrystalDiskMark.

Typical, it wasn't offered to my laptop so I did the whole image download thing yet again which at this point I'd do anyways because I actually want the full setup files archived after Win10 nuked itself earlier this year and was very corrupted. Did the usual: 1. ChkDsk /F all drives. 2. Full disk image backup with Macrium Reflect. 3. Downloaded the installer and made the USB Flash Drive version which was rather fast this time since I used a USB 3.0 Flash Drive for the first time. 4. Watched the setup loop several times re-doing things it had already done or attempted, then it finally got past the looping looking for updates glitch it was having before it actually started. No errors displayed though, but it was weird and easily doubled the time it took. 5. After setup ChkDsk /R the OS drive, then in Windows I had to restore all of my non-standard "tweaks" and settings that it always nukes. 6. Had to restore the setting for Windows to automatically create a registry backup, it always nukes that setting. 7. Ran the corruption fixes with DISM and SFC, and as typical it had corrupted something and automatically fixed it. Interestingly enough all those restarts it does installing look to me like it's just pulling the plug, and when I looked at the S.M.A.R.T. events for my boot Micron M.2 SSD it does seem to be doing that as they were logged as unexpected power loss events. Now I'm wondering if that's when it seems to always corrupt something!

I discovered that Windows 10's Power Options can have a negative impact on a laptop if creating and using a "High Performance" profile. For example I noticed with USB 3.0 external/portable SSDs a small yet significant enough increase in performance and speed of 40-50 MB/s (which I'll gladly take) when I switched back to using the Balanced profile.

I bookmarked that! That's one of the reasons I was avoiding Win11 since I use allot of context menu audio programs, and them hiding all those by default would have greatly increased my time and frustration.

Can't trust any USB Flash Drives in reality, far too often they can become write-locked/frozen, and they have such a low limited write cycle/life span if heavily used.

SanDisk doesn't offer or have any tools that can reinitialize/reinstate a drive putting it back into "factory new" like state with a working readable partition, etc., like what Transcend has with their free Jetflash Recovery Tool for their USB Flash Drives. And since it's a SanDisk one big caveat is on any Windows OS newer than WinXP (since old XP doesn't actually full format any of them) never full format a SanDisk since Windows will rather quickly kill the drive causing it to become either write-locked or actually completely killing the drives usability, seen it happen umpteen times.

I didn't misunderstand you, I had just re-read the whole topic before posting again because I didn't even remember posting in it before. I just thought after re-reading the topic that it's coming up on a year of you asking for it to be cleaned by CCleaner and perhaps the community made cleaners for Edge Chromium offered via the winapp2.ini file would be accepted this time around, and if not that's fine it's just an alternative to what you've already implemented by creating an "Options > Include" which achieves the exact same results of getting rid of those files.