Andavari

I'll give it a try later on by removing some of my bloated apps ("Office 2003, etc.,) and setting them up as a virtual cd.

Well the same goes for QT, download setup file size that is. QuickTime Alternative 1.68 = 12.24MB QuickTime Player 7.0.4 = 32.73MB

What do you mean?

Even better yet get QuickTime Alternative: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickT...Alternative.htm While you're at it you may want Real Alternative: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm

Media Player Classic is what creates dxva_sig.txt on my system in the folder where a *.wmv is played from. WMP however doesn't create those files on my system.

Same old f***ing s**t, someone always posts that goddamned link.

Not necessarily any bigger at all, well maybe only a few bytes for the code because it could just pull and autosize the icons down and display them from the already installed application just like Explorer does.

Not very helpful information. To make things quick and easy just do this: 1. Start a command prompt (start, run, cmd.exe) 2. Paste into the command prompt window the following parameters: move "%userprofile%\desktop\ccleaner.lnk" "%allusersprofile%\desktop" 3. Done!

Dell is good about giving a Resource CD will all the software on it, more than likely the installer is on it somewhere. Reinstall it then attempt an uninstall immediately afterwords and it may be removable. Edit: BTW most .msi installers have a comment in them when right clicking them which plainly states what the installer is e.g.; Jasc.....

I personally manually delete those $NtUninstall....$ folders every so often. You do however need to be careful of some of those you may delete, for instance if you install Windows Media Connect from Microsoft Update you "may not" be able to uninstall it if you delete the $NtUninstallWMCSetup$ folder.

I don't know if it's the fault of Windows or both cleaners but it's only a small handful of shortcuts.

This issue is already known, there's a thread about it here.

On my Admin account I uncheck in CCleaner's Issues to check for invalid shortcuts because it does list some that are valid in the 'All Users\Start Menu', however EasyCleaner also finds the exact same shortcuts - but neither program lists the valid shortcuts on my normal users account as strange as that may seem. It helps to look at the list of files that were found before actually committing to the removal process, it's called common sense.

Surprise; any audio CD a consumer "buys" isn't really their property, they've only bought a license to use it an unlimited amount of times. Now let's say someone "buys" an audio CD and rips it to mp3's, they can listen to those mp3's all they want - however if they sell the original audio CD or give it away they no longer have the right to keep the encoded mp3's since they've forfeited/voided the purchase by getting rid of the original audio CD. I know it's completely silly.

Uh huh, and it will be the first console consumers can change the shape of by popping it in the microwave for 30 seconds, it's also indestructible unless of course it's eaten however eating it will void the warranty. Early rumors state that it will ship in a Campbell's? Soup can since Campbell's? will be manufacturing "Goo" through a joint venture. There's also speculation that "Goo" may just be a development name, and it could receive a final name of Dirty Rotten Manwich ("DRM") for short if Hunts? decides to join the venture. There's another rumour that Silly Putty is unhappy, they really wanted to manufacture "Goo" since they are really good a making goo.

I have to agree with Eldmannen. Moreover I personally wouldn't want the uninstall list in a category for once reason; an alphabetized list is fast an easy to find a software entry in versus trying to find it in a said category.

I've always seen and thought of Google as a search engine, although they are obviously much more than that, however when the article referred to Google as "The ad broker" that was a bit of a surprise.

For backups I use a homemade batch file that automagically copies with verification. A batch file can do some powerful stuff like delete junk files beforehand either by specifying what to delete or by calling CCleaner.exe /AUTO, virus scan, Contig, etc.

%rootdir% parameters don't seem to work. Since it's your system you'll use it on it's ok to replace %rootdir% with C:\ or whatever the disk is.

If she downloaded it from an untrusted source (phony antispyware website, P2P, etc.) it's possible. Also if the download goes through an infected computer between her connection and the website it can get infected that way.

Blah, EAC is a proven secure audio extraction program, and if it weren't for EAC I would default to CDex instead. I'm not sure I remember correctly or not, but isn't AudioGrabber the same ripper that only lets you select half the tracks per program session?

Bob Smith?

I suspect you're using Foobar2000. If not pay no attention to what I posted below. I have no ideal if this will work! It will disable the ability to stream music over the Internet 1. Look in the "foobar2000\components" directory. 2. Rename "foo_read_http.dll" to something like "foo_read_http.dl_" 3. Run your Netstat test again.

The only way for that to work would be for an ignore list to be included with CCleaner.

Ok, so what was it some spyware or adware?