Andavari

It isn't actually an update. Like Nergal stated it just adds in telemetry.

Perhaps it's because of the "deactivated" original Microsoft Edge browser (not the current Microsoft Edge Chromium). Maybe worth looking at now old recommendations of clearing it off the system: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=microsoft+edge+uninstall+adobe+flash+player Edit: There's also the official Microsoft info for removing it from the system: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb4577586-update-for-the-removal-of-adobe-flash-player-october-27-2020-931521b9-075a-ce54-b9af-ff3d5da047d5

I've pinned this topic, and will leave a link to it in the staff area. Edit: Hazelnut already linked to this topic.

In Windows 10 it will also list drive types in: Task Manager > Performance (tab), it's listed on the left side under the disk number, example: Disk 0 (C:) SSD ____________________ Windows 10 can easily get the drive type incorrect based upon the file system the drive was formatted as. Such as formatting a USB Flash Drive as NTFS can in some instances cause Windows 10 to detect it as hard disk drive, and it will even allow defragmentation in Optimize Drives on such a USB Flash Drive, whereas it normally wouldn't allow defragmentation if it was formatted as FAT32 (up to 32GB capacity), or exFAT (over 32GB capacity).

If you did any recent major Windows Updates "perhaps that's the culprit," because some are known to set things back to defaults -- it's one of the reasons the Privacy section in Settings has to be re-checked too. If you were messing around with any other of the settings "it could possibly set things back to defaults," I know Windows Defender can and will do that if something is disabled such as Cloud-Delivered Protection.

According to Windows Firewall (in Win10 Home) the log is supposed to reside at "C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\Firewall\pfirewall.log" however the full path doesn't exist on my system and neither does the log itself. After looking in Windows Firewall it's seems that logging is disabled by default, and I don't see any way to enable it. Unlikely that CCleaner could delete the log because the log would be locked and in-use by Windows Firewall. Also to further back up that claim CCleaner doesn't schedule things to be deleted on reboot so it wouldn't be able to delete that log if it existed and was in-use.

With Drive Wiper one doesn't have to fiddle with extra settings to enable/disable either such as having to remember to enable/disable Wipe Free Space under CCleaner's Advanced section. Although I'm so used to using the original Wipe Free Space I've personally never bothered with Drive Wiper other than using it once and thinking nah.

I just disabled Windows Defender's Cloud Delivered Protection, followed by a system restart and now after 4 weeks (going on 5 weeks now) my laptop doesn't have any more lag/slow down anymore. In my case I thought it was caused by Windows Defender because I've changed nothing else on the laptop. I'd like to thank you for mentioning not having the cloud protection turned on since it gave me a clue of what to disable, and it worked, albeit the system may be more vulnerable now but it's at least usable in an acceptable fashion performance-wise again.

Perhaps it's caused by Windows Defender, and my guess is it's the cloud-based/network-based part of Windows Defender because when I disconnect from the Internet my computer doesn't get any slowdowns whatsoever. Something Microsoft updated about 4 weeks ago causes some things to take ages even with programs built into Windows such as Disk Cleanup on my system which has more than enough oomph to do things infinitely faster. After updating another computer to the newest version of Win10 which is 21H2 the slowdown started happening on that computer too, whereas the previous version 21H1 didn't cause that computer any slowdowns.

I always thought it would've helped if they showed the file checksum/hash such as MD5, or what's recommended nowadays SHA-256 since it's more secure and has less of a chance of a false positive. Then there'd be no guessing if it's actually a duplicate which could be also seen as a safety precaution, and it wouldn't be a "trust what the program thinks is identical". They've stated years ago they do a checksum/hash, but it's no benefit to the user without it being clearly shown which is also why I've never trusted using it, or any dup finder for that manner.

Something to try is right-click the CCleaner icon and choose to 'Run as administrator', which will subsequently make it produce a UAC prompt meaning it will have elevated privileges on the system. For whatever reason I have to do just that and have permanently modified the desktop icon/shortcut to always run it with 'Run as administrator' in order for it to delete some things in Win10 it otherwise wouldn't be able to. Also the 'Skip User Account Control Warning' located in 'Options > Advanced' doesn't seem to matter anymore, at least in my case.

Could always try inputting exclusions into CCleaner to see if that will protect the settings. It's located in CCleaner at: Options > Exclude

CCleaner doesn't seem to do it each and every time though. It's been called a waste of time before (not specifically on this forum) since the database will always grow ("bloat") in size again when the browser is opened. Although it can "supposedly can make a browser run quicker." That functionality it built into Firefox using a command, or at least it was umpteen years ago.

That's actually rather normal for many programs in Windows going back eons. Some are more annoying however and won't disappear until the user hovers the mouse over the icon.

Or slightly quicker: 1. Cortana/Search, then paste/type in: optimize drives 2. In Optimize Drives select the SSD so that it's highlighted, and then click Optimize.

Delete the file (Shift+Delete) so that it doesn't get sent to the Recycle Bin, then run TRIM on the SSD using Windows built-in Optimize Drives. Each drive has it's own unique Recycle Bin, if you delete a file on any drive that Windows will create a Recycle Bin for it does not move it into your C: Drive Recycle Bin. If you have a duplicate of that file on a HDD you could delete the file to the Recycle Bin, then enable Secure Delete 1-Pass in CCleaner, then on the left side of CCleaner right-click the Recycle Bin and select 'Clean Empty Recycle Bin' and it will overwrite the files in any Recycle Bin on the system. Remember to disable Secure Delete in CCleaner so that it doesn't take forever to delete files and so that it isn't being ran on your SSD.

Microsoft Sysinternals SDelete while useful can be a complete disaster for some people and especially if the commands are inputted incorrectly, therefore I warn against using a non-gui tool for secure erasing files.

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) (aka "MRT") is the only other auto-scanning built into Win10 that runs a scan monthly during the monthly automatic updates. Although it would be odd for it to remove CCleaner.exe.

One thing to try is to clean the old Edge called Microsoft Edge in CCleaner. If CCleaner never finds anything it means that Microsoft has deactivated it on your system and it's not being used or generating anything for CCleaner to clean. That's exactly what how it is on my system so I just ignore the listing of Microsoft Edge and have disabled/unticked those cleaners in CCleaner since it will never find anything to clean. Edge Chromium on the other hand creates stuff for CCleaner to clean, even if you never open the browser since it has it's own auto-update process that always creates files.

There is or maybe still is a doubling/duplication bug I reported years ago, don't know if they fixed it but it would list identical things twice on the left side where you select what to clean - if that's what you mean. If you meant this, the two different Edge's listed are in fact two completely different browsers: * Microsoft Edge - was the original that was included and baked into Win10 that Microsoft has disabled making it unusable. * Edge Chromium - the new incarnation based upon the Chrome/Chromium code which is completely different. Edit: As for Internet Explorer showing up you can disable it via Windows uninstall tool, and it "seems as if it was uninstalled" however it is not. Allot of stuff will require it's engine in the background, so it's not possible to actually uninstall it.

Some of those have been cleaned by the community winapp2.ini file for awhile, such as: [Code Cache *], [Edge Code Cache *], etc.

The name hasn't changed, I'm using the newest stable version (download ZIP package that is). It's shown in Services as: Intel(R) Graphics Command Center Service It has a "Program Files (x86)" install folder (with no files inside it): Intel(R) Processor Graphics What to call it? Another recommendation would be to just call it (it would shorten the name): Intel Graphics

I get a slight delay before CCleaner actually fully closes, which I attribute to the installed anti-virus software since anti-virus will scan a program when it starts and closes. Something to keep in mind some programs will update and write to settings such as .INI files when they're closed which CCleaner Portable always does to ccleaner.ini.

The way some future hard drives will store data is called "zoned", so current defrag software I'm thinking will either be obsolete on such drives or have to be rewritten to accommodate such drives and things like consolidation would possibly work against how they're designed. WD already has something called Zoned Storage but its different than what's mentioned above because it uses SSD and HDD together, however the picture in the middle of the page located here explains it better than words.

Since it's a browser based upon the Chromium/Chrome code it's going to have the same issues detailed in another topic. Piriform "will probably have it being properly cleaned within the next version of CCleaner."