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I think someone has asked before about recovering from a NAS, although the supplier of the NAS might have software tools available that can be ran from within the NAS OS itself.

If it's by any chance an "Eco" drive some of those from my personal experience are very slow and performing certain maintenance tasks such as defragmentation, wiping free space, etc., on 1TB class drives or bigger can take over 24 hours to complete -- whereas they can seem perfectly normal speed-wise when only reading+writing to them. On that particular drive what I'd do: 1. Run via an admin Command Prompt or admin PowerShell: ChkDsk /R Note: This can also be ran from 'Advanced Startup > Command Prompt' if it's the system drive in order to successfully scan it outside of Windows so that you can actually see what it details once it completes versus just having it run on reboot. Microsoft's instructions on how to use ChkDsk. 2. Use a utility that will do a S.M.A.R.T self-test Extended scan of the drive. There are good free tools to do it such as GSmartControl and PassMark DiskCheckup

I haven't a clue because I've only ever used Windows Defender with Win10, although in old WinXP there'd be permanent crumbs left behind specifically with Panda AV (maybe other AVs too) that had to have the system disconnect from the Internet as a safety precaution and then have certain services turned off and "database" rebuilt followed by a reboot, and then re-enabling of certain services - definitely not something a standard uninstaller will do or even Revo. Then there's also registry crumbs in CurrentControlSet that typically are always left behind that have to have admin privileges set on those not-so-obvious keys just to delete them.

Laptops often have manufacturer customized OEM drivers. In any event if you do try CCleaner's driver updater it's best to create a known good disk image backup of the drive Windows is installed on.

Sometimes it's because Windows registered it as an antivirus that could be used as real-time protection which sometimes the antivirus/antimalware built in uninstaller won't or can't remove and the same goes for their removal tools that are supposed to remove all of the files and registry settings. Even Revo may not be able to remove them from where Windows registers them. I personally had a fix for that on my WinXP system when removing for instance Panda AV and then using something else, but I haven't messed with it since using Win10.

From what I could find out the HP S700 SSD is made by BIWIN, a storage manufacturer from China, and that particular HP drive is sold by BIWIN on Amazon. BIWIN is well known enough and the drive is still made and sold. It's been around since 2017 like so many other SATA SSDs that haven't had a newer model or revision. It's a DRAM-less SSD which is considered to be a low-end/budget drive. It not completing something for example in Defraggler could be down to it being DRAM-less since those can take ages to recover from heavy usage and may need a longer rest period, so it's probably best to just have Windows built-in 'Optimize Drives' run TRIM on it and be done with trying to use any third party tools on that drive. Here's a review of the HP S700, and it's better Pro variant which does have a DRAM cache: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11790/the-hp-s700-and-s700-pro-ssd-review

To only erase for example single files you have to normally delete them so that they're stored in the Recycle Bin. Then when Secure Delete enabled and the Recycle Bin ticked in CCleaner it will secure overwrite what's in the Recycle Bin. Although it's been a requested feature for many years now for them to have something more user friendly like a drag 'n' drop or right-click ability to secure overwrite individual files or folders.

Garbage collection is built into even what's now considered old SSDs, although you should look up information on your actual SSD to see what the specifications are. As for 3rd party defrag software in general in my opinion it's not useful on SSDs, although keeping it installed is ideally suited for any hard disks that you still use, i.e.; a backup drive.

Update: * FileKey2: Added loaderrors.txt * FileKey4: Added Recovery.txt [Macrium Reflect *] LangSecRef=3024 Detect=HKCU\Software\Macrium\Reflect FileKey1=%CommonAppData%\Macrium|*.log|RECURSE FileKey2=%CommonAppData%\Macrium\Reflect|*.html;*.tmp;*.vsslog;loaderrors.txt FileKey3=%CommonAppData%\Macrium\waik|waiklog.txt FileKey4=%SystemDrive%|ref~tmp~.txt;Recovery.txt;Reflect_Install.log;rescuepe.log

Automatic Garbage Collection and Wear Leveling is done by the SSD if it's given the proper amount of time to recover and enter a rest state. Trim is something that must be a feature built into the OS which is in turn initiated via the OS on the SSD -- that's what a few SSD manufacturer websites state when reading the documentation. Allowing the SSD to recover and rest can help such as entering the BIOS/UEFI and letting it just sit there doing nothing for about 8 hours, which was something Crucial/Micron suggested to a customer in a reply on an online shopping site. With modern high capacity SSDs 1TB class or larger it's been mentioned before that they will likely outlive the user if the drive is used in a normal way and not abused which wouldn't exhaust it's terabytes written and if it doesn't have any other failure like the controller going kaput.

Something else to consider is what amount of time has passed before attempting to clean with CCleaner. I can remember in the past that Firefox would take some time to fully close on old hardware and attempting to use CCleaner would always be met with an error/warning dialog, whereas waiting 30 seconds or longer would avoid such error/warning dialogs.

If you're not seeing it as an app that CCleaner can clean then I would imagine that they've finally removed it from CCleaner. In the past CCleaner would break BlueStacks when it was cleaning it which was reported by a few people.

Then I'd recommend if available download the official SSD toolbox from the SSD manufacturer, oddities that some tools list shouldn't be an issue with the added bonus of being able to get firmware updates. Big major manufacturers such as Toshiba (now Kioxia) would likely have an SSD toolbox. I know for sure ADATA/XPG (same company and brand), Crucial/Micron (same company and brand), Samsung, SanDisk/Western Digital ("WD") (same company and brand) all have an SSD toolbox, as well as some other brand name drive manufacturers.

That's what I have to do every time they have a major upgrade, it never offers a streamlined process to me anymore. Although having a full installer on a USB Flash Drive is actually wise.

Think of all the medical places that won't be using it such as computers in hospitals and dentist offices who's computers often run old OSes anyways. I know my dentist uses Win7 which isn't supported, and I've seen some doctors that are still rocking a WinXP system. My laptop meets the requirements just barely on the CPU side whereas RAM and CPU cores is fine but I'm not that inclined to bother with Win11 anytime soon and it might be one, two, or more years, or on the death bed of Win10 when I'd switch but to be perfectly honest something more enticing is Linux Mint or Ubuntu Studio - that is if they work correct on the laptop which I don't currently know.

That's par for course with them for the past few years, and like you I don't particularly like it which was what had me using different Chromium (not Google Chrome) builds a few years ago but I tired of all those "me too" and "wannabe" clones. Every new feature they've added in over the past few years I'll never use and have no use for so I ignore them or disable them. I use Firefox Portable ESR and the recent huge required bump up from version 70ish something (which looked great to me) to version 91.3.0 has yet again no so many years later left another very bad taste (I almost dumped Firefox again in disgust however using it for one full week has made it slightly less harsh). Such a huge version bump was way too much of a drastic visual change, such as how tabs look which I literally can't stand the look of, and the built in light themes all look like rubbish to me and are too bright. I'm not keen on using the dark theme but it's literally the only one that I can stomach that isn't overly eye searing bright. When looking for replacement themes on their add-ons site the comments/complaints people posted about how they change the look of it were rampant and so true.

That makes allot of sense and it would be nice if they'd add that in by default into a future version! Maybe something for version 6.

That's if someone uses the re-direction that for example Win10 has built into it, I personally don't use any re-directs and instead just use a shortcut in the normal paths. As for getting CCleaner to clean a secondary drive it will clean normal things such as the Recycle Bin without any messing around with it. Although for non-system/non-OS drives in order to clean particular files or folders (just make sure you're not configuring it to delete any personal files you wish to keep) by going into: Options > Include Such as inputting for it to clean a "D:\Temp" folder

They both have matching SHA-256 hashes/checksums, which are: 4157048d7aa356bdb53637bc1efae0fa3418c873a838a965ef6eb303619fe8ae

On USB what? A USB Flash Drive? Wondering because in Win10 and WinXP versions starting with Macrium v7 it would no longer make a Rescue USB Flash Drive for me, it won't even list a USB Flash Drive in the Rescue Media creator tool, it's see's external/portable large capacity HDDs and SSDs with no issue though. That's why when one of my three USB external/portable backup drives (don't remember which one, 1 HDD and 2 SSDs) got corrupted when I plugged it in so when I cleaned it with Diskpart I made a 2GB FAT32 first partition which is where I store the bootable Rescue Media, and then I partitioned the rest of the drive to NTFS. On the old WinXP version I just use the last compatible version of YUMI to write the Rescue Media ISO file onto a USB Flash Drive, and then also dump an OS drive image on it as a fourth paranoia's sake backup.

This is the first thing to try, i.e.; disabling background apps: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/40285-ccleaner-not-deleting-google-chrome-history-fix/

I've got in on both of my systems. It does have some cosmetic issues displaying all of the text comments/descriptions it shows in the settings area under Windows 10 64-bit but that's also with the scaling set to 175% so that might be the cause, although previous versions never had that particular issue. Perhaps try Diskpart on that SSD to first clean it of everything, see Seagate's instructions. Then do a Full Format on it, note that a full format might kill it if it's about to die, however if it succeeds it can mark bad blocks. I had a secondary non-OS SSD earlier this year that Windows 10 reported a bad block on (after doing a major Win10 upgrade) and it was acting weird sometimes, doing what I mentioned about cleaning it with Diskpart followed by a full format remedied the issue.

It used to be back in the day not too many years ago in order to update root certificates was to visit the Microsoft Windows Updates website itself, where it would be offered as an optional download.

It's not impossible and the way to get away with using a now ancient version of CCleaner that Windows hasn't blacklisted yet is to make and use Winapp2.ini entries (or grab those already created in the community Winapp2.ini file), which is how I've been able to keep using v5.63 for so long and avoid issues with newer builds. Although I will not be giving any advice on here how to do that -- too time consuming.

All of their software has issues detecting the disk type correctly, even CCleaner has the issue. At least with CCleaner it's regularly updated so when updating it that will sometimes mysteriously fix the issue until it happens again with another version. Windows itself can get the detection of disks incorrect, and it's sometimes down to how they're formatted as in the file system - for example I've no issue formatting a USB Flash Drive (32GB) and tricking Windows 10 into thinking it's a Hard Disk Drive.