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Its still fixable if only you can get an info about how to recreate the registry component that has been lost. Why don't you Google search for a solution about what you can do when Windows Media Player can't rip??? Since you have Windows 7, you might as well have Windows Media Center. I'm just not that sure if it can rip. I often use Windows Media Center for watching live TV everyday and sometimes radio but I took little attention to its other functions. But I know it can burn CDs. Before you make any deletions to the registry, you can make a backup in Registry editor but clicking File and Export. Make sure that you did not highlight just one particular key or subkey cause that will be the only one to be backed up. Make sure that only the Computer is highlighted. This is to back up the entire registry. Be wise to install a third party ripping program as well.

This is one of the things I hate most about Vista. The OS is working well for me but if I create a restore point then disable system protection so that no new restore points will be made automatically, my own restore point will be gone as well. Its just taking up too much space, especially when I install a new program. Why does every system restore point have to take at least 200-300MB space??? Its just wrong. Why didnt they just do it like in Windows XP and maybe improvise that a little bit better??? Vista also has hidden 70-80 MB backups that are created after some time. Its better if CCleaner can clean this as well.

Well I only want at least one restore point available and that would be the one I manually made. If your computer gets infected by a virus even before the latest restore point is created, better stick with the one you made yourself cause at least you know that when you made that restore point yourself, your computer is in good condition. And if your hard drive is small the amount of space is a matter of an issue so its not wise to have many restore points.

Hi, I think there is a problem about the the way CCleaner deletes restore points. It cannot delete the latest restore point. I think the latest restore point is not always the best restore point so CCleaner should have the ability to delete any restore point, including the latest one except if there is only one restore point left. I want to delete the latest restore point because I manually created a restore point after I made some optimizations. I want to delete all restore points created besides the one I manually created.

I don't know why you would want CCleaner to use as much resources as it could. Its actually a lot better if it will use less RAM or less CPU usage cause that would mean you can run other programs and even games smoothly even if you are making a scan with CCleaner. I have Vista and 1GB RAM in it and dual core CPU and whenever there is a scan, much CPU usage and whenever there is an antivirus scan, my games will just be laggish because the scan will take up too much CPU usage. I think its better specially to other computers with less resources than yours.

I don't know if such official versions of this from Piriform has ever been released but its good if we can have an official version of CCleaner gadget for Windows sidebar. I have Google searched about that and I haven't seen a very good link or result. It should have a few buttons to clear browsing history and privacy and other buttons for clearing other junk files and maybe a clear all junk button.

I agree with the other guy. You need to make sure that the registry keys that are ready to be fixed are obsolete or useless keys before they can safely be fixed. Deletion of important registry keys, intentionally or accidentally, will cause some programs to work badly or can result to system instability. Automatic registry cleaning does not allow you to choose which keys you want to get fixed, those you want to back up, or those you want to be in the ignore list anyway. One solution is to show a dialog box that would appear before the automatic cleaning starts, prompting you to choose what you want to do with the potentially faulty registry keys before any cleaning operation is done. CCleaner had so far not caused me any problems even if I just fix all the registry errors it detects. But I did suggest it to do a deeper registry scan.

That's the point. Its time consuming so if there is way that this can be made fast, it should be a relief to us who consider that important.

Hi, I was wondering if its possible for the devs to put a new feature to CCleaner that is the ability to do disk scan. When I manually did this operation in my 39 GB main partition, it took 9 minutes to finish. Scan disk is used to repair bad sectors on the disk and can be done, by right clicking the drive partition, going to Properties, then Tools, then use the Error Checking feature, then check only the "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" option. This is what I think is a different feature from the scan disk option that summons the command prompt which finishes much faster. I have a screenshot of it. This one took me 9 minutes to complete. It is required to be done at least once a week if the computer is used everyday. I also notice that whenever I try to analyze how much junk files I can clean by hitting the Analyze button, it has very different results when I actually perform the cleaning operations. Maybe they should make this more accurately. Feedback please

I suggest it to be deeper but not too deep. Those keys I've mentioned are not that deep. They contain the very obvious remnants of apps that don't exist in the computer anymore but they are still there.

Yes, I use Vista but I have disabled System Protection so I have no restore points available where Vista will consume 200 MB with just one restore point but I have that disabled. It can be disabled by right clicking computer, then Properties, then go to the advanced setting, then System Protection, then just uncheck the boxes there for the drives where system protection is enabled. And for your information, CCleaner has a separate tool for deleting restore points.

Feedback on this one please.

CCleaner has located and fixed a number of registry issues as well and a lot of crap files. Here is my suggestion I posted before in another thread. I and a few other people have found out that some apps leave empty or useless files on some locations and its better if CCleaner can remove those as well. You have to say that a number of uninstalled apps would leave useless folders on locations like C:\Program Files , C:/Users/<username>/AppData and C:/ProgramData. I think they better issue this as a new improvement for CCleaner in future updates. Here is another one. Also, I would like to comment that they should make registry cleaning a bit deeper to remove errors further. I have detected some useless registry keys in the HKEY/LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE and HKEY/CURRENT_USER/Software areas that weren't detected or removed by CCleaner.

Yes I know about that setting. But I have recently discovered that at least 200 MB of my disk space became free again for no known reason and that was probably after I used the wipe free space option. But I think my computer is good, nothing important was deleted. If anything in high priority was deleted in my PC, I also have Recuva installed to recover lost files.

Not all apps that are uninstalled leave empty folders on the C:\Program Files area. Some apps, during uninstallation would say that not all of its components can be deleted. That's when they are most likely to leave empty folders on C:\Program Files folder. You can of course install programs on other locations that may be easier to locate. But you have to say that a number of uninstalled apps would leave useless folders on locations like C:\Program Files , C:/Users/<username>/AppData and C:/ProgramData. I think they better issue this as a new improvement for CCleaner in future updates. Also, I would like to comment that they should make registry cleaning a bit deeper to remove errors further. I have detected some useless registry keys in the HKEY/LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE and HKEY/CURRENT_USER/Software areas that weren't detected or removed by CCleaner.

You know I was gonna ask the same question about that wipe free space thing. When I used it, it took a lot of time and it seem to have scanned both partitions of my hard disk. But in the very end, 0KB was deleted.

That is for the event viewer of Windows XP but in Windows Vista nothing like that appears in the action pane if you click major categories, you have to manually click all categories to clear their individual log lists. I have the option to disable event viewer but that will mean I will have no way of knowing if things are failing to work.

But what I was asking for was the step by step process on how to use MizappG or blah bla bla. The exact procedure. I will have a difficult time trying to use it if I don't have the procedure. Perhaps its a great idea to implement this on CCleaner. thanks!!

Clears only 1 log category at a time but does not clear all log lists in the entire event viewer in one go. Besides, many people do not know about the event viewer.

Can anybody tell me how to use this Windows Installer CleanUp Utility??? I would like to try that soon and see if I can clear a lot of crap from it.

That is the event Viewer for Windows XP but if I use Vista, it doesnt seem to have that option of clear all. I don 't recall a clear all events option there in the Action Menu.

What I really meant was they should add a checkbox about cleaning event viewer. If you have read all or at least most of the important reports, then you will need to clear them to make way for newer and more current system reports. By default, it should not be checked and a warning dialog box should appear when you check the box about clearing event viewer logs. I can clear the logs by myself but there are too many of them and it takes a lot of time.

Hi, I have been using Ccleaner for over a year now, I think its very good. Helped me resolve problems that I couldn't have fixed by myself. I think, Ccleaner should have the ability to clean the Event Viewer reports for Windows. It has thousands of undeleted reports. More of them are created without you knowing it. It records log in durations, services that have loaded, error and crash reports, diagnostics and so much more. Vista has hell lots of it and so does Windows XP. You can open Event Viewer by typing eventvwr.exe on Run and OK. Collapse the categories there in the navigation pane and you have thousands of reports that you didn't know existed. They somehow consume memory. Maybe it should also have the ability to clear backup files besides restore points that it can already clear. Maybe a little bit deeper registry cleaning and some tweaks on unoptimized computer settings. Feedback on this one please.