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What folder were these pictures and videos in? Are you sure that these folders are being cleaned by ccleaner?

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showto...st&p=153432 ... and next few posts. Have you actually been able to recover the same files that you believe you have securely deleted?

More info.

Can't say I'm excited ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/google_chrome_os/ and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/go...me_os_unveiled/

So it's looking across the entire volume based on a wide range of file extensions then? Whereas ccleaner looks for a narrower (I presume) more targeted range of files in predefined locations, both generic and application-based. I can understand why this would return more files than ccleaner - it's a far more broad brush approach. There are advantages and disadvantages with both approaches.

It's looking in different places?!

And what was the quantifiable effect on your PC? Or did you just feel better for reducing 'clutter'?

Ah, that makes sense. The cluster scan wouldn't need to worry about names I guess; just establish logical file chains. Quite; caveat acknowledged

Augeas while you're on a roll, what exactly does a deep scan do that an ordinary scan doesn't?

Thanks for that ... let's hope it's out soon.

Still been fine for me during this time

Generally ccleaner is ... a cleaner ... it doesn't 'fix' things. And it wasn't designed to run outside of the context of a logged-on user. If you're wanting to do this from a CD for recovery purposes then even if you could run ccleaner it is extremely unlikely that it will do anything that will allow you to recover or get onto your PC (aside from freeing up some space!). You may as well just put the installer or portable version on the CD and run it to tidy up once you are back in.

Yep - it can be disabled by Group Policy ... http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/Win...sXPHomePro.html Is this a work-owned machine (i.e. it's someone else's and they administer/manage it)? If not, you should be able to reset it via the registry. If it is, then even if you can reset it via the registry, it will probably get changed back.

What's this, Groundhog Day ... is this where me and TomAZ post (again) that we haven't seen unacceptable lrevel of false positives from Avira?

Errrrrm, why?

Avira seems to have a bit of a reputation for false positives, but I must say that in the six months or so I've been using it it's never been a problem. As we know, updates have been a problem ... but they do seem to have resolved that by breaking down their update files into smaller chunks. Edited to add ... it's the free version that's previously had the update problems ... as per Tom's post below I understand this problem didn't affect Premium users.

I assume this entry is updated by the installer; so yeah if you just moved the exe this wouldn't get updated. Similarly, if you only have the portable version deployed this entry wouldn't exist either, so going back to the OP you'd only want to offer ccleaner from defraggler if this entry was present. Haven't made up my mind yet whether or not I think this would be a good idea anyway!

It's in the registry: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\ccleaner.exe

jadinolf you said earlier that you'd moved to 2.25 from quite an old version (1.37) and that things are now working okay ... is that correct?

I wish that collectively, including the writers of ccleaner, we could stop perpetuating the myth that 35 passes serves any purpose. http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pub...d=1202429342339 You'll find lots of posts on this site expressing the same view.

Amen to that! Must stop washing my hands 35 times before dinner.

There's an interesting (though probably not completely objective) comparison between some tools here ... http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag (about half-way down).

Just noticed this post. Here are mvps' reasons for inclusion: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/criteria.htm host-file.net's policy is here: http://hosts-file.net/?s=policy Most DNS providers that block domains will tell you the categories their sites fall into. DynDNS.com, for example, use third-party barracuda.

It's all the same bunch ... and I'm guessing the same or similar review? Or does it just happen to be the same three mis-categorised pieces of software? http://www.pcauthority.com.au has separate download pages that describe ccleaner and TuneUp and Autoruns as 'Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware' ... hmmmm. We all agree with you that ccleaner is a great app !!! But any article comparing those three tools as like-for-like is seriously misguided!

I agree with this just as a point of principle ... this stuff would probably be hard for some visually impaired users. There's very little colour contrast in places.