Gabby Jim

OK, everyone - 'nough. Beating a dead horse now. I'm going to change my watch cycle so I no longer get notified every day. Looks like the only hope is that the next upgrade will solve the problem. I'll either have to live with it as is, or stop running the program on startup and just run it when I'm not going to need the MRU files and Recent links.

Yes, I suppose that's the price we pay to have our computer files cleaned up - sometimes you just can't help throwing the baby out with the bath water - but at least mom, dad, and the older kids are clean. I'd like to be able to preserve the MRU files in MS Office applications as well as not touch Recent at all - *sigh* maybe in some future upgrade. Thanks againg for all your help.

Thanks again to all who have offered suggestions - I even tried closing CCleaner and checked to be sure the INI file was updated before I ran it again. This is all very strange. When I have Recent Excluded, it does not come up on Analyze, and if I have just run CCleaner and only modified the Exclude, the result says Zero files have been deleted. Yet the Recent folder is empty! I don't have any problems with cookies I want to preserve, it's just "recent" files. Right now this is getting way too time consuming. Looks like it will be simpler for me to simply turn off the "run ccleaner on startup" and only run it when I'm content that I won't want to use Recent for awhile - or have backed up the folder.

Thanks, Alan. I tried that,too. I even copied CCleaner.ini into the windows directory (where MOST programers put it) and it STILL didn't work. My guess is that it has something to do with XPH-SP3 or perhaps my ancient CPU. Looks like I may just have to wait for the next upgrade and see if they can fix the problem. Very strange that Recent doesn't come up on analze, but is still deleted.

*sigh* - didn't work for me. Analyze doesn't show Recent when I have it in exclude, but none-the-less, recent is wiped out when I run the cleaner. See next, bleow for my next attempt.

Thanks to all who have tried to help, but I'm still up a creek: To recap -here's the current state of affairs: First, I could not navigate to the "recent" folder via Ccleaner and see the desktop ini file. I checked that out the hard way - (my computer>c:>documents and settings>[user name]>recent). Next: I tried appending .lnk to the excludes to no avail - didn't work Next: I tried removing the check from Custom Files (leaving the *.lnk appended) - didn't work. Next: I tried "Add" - navigate to the recent folder - and accept the default of all files in there (*.*) - didn't work Next: I tried the drag and drop and manual edit as suggested - (one has to right click to select manual edit.) - didn't work (note - tried with and without check in Advanced - Custom Files and Folders - no difference Next: using drag and drop suggestion, pulled "My Recent Documents" into exclude and edited to restore the title - Didn't work. Thanks again to all who tired. The quest goes on.

Not yet - see my next post

Thanks - see my next

I stand corrected - thanks (I should have specified that OPTIONS is where you specify excludes - BAD Grammer! Bad Girl! Go to your room!)

Thanks, Aethec - OH! THAT "Advanced" - Yes, it is THERE - but if you open "options" there is another "Advanced" and THAT is where you specify the Excludes - sorry about that, chief. - Now, I'm going to try the info offered by sailback.

Thanks for the suggestion. However, the "Custom Files and Folders" checkbox does not - apparently - exist in V2.31.113. I do remember seeing it in earlier versions, but I cannot find it now. Heading folks off at the pass though, I DID check "Save all settings to INI" - I've also explored all the options under Advanced, Tools, and Registry - all to no avail.

This has never worked. (XP-HOME Sp3 on a laptop with 2G RAM and 24 GB free on a 55 GB drive.) I had hoped that the latest upgrade (v2.31.1153) would solve the problem. No such luck. Open CCleaner, select "Options", select "Exclude", Add "C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Recent\*.DOC, *.JPG; *.BMP; *.jpg; *.bmp; *doc" (or just C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Recent\*.*) and run the cleaner. Exclude didn't! (exclude, that is). All the shortuts are cleaned, leaving only "Desktop.ini" This may be related to the fact that the folder is called "My Recent Documents" instead of simply "Recent" but CCleaner does not allow me to edit the entry that way - I have to use the "Browse" key, and THAT only discloses "Recent". This is, like the vanishing "recent" in MS Word, a petty annoyance that I'd like to see corrected.