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  1. wat ur really tryin to say is dat CC sux ? :angry:

    No, but it doesn't wipe in Vista, at least not on my machine. Not even the 2.0 RC. All it does is change the name to ZZZZZZ.ZZZ and deletes it. I checked to be sure and I was able to recover CCleaner-wiped files with Recuva. If I thought CCleaner "sux'd" I wouldn't bother with it. <_<

     

    I said what I said; CCleaner is perfect for finding the stuff to clean, but it would be perfect if it had an option to delete files to the RecycleBin. It would also be nice if it did a thorough wipe, including directory entries and slack space. But I suspect that would make the program much bigger. (bigger doesn't bother me a bit, but most prefer CCleaner to be small)

  2. Since when CCleaner wasn't working that great in Vista, I started using another program to do file wiping. It also wipes slack space and the directory entries, so it does a better job of wiping than CCleaner does even when it does wipe.

     

    But, CCleaner does a perfect job of finding stuff to clean!! ;) IMHO

     

    So, I propose that an option be added that would allow CCleaner to move the files it finds to clean to the recycle bin, whenever possible. That would allow people that like to use a different app to do wipes to really wipe that stuff. It would also allow people that make a mistake to possibly reverse that mistake with a Restore File from Recycle Bin. :P

  3. Yep, that worked for me. Right after I installed it with Vista and opened it the normal way and ran an Issues scan, it would not remove the items; it appeared to remove them but a repeat scan brought back all the same items. After reading your tip, I opened by right-clicking the CCleaner desktop icon and choosing run as administrator, and then it did, indeed, remove the items found.

    You can also set the compatibility tab of the shortcut to make CCleaner always "Run this program as an administrator"

  4. Thanks for proving my point.

     

    You DID NOT turn off UAC. You need to turn it off to clean out the registry, after you've cleaned the registry then you can turn UAC back on. None of the other registry cleaners work because of the security features in Vista...AKA UAC.

     

    You can clean the windows / application files just fine by rt clicking CCleaner and selecting "run as admin". With my limited experience with Vista the only way I've been able to get CCleaner to clean up the registry is by disabling UAC. If you discover another way of cleaning out the registry w/o disabling UAC please post it.

    I don't have UAC turned off either and CC works perfectly in all respects for me. All you need to do is to set the compatibility tab of CCleaner.exe to "Run as administrator". This fix must be posted 30 times in the forums. lol

  5. Im pretty new at this computer cleaning stuff, but I was wondering if you were having the same issues as I am. When I run CCleaner to clean up "issues" it never completely fixes them. I have 800 and something, and I can't get them fixed. I have vista basic, if that helps and am the administrator for our computer. If you could, help me fix this "issue" in newbie terms :-D Thanks!

    Right-Click on the CCleaner.exe file and then go to Properties >> Compatability then check "Run this program as an administrator". You may have to do the same with the shortcut you use, too. (I don't know why, but sometimes I have to do the shortcut too, for some programs. :blink: )

  6. ''begins to pray and beg to CCleaner for this function to be available''

     

    :)

    Can't you clean up all temps through the Custom option? Also, if you're using FF as your browser, you can delete the cookies.txt file(s) using Custom.

  7. I don't know if these files are from Firefox or NOD32, but I suspect NOD32 because wouldn't a file from Firefox downloading something be in the cache folder?

     

    Anyway, the reason I say this is because I just downloaded a big file and looked in that temp folder and I had an IH####.tmp file that grew as the file was downloaded, and was deleted when the download was finished. I don't know why, but sometimes these files don't get deleted automatically.

     

    A while back, some version of CC wasn't deleting files from my Temp folder so I added the two Temp folders to the custom folders. Also, you have to wait a while after you close FF before using CC otherwise it either gives an error or doesn't clean everything. And you need to be sure that the Only delete temp files older than 48 hours option, in Advanced isn't checked.

  8. Right-click on the entry in CCleaner and select "Open in RegEdit". Try to delete it from within RegEdit. If you can't then you may need to change the permissions of the key.

     

    I'm almost positive that a key named like that is bogus, so you should be able to safely remove it.

     

    How you got it in the first place? I have no idea . . . :unsure:

  9. While reading through the forum I found some tips that said to run the program as administrator. I run in an admin account on my computer but tried it anyway. I found an additional 224MB of crap and cleaned again. Voila, everything was removed.

     

    Why does the program find and remove more junk when you choose to run as an admin, even if you login to your system with admin rights?

    In Vista, the default account type, even though it says Administrator, doesn't really have full admin permissions.

     

    I don't know why CCleaner found more stuff, but that "Run as administrator" is what allowed you to remove that stuff.

     

    It might help if we knew what type of file the additional stuff was . . .

  10. If you clean the Hotfix Uninstallers, you won't be able to uninstall any Windows Updates.

     

    This isn't usually a problem, but it was once when I needed to uninstall a WMP update back when I was using XP.

     

    If you look at the Windows folder in Explorer, the Hotfix Uninstallers are in the folders shown in a blue font.

  11. I'm using CC 1.40.520

     

    For Vista, CCleaner should be cleaning %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\*.* because that's where the links to recently accessed documents are. %USERPROFILE% means C:\Users\YourUserAccount (for those of you that don't already know . . . :P )

     

    I added this as a custom folder and cleaning it works fine. ;)

  12. Some registry keys can't even be removed by an admin if the registry key has restricted permissions. Just look up on this forum or elsewhere how to manually reset the permissions on registry keys that won't remove.

    Right, and some registry keys get re-created automatically.

     

    BUT, if CCleaner can't remove a key, shouldn't it indicate that instead of showing the key deleted?

  13. I?m a little out of the loop here. Why would it be pointless?

     

    Rod

    It would be pointless to delete prefetch files that are currently valid because Windows would simply create them again.

     

    But, if you have prefetch files for programs you no longer have installed, then deleting them isn't pointless. IMHO :P

     

    BTW, exactly what is an "Old prefetch file"? Does this mean one that is obsolete? Or just old?

     

    I don't use this option in CC since I got Vista, but it never seemed to delete any valid prefetch files back when I used XP! :D

  14. This happens to me too. I've noticed that it usually happens when I close FireFox and do a cleanup.

     

    The times I've investigated, it was because it couldn't clean a file in a temp folder. :blink:

  15. I'm wondering if perhaps we will end up needing different versions for different operating systems. Could be my paranoia, but it seems to me some of these problems were introduced during the period of making this rascal more 'Vista compatible.' Hope I'm wrong, but for now, V1.38 does everything I want and need, with the exception of secure file name erasing...

    I think it may be that secure deletion is only not working for the Recycle Bin. I created a folder called Rejects and added it to the Custom Clean list then copied the 97 MB file there and did a cleanup. It seemed to take a reasonable amount of time for overwriting it 3 times as I had it set for.

     

    The problem with getting things to work in Vista, is getting the permissions right. UAC keeps programs from accessing certain things unless the programmer jumps through just the right hoops. lol The things that M$ has implemented into Vista to protect us are a bit maddening for a "Power User", so I can't even imagine how it must be for a programmer.

  16. Interesting that someone else is having a problem with secure deletion. It at least runs for me in the last two versions, but compared to 1.38 they are ohhhhh-sooooo-slow. Whatever was done to 'enhance' secure deletion in 1.39 and later sure slowed it considerably. TOO much to be worthwhile, IMHO. If only CCleaner would have the option to erase file tips (instead of the entire file) during single pass deletion, I have no doubt that execution speed would not be an issue. Better still, add 'file tip erasure only' to the list of options under secure deletion. Thanks for listening.

    I have the opposite problem; secure deletion seems way to fast! lol It wouldn't be a problem if CC really was overwriting, but it's happening too fast to be possible.

     

    I tested it with a 97MB file and CC set to overwrite 7 times. I deleted the file then used CC to clear my Recycle Bin. The drive activity stops way to fast for writing almost 700MB, so I'm assuming that CC is only doing a simple removal.

     

    BTW, I'm running Vista Home Premium and CC only runs without an error, with something in the Recycye Bin", if I use the "Run as administrator" option from the Right-click context menu.

     

    When I had Windows XP, it was clear that secure deletion was working because I could hear lots of drive activity for wiping big files. ;)

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