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  1. 6 hours ago, chal00 said:

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    1/ First thing : i was very VERY desappointed when i saw that you deleted "check update" option !
    ...
    3/ I updated CCleaner (forced, because bored with notification) , and (i wasn't accustomed to be on defensive with you !!), I found myself with Mc Afee :wacko: !! Ohhh!! :o There was an option to uncheck !!! First time i see that whith Ccleaner ! :blink:
    ...

    1) The option is still there (please check the screenshot).
    3) The CCleaner installer offers Avast, not McAfee. (And the CCleaner installer always offers Chrome if it is not installed.)

    cc_updates.jpg

  2. On 27.4.2018 at 07:06, ROCKNROLL said:

    ...Also, I am looking for someone who would be willing to spend a little time looking over the "Windows 10 Useless Files" entry and the "Useless File Extension"...

    Winapp3.ini:

    IMHO the entry [Useless File Extension *] should be used with "Analyze" only. It would be hard work to make this entry safe.

    The entry [Windows 10 Useless Files *] seems to be wrong: The path "%ProgramFiles%\WindowsApps\Microsoft.CloudExperienceHost_*\" doesn't exist; it should be "%WinDir%\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.CloudExperienceHost_*\". But the sub-folder "media" doesn't contain *.mp4 files. We can correct the path and rename the entry to "Windows Apps Media Files". (Or because the files don't exist on your system also; maybe we can remove the entry then?)

  3. On 27.4.2018 at 09:13, siliconman01 said:

    In Winapp3.ini, why is [QuickLaunch *] considered dangerous?  This feature was removed in starting with Windows 7.  There is a procedure that permits users to add the Quick Launch bar back in, but I suggest that 99.9% of Windows users do not add it back in...

    The entry was removed by request: https://forum.piriform.com/topic/32310-winapp2ini-additions/?page=234&tab=comments#comment-277438.
    I was not happy about that also: https://forum.piriform.com/topic/32310-winapp2ini-additions/?page=234&tab=comments#comment-277444.

    On 27.4.2018 at 09:27, siliconman01 said:

    If this entry is not considered dangerous in Winapp3.ini, why not add it to Winapp2.ini ? [Windows Tracing *]...

    That's just a mistake; all entries should have Section=Dangerous. I can't find any information why this entry was removed from Winapp2.ini.
    (It seems that the folder isn't used by Windows anymore. On my systems the folder is empty always.)

  4. 13 hours ago, kiddac said:

    ...So I would like to know where exactly this is referencing to show this message whether it be a cookie, registry or folder...

    I checked the registry and found the following key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AvastAdSDK\". If I delete the value "LastOffer" the Avast offer shows up again.

    cc_avast.jpg

  5. 15 hours ago, PICPro said:

    This is a good question.  Winapp3 isn't meant to be safe or used blindly.  Presumably people would use it by copying sections of interest to their custom.ini files, editing to their taste, run analysis only on that entry in ccleaner, open the relevant folder in explorer, look at the files to be deleted, make the decision etc. ...

    Thank you very much for your reply.

  6. Winapp3.ini:

    Thanks for your feedback.

    It seems that all GhostScript based tools use that "Fontmap.Sol" file. We could make the ExcludeKey more universal:

    [Flash Local Shared Object Files *]
    Section=Dangerous
    Default=False
    FileKey1=%SystemDrive%|*.SOL|RECURSE
    ExcludeKey1=FILE|%SystemDrive%\*\|Fontmap.Sol

    And I think we should remove the entry [Flash SOL Files *], because it deletes nothing but those GhostScript files.

    Edit: Or should we remove both entries, because Flash is a "dying" software anyway?

  7. 13 hours ago, SMalik said:

    You’re wrong, I have not said that in that post.
    ...

    Did you read your old post?!

    On 24.1.2018 at 22:52, SMalik said:

    A FEW RECOMMENDATIONS:

    This exclude key should be added into each Windows Store app entry.
    ExcludeKey1=FILE|%LocalAppData%\Packages\appname_*\AC\INetCache\|container.dat

    ...

    You clearly talked about "%LocalAppData%\Packages\*\AC\INetCache"!

    13 hours ago, SMalik said:

    ...I did not know much about these files at that time. When I saw that deleting these files from %LocalAppData%\Packages\appname_*\AC\TokenBroker\Cache was causing issues, I thought all those files should be excluded.

    IMHO it's not a good idea to recommend something if you don't know why... But let's forget the topic.

    BTW, I checked the container.dat files on my system. They all are empty and have 0 KB. And they get recreated after deletion. It seems there's no reason for deleting them.

  8. 1 hour ago, SMalik said:

    I have tested some other privacy cleaners and they all remove container.dat file from %LocalAppData%\Packages\*\AC\INetCache\

    I think we should remove ExcludeKeys for this from all the Windows Store apps.

    It seems that just a few apps need the ExcludeKey. But you wanted that we add the ExcludeKey to all Windows Store entries!
    https://forum.piriform.com/topic/32310-winapp2ini-additions/?page=281&tab=comments#comment-292447
    Now you changed your mind again... :(

    Those apps need the ExcludeKey: Bing Weather, HuluPlus, Netflix (and maybe other?)
    https://forum.piriform.com/topic/32310-winapp2ini-additions/?page=205&tab=comments#comment-266270

  9. 13 hours ago, internetaddict47 said:

    Hello, new user so sorry if been asked before: I switched from Chrome to Chrome Beta, simply copying the old user profile over in appdata. It seems that CCleaner doesn't recognize Chrome Beta. Can I use winapp2.ini to make Chrome Beta "look like" the normal Chrome to CCleaner? (e.g. replacing each entry or something?)

    You can use following methods to add other browsers:
    https://www.ccleaner.com/docs/ccleaner/advanced-usage/ccleaner-ini-files/how-to-clean-user-data-from-non-standard-mozilla-browsers

    CustomLocation1=CHROME|path_to_user_profile
    https://forum.piriform.com/search/?q=CustomLocation1=CHROME

  10. Please add an optional setting for cleaning the VirtualStore of Windows Vista and newer. If you enable this setting the variables used in FileKeys get additionally expanded to:

    %ProgramFiles% additionally to...
    %LocalAppData%\VirtualStore\Program Files
    %LocalAppData%\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)

    %CommonAppData% additionally to...
    %LocalAppData%\VirtualStore\ProgramData

    Older applications and games are still used by many users, but the data of those programs get redirected to the VirtualStore.
    (Another benefit of the setting would be that all VirtualStore FileKeys could be removed from winapp.ini/winapp2.ini.)

    Edit:
    RegKeys with "HKLM\SOFTWARE\..." should also check and clean "HKCU\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\...".

  11. 15 hours ago, PICPro said:

    Actually they do work in 5.40 but the entries appear as an additional section with the correct name and icon at the bottom of the applications tab.  I don't know if they work in all previous versions.  There are many people stuck at 5.26 since later versions of ccleaner don't work without an SSE2 processor.

    Thanks for the tip. I probably never checked the bottom of the applications tab! :lol:

  12. 14 minutes ago, PICPro said:

    I was just curious why in Winapp2.ini that LangSecRef=3001 or 3005 isn't used by Winapp2.ini for [Internet Explorer *] or [Microsoft Edge *] respectively.  I'm not suggesting a change as 3022 is also a good choice.

    The LangSecRefs of winsys.ini unfortunately don't work with winapp2.ini.

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