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  1. This tells you how to cancel your subscription (automatic renewal): https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020674812-How-do-I-manage-my-CCleaner-subscription-#1-your-payment-confirmation-email-0-1
  2. There is, advanced users often do version updates this way: When you get a notification of a new version don't update through CCleaner itself, close CCleaner. Go to this page (you may want to bookmark it): https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/builds Download the 'Slim' installer. (It installs the same CCleaner, but does it using a slightly different way). Double click the downloaded 'ccsetup###_slim.exe' to install the update over the top of the old version. (As long as you haven't uninstalled the old version then the new one will automatically pick up your Pro licence and any settings and customisations you have made). I'm not sure if it will make any difference to your issue, but it's something to try next update.
  3. I understand your concern, and it's always your choice how you use your kit. However having System Restore turned on with a SSD isn't such a problem as old articles (and even some modern ones) found on the net might have you believe. It wasn't really much of a problem back then, more a worry/uncertainty like you always get with any new technology. Modern SSDs like your Samsung also have vastly more write cycles than early SSDs did. Your particular Samsung 970 EVO has a 1,200 TBW (Terabytes Written) endurance. (1,228,800 GB). https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/internal-ssd/970evo/ To put that into context: I just created a new Restore Point, the Control Panel tells me it's taken up 0.2 GB of disc space on my SSD. At that size it would take you 6,144,000 RP's to reach the write endurance for the Samsung 970 EVO. Or if you prefer 1 restore point a day for the next 16,832 years. Or 841 RPs every day for the next 20 years. Looks less of an issue when you put it like that doesn't it? It certainly doesn't bother me having Restore Points turned on. (Just to note that the previous RP I had was from Patch Tuesday, 15 days ago. So it's not like it's even writing one daily, it only did one today because i told it to). Again it's always your choice, but sometimes it's interesting to double check what you may read on the net.
  4. Recuva Pro and Free have exactly the same scanning/recovery capabilities, so you should get the same results there. As for the difference in the GB found, doesn't that suggest to you that Recuva was showing you only what could be sucessfully recovered, whereas Disk Drill was showing you things that couldn't be fully recovered? So just a difference in setting what each was looking for. Changing the settings in Recuva (maybe do a deep scan) should also find the others, whether the recovery of them will be anymore sucessful is another question. https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/sections/360010251491-How-to-use-Recuva
  5. I remember you reported back in August that it was turning on System Restore everytime that you launched CCleaner. That was fixed in v6.04 so that it no longer turns on everytime - but it still turns on if you do use the Driver Updater. It's intended as a precaution so that you can do a restore if updating a driver has adverse effects. https://www.ccleaner.com/knowledge/ccleaner-v6-04-10044
  6. Just for information in case anyone else sees this particular error: I did some testing, rolling back to 6.04, checking for updates and updating to 6.05, rolling back again, checking again, and so on. Eventually after 6 tries I did manage to replicate this error, but only that once and not again since. When I did get the error simply closing CCleaner, then re-opening it and checking for updates again was all that was needed to get the update as normal.
  7. No problem with it being Pro, mine is also a Pro licence. Just install over the top and the licence is picked up. I always use the Slim installer rather than updating through CCleaner itself. (Unless I'm testing the updater, see the next post). If you should happen to uninstall the old one then just install the Free version and re-register it.
  8. This issue was known about and supposed to have been fixed. Download the Slim installer from the builds page and double click the downloaded file to install the update, (don't uninstall the old one just do it over the top) that worked for me about 2 hours ago. https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/builds
  9. Agreed, as it's a SSD then just leave Windows (and the SSD's own in-built controller) to look after it. That's what I do with my SSDs and only still have Defraggler for occasional use with my external HDDs. You might want to check Windows Optimiser to see that it's set to optimise your SSD on a schedule, weekly or monthly is fine.
  10. What kind of drive is this, HDD or SSD? You talk of 'Optimising' which is more usually associated with SSDs. SSDs are always fragmented to some extent, it's the way that 'wear leveling' works on SSDs by spreading the files over the drive. Defraggler should not try to defragment an SSD, generally no defragmenter should. Instead they will Optimise them. (There is a special case for defragmenting an SSD, Windows will normally do it for you automatically if needed). A couple of your other comments are also intriguing. Particularly the one about not seeing the boxes changing colours. If it is an HDD then are you actually defragging or are you only analyzing? The drive map will be grey/black until the drive has been analysed when it becomes coloured. But nothing 'moves about' until you are actually defragging. Not yet analyzed: Analyzed but not yet defragged: As for why a HDD may remain at around 12% fragmented there can be a few reasons. If it's your system drive then Windows is constantly writing files to it. So are any other apps that may be running. So some files can't be defragged because Windows, or another app, has them in use. If you are uing Defragglers 'Quick Defrag' on a HDD it won't touch any fragments that are larger than 50MB. (A Full defrag or a files only defrag should do those). If you have changed any other Options in Defraggler that could also have an effect.
  11. @lmacri Whilst we know that there is an issue with Avaira and that temp folder, do you have anything to show that Avira is actually moving the executables? I had meant to investigate it more myself but never got around to it.
  12. Make a copy of it to a USB stick or external drive before doing anything else with it, that way you can always put it back later if you want/need to.
  13. That should do the job as long as the popstate.dat in the backup is good. (and that depends just when it went funny for you). Give it a go and if it doesn't change things then try an older backup if you have one. Of course any emails you've received since you made that backup will still be shown as unread, but at least it won't be showing year old ones.
  14. I don't use Thunderbird but apparently that 'popstate.dat' file can become corrupted and give the problem that you are describing. It no longer knows which emails you have already seen so will show them all to you again. It doesn't appear to be connected with using CCleaner or any other cleaner at all. That advice you have read elsewhere is overkill. (Basically someone guessing). If CCleaner was deleting popstate.dat then there would be hundreds of users complaining about it. Unless you have a backup somewhere of popstate.dat then you are going to have to tell Thunderbird again that you have read those emails. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popstate.dat Having said that you can try making it an exclude in CCleaner, but I doubt it will do anything. From the above link: Once you know where the folder it is located you can make that whole folder, or just that one .dat file, an exclude in CCleaner.
  15. It's done a few odd things, but that may be because the Windows on that laptop is unactivated? All the normally hidden little partitions. eg. the System Recovery partition, have been given a drive letter and so now all of them appear in File Explorer. Plus my mapped network drive dissapeared. I've sorted them out but still odd that it did that. Be interesting to see if anything similar happens with the main laptop which has activated Windows when that updates.
  16. You could try downloading the free version from here, double click on the installer that downloads. Once CCleaner Free has installed go to Options>Licence and enter your details to register it as pro. https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/builds (You may want to wait a day because a new version is due to be released).
  17. About 25 mins to do this months Patch Tuesday updates on the old laptop, then straight after restarting 3 mins to do 22H2. It is an enablement package, so it's just activating stuff that's been downloaded previously.
  18. Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows 10, version 22H2 (aka the Windows 10 2022 Update), now rolling out to all eligible devices. I'm not being offered it on 'Check for Updates' yet. EDIT- I just booted my much older, much less powerful, second laptop and that one is being offered 22H2 straight away without me even checking. Microsoft works in mysterious ways. It is available on the Update Assistant if you want to get it that way, (or if you want to create installation media): https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
  19. We don't get many users of the Business Edition asking questions on the forum, they tend to go straight to the support they are paying for. It's always possible that another user of Business Edition is looking in, but TBH I would not be holding my breath and would be contacting the Business support included with your product.
  20. You do know that if the machine is capable you can still upgrade Win7 (or 8.1) to Win10 for free? (or even Win11 if the machine is capable) You have the option to keep your existing software and files during the upgrade process: https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-you-can-still-get-a-free-windows-10-upgrade/ Even if it's not quite capable you can often still put Win10 on an old machine for minimal cost. As an example of what can be done for £50 - I got given an 'obsolete' laptop with XP Pro on it, it wasn't bad on XP but had only 1GB of RAM and a very slow 75GB spinning Hard Drive. I first spent £20 upgrading the RAM to 4GB and then installed the latest Win10 21H2. The Win 10 is unactivated, XP isn't eligible for the free upgrade to Win 10 and I wasn't paying £120 for a new Windows licence for an old machine. (Unactivated Windows is almost the same as fully licenced Windows but the Personalisation settings don't work. There are easy ways round that). It ran fine but was still slow so next I replaced the old/slow Hard Drive, I spent another £30 on a 250GB SSD for it. Those two hardware upgrades, more RAM and a new SSD are both very easy to do, and either/both can dramaticaly improve performance. It's now as good as my main laptop that I'm typing this on, in some ways it's better. And all for £50 and a bit of work.
  21. Possibly, but maybe not? Registry tweaks like that usually survive across Windows Updates, even Feature/version Updates. Of course it's always possible that sometime in future they will change Win11 and the tweak will just stop working. They often leave a few such 'backdoors' in new versions that later get locked out. There again it's also possible that if they get enough moans about it then they may just put the old style context menus back for everyone anyway, it wouldn't be the first time.
  22. nah, it was just coincidence that I happened to logon at that time. As it's Win7 then the Restart or Shutdown probably doesn't make the same difference, if I remember right they both do the same thing before Win10 (or was it 8.1?). I don't think there is anything to add regarding Win7 that you probably haven't heard before. ie. You should upgrade - but I know from experience that there are many reasons why you might want to stay with an EoL Windows. I've still got Windows 98SE on a desktop machine, there is some expensive CAD software on it that you can't even buy outright now, only subscribe for a fortune each month/year. I also used XP on a laptop for a number of years longer that I should have, couldn't justify the cost a new laptop. (until the old one died).
  23. That's up to you. But a regular Restart (not Shutdown/Boot) is always a good idea with Win 10, because of the way that Win 10 works a 'Restart' refreshes more of the operating system than a Shutdown does.
  24. It shouldn't make any difference at all which order you run them in. Usually you use one or the other depending on your needs, and/or level of experience. Remember that Health Check uses it's own rules and takes no notice whatsoever of what you have ticked/unticked in Custom Clean. But I can see the point of sometimes running both. I'll ocassionally run Health Check because I don't normally use Edge so don't have anything for it ticked in Custom Clean. So if I have been using Edge I'll just run HC to clean it rather than ticking it in Custom Clean then unticking it again.
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