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It's just telling you how many drivers it thinks could be updated on your machine. It's your choice if you want to do that or not. (Personally I ignore driver updater altogether - but have a read through this sub-forum and make your own mind up)

I'm not sure why you think this is a CCleaner issue? Nothing that you say there indicates CCleaner, is there some other information that makes you think that it is? Obviously something is trying to change something that your Windows security settings say it shouldn't. Can you screenshot a clip of one of the notifications? What are the several scans you have already done?

I know just what you mean; when I was checking mine I had 3 paths excluded and have no recollection of just when or why I set them. They are not places I'd usually be looking at for duplicates anyway, (one of them contains the manual/files for this laptop), so however long they had been set there it hadn't affected any recent searches.

Have you actually tried opening a webpage in a browser? Sometimes Win7 will show that orange star in error even when it does have a connection. Also try manually disconnecting/reconnecting to your wifi.

Look at the ignores, particularly file size over/under. Check the wildcards in the search strings in Include. Check if you have any Excludes set. If you post a screenshot of your finder settings then we may be able to spot anything that could be an issue. Can you give the FULL pathname/filename.extension for 2 that you think are duplicates but that aren't being found.

Great, and thanks for confirming that Taskbar Jumplists is what was clearing the list. It's not really a bug in CCleaner, as the article I linked suggests it's more of an issue with Win 11 somehow linking the different lists. Win 11 may correct that in future. I'll make the staff aware and they should be able to ensure that future CCleaner versions have 'Taskbar Jumplists' unticked as the default setting which should then avoid the problem with Win 11.

Yes it will be offered if your machine is compatible but you have to click to download and install it. Can you imagine the complaints MS would get if it just 'forced' itself as an automatic update on users who may not want it (yet) ?

It does look as if that was the issue then, good to see that a simple (eventually) setting change in FFx cured it.

I've just realised that you are refering to this drive as "SSHD". Is this is a Solid State Drive? If so then that could explain some of what you are reporting. Or is this actually a SSHD - a Hybrid Drive? (A HDD with a smaller SSD 'cache' built in). Indeed that would better explain what you are reporting. To be sure can you give the make and model of the drive in question? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SSD You should not (normally) defrag an SSD. SSDs work diferently to spinning drives, they generally look after themselves with just the help of an occasional 'Trim' needed. They spread files all over the place on the drive to increase their lifetime, 'wear leveling'. If you do defrag an SSD the wear leveling will usually just undo the work again. 'Moving files to the end of the drive' is also meaningless for a SSD, the wear leveling will simply spread them out again. Windows (or Defraggler) shouldn't normally let you defragment a SSD only 'optimise' (trim) it - but Windows (and so Defraggler) will sometimes incorrectly identify a SSD as a HDD, or vice-versa. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SSHD With a Hybrid drive the question of defragging or not becomes more of a grey area. One problem is that most of the discussion you see about it can be 4 or 5 years old, and the technology changes fast so it may not still be relevant. It's mainly a HDD so can be defragged, but that will affect the SSD portion and so may impact the performance of the drive overall. Then there can be the problem of the defragging tool reporting the normal wear leveling of the SSD portion as 'fragmentation'. (Again that could explain some of what you are seeing/reporting). It's probably best to refer to the manufacturers website/information for the particular hybrid drive and follow their recommendations regarding whether to defrag it or not. Personally I'd leave it alone, see below. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ General (Personal Opinion) Since I've been answering questions here, and so thinking more about what defragmenting is actually doing, I've come to the conclusion that defragmenting is not realy required with todays drives, whether HHD, SSD, or Hybrid. In fact it's not been necessary for the past 20 years or so, and certainly not since FAT was generally replaced by NTFS. Yes it's nice to see lots of blue blocks packed together in a drive map display - but if you never looked at a drive map so never saw those blocks then would you notice any difference in your computers performance? I doubt it very much. "Look our tool can show you a chart that looks untidy, and after moving things about it can show you one that looks tidier" But has moving things about changed anything performance wise? Nothing that you'd normally notice Maybe if your drive had had very, very, heavy write/delete/write-new operations and was in a mess, but for most of us I doubt it very much. You are spending time making a tidy looking drive map simply for the sake of making a tidy looking drive map. Again that's one reason why Windows no longer shows you a drive map - if you can't see it then it can't bother you. Moving files to the 'start' of the disc so they can load faster? Years ago with slow spinning drives (maybe even floppys) and slow CPUs that could be important, these days you won't notice any practical difference. Defragging is just something that over the years we have all become 'programmed' to do without really thinking about if it's actually needed. The time you spend doing it is thousands of times more than any time it will save you loading files. If you still want to do it then fair enough that's your choice. I see defragging dissapearing altogether in the next few years, at least for home users. Spinning HDDs are going the way of floppys and it won't be long before we are all using SSDs, except for a few die hards with vintage/vetran setups. Sorry, that turned out a lot longer than I had intended.

Is it set to only clean files that are more than 24 hours old? If so it will not clear from the Recycle Bin any files that you have deleted today. Ele está configurado para limpar apenas arquivos com mais de 24 horas? Nesse caso, não limpará da Lixeira nenhum arquivo que você excluiu hoje.

After adding a new search engine if you want it to be the default used in the address bar then you have to also set that. https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028862491-How-do-I-change-CCleaner-Browser-s-default-search-provider-#how-do-i-change-ccleaner-browser-s-default-search-provider--0-0

Just something else I noticed: You say you have your Firefox proxy setting set to 'No proxy' - Try changing it to 'Use system proxy setting' and see if it will let you do the download then. 'Use system proxy setting' is the default for current Firefox versions.

Good that using a private window let you get CCleaner updated, not so good that you did have to use a private window. I wouldn't worry too much about those strangely named files. It's just something that Firefox does when downloading files, it puts some random letters there and the '.part' until the download is complete. You are seeing them because the download was halted while incomplete. https://fileinfo.com/extension/part It's an odd one because normally SSL errors like that indicate someting wrongly configured with the security certificate at the server end - however if that was the case then the rest of us should also be seeing it in Firefox, but we aren't. Are you seeing any other oddities or is it just this CCleaner (and Speccy) downloading that is playing up for you? Are you able to download other .exe's from elsewhere?

You will need to contact support to cancel your subscription, for security reasons it's not something that can be done on an open forum. You can email them at support@ccleaner.com It's best if you can email them from the email that you used when purchasing CCleaner, if you can't do that then giving them that email will allow them to track down your account more quickly. Alternatively as your computer is no longer functional you should be able to download CCleaner Free on another computer and use your product key to upgrade it to Pro. That should then let you use the Manage Subscription Button in CCleaner itself. https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020674812-How-do-I-manage-my-CCleaner-subscription-#if-you-can-t-see-the-manage-subscription-button-in-ccleaner--0-4

OK, I think you are meaning the 'Recent Files' listing in Quick Access. (I have that turned off myself, which is why it's not in my screenshot, sorry). Can you confirm that? Screenshots showing it before and after running CCleaner would help. Did you also make sure that 'Other Explorer MRUs' was unchecked in Custom Clean? I'd also look at 'Taskbar Jump Lists' setting - because of the next bit:- Reading your original post again I see that you have Windows 11. Apparently the Recent Files going missing from Quick Access is a known issue with Win 11. There can be a few possible causes, See here for more about that and some suggested fixes to try: https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-11-fix-quick-access-not-showing-recent-files/ PS. Although unlikely it may just be that there is something changed/odd in Win 11 and you are the first to notice/report it. If that is the case then it would be good to track down exactly what is happening differently to Win 10..

I think I'd try Revo Uninstaller (Pro or Pro trial) to get rid of lingering traces of Tray Status: https://www.revouninstaller.com/preview-log/?pid=4122&pname=TrayStatus

CCleaner shouldn't touch Quick Access - but I'm thinking that you are actually meaning something different. 'Quick Access' is a folder of shortcuts, you can pin other folders in there so that you can get to them quickly in File explorer. It's also known as 'Frequent Folders'. You can't pin files there, only folders. I suspect that you are actually meaning the list of recently used documents and files. Those lists can be cleared by Custom Clean. The files are not deleted, the files are still there, just not in that list anymore. The settings to control that are 'Recent Documents' and 'Other Explorer MRUs' (MRU = Most Recently Used). Just to be sure - you are using Custom Clean and not Health Check? Those ticks/unticks only apply to Custom Clean, Health Check does it's own thing. EDIT- Just for completeness there are usually similar lists of recently accessed files if you right-click the icons of applications on the taskbar. The setting for those is also in the above screenshot 'Taskbar Jump Lists'.

The fact that you are getting different SSL_Errors indicates that something is awry with your security settings. SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG can be a known issue in Firefox, most of the solutions you see on the web involve disabling some part of your security rather than actually finding out just what is causing it for you. Things to try: Check your systems date and time, check you are in the corect time zone. (Seems simple but errors like this can be caused by your CMOS battery being drained or playing up). Try using a private Window in Firefox. (from the hamburger menu or Ctrl+shift+p) If you are using other than Windows Defender then try temporarily disabling your Antivirus. (Which antivirus are you using?) In Firefox Settings>General>Network settings what is your proxy access set to ? PS. Like Hazelnut I have no idea just what "PKiDDiTB.exe" is, I'd stick with something well know while trying things out. As you say CCleaner was being blocked then stick with trying to download that while testing.

'Defragging' can actually increase FILE fragmentation in some cases. That's because what Defraggler (and most other defragmenters) do by default is not just file defragmenting, they do an 'Consolidation' of the disc as well - and that consolidation is what can fragment files. When Defraggler reports a percentage fragmented that is the File fragmentation, not the whole disc fragmentation. Yes it can be confusing if you are not aware that 2 different things are going on. It gets further confused by the fact that consolidation can also legitimately be called 'disc defragmenting' (as opposed to 'file defragmenting'). What most people think of as 'defragmenting' is actually 'disc defragmenting' ie. just the consolidation bit. That's because they are used to seeing the little boxes flash colours and move about on the drive map when defragmenting, that is actually the consolidation part. (PS. You may have noticed that the built in Windows defragmenter no longer shows a drive map, that's to try and avoid that confusion). 'Defragmentation' proper is 'file defragmenting' and means getting you files into one piece each, so they can be read slightly faster. 'Consolidation' is also commonly called 'drive defragmenting' and means getting your files into the smallest possible space on the disc, which may (will) actually fragment the files themselves to 'fit them in' to the smallest space. By default Defraggler does some of both, - which will be why your FILE fragmentation went up as it split up the files to optimise the disc space. But you can tell it to do either/or depending on just what you are looking to do. Mayny of us these days tell it to do a 'Files only' defrag, (see below), it's much quicker and it's what is usually wanted with todays larger drives. In your case you want to get your AutoCAD files into one piece each, and at the start of the drive. You may be happy with what you have now got it down to, but could get it down more, and try and get rid of some of those white boxes between the files. I'd tackle that in two stages by doing the following. First do a 'Files only' defrag: Analyze as usual then select either 'View files' or the 'Files list' tab. You will see a list of the fragmented files with checkboxes next to them, click the very top box (next to 'Filename') to check all of them. Now click on 'Defrag Checked' and let it defrag the selected files. (Don't worry if it finishes with a messages that some files couldn't be defragmented, that's pretty normal, they are usually system files which have been used again since you analyzed so Defragler knows to leave them alone because they may have changed, the rest have still been done). Next to move them closer together and try to get rid of the white spaces, (an optimisation but without fragmenting them again). Go to the top menu and select Actions>Advanced>Defrag Freespace DONT select 'Defrag Freespace (allow fragmentation)' that will fragment the files again to try and fit them into the smallest space. Once that has finished, and it may take some time if it's a TB sized backup drive, then your files should be in one piece each and as close together as defraggler can get them without fragmenting them.

Are you saying that you cleaned the cookies but hundreds of them come straight back? If you are then that will be because you have your browser synced. (Putting cookies etc. that you have used on all your machines if they are not already there is what syncing is meant to do). Have a read of this, particularly the bits about syncing:

The one you are missing is in CCleaner: Options>Updates>Keep CCleaner updated automatically. Disable that (as well as Smart Cleaning) if you don't want an icon in the system tray. Automatic Updating and Smart Cleaning run in the background, and so Windows puts an icon in the system tray if either/both are running. "Run ... when you start Windows" doesn't run in the background, it just cleans once and then closes. It does also put an icon in the system tray, but only for seconds while it runs. Blink and you'll miss it.

It's a bug. As it's only a preview thing then they will leave the fix till next months update.

Usually if you purchase a new licence using the same email address then the time remaining on the old will be added to the new, it happens automatically but can take up to a day to happen. However there are a couple of circumstances where it doesn't happen automatically, and this looks like one. As it looks like it's more than 90 days before the old licence expires then you'll need to contact support about getting them merged. Send them an email at support@ccleaner.com asking for a 'licence merge' of the old and new licences.

I've managed to turn it on now, so can see what's happening. And yes, whatever it is supposed to be doing, it's just scanning and then showing a blank window instead of any kind of results A post on another forum has said the same. I've asked the staff about it.

It's supposed to be a preview of a new feature. it was announced in the release notes: https://www.ccleaner.com/knowledge/ccleaner-v5-92-9652 Looks as it if it may not be working for the 'small number' who can see it?