Kramy Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 A friend of mine was removing toolbars and stuff in CCleaner. He removed something, the list refreshed, and suddenly tons of hidden stuff was visible. Just taking a quick look, it appears to be windows components and OEM preinstall stuff. Things that should NOT be visible. They are not visible in Programs and Features, so it seems to be CCleaner specific. Uninstalling and reinstalling did not correct it. How do we shut off these important components being visible, so that he doesn't remove something important? At one point it was also showing every supported language for the AMD Catalyst Control Centre, although that disappeared after a reboot and driver update. Totally unrelated, but the forum software just took a bunch of large perfect quality 80KB PNGs and turned them into blurry small hard to read 240KB JPGs. Nice! -Kramy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted March 25, 2014 Moderators Share Posted March 25, 2014 They're all PNG's from what I'm viewing, just click them to open them full-size in a new window. Yeah they're a bit blurry, if it bothers you there are free image hosting services available with the added benefit they won't count against your forum upload MB limit. As for the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (umpteen versions) in particular those also show on my system. I pay them no attention because Revo Uninstaller also shows them with the system components view turned off, they're just from normal Windows installers which are uninstallable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winapp2.ini Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 The pics look fine to me. That aside, that is really weird. There's an appwiz repair tool distributed by microsoft somewhere that might fix that for you though (though it might not since you said it's not a problem in appwiz) winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramy Posted April 3, 2014 Author Share Posted April 3, 2014 I don't believe it's normal to show DirectX10 or any of those Windows Live sub-components as removable components? Seems like a bug to me. If you actually remove them, bad things happen. They're all PNG's from what I'm viewing, just click them to open them full-size in a new window. Yeah they're a bit blurry, if it bothers you there are free image hosting services available with the added benefit they won't count against your forum upload MB limit. As for the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (umpteen versions) in particular those also show on my system. I pay them no attention because Revo Uninstaller also shows them with the system components view turned off, they're just from normal Windows installers which are uninstallable. I don't believe they are? The forum resized them, but checking the background the white is no longer pure 255,255,255. It has a mixture of other whites, which is what JPEG usually does. Also, the filesize doesn't match up - when I take the image after the forum has altered it and save it as PNG, it drops by 80KB. That suggests the forum resizes and saves lossy, but doesn't bother to adjust the file name. I could be wrong... but that's what it looks like. I'd need to re-download a hex editor to confirm it. Any which way, the simple solution is to check the filesize before and after resizing, then decide which one to keep. Edit: Attached Image. -Kramy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ache Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 Best way to prevent him from deleting "important" things, is to teach him about the OS he is using and about computers. What really can/will be helpful, is if he starts using a limited account instead of a account with admin rights for daily use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramy Posted October 18, 2014 Author Share Posted October 18, 2014 This is still a problem. On certain PCs, way more is shown than should be. 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