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Just used CCleaner for the first time. As far as I can see WMP has been removed - (although nothing in the Recycle Bin which worries me a bit) but I still get the full WMP Components display window opening whenever I start up? Also shortcuts keep disappearing from my desktop. I have an updated version of Norton running so can't see that I would have a virus.

 

Catperson :angry:

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...Some shortcuts disappearing here as well.

 

Windows xp media centre

 

 

 

And all my CD DVD drivers were disabled and had to be enabled again - as well as the WMP Programs window opening every time I start up..................and its wiped my favoutie screensaver!! I'm seriously regretting using this and I will NOT be recommending it.

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If it caused you problems, you could try use "System Restore" function in Windows.

 

Sucks that the source code isn't available for inspection to see what is doing what and what could potentially cause trouble, because not the first time I heard people loosing stuff after using CCleaner, and loosing data sucks, especially if it is important data.

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because not the first time I heard people loosing stuff after using CCleaner.

 

Same here, and I'm not going to use any popular one-liners like "CCleaner can't do that," etc., but then again I'm not about to bash CCleaner either. It may have something to do with how systems are configured/mis-configured, who knows.

 

I've personally witnessed on more than one occassion of shortcuts getting corrupted immediately after using ChkDsk /f or ChkDsk /r so it's no wonder in that situation that CCleaner or any other like-minded utility would detect a bad shortcut. But with that said on my WinXP Admin account CCleaner wants to remove a number of default OS created shortcuts that are valid - thus I unticked in Issues for it to detect bad shortcuts for that Admin account.

 

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Oh and I forgot, even using a System Restore point has the ability of breaking a shortcut!

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Well - I'm calling it a day now. I don't so much mind throwing ?10 away as the mess its made of my computer. I have to work and don't have time to look for remedies for remedies.......I'm uninstalling CCleaner and will post the list of drawbacks which I personally have discovered every Forum I go into.....might save some other people from this experience.

 

Good luck with your own probs............

 

Catperson

 

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I aint no rocket scientist. but I use Ccleaner 3 times a day & have NEVER had any problems. And doubt I ever will as long as I dont mess with stuff I dont know about. like advance settings. Instead of bashing this fine freeware i,d suggest You look for other problems with something more reliable then NORTON. & You said You are running a newly updated NORTON . Hum ? Thats where I,d start lookin for problems. Just My opinion. Cowboy

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Well - I'm calling it a day now. I don't so much mind throwing ?10 away as the mess its made of my computer. I have to work and don't have time to look for remedies for remedies.......I'm uninstalling CCleaner and will post the list of drawbacks which I personally have discovered every Forum I go into.....might save some other people from this experience.

 

Good luck with your own probs............

 

Catperson

 

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Well, you can try "System Restore" to see if that fixes your system.

 

 

I aint no rocket scientist. but I use Ccleaner 3 times a day & have NEVER had any problems. And doubt I ever will as long as I dont mess with stuff I dont know about. like advance settings. Instead of bashing this fine freeware i,d suggest You look for other problems with something more reliable then NORTON. & You said You are running a newly updated NORTON . Hum ? Thats where I,d start lookin for problems. Just My opinion. Cowboy

 

Yeah, I once had Norton on my computer, and then my mom found out and she almost disowned me.

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Well, Cowboy, I hear what you're saying - but my experience has been that if something runs quite ok and you have no problems for three or four weeks and then you install something else and everything goes bananas - you would have to use some weird kind of logic to blame the one that has been fine up till then!!!!! I well know the Norton and McAfee knocking arguments - I found problems with McAfee but have had Norton for a year already without anything going wrong - so I speak as I find.

 

As a result of what has happened since running CCleaner I am putting my computer in the hospital for a bit of TLC - I don't think I have time to sort out all the things that have gone wrong.

 

I carefully selected for it ONLY to clean WMP, incidentally, and read all the stuff about how to use it, too........It didn't even manage to do that properly or I might have tried to overlook the rest!

 

Never mind - live and learn, etc. I've heard about other folks downloading items that knocked their systems for a whammy! CCleaner has been my turn.

 

Thanks to all you people who wrote re this subject - I will be logging off for good now. CCleaner will be cleaned shortly and I can go back to my happy existence in cyberspace.

 

Bye now

 

Catperson :D

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