CCleaner Behaving Oddly

Originally Posted by Demon

To uninstall the ccleaner you can use uninstaller software.. It will help you to remove it properly.

From the 'Similar Threads' Listing below, it seems there may be a problem with the 64-bit CCleaner.

Originally Posted by Cheemag

I am still having issues with CCleaner-64. When it stops responding, a restart followed by running it again usually succeeds. However I'm now having shutdown problems as well - it's taking all of 5 minutes to shut down.

I've run Vipre Rescue several times as well as Malwarebytes Pro and Avast!; they turn up nothing. I'll try RKill, but I don't think it'll find anything either. A re-install wouldn't hurt ...

Have you tried reinstalling CCleaner?
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Originally Posted by Cheemag

I am still having issues with CCleaner-64. When it stops responding, a restart followed by running it again usually succeeds. However I'm now having shutdown problems as well - it's taking all of 5 minutes to shut down.

I've run Vipre Rescue several times as well as Malwarebytes Pro and Avast!; they turn up nothing. I'll try RKill, but I don't think it'll find anything either. A re-install wouldn't hurt ...

Have you tried reinstalling CCleaner?
Here's another software similar to CCleaner

Originally Posted by Starbeetle

Have you tried reinstalling CCleaner?

Yes, on a CCleaner update. The install froze, had to do a restart, then it installed and worked. I'll try reinstalling it when it next misbehaves.

Yesterday I tried RKill immediately followed by a scan with Malwarebytes Pro and Avast! - it was clean.

Ran the Windows=7 disc cleanup tool - WinTV-7 stopped working and had to be reinstalled.

I think I'll revert to XP - it's certainly easier to maintain !

Here's

another software similar to CCleaner

Thanks.

using rkill already, seems like a drastic step, site says ' after running it you should not reboot your computer as any malware processes that are configured to start automatically will just be started again.' might be slowing your shutdown. have you looked at your scheduled tasks? msconfig? i would run enhanced windows cleaner to clear out detritus, and run checkdisk for good measure, wise registry cleaner is a great free cleanup tool that i use, they have other free tools too. i would also look at registry streams for malware, use ADS Spy to root them out free, and why are you using avast? i use mse, and consider it better protection.

I love that final hint on the rkill how to: On a final note, when you download and run RKill, certain anti-virus programs may state that the program is a security risk. This is because some of the tools used by RKill can be used for good or bad, though the programs themselves are perfectly harmless, and most anti-virus programs just lump them into the bad category. I assure you we are using them only for good purposes (nice to be 'assured' lol)

Originally Posted by Cheemag

Yes, on a CCleaner update. The install froze, had to do a restart, then it installed and worked. I'll try reinstalling it when it next misbehaves.

Yesterday I tried RKill immediately followed by a scan with Malwarebytes Pro and Avast! - it was clean.

Ran the Windows=7 disc cleanup tool - WinTV-7 stopped working and had to be reinstalled.

I think I'll revert to XP - it's certainly easier to maintain !

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Thanks.

No problem, my friend

Originally Posted by kurteb

I love that final hint on the rkill how to: On a final note, when you download and run RKill, certain anti-virus programs may state that the program is a security risk. This is because some of the tools used by RKill can be used for good or bad, though the programs themselves are perfectly harmless, and most anti-virus programs just lump them into the bad category. I assure you we are using them only for good purposes (nice to be 'assured' lol)

Indeed. Avast! wanted to run all RKill's processes in a sandbox, which would have defeated what RKill was trying to do. I was aware of this possibility.

It ran, followed by Malwarebytes Pro without turning up any malware. Vipre also completes with no malware found.

Originally Posted by kurteb

using rkill already, seems like a drastic step, site says ' after running it you should not reboot your computer as any malware processes that are configured to start automatically will just be started again.'

I was aware of this - I didn't reboot.

might be slowing your shutdown. have you looked at your scheduled tasks? msconfig? i would run enhanced windows cleaner to clear out detritus, and run checkdisk for good measure, wise registry cleaner is a great free cleanup tool that i use, they have other free tools too. i would also look at registry streams for malware, use ADS Spy to root them out free, and why are you using avast? i use mse, and consider it better protection.

I did run enhanced Windows cleaner (if you mean the bulit-in tool). It wrecked my WinTV-7 installation !

Checkdisk corrected a minor problem.

I'll try the others, but it's behaving itself for the moment. What is 'mse' ?

Originally Posted by Cheemag

I was aware of this - I didn't reboot.



I did run enhanced Windows cleaner (if you mean the bulit-in tool). It wrecked my WinTV-7 installation !

Checkdisk corrected a minor problem.

I'll try the others, but it's behaving itself for the moment. What is 'mse' ?

mse is microsoft security essentials, good protection re: malware and viruses, think of it as payware for free from windows, does a great job, better, in my estimation, than Avast and far better than AVG, did you runADS Spy? I sure would, it can find malware lurking in registry streams. get it here: Merijn.nu
oh, enhanced window clleaner has powerful options, as you discovered lol. I tried glarysoft, they're not bad, i use wise registry cleaner 7 now, i think it's better, works well with ccleaner, too. You can get it at Wise Registry Cleaner - Best Free Registry Cleaner - speedup slow PC in one minute they also have a 5 star cleaner for free too:
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