Is It Safe To ((BETTER)) Download Ccleaner
Cinderella Zollman
Why you running it in safemode? The only purpose in running things in safe mode is when the malware is stopping programs from running in regular mode. You are experience odd behavior for the whole point of SF. Malware cant be completed loaded into memory .
The amount of times we see members suggesting run MBAM is shocking. It's an option that can be used if all else fails. A Bad option. MBAM relies on runtime files in the net library. The same as CCleaners c++ uses libs.
same problem even after updating ccleaner to the latest cersion , please help. i gave you long and enough time to solve the problem and nothing happened.i love ccleaner i'm trying to not replacing it with another software. ask me anything you want even if you wanna enter my pc and fix it.
I know this is a very old topic, but just wanted to report that this bug is STILL present in CCleaner v5.61... with Windows booted in safe mode, CCleaner will always auto close when analysis stage reaches 100%. No problems when booted in normal mode using the same cleaning settings / options. Tested in 2 different PCs with Windows 8.1 x64 and Windows 10 1903 x64, same behavior.
A system cleanup / maintenance software that can't be run in safe mode? This is absurd. If at least the auto close happened only after the cleanup procedure, it wouldn't be so serious, just an annoyance - but as it is, this is a serious functionality-impairing bug. Please Avast/Piriform, get around to fixing this.
- as someone else said, people want to do mainentance tasks (like using a cleaner) especially when there is a problem, so it's very likely people that have a problem causing them to go to safe mode will use a cleaner as part of their mainentance tasks. The usability in this scenario is significant, so it's not an excuse to say "why use a cleaner in safe mode".
It's a technical CCleaner issue, you cannot put it on the user. Maybe CCleaner relies on a driver that cannot work properly in Safe mode, or something like that or mentioned (about web end) earlier, but if anything is going on, then it's a result of CCleaner doing awkward things (that can fail in safemode) or relying on unconvential things.. yeah, because most competiting cleaners can work properly.
Taking note of the above I would suggest that setting the 'Match by', Ignore', and 'Include' similar to these screenshots is the safest (best) way to search for your own duplicates, you may want to 'add' more paths to search.
This first will search only user Steve's Documents, Downloads, and Pictures folders and report only any exact duplicates found there whatever they are named.
The reason why is because I don't want to exit Safe Mode until I'm finished cleaning up some malware but I also want to uninstall some programs and then use CCleaner to clean up all the temp files and registry while in safe mode. Some files that might be resistant to cleaning are more easily cleaned while in safe mode.
Portable does not require a USB drive, it just means that it's no install and leaves no traces (registry/%appdata%) on the PC. you can extract it to the desktop (or anywhere else) as long as you are in safe mode with networking (in order to download it of course).
I am not sure if this is the right thread, but I want to clean my pc , with CCleaner. I have been aware that CCleaner got hacked lately and I want to know if it's solved and if it's safe to install CCleaner now?
It could be said that it is indeed safe to use, but unfortunately ALL registry cleaners have some element of danger behind them. While CCleaner does use methods of scanning that are safer than most cleaners, the best method of cleaning would probably be to manually pick through all the keys detected to make sure that they are indeed safe to clean, as well as taking a backup (and remembering where it is and what its named) so that if you fail to notice some important key, it can easily be restored by double clicking the backup.
Probably not. The windows registry is essentially the central database used to store the settings for users, programs, and the system. Its not something that can be tampered with without at least some knowledge of what you're doing. This isn't to say the registry cleaner will definitely break your computer, and in most cases it is safe to remove the majority of keys CCleaner detects, however if you really have no clue what you're doing, and/or how to undo what you've done, I really wouldn't recommend you use this feature.
First and foremost, if you can boot into windows at all (this includes safe mode,) try restoring the backup you should have taken when cleaning the registry. After merging the registry keys you cleaned, and rebooting the computer doesn't work, its likely not caused by ccleaner, and you should try a System Restore. If worst comes to worst, try using a windows recovery disc or the windows recovery console to fix your system files without data loss, thus allowing you to rebuild whatever configuration was lost.
CCleaner uses a lighter method of cleaning and is "safer" (term used lightly) than ones that dive into the deepest parts of the registry. You wont get support for those programs on this forum though.
I always run CCleaner's "Cleaner" button scan in order to remove temporary files and other junk from the computer. Let's say you just installed a program. The installer most likely extracted its contents to temporary files and then these temporary files were executed in order to install the program. Once the new program installation is done and the computer has been rebooted if requested or recommended by the installer, then these temporary files are no longer needed and are just taking up space on your computer's hard drive. Thus, click the "Cleaner button" and get rid of the temporary files first, and then click on CCleaner's "Registry" button and scan the registry. The first thing you should notice will be registry entries which have the word or part of the word "temp" in the path. Those are registry entries which are pointing to those now non-existing temporary files. Obviously those entries are safe to remove since the program installer's temporary files no longer exist on your computer.
Have a close look at the registry entries which CCleaner wants to remove. Are some of those registry entries obviously referring to a program which you no longer have installed on your computer? If so then of course those entries are safe to remove. If you are not sure about the entry listed in CCleaner, simply right-click on the entry to view where it is located in the registry. You likely will find that it is indeed under a registry key with the uninstalled program's name or the program vendor's name. It should be relatively straightforward for you to determine that it is indeed safe to remove those entries.
This is another pretty simple thing for CCleaner to check. If you manually moved an application's installed location, at least CCleaner will show you what registry keys you need to edit in order to (hopefully) get the application working correctly! Yet computer users usually don't do silly things like moving folders under Program Files around to different locations on their computer's hard drive. So it is pretty darned safe bet to simply let CCleaner zap any erroneous entries it finds under this category.
If CCleaner lists registry entries for missing shared DLLs, then those are safe to remove unless for some reason you manually moved those DLLs to a different location! Nobody would do that unless they were trying to mess up their computer. Any missing shared DLL entries, if they list a full path to the DLL and the DLL's name, are safe to remove since CCleaner could not find the DLL on your computer at the specified location. In other words, the DLL is gone. This can happen if for example a user simply deleted an installed program's folder rather than running the program's uninstaller in order to remove the program or if the program's uninstaller was poorly coded. In any event, it normally is quite safe to clean these entries -- but there is ONE EXCEPTION, SO READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY:
Scan for issues and see what CCleaner reports. Sometimes security software will zap unsafe ActiveX controls yet not remove the registry entries for that ActiveX control from your computer's registry. Sometimes a user will manually delete the ActiveX control. I've done this once or twice, particularly with regards to browser toolbars or programs which when uninstalled don't always remove their ActiveX controls. The result is that the registry now contains information for a now non-existent ActiveX control. Let CCleaner zap these invalid ActiveX entries.
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