Recent content by RichM

It actually makes sense that temps is a place that Malware and Adware frequent, the only time I clean the temps out is if I am running scans and I want to speed them up...hello holdum old friend! Nice to see you back!

DaveHC, I guess the answer becomes as possibly argumentative as favorite Antivirus...but you do realize the minute you wipe temps more come right back so to keep the drive "spotless" you would have to have Ccleaner running a pemranent scan in startup and always on...absurd of course it is but...

Ok I didn't know that but was aware of the sneak attempts to install Avast by Ccleaner recently....my point hasn't changed though whether you want to comment on the size of hard drives or not, the average user doesn't choose the size of his or her hard drive Hp, Dell or Lenovo do and the facts...

Yes maybe "they leave a ton of temp files behind" but so what? Can you please tell me why when the average user uses approximately 15% of the average hard drive space they have it is necessary to clean temp files that are only recreated in seconds anyway? Suggests you should use this awful...

If you must "clean your system" why not use the suggested Windows Disk Clean, you don't have to go anywhere and risk downloading some scumware from sites like piriform which is a cesspool of useless software. "cleanmgr /sageset:50" as suggested in Windows 10 in a run box or "cleanmgr.msc" in any...

I just restored with Macrium to 1607 and every issue disappeared sorry to say. I wish I could turn updates off because I am going to give a wide berth to CU next time unless I read the issues have gone away.

Yup my scans showed little of any impact and I uninstalled a few perhaps troublesome programs i.e. "Crypto Prevent" which I have had issues with in the past and Cirtix and the problems remain so I will soon go back to an image file and escape this mess.

BBJ is spot on here as I personally have reverted or reinstalled over 100 machines who did upgrades by choice or claimed they "have no clue how upgrade occurred" during the Free install period. I can't think of a single unit that upgraded to Windows 10 from 7 or 8 that survived with the possible...

geoffwba7 try this little bat file attached

the icon issue occurred right away the shutdown took a few days before that happened. The icon issue occurred right away on restart on some but it took moving a few icons on other units before it happened. The shutdown failure occurred several days later, not right after the CU.

There are a lot of neat things in this Update but there are a few things to watch out for. I have 2 desktops that would not shut down until I went in and unchecked "Fast Startup" in Power Options. Everyone I have known to do this sees about 1/2 their desktop icons pushed towards the center and...

Funny I never liked Corsair Ram mainly because who knows whose it is and I have seen two different mfgrs under same serial number so there is no way to predict experience.

I would sooner run my car over my computer rather than using System Mechanic, at least that way you can see the damage immediately. With System Mechanic it could take quite a while until it ruins your system. Third party "cleaners" not only don't clean anything, they usually create irreversible...

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Not so Neemobeer, Mbam has always claimed to be the only AntiMalware program that uses heuristics.