Windows 7 CCleaner Behaving Oddly

Cheemag · Jun 6, 2012

CCleaner usually behaves itself, but often (today) it will not scan beyond 33%, System, Temporary Files. The programme stops responding at that point.

I tried to uninstall it with Revo, but it wasn't listed there. Took it out via Control Panel.

Re-downloaded it, but the installation stopped responding after a few seconds. Closed the install via System Explorer. Next attempt failed in the same way, but I noticed that, in System Explorer, a file ping.exe was running with it. Killing ping.exe allowed CCleaner to install, but on running it still choked on System - Temporary Files, stopped responding and had to be killed.

Restarting the machine made no difference, but closing it down first and then restarting allowed CCleaner to complete without choking on the temporary files.

Any ideas?

[Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP-1]

jaydeee · Jul 3, 2012

I am also a fun of ccleaner.
Your situation is really odd. I think your computer is infected by virus or malware. Suggest that you the following:
1. run rkill
2. immediately run malwarebytes
3. full scan using your antivirus, suggest Avast.
reboot, then try to installing ccleaner again.
hope it helps.

Cheemag · Jul 8, 2012

kurteb said:
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

Ah yes I know MSE, but it only has incoming virus protection, although I suppose it's fair to say that the router firewall probably makes up for this deficiency. (?) As Avast! free now seems rather determined that I must have Google Chrome as well, I think I may take your advice re MSE.

oh, enhanced window clleaner has powerful options, as you discovered lol.

Maybe, maybe not. WinTV-7 had to be reinstalled again yesterday, so that may not have been due to W-7's cleaner.

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

I've had the Glarys in the past and I've now put WRC on both machines. As Windows 7 is is now OK, WinTV apart, we shall have to wait and see.

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