Ccleaner doesn't like W8

Phage · 19 May 2013 at 06:54

Having just spent the best part of the day rebuilding my installations, I thought I'd just warn anyone using ccleaner, not to on W8. They don't play we'll together.
The Registry fixer can bork all sorts of weird stuff.

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=38504
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/4256-73-delete-files-folders-owner-admin

Phage · 19 May 2013 at 10:05

Not in this case. The UAC wouldn't allow me to anything. Funny, it used to work perfectly with W7 and earlier.
Still I have a nice clean install now ! I had to re-download BF3 though because for some reason I don't understand I wasn't able to restore the EA Games folder from backup. Some sort of odd DRM ?

Phage · 19 May 2013 at 12:01

Like the links - my UAC and power management were borked. I couldn't delete files or folders. But I've used it for years on W7 and previous versions.

Phage · 20 May 2013 at 10:40

I used it for cleaning out the temp files and cache, and startup.
I didn't know Windows can clean out cruft as well. Where is that ?

Phage · 21 May 2013 at 06:58

Thanks. I'll do that.