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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
I use CCleaner everyday to purge my browsing history, etc.
It used to run faster. It takes quite a while to even remove "counters.dat", whatever that is. I don't remember it being an issue before. Evidently, I can accumulate 2000-8000 "tracking files" without even doing a lot of browsing (how is this possible?). I don't even use the IE browser, yet it seems to takes a while to remove Internet explorer data. It is true that I am using an older version of the CCleaner app, but I don't believe this is the issue. Thank you for your guidance! Bill |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 17:03:43 -0400, Bill wrote:
| I use CCleaner everyday to purge my browsing history, etc. | It used to run faster. It takes quite a while to even remove | "counters.dat", whatever that is. I don't remember it being an | issue before. Evidently, I can accumulate 2000-8000 "tracking | files" without even doing a lot of browsing (how is this | possible?). I don't even use the IE browser, yet it seems to | takes a while to remove Internet explorer data. It is true that | I am using an older version of the CCleaner app, but I don't | believe this is the issue. Thank you for your guidance! | | Bill You don't set your browser to delete your browsing history when you close it? Firefox on my systems is set to clear everything except cookies for sites I visit often. When I run CCleaner, it usually deletes almost nothing from Firefox. I run the free version of CCleaner only before each backup, but keep it up to date. It runs quickly. Larc |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
Bill wrote:
I use CCleaner everyday to purge my browsing history, etc. It used to run faster. It takes quite a while to even remove "counters.dat", whatever that is. I don't remember it being an issue before. Evidently, I can accumulate 2000-8000 "tracking files" without even doing a lot of browsing (how is this possible?). I don't even use the IE browser, yet it seems to takes a while to remove Internet explorer data. It is true that I am using an older version of the CCleaner app, but I don't believe this is the issue. Thank you for your guidance! Bill Use Process Monitor to track the I/O operations. The current version may not be WinXP compatible, so you might need to look for an older version for WinXP. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...nloads/procmon This is the info for WinXP: Version 3.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20150117...rnals/bb896645 I had some trouble with the download link. I hope this works. https://web.archive.org/web/20150208...essMonitor.zip ******* The trace control is a tick mark in the file menu. Remove the tick mark to stop the trace from collecting any more data. The filter is not important to collecting a trace. Later, you can set the trace to: "Operation" "Is" "CreateFile" "Operation" "Is" "ReadFile" "Operation" "Is" "WriteFile" You can also limit the process name to whatever ccleaner actually uses for operations. By watching what it's doing, what file seems to take many seconds to process, you can tell us what area of the file system it's spending all this time. ******* I have a browser (Seamonkey) which doesn't properly clear the caches when you select that from the menu. To deal with Seamonkey I delete a few things manually. I'm not a CCleaner user, so I hope that much can get you started. Start ProcMon, which will start tracing right away. Start CCleaner. When CCleaner is finished and exited, stop the trace in ProcMon using the File menu tick box, then have a look at what happened. Paul |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
Paul wrote:
To deal with Seamonkey I delete a few things manually. I AM using Seamonkey too! Are there some things that aren't getting deleted that you could tell me about? Maybe that's where the process time is going....too much on "counters.dat"! Bill |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
Bill wrote:
Paul wrote: To deal with Seamonkey I delete a few things manually. I AM using Seamonkey too! Are there some things that aren't getting deleted that you could tell me about? Maybe that's where the process time is going....too much on "counters.dat"! Bill I don't have a "counters.dat" on the C: drive. Try Procmon. ******* Things I search for: _cache === search a level above this, for any additional junk # === flash related +++ === files with URL names, tracking via video playback webappsstore.sqlite === grows with time, tracking something Those are examples. Paul |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
On 01 Jul 2018, Paul wrote in
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt: I don't have a "counters.dat" on the C: drive. I do! Three of then, in fact. I have no idea what they are or what they do. I don't think I've ever used IE on this Win7-64 computer. C:\Users\me!\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Tem porary Internet Files\counters.dat C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\L ocal\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\counters.dat C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\L ocal\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\counters.dat |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
Nil wrote:
On 01 Jul 2018, Paul wrote in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt: I don't have a "counters.dat" on the C: drive. I do! Three of then, in fact. I have no idea what they are or what they do. I don't think I've ever used IE on this Win7-64 computer. C:\Users\me!\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Tem porary Internet Files\counters.dat C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\L ocal\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\counters.dat C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\L ocal\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\counters.dat Would those be for Internet Explorer ? I checked the other machine, and it doesn't have those either. (Searched with Agent Ransack on a Win10 install.) Mind you, I don't use IE all that often. Paul |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
Bill wrote in part:
Paul wrote: To deal with Seamonkey I delete a few things manually. I AM using Seamonkey too! Are there some things that aren't getting deleted that you could tell me about? Maybe that's where the process time is going....too much on "counters.dat"! With any browser which stores lots of user-data, annually I save a minimum of required data (bookmarks, contacts for those who use them), then create a new blank user profile and use it. This leaves a lot of cruft behind in the old profile. Hard to pick out what to delete, just trash it all after the new is working. -- Robert |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
Robert wrote:
Bill wrote in part: Paul wrote: To deal with Seamonkey I delete a few things manually. I AM using Seamonkey too! Are there some things that aren't getting deleted that you could tell me about? Maybe that's where the process time is going....too much on "counters.dat"! With any browser which stores lots of user-data, annually I save a minimum of required data (bookmarks, contacts for those who use them), then create a new blank user profile and use it. This leaves a lot of cruft behind in the old profile. Hard to pick out what to delete, just trash it all after the new is working. -- Robert I appreciate that tip! TYVM! Bill |
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Slightly off-topic: Tracking Files
Bill wrote:
Robert wrote: Bill wrote in part: Paul wrote: To deal with Seamonkey I delete a few things manually. I AM using Seamonkey too! Are there some things that aren't getting deleted that you could tell me about? Maybe that's where the process time is going....too much on "counters.dat"! With any browser which stores lots of user-data, annually I save a minimum of required data (bookmarks, contacts for those who use them), then create a new blank user profile and use it. This leaves a lot of cruft behind in the old profile. Hard to pick out what to delete, just trash it all after the new is working. -- Robert I appreciate that tip! TYVM! Bill Most browsers have an "Export Bookmarks". That's the bit worth saving. In some browsers, the option is buried three layers deep, as if they don't want you to know the option is available. This converts proprietary formats such as ..jsonlz4 or some binary database format, into something you can use for "import" later. This should be done before making significant changes to the browser and trashing the possibility of Export. Paul |
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