PCCleaner Descriptions:

PCCleaner, also known as PC-Cleaner by a lot of people, is the latest counterfeit anti-spyware software that endangers the world of computers. PCCleaner usually installed itself onto your PC without your permission, through Vundo Trojan, Virus or fake software. PCCleaner will display fake system alerts or fake security alerts to trick user to buy the paid version of PCCleaner, in order to remove the potential and reported problems. Not only does it cause your machine to slow down dramatically, it would also put your privacy and data in risk.

Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility.

Manual Removal Instructions:

Stop PCCleaner Processes:
(Learn how to do this)
PCCleaner.exe

Find and Delete these PCCleaner Files:
(Learn how to do this)
PCCleaner.lnk
PCCleaner.exe
%ProgramFiles%\PC-Cleaner\com\pcsd.dll
%ProgramFiles%\PC-Cleaner\PC-Cleaner.db
%ProgramFiles%\PC-Cleaner\PC-Cleaner.exe
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PC-Cleaner\log.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PC-Cleaner\settings.dat
%UserProfile%\Desktop\PC-Cleaner.lnk
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temp\[RANDOM FILE NAME].tmp
%ProgramFiles%\PC-Cleaner\pccleaner.pkg
%ProgramFiles%\PC-Cleaner\program.info
%ProgramFiles%\PC-Cleaner\Uninstall.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PC-Cleaner\Register PC-Cleaner.lnk
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PC-Cleaner\Start PC-Cleaner.lnk
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PC-Cleaner\Uninstall PC-Cleaner.lnk
%CurrentFolder%\log

Remove PCCleaner Registry Values:
(Learn how to do this)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\PCCleaner
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PC-Cleaner
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{82297D11-31C1-40B1-960A-BDF40B3B365F}
HKEY_CURRENT_USERS\Software\PC-Cleaner
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\pcsd
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{82297D11-31C1-40B1-960A-BDF40B3B365F}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\PC-Cleaner
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PC-Cleaner

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A scrambled Rubik’s cube can be solved in just 25 moves, regardless of the starting configuration. Tomas Rokicki, a Stanford-trained mathematician, has proven the new limit (down from 26 which was proved last year) using a neat piece of computer science. Rather than study individual moves, he’s used the symmetry of the cube to study its transformations in sets. This allows him to separate the ‘cube space’ into 2 billion sets each containing 20 billion elements. He then shows that a large number of these sets are essentially equivalent to other sets and so can be ignored. Even then, to crunch through the remaining sets, he needed a workstation with 8GB of memory and around 1500 hours of time on a Q6600 CPU running at 1.6GHz. Next up, 24 moves.

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Thus far we covered the steps necessary to capture a system image with Hyper-V installed, and how to install Windows and Hyper-V at the same time without dealing with system images at all.

Let's take a step back and talk about system images again.  Images are a great way to deploy a customized version of Windows to many different workstations or servers without having to go through the effort of configuring each system independently of each other.

Even if you're just setting Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 up from a DVD, you're still using an image to do the installation.  If you look on the DVD in the \sources folder, you'll find a file called install.wim.  WIM stands for Windows IMage, and it's an actual image of a real Windows installation that Setup applies directly to your hard drive (and then manipulates a bit, but that's a different story).

You can also make your own WIM files using the imagex.exe tool that ships with the Windows AIK, which I'll link to again. 

The cool thing about WIMs (and there are actually many, but I'm just going to stick

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To search for files on my PCs, I use Windows Search - Windows Vista's desktop search feature. I use Windows Search specifically to find photos that I've tagged in Windows Live Photo Gallery or important emails and Word documents. I also rely on saving specific searches that I can go back to later on. Searching and being able to find important files quickly on my PC is very important to me.  And Windows Search allows me to "find my stuff" whenever I need to. Today we get to see a little "preview" of the next step for Windows Search. The Windows Search Team is making available Windows Search 4.0 Preview - a preview of the next version of desktop search for Windows.

Windows Search 4.0 introduces several improvements I'd like to call out making search even better in Windows Vista:

• With Windows Search 4.0, the Windows Search Team has fixed most of the reported bugs causing a majority of distractions users have seen since Windows Vista RTM - many of those bugs were reported by you.
• Great improvements have been made with regards to performance.Even now as Preview, Windows Search 4.0 has query response time about 33%faster than search queries

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What does Microsoft and Hello Kitty have in common? They both have products packaged in hot pink. As a special promotion for the Japanese market, an upgrade version of Windows Vista Home Premium is bundled with a year’s subscription of Windows Live OneCare and a copy of a Vista tips and tricks book. If that deal isn’t sweet enough, then you better know it comes in a pink box with little flower pedals plastered all over. Imagine checking out of the electronic store with a copy of Crysis in one hand, and this in the other.

Once you install any older version of Windows the Windows Vista no longer starts and only the older version starts.This happens because older versions of the Windows OS are incompatible with the new Windows Vista startup method. Windows Vista uses a new Boot Configuration Database (BCD).

Now follow these steps to solve that problem :


Use Bootsect.exe to restore the Windows Vista MBR and the boot code that transfers control to the Windows Boot Manager program.

This can be done by typing the following command at a command prompt:

Drive:\boot\Bootsect.exe /NT60 All

Here Drive is the drive where the Windows Vista installation media is located.