outdated drivers

In my opinion CClaener became a heap of steaming poo around 5 or 6 years ago when they started adding more functionality unrelated to it's previous core functions.

It's debatable if it, and many other such programmes, are actually required now on Win11 which itself looks after many of the same functions.

C Cleaner has lost it's way.

Windows has this concept of executable computer programs called "drivers", which like other executable computer programs (OS utilities and applications) can contain code with bugs, performance and security issues.

This does worry some, but others get on perfectly fine with

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it...."

The last spoken line in Clint Eastward's Magnum Force is a good one ;-)

I think there are some security vulnerabilities in the Intel Management Engine but just update it via the normal tools.

Dave

Those all look like mostly motherboard chipset drivers. If you do a windows update check and then click the "View optional updates" link, there may be a section on drivers that you can expand out and select.

That will ensure that only drivers from a trusted source are installed.

As does every other OS...

While true, keep in mind that drivers run in the windows kernel at the highest level of privilege, and so have the power to bring down the whole system should they fail - windows can't catch faults in driver code with a "oops it did something naughty, I have stopped it" kind of response - it is blue screen time and a reboot.

This is why drivers need to be tested, proven and certified to a much higher standard than "normal" code.

OK All. I will follow the above suggestion.

Thanks for the reassurance. C Cleaner uses these issues to lure users into paid membership. On the W7 box, I joined up and then dropped out before the end of the trial period:-)

Remove CCleaner

And let me guess .... directs you to a "updatemydrivers.com" site that requires £££ ???

Pass. When I briefly joined with the W7 PC, they did the job for me.

This, This a million times.

It doesn't seem to do any harm apart from butting in at odd moments. I only let it remove stuff it says is unwanted.

Was I the only one expecting a thread ranting that old farts (like me and most of this group )should not be driving on the roads.

GH

That's the problem - IT says it's unwanted.

With the greatest of respect Tim, you're not qualified in any way, shape or form to make statements like that. Some of us are. Delete it, you don't need it.

Indeed. Someone failed to teach me Algol around 1970! Some of us are. Delete it, you

So what will then happen to the piles of stuff?

Ha Ha There is a club of motorists only found on the road between 9.30am and 4.30pm. Distinguished by rigid adherence to speed limits. Sadly, I am a member. I have yet to try coloured anti dazzle lens when caught out after dark.

Oh I still drive at night. What is tough is that at this time of year the edge of a muddy wet country road is indistinguishable from the muddy dead grass bordering it...with a few Gigawatts of white hot LEDS staring at you...

What piles of stuff?

I work for a company with a significant number of Windows laptops (about

Having seen the questions you ask, you're the kind of person who should steer well clear of making registry changes and certainly not running a cleaner. Seriously. Just leave the registry alone.