Google Search

[George1]

I hope this is the right area for this problem.

My google search has options of how many search results per page, if i want google instant and a few other options.

I set it how I like and sometimes it's OK for a few days then reverts back to default.
I use CCleaner everyday and have it not erase the google cookies, so that's not it as the problem will appear every few days or a week even.

I'm not sure what resets it but I would like to make that file with the settings permanent and not to be overwritten, the files I have are google.com and www.google.com. Under those files if I look at the properties there's no options to have them as read only.

I hope I made the problem clear, any suggestions?

 

[zigzag3143]

I hope this is the right area for this problem.

My google search has options of how many search results per page, if i want google instant and a few other options.

I set it how I like and sometimes it's OK for a few days then reverts back to default.
I use CCleaner everyday and have it not erase the google cookies, so that's not it as the problem will appear every few days or a week even.

I'm not sure what resets it but I would like to make that file with the settings permanent and not to be overwritten, the files I have are google.com and www.google.com. Under those files if I look at the properties there's no options to have them as read only.

I hope I made the problem clear, any suggestions?

I use CCleaner everyday

This is a very bad idea

 

[DustSailor]

Hello George.

My first suggestion would be to stop the use of CCleaner. Now hear me out, I will tell you more things you can try to solve this problem.

I wouldn't use CCleaner unless you are very familiar with that program and/or the registry. If you don't know exactly what you are doing, registry cleaners can mess up your computer:warn:. Also, Windows 7 was made so that it would work quickly without needing a lot of cleaning. There is never a reason to clean your computer more than once a month, if that. It simply will not benefit it any, and may do more harm than good. Windows 7 has a few well built cleaners that come with it as it is, such as disk cleanup and disk defragmenter. Anything else puts more risk in ruining things than actually cleaning them.

Now, it has been recommended to use a complete uninstaller such as Revo uninstaller because Windows doesn't remove every last bit of software at times, but you will need to be careful on that front as well. :info: Always have system restores and backups just in case something goes wrong. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/697-system-restore-point-create.html

Keep in mind that you are the owner of your computer, so I may suggest things based on my experience, but you are free to choose to do follow it or not.

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Now to try and fix this problem.

• May I suggest not (at least temporarily) using CCleaner to test if it is removing your settings.
• What web browser do you use?
• Are you using google search as a search provider or just the google website?

Try going into the Internet options (Internet Properties) and change some settings:

• General (tab)>Browsing history: Is "Delete browsing history on exit" checked?
• General (tab)>Search: Click "Settings" and make sure the google search provider's status is set to "default"
• Privacy (tab)>Settings: What are the settings set to? Medium?
• You can change some more settings in the Content (tab) under autocomplete and check what you would like saved, such as your browsing history.
• Have you ever changed any settings in the Advanced (tab) of the Internet Properties?

When or if you use Disk Cleanup, do you delete the temporary internet files? These are needed if you want to save information on the browser.

*Edit* Zigag got here first. Yes, it is a bad idea to use cleaning software a lot. Think of it in physical terms. If you scrub a plastic plate over and over, every day, eventually it will bear signs of heavy use through scratches, and possibly even holes after a time. This is the same for your harddrive. Constant scrubbing is eventually going to wear it down, and you might scratch off something you needed after a while...

 

[JMH]

I use CCleaner everyday ...

More is NOT always best.
What you are doing is overkill & certainly not recommended.

If you ever think your Registry needs to be cleaned, repaired, boosted, tuned-up, cured, tweaked, fixed, or optimized it shouldn't.

Note - IMO - there is no reliable way for a third party program to know whether any particular key is invalid, redundant or neither.
Some registry cleaners may not know for sure whether a key is still being used by Windows or what detrimental effects removing it may have.
This has led to examples of registry cleaners causing loss of functionality and/or system instability.

 

[George1]

Thanks zigzag3143, JMH and DustSailor for the posts, all points have been noted.

I do use CCleaner a lot, maybe 5 times a day and use the registry portion every couple days.
It's not unusual to have a gig or two in the temporary internet files directory daily.

I'll follow the suggestions and also not use the registry cleaner anymore. I thought the registry cleaner was harmless but I probably have been lucky that nothing else was harmed as far as I can tell.

Now to try and fix this problem.

• May I suggest not (at least temporarily) using CCleaner to test if it is removing your settings.
• What web browser do you use? IE9
• Are you using google search as a search provider or just the google website?

Try going into the Internet options (Internet Properties) and change some settings:

• General (tab)>Browsing history: Is "Delete browsing history on exit" checked? yes
• General (tab)>Search: Click "Settings" and make sure the google search provider's status is set to "default"
• Privacy (tab)>Settings: What are the settings set to? Medium? yes
• You can change some more settings in the Content (tab) under autocomplete and check what you would like saved, such as your browsing history.
• Have you ever changed any settings in the Advanced (tab) of the Internet Properties? Yes, not sure which ones though but everything works except the google search options.

When or if you use Disk Cleanup, do you delete the temporary internet files? I always clean those, they use over a gig a day.
These are needed if you want to save information on the browser.

 

[Faceofjoe421]

When or if you use Disk Cleanup, do you delete the temporary internet files? I always clean those, they use over a gig a day.
These are needed if you want to save information on the browser.

1GB a day, I barely get 1MB a week , but yes I have Private Browsing on every Browser.

 

[zigzag3143]

Current accepted wisdom with win 7 is to NOT use a cleaner at all. If you have a Gig of temp files a day something is wrong and needs to be fixed.

IMHO there is no way to get a gig of temp files from browsing in a single day.

 

[JMH]

Thanks zigzag3143, JMH and DustSailor for the posts, all points have been noted.

I do use CCleaner a lot, maybe 5 times a day and use the registry portion every couple days.
It's not unusual to have a gig or two in the temporary internet files directory daily.

George,
You are welcome indeed.

A reminder.
Make sure you do your computer housework on a regular basis.

If you do everything should be ok.
Eg
Check Disk.
Defragment
Disk Clean Up
etc

FYI...

Increase PC speed: Optimize your computer, help your PC run faster

 

[George1]

Current accepted wisdom with win 7 is to NOT use a cleaner at all. If you have a Gig of temp files a day something is wrong and needs to be fixed.

IMHO there is no way to get a gig of temp files from browsing in a single day.

Some of those are some kind of videos at sports web sites, it's unwanted stuff.
Others are from streaming videos, some of these are saved as I can find them.
Not unusual to have over 200 megs in 2 hours. I check it with CCleaner using the analyze option.

Thanks all for the suggestions!

 

[DustSailor]

Current accepted wisdom with win 7 is to NOT use a cleaner at all. If you have a Gig of temp files a day something is wrong and needs to be fixed.

IMHO there is no way to get a gig of temp files from browsing in a single day.

Some of those are some kind of videos at sports web sites, it's unwanted stuff.
Others are from streaming videos, some of these are saved as I can find them.
Not unusual to have over 200 megs in 2 hours. I check it with CCleaner using the analyze option.

Thanks all for the suggestions!

Wow. You save the videos to the disk and then delete them? Are they a required download in order to watch them or something? I've never heard of so much space being taken. You aren't able to just watch them and delete them (if you are going to delete them anyway)?

Really haven't heard of something like this before, so this is fairly interesting to me. 2 hour videos every day! Good grief! lol

Keep us posted!

 

[derekimo]

Current accepted wisdom with win 7 is to NOT use a cleaner at all. If you have a Gig of temp files a day something is wrong and needs to be fixed.

IMHO there is no way to get a gig of temp files from browsing in a single day.

Some of those are some kind of videos at sports web sites, it's unwanted stuff.
Others are from streaming videos, some of these are saved as I can find them.
Not unusual to have over 200 megs in 2 hours. I check it with CCleaner using the analyze option.

Thanks all for the suggestions!

Wow. You save the videos to the disk and then delete them? Are they a required download in order to watch them or something? I've never heard of so much space being taken. You aren't able to just watch them and delete them (if you are going to delete them anyway)?

Really haven't heard of something like this before, so this is fairly interesting to me. 2 hour videos every day! Good grief! lol

Keep us posted!

A lot of videos get saved to the browsers cache when played, that's one way to save videos you've watched, tools like this help too,

Play offline/Save .flv video files from Web browser cache

Back to topic....

 

[DustSailor]

What I mean is I'm not sure how it is possible to have that much space sucked up from watching movies. I watch movies all the time, from youtube to hulu, and they don't drain my harddrives one bit. And I don't often clean my temp internet folders or anything else. I am wondering what the OP did that caused this phenomenon of harddrive space consuming.

 

[George1]

For instance, instead of TV I have a site that has every episode HOUSE and I'll watch those or any other series I want. Then the news, sports etc.

Some of these sights save it to disk in the temporary internet file directory. I can find them and move them, rename them and save them. But I want to get rid of them most the time.

The hour shows are about 42 minutes, no commercials.
I finished a few TV series from start to end like this and it's there when I want, on demand I guess.

Some streaming doesn't put it on the Hard Drive though, it depends on the site and how they have it set up I guess.
If I use CCleaner I can just look for a big file with a avi or mp4 etc. extension. If I don't clean it I have to sort by time and look for the recent big file.

I don't save any of these files, they just save themselves depending on the site.

I don't have a TV anymore.

 

[DustSailor]

George, are you saying you watch these movies, but you will never really watch them again?

In that case, you can decrease the size of the Temporary Internet Files. My set size is perfect for me, I wouldn't go over that, but up to you. You might even consider reducing the size by a large amount as you seem not to want to use Temporary Internet Files very much. You can delete history and all sorts of other stuff with these options if you prefer to save the space and you don't need them. Reducing the Temporary Internet Files will keep you from having to delete the files all the time with a cleaner.

:note: Set the Temporary Internet Files to automatically check for newer versions of web pages, and it will automatically delete old ones that exceed your disk space limit.

:info: You might consider using derekimo's link if you want to save any of these shows: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/video_cache_view.html

Here is a pic to help you out:


Here is the size of my Temporary Internet Files in Disk Cleanup:

 

[Faceofjoe421]

I would recommend staying away from online TV Shows.

Usually it is illegal to watch online anyway unless it is the Official site: for example: South Park would be legal to watch on Comedy Central and would be illegal to watch on All SP or watching Inbetweeners on e4.

Another thing to point out is there are malware and viruses on these sites, often asking to install Programs or Codec packs just to view them, especially since you have IE, if you do chose to continue to watch these video's please upgrade to Firefox or Chrome along with a Anti-Virus and a Firewall, that way you can be safer.

 

[George1]

A lot of videos get saved to the browsers cache when played, that's one way to save videos you've watched, tools like this help too,

Play offline/Save .flv video files from Web browser cache

Back to topic....

I'll give it a try, thanks.

 

[George1]

George, are you saying you watch these movies, but you will never really watch them again?

In that case, you can decrease the size of the Temporary Internet Files. My set size is perfect for me, I wouldn't go over that, but up to you. You might even consider reducing the size by a large amount as you seem not to want to use Temporary Internet Files very much. You can delete history and all sorts of other stuff with these options if you prefer to save the space and you don't need them. Reducing the Temporary Internet Files will keep you from having to delete the files all the time with a cleaner.

:note: Set the Temporary Internet Files to automatically check for newer versions of web pages, and it will automatically delete old ones that exceed your disk space limit.

:info: You might consider using derekimo's link if you want to save any of these shows: Play offline/Save .flv video files from Web browser cache

Here is a pic to help you out:
View attachment 188962

Here is the size of my Temporary Internet Files in Disk Cleanup:
View attachment 188963

I made the changes, thanks for the information.

 

[George1]

I would recommend staying away from online TV Shows.

Usually it is illegal to watch online anyway unless it is the Official site: for example: South Park would be legal to watch on Comedy Central and would be illegal to watch on All SP or watching Inbetweeners on e4.

Another thing to point out is there are malware and viruses on these sites, often asking to install Programs or Codec packs just to view them, especially since you have IE, if you do chose to continue to watch these video's please upgrade to Firefox or Chrome along with a Anti-Virus and a Firewall, that way you can be safer.

These sites almost always ask to download something but I don't trust them.

 

[DustSailor]

lol I disagree with the "upgrade to firefox or chrome" speech, as IE9 is perfectly upgraded and one of the best. The browser you use is up to you though. Keep in mind Google's Chrome logs information about your online use . I'd stay away.

 

[George1]

Just lost my search settings on google again.
The settings were good for a few days but just now are lost.

What I have to do is go into google under options>search settings.
The option: google instant predictions is set to on but should be off, something reset it.

I was just browsing the web and clicked on a few links from this site, when trying to google some related links only 10 results came up but was previously 100.
The whole settings on google have been reset to default.

Any ideas on how to prevent this would be appreciated, thanks!