rlg118 Posted February 12, 2017 ID:1101335 Share Posted February 12, 2017 I ran AdwCleaner on my wife's Windows 8.1 desktop today. After it ran, it disappeared! I think Windows ate it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSntgRvr Posted February 12, 2017 ID:1101339 Share Posted February 12, 2017 20 minutes ago, rlg118 said: I ran AdwCleaner on my wife's Windows 8.1 desktop today. After it ran, it disappeared! I think Windows ate it! Search for adwcleaner*.exe. Open its location. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlg118 Posted February 12, 2017 Author ID:1101340 Share Posted February 12, 2017 The executable (adwcleaner_6.043.exe) vanished from the folder it was in. As in "gone". So did the previous version (042) after I ran that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSntgRvr Posted February 12, 2017 ID:1101342 Share Posted February 12, 2017 4 minutes ago, rlg118 said: The executable (adwcleaner_6.043.exe) vanished from the folder it was in. As in "gone". So did the previous version (042) after I ran that. Very strange. Hasn't seen that. I will give it a test. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSntgRvr Posted February 12, 2017 ID:1101343 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Adwcleaner produces a folder, C:\Adwcleaner. Is it there? Check the quarantined items on your security. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlg118 Posted February 12, 2017 Author ID:1101344 Share Posted February 12, 2017 (edited) She's playing games doing some productive work right now, so I won't know until later. Edited February 12, 2017 by rlg118 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlg118 Posted February 13, 2017 Author ID:1101366 Share Posted February 13, 2017 OK, I found it. That doesn't mean it makes sense... The AdwCleaner folder is, indeed, on the C drive. There's no executable in it. I originally sent the executable from my laptop to a folder called "Rob's Stuff" on my wife's D drive, which is a WD 4TB external drive. That's where it disappeared from earlier today. Tonight, I found it in the "Downloads" folder, on the F drive. (C and F are built in. C is an SSD.) Windows must have put it there, because I did not. The time signature is earlier today, so I did not dump it there some other time and forget about it. Want more? I copied the executable to the AdwCleaner folder and ran it. Then the icon changed to a Windows "generic" program icon. When I tried to launch it a second time, Windows notified me that the program "could not run on this PC". I can run it from its location in the Downloads folder, so there it will stay. Bizarro World. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff jboursier Posted February 13, 2017 Staff ID:1101517 Share Posted February 13, 2017 Hello, AdwCleaner doesn't move itself from where you've downloaded it. The folder C:\AdwCleaner\ is only used for internal usage (logfiles...) and doesn't store the executable. Regards, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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