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Stoic Joker:
But as far as showing up in blue, I've never seen this in XP using Windows Explorer, all the icons are yellow by default.
-Tinman57 (June 03, 2013, 03:23 PM)
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No no, not the icons...the text label/file name will be in blue for compressed files and green for encrypted files. This has been a default behavior since Win2k. Folder Options->View Tab->Advanced Settings: Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color.

Tinman57:
On the second item (the "sneaky spyware installer")  - where did you get your download from?  I just downloaded the 0.9.5 installer from Sourceforge (again) and installed on my 6 month old Win 8 box.  The Sourceforge download does not contain anything other than Bleachbit - you pick a language and the next box is the Gnu General Public License.  You didn't pull it down from CNet did you?  Sounds like someone repackaged it with OpenCandy in front.

(FWIW, it cleaned out 2.47gb of cruft on my box, and I did not select all of the options...)

On the first item, superceded updates may be sitting there in your SoftwareDistribution folder (have not checked) but they wouldn't be downloaded in the first place, would they?  Unless you tell your PC to download but not install updates, then you don't install updates...  If they're superceded then they won't get installed so there is no uninstall folder to clean out.  But one of the things Bleachbit does it empty out SoftwareDistribution which will get re-filled as needed next time you check for updates. -x16wda (June 03, 2013, 08:45 PM)
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 I used a link that was supposed to download the lite version that wasn't supposed to have the spyware included.  Yeah, they told a fib on that one.....

  The updates are downloaded to your hard drive.  The superseded ones never get removed from your Windows folder.  But I think I found a simple solution, I zipped the all up and copied it to my external USB drive if I should ever need to uninstall one....

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