Sometimes, I find that Firefox appears to close fine, but remains running in the background. There is a file it creates when you start it up called 'parent.lock' and this is the last modified file once you close it (the file disappears the moment the browser is completely unloaded form the system). However, it may be experiencing an issue where that file remains and the browser never 'officially' closes, even though it disappeared from the Desktop. To check this, do a three fingered salute (CTRL + ALT + DEL) to bring up Task Manager and look through the list of "Processes" for Firefox. If it remains in the list longer than a minute after closing the browser, click on it once to highlight the line and then click on the End Task button to truly shut it down. Then, try running CCleaner again. It should no longer warn you that Firefox needs to be closed. Peace, Gman http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php "The entire future of humankind is yet to be written" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 5:56 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Java Update--now CCleaner >I set a system restore and ran the Cleaner part. It said it would skip > Mozilla Firefox unless I closed it. It is not open but perhaps it sees > the > Firefox Preloader. The only options are for the preloader and it has > "unload Firefox preloader" and also an option to "unload Firefox" What > action do you advise? Or am I kind of on my own here since not many have > the pre-loader as well as CCleaner? I did proceed to Clean without doing > anything to Firefox or the Preloader and it cleaned 120/1 MB. > Sandi --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------