Absolutely not. It was sold to a third party with nebulous privacy policy among other annoyances. Get you some Bleachbit.
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Awesome I'll look into that one. Thanks!
Be very careful with Bleachbit, it's very powerful and can ruin your system if you go too far cleaning. Ask me how I know 😂
How do you know?
More specificly, how did you break your system? What did you do? Did you "clean" your partition table or something?
Let's say, I checked too many boxes and messed with the root directory. Anything that shows as "slow" is dangerous
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Not that person but I tried to do the secure cleaning mode where it zeros empty space but I think I was also downloading something at the same time. This was several years ago but I vaguely recall my system being unable to boot.
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Oh joy. Must also be why they don't have portable versions anymore.
Ccleaner has been a malware for at least 5 years.
Honestly I just run WinDirStat and do it manually.
Wiztree is like a hundred times faster, fyi.
He's not exaggerating. I didn't believe it was possible but holy shit so much better.
Yeah, just grabbed it and gave it a try. Took under 4 seconds to scan the same drive that WinDirStat took a full 3 minutes to scan.
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This but wiztree instead.
Spacesniffer for me. Also portable. But I'll check out wiztree for funzies.
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Are these cleaning apps still a thing?
Stay away from this garbage. Use BleachBit.
I remember CCleaner being good. But that was a long time ago. Looking at the site now, I feel like I wandered into a Tel Sell advertisement.
I was gonna ask you what made CCleaner bad before I took a look at the sites. But CCleaner literally sells you privacy as a pro feature, whereas BleachBit puts privacy in the second sentence as a core aspect of the tool.
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You shouldn't really need this kind of program. Stay away from registry cleaners especially.
I don't think I've used any cleaner product since the Windows XP days. I don't view it as necessary anymore.
One of the other programs to see file size on disk recommended on this thread should be enough.
I would highly recommend O&O ShutUp10++ to reduce built in spying in Windows. It's good at explaining what each option you're doing is. The only thing I would caution on is changing the Edge browser policies with O&O. That will lock it down into enterprise mode and you won't be able to change certain settings through the UI anymore.
I don’t think I’ve used any cleaner product since the Windows XP days. I don’t view it as necessary anymore.
I'm the same. Haven't used one since those days and I work in IT.
Oh, now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
do not use it. it's bad.
Honestly these days the built in Windows tools are more than enough. Storage settings gets the job done.
Also I love Linux too guys but those comments with nothing else aren't very helpful.
This is a fucking public service announcement
The last time I used it, it deleted my progress in Cookie Clicker. Never again
No, it starts up and pesters you even if you disable it as a startup service. Malware.
Bleachbit vs BCUninstaller vs WinDirStat vs Wiztree, which should I prefer? I am currently using BCU.
Wiztree is so much faster than WinDirStat it's silly. Never looked back. Maybe things have changed?
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In a similar vein: Is spybot s&d still effective anti malware/virus?
Windows Defender does its job for "free".
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Patch cleaner is also handy, to clean out that windows installer folder.
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You just dunk the hard drives in some bleach. All the bytes will be wiped away.
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