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Cleaner has some unique pluses. But I prefer Bleachbit for a custom thorough cleaning.
 
No Disrespect, Joey. But I would, with reservation, disagree. Ccleaner is old and tried. It does what it says. As a hobby, and to advise locally, I love to test programs which are brought to my attention. I examined Bleachbit (which I had never previously heard of) All I could find Strictly IMHO, was a more complicated way of doing precisely what Ccleaner does.
 
Well, I note Joey didn't make any claims that Bleachbit was better, just that he preferred it.

While CCleaner has been around longer, I note Bleachbit is over 10 years old too and has been "tried" as well. So not sure that matters.

Personally, I think Bleachbit is for different audiences. Yes, it works on Windows, but Bleachbit is a "cross-platform" application that works with Linux and Mac systems too - something CCleaner does not do. That could be a major plus for some.

And clearly, Bleachbit's UI is less refined, more for the "hands-on" folks - again that may be a plus for more advanced users.

That said, I much "prefer" CCleaner too and I feel for most "Windows" users, CCleaner is the way to go. But I also feel for most "Windows" users, Windows own "Disk Cleanup" is more than adequate and it's already in there. In fact, if folks are looking to free up some disk space because it is getting critically low, Windows Disk Cleanup is the best solution. Why? Because it is counter-productive to download and install yet another program that takes up disk space when disk space is already critically low.
 
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Digerati, I appreciate your un-bios view.

I do like Bleachbit more... and yes it is more advanced... not for the novice. It can Kill the wrong stuff if you are a newbie.
 
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v5.63.7540 (15 Oct 2019)
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- This release contains an important security update and some minor bug fixes and UI updates

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v5.63.7540 (15 Oct 2019)
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- This release contains an important security update and some minor bug fixes and UI updates

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People on this forum still using Ccleaner after being bought out by Avast and the privacy issues?

I used to use Speccy by them, all the time back in the day when I built PCs. And it was a great little tool.

Anyway just curious what the community here thinks about Ccleaner now a days with Windows 10 being so much better than the WinXP days when Crap Cleaner originally came out, etc.
 
I still use CCleaner and l have unchecked a few option boxes and not getting privacy issues.

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I did like it being the one stop way to clean everything out on my computer. Hm, I might give it another shot?
 
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I did , very carefully, work through the options, but bottom line, it did disrupt a couple of things which Windows 10 wasn't too happy about - Word pad. my favourite for notes, for example, went haywire and took abut ten minutes to open!
 
I don't use any of the automatic cleaning features so I cannot comment on them. But the new CC update went fine. And after davehc's comment about WordPad (which I use a lot instead of Notepad too), I tried it after cleaning with CC and it popped right open with no problems - this was on two different PCs and a notebook here. So I can only suggest there might have been an issue with your WordPad Dave, and not CC breaking it.

I do NOT like the Health Check feature at all! One of the things that sets CC apart from the "gimmicky" (and often reckless or even malicious) "optimization" programs that promise to make our computers better than new and perform other miracles is it would not find all sorts of "problems" then prompt you to pay extra to fix them. Well that is exactly what Health Check is doing. In my case on this machine, it found 1 problem with my Security but it is locked and I need to buy the CC Pro version to "Unlock Now" to fix it.

That gimmick to scare users into paying to fix their systems is one of those things that causes CC to be lumped together with all Registry cleaners and other optimization programs - applying their bad reputations onto CC. Too many times do I spend seemingly hours defending CC simply because other posters insist "all registry cleaners are bad and they will brick your computers". FTR, I have used CC registry cleaner probably more than a 1000 times on dozens if not more than 100 computers and never, not once, has it brick one. At worse, a simple reboot cleared any hiccup.

Now I will say this about the Heath Check Security finding on this machine. It is displaying the problem but very faintly. It is so faint on my display I almost missed it. It shows that 1 problem is my 7-Zip program is out of date. I have version 18.1 and the latest is 19.0. So I am glad I can see what needs to be fixed so I can up date it manually. But not sure I would call that a security issue here. If it found one my security programs or the OS itself was out of date, that would be merit reporting.

Anyway, I gripe, but I still thing CC is one of those must have utility programs and I will continue to install and use it on all my systems. And while I appreciate the fact the company must make money to pay their developers, and while I do understand the marketing concept that "New and Improved" sells, I just with they would stop trying to fix something that ain't broke and stop adding features people don't need that just add bloat.
 
Ok. I must take back my Ccleaner criticism. I think the problem may have been with a faulty update from MS. It was a while ago I gave up on Wordpad. I tried it again, after reading digirati’s post — Now working perfectly. Great news - My favourite word processor. ,!!
 
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