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Has something new come along? It's been so long since I've needed to do this that I assume CCleaner has enshittified by now.

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[–] [email protected] 222 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Absolutely not. It was sold to a third party with nebulous privacy policy among other annoyances. Get you some Bleachbit.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Awesome I'll look into that one. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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 😂

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

How do you know?

More specificly, how did you break your system? What did you do? Did you "clean" your partition table or something?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Oh joy. Must also be why they don't have portable versions anymore.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 11 months ago

Ccleaner has been a malware for at least 5 years.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago

Are these cleaning apps still a thing?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Honestly I just run WinDirStat and do it manually.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wiztree is like a hundred times faster, fyi.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He's not exaggerating. I didn't believe it was possible but holy shit so much better.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This but SpaceSniffer instead.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Spacesniffer for me. Also portable. But I'll check out wiztree for funzies.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Spacesniffer is my preferred alternative.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kind of an unsettling name

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Stay away from this garbage. Use BleachBit.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago

You shouldn't really need this kind of program. Stay away from registry cleaners especially.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago

Oh, now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

do not use it. it's bad.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

This is a fucking public service announcement

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

The last time I used it, it deleted my progress in Cookie Clicker. Never again

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

No, it starts up and pesters you even if you disable it as a startup service. Malware.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let me dig up that Ubuntu ISO link right quick...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Bleachbit vs BCUninstaller vs WinDirStat vs Wiztree, which should I prefer? I am currently using BCU.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Wiztree is so much faster than WinDirStat it's silly. Never looked back. Maybe things have changed?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

In a similar vein: Is spybot s&d still effective anti malware/virus?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Windows Defender does its job for "free".

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You just dunk the hard drives in some bleach. All the bytes will be wiped away.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Patch cleaner is also handy, to clean out that windows installer folder.

https://www.homedev.com.au/Free/PatchCleaner

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