BleachBit v0.9.5
webfork on 13 Feb 2013 Change history
- 7MB (uncompressed)
- Suggested by guinness
BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and safeguards your privacy. You can erase cache, Internet history, cookies (including the much-maligned "evercookie"), DOM storage, unused localizations, and temporary files of 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more. Additional applications can be added with the community authored winapp2.ini cleaner list in the Preferences - General tab (requires restart).
Includes wipe function to protect privacy, includes support for 52 languages, and available for Linux.
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| System Requirements: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Wine |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Dependencies: | Administrator rights |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| License: | GPL |
| How to extract: | Download the ZIP package labelled 'portable' and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch bleachbit.exe. |
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13 comments on BleachBit
webfork
2010-03-02 02:30
A clean and simple program with results comparable to ccleaner, and open source. Good stuff.
zandy
2010-06-06 20:56
repeatedly froze at 5%...
darkest
2010-10-06 16:18
is it better than ccleaner?
Andrew
2010-11-16 22:54
Zandy: Read the FAQ about "takes a long time" http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/documentation/faq
darkest: Results vary by individual computer and even by day. One way to find out is to try one program and then another. If the second program is "better," it will find some things the first does not. However, each will probably find a few things the other does not. Some other thoughts: CCleaner added the popular SQLite vacuuming feature long after it was in BleachBit, but CCleaner was first, is oldest, and has more users (at least on Windows). Also, CCleaner has shredding options (e.g., Gutmann) which suggest the authors either don't know how they work or add them only for marketing hype (explained here http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/documentation/shred-files-wipe-disk)
webfork
2010-11-17 21:44
Andrew: excellent note about file wipe requirements. Gutmann is like changing your car oil every 50 miles: its unnecessary, wasteful, and time consuming.
Loner
2010-12-13 04:20
After reading about this program having a larger footprint than CCleaner, I think I'll stick with CCleaner, it works fine for me.
Fergus
2010-12-13 09:06
0.8.2 (and previous versions) worked fast and well but 0.8.3 hangs mid-use for me. And for others, looking at BleachBit's forum. So I'll stick with 0.8.2 till this is sorted.
Fergus
Faust
2010-12-20 03:37
@Andrew, well I'm unable to trust a program written by someone who favors the opinion regarding data erasure of an economist over that of a computer scientist, nor am I able to trust a program author who posts to a thread badmouthing his competition without properly identifying himself.
YShayahu53
2011-01-02 14:37
Download is not working:
http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/download/file?file=BleachBit-0.8.5-portable.zip
Andrew Ziem
2011-01-05 19:29
Faust, Daniel Feenberg is (according to LinkedIn) currently an IT Director at the National Bureau of Economic Research, so Wikipedia's label of "economist" appears to be a mistake. Also reference the 2006 NIST Special Publication.... so which computer scientists claim any data can be recovered after one pass? Also, I thought it was generous to write that each cleaner probably finds things the other doesn't and that CCleaner is older and more mature. CCleaner is not a bad tool and certainly does many things well.
webfork
2012-03-16 01:56
Used this to clean up more than 6 gigs of information off a reasonably old Win 7 x64 machine recently. I don't know that it had a major impact on speed, but certainly like that extra 6 gigs. Love this program.
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File size is quite big for a cleaning program. CCleaner is about a third of the size and does most of BleachBit's jobs.