CCleaner - TPFC

Ganamyde

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:53:04 -0400

Here is an updater for it, it also has an option to update Winapp2
http://heilnizar.deviantart.com/art/CCleaner-CCleaner-Winapp2-Updater-312311257

guinness

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:40:00 -0400

WinApp2.com has just push the 1000 programs mark for cleaning additional applications that CCleaner doesn't.

Shadeclan

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:02:24 -0400

Can't live without this app. I don't know how many problems I've fixed, with others' computers as well as my own, just by running CCleaner once.

shodan816

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:04:37 -0400

At least one problem remains in the latest version - V3.20.1750. If you COPY either your SendTo menu or your Program Files menu (or any part of it) to a TEMP folder and then delete the copy from there to the Recycle.Bin, CCleaner will delete the folder contents (the *.lnk files) but not those folders themselves. Looking in Windows Explorer, it APPEARS that CCleaner deleted them, but viewing them through a superior file manager such as XYplorer, or better yet from the Command Line, you will see those folders still exist.

TP109

Wed, 30 May 2012 05:11:07 -0400

@juvera

Good info

juvera

Mon, 28 May 2012 15:11:56 -0400

Sad update on the cleaning capabilities of CCleaner.

Yesterday I was triumphant, because I had the impression that CCleaner had cleaned my computer from persistent cookies.
That was based on a test on Youtube immediately after running CCleaner: the videos I watched last Fall had at last disappeared from the right pane. But today, the cookies have had
enough time to be resurrected, either from a steganographic code in a png file or from a marketing firm that is keeping track of what I am doing on my computer.

CCleaner cleans some of the cookies, but to be efficient a cleaning tool should be able to clean the THIRTEEN locations where persistent cookies can be stored (http://samy.pl/evercookie/), otherwise the cookies are re-spawned.

juvera

Sat, 26 May 2012 17:33:11 -0400

This version of CCleaner seems to have cleaned the Flash cookies on my machine!
But FireFox Addon: Better Privacy 1.68 did not!

I am Baas

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:15:27 -0500

@laurent6277
Good for you. It's 2.63 on my PC. You have just won a one year free access to TPFC database update service. Congratulatuions. The laurent6277 collection sounds cool too.

laurent6277

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:54:02 -0500

2.53 M not 9 M, on my machine

SYSTEM

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:38:57 -0500

Thanks Ruby. :) I have edited the extraction instructions.

guinness

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:15:44 -0500

Thanks for the tip, I was using a custom launcher but seems this isn't required anymore.

Ruby

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:52:39 -0500

In the [ How to extract ] it says to [ Launch CCleaner.exe (or CCleaner64.exe for 64-bit) ] however, launching 'CCleaner.exe' will run a OS/System check and launch the correct 'bitness' (i.e. CCleaner64 for 64bit).
So, if you use a launcher; just assign 'CCleaner.exe' and make sure both CCleaner.exe and CCleaner64.exe are in the same folder.

jurdz

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:57:38 -0500

nice

dany

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:53:20 -0400

@juvera win7 x64 here and well, um, the LSO's get removed on my machine... weird, maybe a permissions issue.
It won't cripple your system, but afaik that's also the location where Adobe stores the update logs and certificates etc... since CC works for me, I let CC handle it all.
Use the variable %APPDATA% in your batch, much cleaner and also 'portable' in a way. It expands to C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming

juvera

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:50:55 -0400

@Dany, Thank you Dany. I double checked: CCleaner does not remove these folders on my system (Win7). I do not know why, but I believe you.
My bat removes the two folders that are re/created at the moment I enter the web sites using these technologies (date/time match). Therefore my conclusion is that these folders are used only by the LSO web sites, and it does not harm my system to delete them.

dany

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:44:16 -0400

@juvera
1. CCleaner does remove LSO's. Under Application > Multimedia and make sure you tick Flash Player. Go on the internet and get some LSO's, visit youtube or something. Scan with CCleaner. The results should show 'Multimedia - Flash Player' entries. Right click and choose 'view detailed results'. There are your LSO's.
2. You are removing way more than just the LSO's in your bat there...

juvera

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:01:15 -0400

CC is possibly a great tool, but it does not clean LSO-cookies.
I believe there are LSO-cookie killers around, some even portable, but to the best of my knowledge you can create your own portable LSO-cookie killer. Here is how:

Step 1: On your desktop create a text-file. I named mine: nolso.txt

Step 2: Copy these 2 lines in your file:
rd /s /q C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Adobe
rd /s /q C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia

You must replace XXX with the name of the user logged in.

Notes: rd means remove directory. /s means: remove recursively subfolders, /q means do not ask for confirmation.

Step 3: Save your file

Step 4: Rename the file nolso.bat

Step 5: Run it every time you want to get rid of these respawning cookies.

Comments and additions are welcome!
How can you know when you are doing the right thing right!

Tripod

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:23:34 -0400

Superfluous language dll's in /lang (currently totalling 1.26MB):

To follow up on this further: as per message posted at piriform forums below (url munged by this site's posting script, reconstruct manually from the visible), it seems that English (GB) and English (USA) at least are built into ccleaner.exe itself as these two are listed by respective decimal numbers in the page quoted below but do not appear in the /lang subdirectory of ccleaner; so if you want only these languages just delete all the lang-*.dll's...

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=32535&st=0&p=193275&hl=+english%20+language%20+dll&fromsearch=1&#entry193275

Posted 12 May 2011 - 02:50 PM

http://www.science.co.il/language/locale-codes.asp
Look at the "Decimal" column.
English is included into the program.

zak_711

Fri, 27 May 2011 11:13:01 -0400

I use the "brutal way"; as they don't know ( in C Cleaner forum ), I run opera.exe; then you can see ....

Emka

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:08:56 -0400

Oh, what do I have to add to winapp2.ini so that it cleans portable Opera just as thouroughly as an installed one?

zak_711

Thu, 26 May 2011 12:22:40 -0400

The list of unofficial programs works only with installed programs; f.e. cleaninig opera portable requires manual entry of relative paths

Technomancer

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:29:17 -0400

I've used CCleaner since I first found it a few years ago. It gets better every time they bring out a new version and it's safe and easy to use.

I've made a couple of donations to them and if you REALLY like it it helps them to develop it further.

the_watcher

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:39:52 -0400

i was ready to update the post with the correct link to the "list...". guinness did it first :)
always one step ahead :)

Magibon

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:28:01 -0400

the link for "list of unofficial programs" is not working.

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=32066

Magibon

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:35:21 -0400

F.Y.I

Great tutorial on how to add entries in "Winapp2.ini":
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/25527-CCleaner-101

Ralph

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:51:31 -0500

Screenshot shows old version please update

freakazoid

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:09:35 -0500

To save space delete the x64 version and delete the /lang/ folder (if your first language is English), if you do this your CCleaner folder should be 2.1 MB now.

Wizzer at Colour4Free

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:21:24 -0500

I have tried out UPX compression on all portable versions since 2.27. None of them run after compression. Version 2.27 is the last that can be UPX compressed and still run. You can find it on the FilePig.org site

yorap

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:56:55 -0400

same here
CCleaner doesn't work any more after compression with upx2.0.7
CCleaner introduced TLS callbacks

ArnaudNime

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:28:36 -0400

Take care ! CCleaner doesn't work any more after compression with upx2.0.7