Re: CCleaner Portable
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 3:21 am
Anyone else noticed how big this thing is now - 170MB? Seems it was only a fraction of that a little while ago.
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The change history shows that when Checker updated the entry to version 5.09, he changed the "size" field from 17782233 (17 megabytes) to 177856985 (170 megabytes). Looks like he accidentally inserted an additional digit, multiplying the size by ten.TP109 wrote:Anyone else noticed how big this thing is now - 170MB? Seems it was only a fraction of that a little while ago.
Sorry for thatSYSTEM wrote:... Looks like he accidentally inserted an additional digit ...
Bad news.
This could mean that bundleware is coming to CCleaner. Avast uses bundleware pretty extensively and will often do something like install Chrome and make it your default if you don't uncheck a couple boxes before clicking the Update button.
Thanks for pointing this out and looking into the problem. I'm so frustrated right now. Good idea on jumping to the Softpedia version -- I'll tackle that now.ashghost wrote:The download link for CCleaner is currently dead ... the other way I can think of to avoid having a dead link between an initial release and the release of the portable version would be to change the download link to point to a 3rd party, like Softpedia.
Hey your portable version is offline:
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
lists a portable version but the resulting page:
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/builds
... only lists the installer.
If you goto the old portable download page, it just sits there:
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/portable
I've discussed this here:
https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums ... hp?p=88595
Thanks!
Wf
I didn't see any of this after testing both 5.38 and 5.37 in Sandboxie myself, they act and scan in the same exact manner.ashghost wrote: I extracted the installer with 7-zip and created an empty file called "portable.dat", and it seemed to work. However, using the extracted installer version seems to generate cookies and bookmarks in my Firefox profile as soon as I run ccleaner64.exe (I see changes to cookies.sqlite and webappsstore.sqlite in Sandboxie; I didn't try to see what those changes are). I wondered if maybe Piriform got hacked again, but I downloaded the 5.37 installer from FileHippo, extracted it, and it does the same thing. Version 5.37 from the zip file does not do that.
Thanks! I investigated further and you're correct: the behavior does not vary based on the version, but rather whether the settings exist: if there's an empty ccleaner.ini file (or a portable.dat file and no INI), CCleaner touches the cookies.sqlite and some other files in installed Firefox and Chrome profiles on first run. Upon closing CCleaner, it saves settings to the INI file, after which it no longer modifies those files on running.Special wrote:I didn't see any of this after testing both 5.38 and 5.37 in Sandboxie myself, they act and scan in the same exact manner.
This is frustrating especially because the first thing listed in the documentation https://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner is an FAQ item stating that the program is in fact portable.Thank you for your email. That is correct, currently there is no Portable version of this update available.
As soon as we have one available, we'll get it uploaded to the website so that it can be downloaded from our Builds page. This is expected to be around the same time as the Slim installer that we usually release, as well.
I apologize for any inconvenience that this causes, and in the mean time, you're welcome to download the standard Free version and install it on any home computer that you would like to use the software on.
Please feel free to pass this information on at the forum link that you listed, as well.
Please let me know if you have any other questions, I'll be happy to answer them for you!
Regards,
John Maier | Piriform Support - Tucson, AZ
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