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PrivaZer v1.10 Updated

Checker on 16 May 2013

PrivaZer is a cleaning tool that scans and cleans your computers and storage devices (external disks, USB flash drives, iPods, SD cards or network drives). It safeguards your privacy by removing unwanted traces of internet activities, software usage, USB history, registry and files.

Includes an secure delete function that overwrites a file to prevent recovery.

Category:
System Requirements: WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download privazer_free.exe and launch.
  2. Choose Generate the portable version.
  3. Move PrivaZer.exe (placed on your desktop) to a folder of your choice and launch.
  4. If prompted, choose to store your settings in a PrivaZer.ini file.
What's new?
  • New web browsers cleanups
    - Comodo Dragon cleanup
    - Orbitum cleanup
    - SRWare Iron Free cleanup
    - Chromium cleanup
  • Fixed bug : unable to run PrivaZer if not administrator
  • Improved automatic PC shutdown
  • Improved right-clik menu
  • New features for portable version
    - language option
    - language choice stored in PrivaZer.ini
  • Only 2 PrivaZer icons in Start menu (XP)
  • New Userassist cleanup
    - only invalid entries are cleaned up
  • Improved UI
    - improved PrivaZer closing
    - improved link to changelog

CCleaner v4.01.4093 Updated

Checker on 25 Apr 2013
  • 11MB (uncompressed)
  • Suggested by Ennovy

CCleaner is a system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused, temporary, and log files from your system, as well as cleaning traces of your online activities such as Internet history and flash cookies. Contains a separate registry cleaner and can optionally use wipe features for both deleted files and drive free space.

See the official documentation for information on generating a list of covered programs search for "Export". An unofficial set of community developed cleaning rules can be found here however it should be noted that many of these rules are alpha and the developers will not provide support for these rules, a thread in the users forum is dedicated to supporting the add-on rules.

A 64-bit version is available (within the folder).

Category:
System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights under Windows Vista or above
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch CCleaner.exe.
What's new?
  • Improved History cleaning for Google Chrome.
  • Improved compatibility with Firefox v19 and newer.
  • Optimized Registry cleaning algorithm for Windows 8.
  • Improved Internet Explorer 10 compatibility.
  • Improved Duplicate File Finder tool.
  • Optimized System and Browser Monitoring (Pro Version).
  • Added cleaning for Adobe Acrobat XI, VSO Blu-ray and DVD Converter Ultimate, Oxygen XML Editor 14 and Connectify Hotspot.
  • Improved cleaning for Google Earth and MailWasher Pro.
  • Minor GUI improvements.
  • Minor bug fixes.
Latest comments
Shadeclan on 2012-09-14 19:02

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.

guinness on 2012-09-26 12:40

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

Ganamyde on 2013-03-26 18:53

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

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BleachBit v0.9.5

webfork on 13 Feb 2013

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.

Category:
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.
What's new?
  • Google Chrome, Chromium: separate cleaning of passwords out of history into its own option
  • Google Chrome: delete Flash cookies in Pepper Flash
  • Google Chrome: delete more history
  • Thunderbird: delete folder index files (.msf) thanks to BlackDex
  • Clean out obsolete data (hashpath) in bleachbit.ini to reduce file size and improve privacy.
  • Introduce a new GitHub repository for CleanerML development
  • Move BleachBit source code repository, which is in SVN, to new address
  • Specific to Linux:
    - Improve compatibility of memory wiping with 64-bit systems
    - Improve ability to run headless
    - Support newer Linux kernels in memory cleaner by using new out-of-memory score adjustment /proc/pid/oom_score_adj
    - Improve compatibility of memory wiping with 64-bit systems
    - Improve ability to run headless
    - Support newer Linux kernels in memory cleaner by using new out-of-memory score adjustment /proc/pid/oom_score_adj
  • Specific to Windows:
    - Improve compatibility with Winapp2.ini: clean more junk and more accurately detect which options are relevant. (Add support for semicolons, DetectFile#=, Detect#=, and more sections.)
    - Add command line option --update-winapp2 to update winapp2.ini. (Can be combined with --clean or --preview and --list.)
    - Windows: introduce higher resolution application icon
    - Windows: add transparency to application icon
Latest comments
YShayahu53 on 2011-01-02 14:37

Download is not working:
http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/download/file?file=BleachBit-0.8.5-portable.zip

Andrew Ziem on 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 on 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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Xleaner v4.27.1353

lautrepay on 21 Dec 2012

Xleaner is a comprehensive privacy tool and a clean-up utility that allows you to delete temp and junk files with ease. Xleaner can clear browser history, cookies, cache, search, auto-complete etc. It can also remove temp folders, recent documents, as well as run, search, open/save history and much more.

Xleaner is extendible with PlugIns, AddOns as well as Themes / Color schemes.

Languages: Russian, Portuguese, Italian, Czech, Spanish, Hungarian, Bulgarian and German

Category:
System Requirements: Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Xleaner.exe.
What's new? Update Priority: HIGH
  • Storing Benuzter and configuration files optimized. Both the setup variation and Portable leave no traces in the system or in the registry. Only a startup key is stored in the registry when the Aut. Windows startup is enabled
  • Default theme to "Windows" found (change in Options> Advanced settings)
  • Critical bug in the command line parameters fixed (cleaning was not always triggered)
  • Critical bug when adding custom file masks and instructions by "Enter" key fixed
  • UI and voice of many dialog revised
  • Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft.NET cache SUMo
  • Cleanup optimized Google Update
  • Removed support for xl_ban.dat -
  • Optimized version management
  • Optimized UI widget
  • Optimize the plug-in feature info
  • Backup / export configuration files optimized
  • Logo in the "About ..." Dialogue optimized
  • Numerous internal code optimizations done
  • Optimized setup
  • Licensing update
  • Website link in the UI runs on Xleaner.com
  • Numerous minor bugs fixed

NOTE:
Custom places (this fall folders, files / registry keys, file masks and commands) are now in the folder "custom" folder. Configuration files (this the main configuration file and the configuration files for the plug-ins and add-ons, and the font of the log window last fall cleanup) are now in the "Data" folder.

THEREFORE PLEASE:
  • MOVE YOUR CUSTOM FILES (xl_folders.dat; xl_fkeys.dat; xl_ftypes.dat, xl_commands.dat) TO THE "CUSTOM" FOLDER.
  • AND MOVE YOUR KONFIGURATIONSADATEIEN (xl_config.ini; xl_apps.ini; xl_extensions; xl_flog.dat; xl_last.dat) TO THE "DATA" FOLDER.
Latest comments
rodger123 on 2012-09-07 04:31

Ditto,I lost my regedit favorites and my address book,be careful with this app and make a restore point first!

shodan816 on 2012-11-13 18:44

This utility really does a great job, and removes many useless files and registry entries in the process. It is missing one key element, however (in my opinion) and that is to allow the user to preview the scan results before committing and executing. Yes, you can set it to create a backup point, but that does not replace the ability for experienced users to see what is about to be cleaned prior to execution. One more small issue is there is no way to set 'Close' to mean exactly that. Close now pops the app to the taskbar, and that is not what I expect 'Close' to do. Give the user the option of having the app truly close.

donald on 2012-12-04 04:12

So far No Problems. But Nothing running installed other than OS, & Office.

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Remove Empty Directories v2.2

webfork on 28 Oct 2012
  • 175KB (uncompressed)
  • Suggested by Baas

Remove Empty Directories (RED) searches and deletes empty directories recursively below a given start folder. Let's you check all empty directories before deleting them. Supports multiple delete modes (including Delete to recycle bin). Allows white and black listing of directories by using filter lists. Can detect directories with empty files as empty.

Category:
System Requirements: WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Dependencies: .NET Framework 3.5 or later
Stealth: ? No. Leaves a folder in AppData.
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch RED2.exe.
Latest comments
webfork on 2011-10-15 20:38

I think data directories would be fine but I'd definitely steer programs like this away from system directories like c:\windows and c:\program files

Emka on 2011-12-23 06:01

Leaves a folder in AppData

shaegar on 2012-04-12 09:34

sorry, but it is not really portable, the user.config is stored in AppData in a folder dependend on the location of the exe. This is a typically .NET behavior. If you move your exe, your settings will be lost.

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