Yep, still no filename wiping. Is this because it supports all flavors of Windoze? How about an XP only version?

CCleaner now wipes file names, but unfortunately it does not wipe files in the Recycle Bin. I deleted a file to the recycle bin, ran CCleaner and was able to recover the file and it was 'good as new.' CCleaner does seem to wipe files from folders, as it should. Other than this 'serious flaw', CCleaner is one fantastic utility.

execellant file cleaning, been using it since it first came out, you can make it even smaller in size by deleting all the lang-xxxx.dll files that is if you only need english (looses about 678 kb's.), otherwise might wanna look into language codes and keep the one you need if still you want to decrease the size.

can also delete unicows.dll, if you know you wont be using any windows older than xp. so its around 815 kbs vs. 1.71 mbs

The latest release of CCleaner - 2.03.532 - seems to have corrected the Recycle Bin wiping issue that was in previous versions running on Vista. If you have not tried this little gem, you are really missing something. Especially if you have enough computer knowledge to edit the winapp2.ini file and make it to what YOU want it to. THANKS for a fantastic tool ! ! !

I've been using CCleaner once a week for almost one year, I'm on Vista Premium since 9 monthes, and it has always wiped filenames and recycle bin.
I mean, no problem.

Cool app. Just pack the *.exe and *.dll files with upx or other exe packer to save some space. :)

When it is used portably and set to save settings to an ini file, it will delete the registry keys of any version that is installed on the computer running it, if it is installed.

Sorry, I erred on my last comment. Prior to the latest releases, CCleaner failed to delete the index.dat file on Vista at bootup - not the Recycle Bin. As j_sk wrote, it has always worked on the Recycle Bin. Now the index.dat file is also erased beyond recovery at bootup.

CCleaner is a GREAT utility, but still has one serious flaw. After all this time, it STILL does not wipe file NAMES along with file content.

By far the best cleaner. Never had any problem!!!

Great program. I've been using it for years and have had no problems. I strongly recommend it.

Good portable, but which of the lang files (which isn't English) can be deleted? The language files are all labelled 'lang-1025.dll, lang-1026.dll' etc. Could save 900 KB by removing the unused ones. Cheers.

Delete the whole lang directory and you will have English, and remove all the other languages

Is it just me or does CCleaner not compress under upx anymore, I used to do it but can't now.

Does anyone know a way round this.

Just installed the newest version of the ccleaner (v2.35.1219) and now I cannot uninstall programs? Any clues what the problem is? (I have restarted the computer)

Your portable version does not appear to plug into the Portable Apps application, which is looking for a *.paf.exe file. Could you please go the last mile and make this great app truely portable?

Paul: you will need to contact the developers of CCleaner or PortableApps about converting the program to a PAF-compatible format.

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

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

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

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.

Screenshot shows old version please update

F.Y.I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

@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...

@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.

@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

nice

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.

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

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

2.53 M not 9 M, on my machine

@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.

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

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

Good info

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.

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.

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

v4.04.4197 (July 25, 2013)

@ DarkShadow: Thanks ... and updated.

Version 4.18.4844 acts too differently from version 4.7.4808. I definitely do not need Active Computer Monitoring. When I clean my browser history with CCleaner, I cleaning it manually, not when someone else tells me to. There's far too much interference in my life from other humans. I am staying with version 4.7.4808.

Turns out CCleaner 4.18.4844 "Active System Monitoring" can be turned off, after all:

1. Open CCleaner, then click Options > Monitoring
2. Disable System Monitoring by unticking the box next to "Enable System Monitoring"
3. Disable Active Monitoring by unticking the box next to "Enable Active Monitoring",
and click Yes when the confirmation box appears

See here for an ongoing discussion about "Active System Monitoring" usage:
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=41860

Cheers,

__philippe

__philippe, thank you very much. Thank God for disable switches in this software. Too bad I can't do the same thing to the NSA and the EPA!

This is terrible;
CCleaner wont let you resize its window but so small
and when you maximize the window, it covers the taskbar
so its actually going full screen.

tiles ..social media links..I hate it.
I think I just stopped updating one of my faves.
I am certainly removing my vote..not that it would matter.

Napiophelios: I can resize the window ok and I'm not having any trouble with the taskbar being covered up full screen. The tiles aren't great but the social media junk is pretty far down (options - about). I'm not sure I see the problem. Is there something different with the 64-bit version?

Nope works great with resize window in 64bit.
But GUI is terrible !! Hope we can switc back to good 7 style in future!!

well I am using a little Asus netbook and I have never had it act like this before this update.

I imagine the tiles arent resizable so they have to have so much room to look pretty I guess

it still sucks
even if its just happening to me :)

@Naphiopelios: no, my friend, you're not alone in this. I'm also having trouble with CCleaner's maximized state. Because of my PowerPro bar, CCleaner's window goes off-screen. I do consider this a bug, because none of my other apps behave like this, not even CCleaner version 4.

No longer a freeware. In License.txt, we can read:
"You may NOT use the Product in corporate or commercial environments."

popol0909: site FAQ says business use is OK http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/faq/general/can-i-use-ccleaner-in-a-business-or-corporate-network

Link don't work. Unable to download. The bug is on the site Piriform. We enter in infinite loop between multiple pages of the site but the download never happens.

@Guido76: I had/have no problems downloading the file ;)

Ah ?? Ok, I check again. Perhaps, some problems with my "anti-advertising", or anti-malware. But I had never have this problem before. Thank you.

There is an issue with the portable download on their site. It refreshes, then comes back to the homescreen.

@hamasaki: I had/have no problems downloading the file ;)

Download link still doesn`t work for me, in any browser. In just refreshes, then reloads the home page.

@hamasaki: have you tried http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/portable/downloadfile yet?

hamasaki: no issue here - please post in forums if you're still having issues

@hamasaki: Again, I had no problems downloading the file.

hamasaki: If you have any adblockers or custom referral string stuff set in your browser, it could be interfering. I think there are certain protections on that page and server to prevent direct downloads from other sites.

Looks like they`ve fixed it now as it`s working. Thanks guys. btw, I tried it in browsers with no add ons at all and it didn`t work. Must have been a bug on their site.

Strange, I have the same problem of hamaski (I am beyond a proxy).
I'll try later..

Looks like the winapp2.com domain was parked (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_parking ). I didn't do anything to the entry yet: let's see how the winapp2.ini maintainers react to this first (there is nothing about this in the forum thread yet).

Winapp2.com is up again.

The last version of CCleaner which doesn't use the abominable Windows 10 flat style GUI is 4.19 (4.19.4867). I voted it down, I have zero tolerance for flat ugliness.

@smaragdus : It is bearable.

Not sure if it's just me but the link to download CCleaner bounces me from page to page on the Piriform site. Pressing the "download" buttons takes me to a different page. Even when I got to the download page that gave me the option to download the portable version that button just redirected me to another page. At some point it takes me back to the original page it redirected from but when I click to download it offers the installable version and not the portable version.

Any way to bypass all the redirects (assuming I'm not the only one having this problem." ?

Nevermind. After 5 tries (and not sure what I did) it gave me the portable version to save rather than the .exe version.

links above
or
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/builds

@Billo255

Confirm same problem !!

Get it from Softpedia

http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Security/Secure-cleaning/Windows-Portable-Applications-CCleaner-Portable.shtml

Hi,
One more time, it's impossible to download Portable version. We are pulsed from page to page and finally landed on the original one. And at this time, Softpedia propose the former one.

Just used Misan's link and it worked fine first time.

@ thepiney
yes, it's working ... now but not early in the morning.
Thank you.

Hi,
One more time, it's impossible to download Portable version. We are pulsed from page to page and finally landed on the original one.

Same experience as @Guido76 at 11:45AM EST. Looking back over the comments, it seems that Piriform has got web platform problems. Hope that sort of sloppiness doesn't carry over into the actual product.

An alternative link to the Softpedia download has been added to the entry.

CCleaner v5.33.6162 was hacked.
Former CCleaner versions and current 5.34.6207 are clean

https://www.piriform.com/news/blog/2017/9/18/security-notification-for-ccleaner-v5336162-and-ccleaner-cloud-v1073191-for-32-bit-windows-users

@philippe: Yeah I am working on a response to this that might affect site design. So frustrated with this.

YARA rules for CCleaner 5.33 :
https://blog.nviso.be/2017/09/21/yara-rules-for-ccleaner-5-33/

Better late than never, methinks...;-)

Seems like there was a second payload from all this...

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/09/21/ccleaner-malware-second-payload-discovered/