The default settings for CCleaner are fine for most people, but there are a few settings I recommend changing for better cleanups. Said up front, no, CCleaner hasn’t paid me me to say any of this I just like the product that much because it was done right the first time and continues to be good per each successive release (which is something you can’t say about too many software products). I use CCleaner on both my tower PC running Win7 64-bit and my netbook running WinXP 32-bit. With the CCleaner auto-start enabled, you can say “reboot” and CCleaner will dump the crap on startup, so it’s nice to have.ĬCleaner (formerly known as “Crap Cleaner”) is a free Windows cleaning utility that I’ve been using for years, and is the only one I’d recommend to anyone. While having a conversation on IM it would not let bring up the other party (halfway thru the conversation).
Please dont tell me the wrong boxes were ticked off, because they were not. It erased my passwords multiple times a day. The auto-start feature is particularly useful for those of you who have not-so bright computer users you support that should clear crap data off their PCs but never do, then complain to you their computer is broke later from letting their browser fill up with junk. Agree with previous complaint but have to add to it. Any registry cleaner utility is run before that happens can screw things up big time.)
(Said another way: After a Windows update that requires a reboot, a full OS startup should happen first to insert proper registry entries. This is actually a good thing because registry cleaners should not be enabled at startup, particularly for Windows updates that require a reboot.
Note that this only applies to the basic cleaner utility and not the advanced registry cleaner on the Registry tab. In an update to its community base, Piriform acknowledged the user complaints regarding privacy, assured everyone that CCleaner. For those of you who would like to have CCleaner run automatically at startup so it’s one less thing you have to think about, the option is there as shown above. After pulling CCleaner 5.45 from the Downloads page and reverting it to CCleaner 5.44, the company has said they are working on changes to 5.45 to address users’ concerns, but it will take a few weeks to implement.