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- Feb 18, 2002
New buggy feature introduced - Think carefully before updating from version 4.17 to higher builds
Ccleaner is one of the most useful programs and one of the best in its class. Just released v4.18 introduces a very buggy mandatory Monitoring feature.
It is ON by default, not as a feature which can be turned ON optionally. It is difficult to impossible to disable on some systems. Most annoyingly, it stays in the Task Bar even if you launch CCleaner with a shortcut which has an /AUTO string at the end, which should terminate the program after it executes its main cleaning function, but it doesn't - even after you adjust options... The fact that a buggy version has been out for a few days now without being pulled is a warning that it might be time to simply stop upgrading, unless you specifically need one of the other non-buggy new features, which most of us do not. There are now multiple lengthy threads on this problematic new feature with people option to pull back to v4.17 and stay there.
CCleaner is good for quickly cleaning cookies / web browsing history, a lot of us don't use it to "clean" the registry since we've established that registry cleaners in 21st century are what snake oil was in the 19th century.
But to quickly clean your browser cookies/history, CCleaner is great:
Copy the program shortcut to another location > Right click on the program shortcut > Properties > Next to Target:
"C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCleaner64.exe" /AUTO
> OK
to create a new shortcut that would start the program, clean all, then close the program.
I also make sure these settings are set like this:
Cleaner > Windows TAB > System > UNCHECK: Start Menu Shortcuts and Desktop Shortcuts
Cleaner > Applications TAB > UNCHECK: Office [or its settings will be reset]
Options > Advanced > UNCHECK: Only delete files in Windows Temp folders older than 48 hours
[The only difference between Standard and Slim versions of CCleaner is that Slim version does not include the Google Chrome web browser setup.]
Ccleaner is one of the most useful programs and one of the best in its class. Just released v4.18 introduces a very buggy mandatory Monitoring feature.
It is ON by default, not as a feature which can be turned ON optionally. It is difficult to impossible to disable on some systems. Most annoyingly, it stays in the Task Bar even if you launch CCleaner with a shortcut which has an /AUTO string at the end, which should terminate the program after it executes its main cleaning function, but it doesn't - even after you adjust options... The fact that a buggy version has been out for a few days now without being pulled is a warning that it might be time to simply stop upgrading, unless you specifically need one of the other non-buggy new features, which most of us do not. There are now multiple lengthy threads on this problematic new feature with people option to pull back to v4.17 and stay there.
CCleaner is good for quickly cleaning cookies / web browsing history, a lot of us don't use it to "clean" the registry since we've established that registry cleaners in 21st century are what snake oil was in the 19th century.
But to quickly clean your browser cookies/history, CCleaner is great:
Copy the program shortcut to another location > Right click on the program shortcut > Properties > Next to Target:
"C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCleaner64.exe" /AUTO
> OK
to create a new shortcut that would start the program, clean all, then close the program.
I also make sure these settings are set like this:
Cleaner > Windows TAB > System > UNCHECK: Start Menu Shortcuts and Desktop Shortcuts
Cleaner > Applications TAB > UNCHECK: Office [or its settings will be reset]
Options > Advanced > UNCHECK: Only delete files in Windows Temp folders older than 48 hours
[The only difference between Standard and Slim versions of CCleaner is that Slim version does not include the Google Chrome web browser setup.]