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CCleaner is a tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It aims to protect your privacy online and to make your computer faster and more secure.

CCleaner is a tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It aims to protect your privacy online and to make your computer faster and more secure. It is designed to be simple to use and is packaged as a small, fast download straight from the developer's website at http://www.ccleaner.com/.

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CCleaner, is it just FUD?

Is there really any need for software like CCleaner? I really can't see how cleaning a few bits here and there and the registry and deleting temp files that will be back again in a few days help performance on modern systems at all. I understand…
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What is the best way to 'clean' my computer?

I am currently running Windows 7 x64. I frequently install, uninstall, modify, break, or otherwise alter various programs on my computer (experimentation is fun!). Anyways, over the past six months (how long this version has been installed) I have…
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IE10's localStorage is broken?

I recently ran CCleaner to clean up my laptop. Since then, every time any site tries to access window.localStorage, the following error appears: The system cannot find the path specified. It also does not appear in the properties list if I "watch"…
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CCleaner wrongly detects "Oxygen XML Editor 14"

CCleaner shows amongst the computer applications which can be analyzed in my computer one identified as "Oxygen XML Editor 14", although I don't know this software and therefore I've never installed it in my computer. A Windows registry search for…
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CCleaner for Mac / Linux?

Is there a program for OS X and/or Ubuntu like CCleaner? Memory cleaning and internet cache cleaner?
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CCleaner is corrupting Chrome's preferences files

Google Chrome Version 33.0.1726.0 dev-m CCleaner V.4.08.4428(64bit) Windows 8.1 64bit Problem Description: After cleaning Chrome's "Internet History", Google Chrome's preferences become corrupt. I've been able to reproduce this four times and I've…
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How to clean private data on Windows XP?

Using ShellBagsView from NirSoft Utilities I've just found out that Windows is storing the names of visited directories together with things like window position, even for directories deleted many years ago. I've tried to remove this information…
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SSD drive keeps filling up

For some reason my 120GB SSD keeps filling up dramatically, sometimes so much so I only have 7GB left. Currently I have 17GB left which is still a low amount. I've only installed the OS and a few small programs that are forced onto the C drive by…
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CCleaner Disable and Enable Startup Programs

I am working on a program for work which includes a startup manager. I have it to where the user can delete startup entries for programs, but it cannot disable startup entries. With the CCleaner program a user has the ability to enable or disable. …
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How to prevent CCleaner from wiping Start Menu frequently used applications list?

Every time I use CCleaner to clean my system, regardless to what settings I set up (as far as I could find), it purges my Start Menu most used applications list (the main (lefrmost) column of the Start Menu). Is it possible to disable this…
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CCleaner erased most of the free space

I tried to use "Erase free space" from CCleaner in Mac. I was not sure about how it would work. When the process started there was about 175 GB of space available, and when the space started to decrease I was very worried and cancelled the…
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What is more effective for reviving performance - cleanup utilities or reinstalling the OS?

My 1.5 year old Toshiba Net Book running Windows 7 is slowing down. Will running clean-up utilities or re-installing Windows be more effective for reviving its performance?
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If I use CCleaner regularly, will it damage or reduce the life time of hard disk?

I found CCleaner very useful to clean all unnecessary data on a hard drive and wipe out free space. But what makes it different from normal delete to secure delete, and I wonder what it will do on hard drive for secure delete and to wipe out on…
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Does wiping free space on disk free any space?

CCleaner has a feature for wiping free space on a disk. CCleaner's documentations says: When you delete a file, Windows removes the reference to that file, but doesn't delete the actual data that made up the file on your hard drive. and For…
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how to add other browsers for cleaning in ccleaner?

on w8.1 and w10 both 64 bit, apart from firefox, ie11(8.1) edge(10), chrome, I also have Palemoon, Light and Basilisk installed. ccleaner 5.47 cleans other browsers, including firefox and palemoon, but it doesn't clean Light and Basilisk. what is to…
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