Better & cleaner alternative for CCleaner
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Ever since Avast took over Piriform CCleaner, it just going downhill & become more & more obnoxious to use. The straw that finally broke the camel's back is when it try to sneakily install Avast browser upon update. That's not what a reputable cleaner app suppose to do! Time to look for alternative...
So if you are also fed-up with CCleaner, then you might wanna try out these 2 free & no bull$ht alternative:BleachBit - https://www.bleachbit.org/
PrivaZer - https://privazer.com/en/
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I use Glary Utilities, which has always given me better results than CCleaner
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But Vivaldi isn't listed in cleaners...
https://www.bleachbit.org/features-btw, isn't there a way to clear our search queries from search engines online?
Use Windows to clean out C: but it doesn't do the online input. -
If you use Google you can delete your search history on your dashboard, entering your Google account, If you use Startpage, DuckDuckGo or Qwant, there are no online histories and in Vivaldi either, With these your history is saved only locally on your PC
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@Catweazle said in Better & cleaner alternative for CCleaner:
If you use Google you can delete your search history on your dashboard, entering your Google account, If you use Startpage, DuckDuckGo or Qwant, there are no online histories and in Vivaldi either, With these your history is saved only locally on your PC
TBH,that is not a good idea.
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@Gwen-Dragon said in Better & cleaner alternative for CCleaner:
@KellyBoyle Explain the others, why?
For security.I think Safewiper has been doing a good job.You can learn something about this software.
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@KellyDoyle said in Better & cleaner alternative for CCleaner:
@Gwen-Dragon said in Better & cleaner alternative for CCleaner:
@KellyBoyle Explain the others, why?
For security.I think Safewiper has been doing a good job.You can learn something about this software.
https://www.safewiper.com/
seems only for iPhones/iOS -
If you want to try something new, I recommend Cleaner One Pro for Windows.
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@JohnConnorBear Writing off all "utilities" for Windows seems overly extreme. There are plenty that are perfectly safe and won't mess anything up.
Cleaner programs are something I avoid, but utilities is too broad a category to be only limited to cleaner programs.
Here are a few "utilities" that I use as an example. I am defining utilities as programs that modify or add functionality to the way Windows works.
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T-Clock - lets me keep the date displayed on my taskbar even with
Use small taskbar buttonsenabled. -
Default Programs Editor - lets me remove and add items from context menus. Very useful for file types that have a view action and and edit action like images or HTML files. I will concede that this program could potentially mess some things up if you changed a bunch of things without knowing what you are doing, but I haven't had any issues.
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BONUS: Microsoft PowerToys - a collection of utilities made by Microsoft. FancyZones is particularly useful if you have a 21:9 ultrawide monitor. I include this one as a bonus because it is made by Microsoft, but it is open-source and self described as a collection of utilities.
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@JohnConnorBear said in Better & cleaner alternative for CCleaner:
An "utility" is some software whose "apparent" goal is to make Windows itself better.
Don't be an extremist, not all utilities are bad, and there are millions with different purposes and not involving anything about the OS; I use hundreds of utilities, to do several tasks, every day. And guess what, none are by Microsoft.
You are warning probably about few ones that can cause troubles if used by people without an idea of what they are doing, and some that are actually fake/trojans causing only harm. -
@JohnConnorBear Well we agree on the definition of what a utility is, but it still seems like you are being overly extreme. The amount of innocuous programs that fall into the category of a utility is simply too great to suggest that other users should avoid them.
The first 2 examples I gave definitely fit this description. I included PowerToys as a bonus because it was made by Microsoft, but its open-source nature does mean that they accept community contributions.
I didn't include 2 utilities because I felt you might take issue with them. DDU and BlueScreenView. I figured you might point at this as evidence of messing up my computer, but they are what solved my BSOD issue that came with my brand new laptop. The newer drivers for my graphics card were flawed at the time of my purchase, so I had random BSOD frequently. To put it simply, I wouldn't have been able to use my new laptop without these two utilities.
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I use bleachbit on puppy linux even though it is totally unneeded on puppy.
On windows i would be very weary of registry cleaners.A backup and restore of the registry is far safer. -
Original Windows Disk Cleanup and/or Windows 10 Settings / Memory Cleanup, works better than any other software 
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