Bleachbit vs CCleaner

[JimHdy]

I'm trying to decide which file system cleaner to get, what does everybody think is best.

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

I use CCleaner with CCEnhancer (unofficial add-on) that enables support for more programs.

CCleaner used to be just a simple and reliable cleaner but has been adding extra features or trying to bundle software that I don't need.

Some things I do:

• I usually get the slim installer from the builds page instead of the main page. The portable installer is also on that page if you prefer that version.
• Block CCleaner.exe and CCleaner64.exe from phoning home in Windows firewall.
• Delete CCUpdate.exe which is the emergency updater for the program. It has the tendency to trip Windows Controlled Folder Access feature so I deleted the updater to stop getting notifications that it was blocked. I use SUMo (Software Update Monitor) to keep my programs up to date anyways so I don't need the updater from CCleaner.
• Disable any monitoring in the Monitoring tab under settings. I don't need it or want it running in the background.

use the portable version, you don't need cleaners to be installed.

 

[Andro_ID]

Is ccleaner trustworthy? i heard about that something wrong happened to it.

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Is ccleaner trustworthy? i heard about that something wrong happened to it.

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[show-Zi]

Is ccleaner trustworthy? i heard about that something wrong happened to it.

Although the reputation of trust has fallen due to past failures, I think that ccleaner itself can be trusted. The portable version is recommended. Only the installed version was tampered with before.

 

[DJ Panda]

I've switched from CCleaner to Bleachbit because of privacy issues. Been happy with Bleachbit.

 

[Sampei Nihira]

I use CCleaner Portable.
With rules written by me for the browser and for the email client:

CCleaner - MailNews - New Moon

Hi to all MSFN members. CCleaner considers New Moon as Firefox. We would expect it to be the same for Thunderbird and MailNews. But is not so. However, I noticed that after starting Thunderbird there are 3 areas considered by CCleaner. 1) Internet Cache 2) Cookies 3) Session: I have verified that...

msfn.org

Bleachbit doesn't start on my pc.

 

[icerulez]

Use privazer i think its best.