Reviews of CCleaner for Windows

1. 
   eaves

   Reviewing 3.15.1643 (Jan 26, 2012)

   CCleaner still has the bug that it cannot tell the difference between Firefox cleaning and Thunderbird cleaning.
   
   If you tell CCleaner to delete Firefox stored passwords, it will also delete Thunderbird stored passwords.
   
   It is a shame that the CCleaner developers have let this bug fester like an open wound for so long.
2. 
   jafo818

   Reviewing 3.15.1643 (Jan 25, 2012)

   No more slim build as of 3.15? Ugh... I remember installing a regular build maybe 6 months ago and accidentally installed Chrome... It borked up my Win7 box when I uninstalled and it's still not fixed... I love CCleaner but can only give it 4 stars for the crap it installs. And yes, I know you can uncheck stuff... It may not be rational, but I can never give it 5.
3. 
   egg83

   Reviewing 3.15.1643 (Jan 25, 2012)

   I agree with other posters, this program is the best in it's league. As for such a minor issue, to give the program one star for that is dumb. Have used this program for years and have had zero issues. The author at least updates the program regularly, and if you do not want a certain area cleaned on computer, just untick the box, that simple.
4. 
   gatorfan95

   Reviewing 3.15.1643 (Jan 25, 2012)

   it does what i says it does and it's free. This has been one of the best pieces of software of it's kind, free or pay to use, for a very long time. Eaves I have no Idea why you would want to clear your passwords using this, there are much more efficient ways of doing so. To give this one star over a feature you can do better else where is just petty BS. You remind me of the people who used to complain that Ccleaner can be used to remove old prefetch data and gave it a low rating. If you don't like a feature, don't use it. Don't besmirch an other wise great program over a minor issue that can be worked around.
5. 
   Input Overload

   Reviewing 3.15.1643 (Jan 25, 2012)

   @eaves - You do not give an otherwise good FREE program one star because of a single issue.
   
   Why not write or modify a winapp2 script & by doing this select which parts off a browser/ mail client YOU wish to clean - Or just don't use the parts that cause you a problem. You will have to do a lot of searching to find a program half as good as this.
   
   The best cleaner there is pay or buy.
   
   Edited my earlier post as it was OTT.

Discuss CCleaner for Windows

1. Aug 23, 2010 - 5:38 PM
   jerry4dos

   I stand correcfed. It IS cleaning the Flash cookies -- it's leaving a "settings" file, which also carries an ".SOL" extension, which I thought was a cookie
2. Aug 16, 2010 - 5:06 PM
   jerry4dos

   How about adding an option to remove FLASH COOKIES?
3. May 8, 2009 - 9:07 AM
   Jtaylor83

   I haven't used this product in a while and when my PC gets full, I'll use it to clean clean it out.
   
   CCleaner doesn't install ask.com but Yahoo! toolbar. It's recommended that you should install the Slim version.
4. Apr 30, 2009 - 9:16 AM
   bobad

   Not only that, but it tries to install ask.com on your computer! :-O
5. Apr 29, 2009 - 3:39 PM
   jenngood

   I hear you! I had to reinstall my OS because I used the registry cleaner! With such small files being installed into the registry, just leave it alone. There is NO WAY that any registry cleaner could possibly know all of the file names that program writers make up and install. BAD IDEA!
6. Feb 1, 2009 - 11:46 PM
   ibm360

   Everyone here seems to have lots of love for this program, but today it killed my wife's laptops registry. I think it would of great help if the registry list of "problems" had a collumn with the origin of the file, so you can see if it is a valid entry, or something that really should be deleted. because lets face it, does anyone really know exactly what every dll file does- by name?
   How do we make an informed choice on which to delete or not delete?