Man that program has gone down the fucking drain. First bundling in bloatware, now this?
What’s a good alternative?
What’s a good alternative?
I haven’t used any such tool for almost a decade probably and I don’t think there’s a need to nowadays. Occasionally I run the Windows Disk Cleanup utility to get rid of temp files and Windows Update installation files and that’s about it. Cleaning the registry is bullshit anyway that does more harm than good (doesn’t speed up anything certainly).
Bleachbit is the open-source community maintained successor
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nuke and pave is the only real alternative. I do it every 3-4 months and it really only takes me a couple of hours to be back in business with all my apps and settings.
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In fairness to CCleaner, there’s lots of other organizations that were victims of MoveIt’s breach.
“mass exploitation of a vulnerability in the widely-used file transfer software MOVEit has allowed cybercriminals to steal data from a dizzying array of businesses and governments…” - Wired Article on the MoveIt breaches
Trusting MoveIt was regrettable, but lots of folks made the same mistake.
I can understand the use of the moveit platform. I can’t understand why it took 7 months to tell anyone.
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I just run a batch script to clean temp files and browser cache.
Why is this even called
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