Solved Cleaning software

Birk said:

OK - here's the results of another test I did...

I ran SirCleaner and it cleaned up 1 GB of stuff. I have the free version so I know there is more cleanable stuff out their, which is why I follow up SIrCleaner with a run of Wise Disk Cleaner. Wise found 85 more MB of stuff to clean. But before doing that I ran FluentCleaner to see what it could find. It found only 81 MB to clean. So I'm sticking with Wise for now.

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Wolfzz said:

InstallerClean​

• What: InstallerClean does one thing: it removes unneeded files from C:\Windows\Installer, a hidden folder Windows never cleans up. After a nearly instant scan it tells you whether you have any, shows more detail for the curious, and lets you delete them to free up space on your C: drive. You use it once and move on.
• How much space: The (optional) reports sent in so far show 41% of machines had unneeded files to clean. Of those, the median freed is 22 GB. A few cleared hundreds of GB. For me it was 1.28 GB. The other 59% found nothing to remove, which just means their Installer folder was already clean. More detail in the FAQ below.
• Is it safe: Yes. It asks the Windows Installer API itself which files are still needed and only ever lists the ones Windows reports as finished with. It's open source (MIT) and asks nothing about you: no account, no ads, no tracking, no telemetry, nothing running in the background. It never goes online by itself.
• Get it: Download the latest release. Run it; click through Windows's warning and the admin prompt. Delete any unneeded files. Done.

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Download InstallerClean 3.4.0 - MajorGeeks

InstallerClean is a tool designed to effectively clean the hidden C:\Windows\Installer folder, which can accumulate significant data over time. On many systems, this folder can grow to tens of gigabytes, and in cases where Adobe Acrobat is installed, it may exceed 100 GB. InstallerClean serves...

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Changes since 6.0.0​

All Platforms​

New Features​

• Add cleaning support for Visual Studio Code, Codium, Antigravity, Cursor, Windsurf, and Devin
• Add support for multiple browser profiles on Chrome and Edge
• Add cleaner for Claude Code
• Add DNS cache cleaner
• Clean AI models from Google Chrome
• When shredding a filename, reduce data remnants and speed up shredding files
• Convert Apache OpenOffice (formerly called OpenOffice.org) cleaner from Python to CleanerML
• Add options to deep scan for developers: venv, __pycache__, node_modules, and .angular
• Clear clipboard after shredding files from paste operation

User interface and performance​

• Limit the line width of long warning text
• Improve the logic that triggers the notice during startup about Expert Mode
• During deep scan, skip directories listed in the keep list to improve the speed of scanning
• Stop trying to rename files when an error is not retryable
• Respond to keyboard interrupt (Ctrl+C) when shredding filenames
• Warn when the configuration file is not writable
• Disable the chaff controls while generating chaff

Bug Fixes​

• If there are errors reading the cookie keep list, then it will abort the cookie cleaning process to avoid removing important cookies
• Fix: crash in recognition of local cleaners
• Fix: GUI stops loading if recognition fails
• Fix: cleaner loading with invalid data types
• Fix crash with certain Unicode on the CLI
• Fix: escape invalid Unicode in system information output
• Fix: allow Unicode in keep/custom lists
• Fix: avoid losing custom theme icons in Vivaldi by not deleting files in the VivaldiThumbnails folder
• Fix DuplicateOptionError when restoring warning preferences
• Improve handling of symlinks in keep list (whitelist)
• Improve reliability when running external processes without waiting

Windows​

New Features​

• Add %WindowsSystem% variable for c:\windows\system32 and c:\windows\sysnative
• Use native APIs to clear clipboard on Windows
• Shrink the installer and installed size. Re-enable UPX file compression and remove unneeded files. These changes reduced the installer by 700KB, the portable zip by 3MB, and the installed size by 22MB (47%)

Bug Fixes​

• Fix potential security issue where a malicious actor could delete arbitrary files when cleaning with elevated privileges (CVE-2026-55567). Issue identified by Zeze with TeamT5.
• Fix access denied errors when clearing the clipboard on Windows
• Fix crash with unpaired surrogate characters on CLI
• Fix anonymization of 8.3 short file names
• Fix handling of unpaired surrogates in keep/custom lists
• Improve robustness of splash screen

Other​

• Update NSIS from 3.03 to 3.12 in AppVeyor CI
• Improve installer experience for unsupported Windows

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Download BleachBit 6.0.6 - MajorGeeks

BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk. It rids your system of old clutter including cache, cookies, Internet history, localizations, logs, temporary files, and broken shortcuts.

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• Early support for macOS.
• DNF5 interpretation (for Fedora and similar)
• Delete top-level log files in the Claude cleaner
• Remember GUI zoom level
• New cleaners for Python history, fish shell, Zsh shell
• Redesigned CI download page for nightly Windows releases
• Speed improvements

idgat said:

Built-in Windows Disk Clean-up
Glary Utilities
Wise Disk Cleaner

(Run a mile from ccleaner!!! And always be wary of over-descriptively named programs - something with a name like SuperDuperUltimate Registry and Absolute System Cleaner would be a no-no. The words "snake oil" immediately come to mind)

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• Add cleaners for Android Studio, Gradle Cache, fish, Zsh shell, and Python command line
• Delete top-level log files for Claude
• Delete dynamic HSTS data to delete supercookies
• Improve startup speed and scanning speed
• Shrink the Windows installer and installation footprint
• Add early support for macOS: new Safari cleaner, compatibility with existing cleaners (such as Google Chrome and Firefox), full CLI support, and early GUI support

Clean Your System and Free Disk Space | BleachBit

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Stigg said:

The name is a bit misleading, John. HiBit Uninstaller is much more than an uninstaller.
Have a look at all the tools on the right of this screenshot. And it's all free. I don't know for how long though.

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There is also a portable version.

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No, HiBit Uninstaller is not a dead project. I live in Iran, and due to the difficult situation that has developed here (you have probably seen the news), life has become much more difficult than before.

Because of these circumstances, I don't have as much free time as I used to, and unfortunately my motivation has also decreased. For this reason, development of the program is currently paused.

However, I do plan to continue development in the future. I just don't know exactly when — it could be in two months, six months, or perhaps longer.

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Birk said:

Bleachbit: with everything checked for preview it found 924.7 MB to clean

SirCleaner: using default clean list it found 1.1 GB to clean.

Why do I keep doing these checks?

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BleachBit 6.0.5 Beta​

• Major Performance Improvements: Significantly faster application startup through lazy-loading modules and optimized list sorting/processing, accelerated deep scans, and faster file wiping using 512 KiB blocks.
• New and Expanded Cleaners: Adds a cleaner for the Helium browser, Docker Desktop support on macOS, Docker's AI assistant option, Claude Code support, and expanded cleaning across multiple web browsers, GIMP, Google Earth, VLC, Zoom, and Visual Studio Code.
• macOS support continues to mature: while more work is needed for a smooth experience on macOS, the gap is quickly closing.

Release v6.0.5 beta · bleachbit/bleachbit

Help us test BleachBit 6.0.5 beta, a release focused on stability, reliability, speed, and conservative feature enhancements. This release makes BleachBit noticeably faster, especially at startup, ...

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Download BleachBit 6.0.6 - MajorGeeks

BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk. It rids your system of old clutter including cache, cookies, Internet history, localizations, logs, temporary files, and broken shortcuts.

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callisto said:

They used to be useful with XP and low memory.

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