A New Ccleaner # 5.26.5937 has been released for more info and to download go to http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/builds (link is external) 8 mb in size. WATCH for the adon chrome download window check box!!!!! Note the slim version with out the ad on will be available in a few days
Release Notes
v5.26.5937 (17 Jan 2017)
- Improved Firefox History and Session cleaning
- Improved Opera History cleaning
- Improved Thunderbird Session cleaning
- Optimized 64-bit build architecture
- Updated various translations
- Minor GUI improvements
- Minor bug fixes
I understand you, to be honest since my computer is not that complicated ( only win 10 ) and i keep my important files on HDD and boot from SSD. It's a little bit harsh and maybe not really intelligent but when something occurs i reinstall windows:) Maybe for the registry cleaning might me useful but as you said not that familiar if i don't do something wrong and have to reinstall win again:) I think the cookies would be useful for me. For example can i clear browsing data without clearing passwords and logins ?
Here's my own attitude as a regular user of CCleaner for many years now. My desktop is on the complicated side since it can boot to Windows 7, 8 or 10 and so there are many drives and a lot of changes and trial installations so there can be much junk left over.
It is a good idea to purge your drives of left overs from time to time -- and I don't mean daily or weekly. In fact Microsoft has included in Windows for a long time a built in utility called Disk Cleanup that you can access by right mouse clicking on a drive icon for example in Windows Explorer/File Manager and selecting the Properties TAB where you will see a Disk Cleanup button. This does open up with certain items to be looked for prechecked and you can also check further boxes either then or after it has scanned when it comes back and asks you if you want to remove these categories. [Top marks to Microsoft for asking and letting you select/deselect which so many utilities do not]
However I find CCleaner more easy to use if only because the utility works in a normal windows screen and not a tiny frame. It gives you a much wider choice and the only one I am careful about is the one for Cookies which is prechecked from what I remember but which I uncheck to avoid losing logins for sites I need to access frequently.
It scans and reports back but it also details how much each item will remove.
There are also some very much more technical items one can select going into stuff that Windows normally needs or finds useful to be able to check on but sometimes do get out of date or overwhelming.
CCleaner also offers to clean the registry but, despite being set up like the disk cleanup function that scans and reports back with details of what each individual registry entry is and only proceeding if you leave checked the boxes for the items, I recommend that you only engage in registry cleaning of any kind if you know a lot about the registry and how it works -- I sometimes wonder if Microsoft themselves know after all this time!
But then as mentioned there are a number of additional functions included none of which are really essential but are useful to have all in one place and in some cases either to use or more flexible than the utilities built into Windows -- eg Startup actions which includes Delete as well as Disable/ Uninstall programs .
And there's a good separate function dealing with cookies which does enable you to protect those cookies that you know are essential or useful with an "intelligent delete" function for the rest which adds to protected list cookies for sites you access frequently.
So it's really up to you and since it's free it's worth trying. Piriform is a very reputable outfit with some other very useful tools.
But if you do try it do remember a useful general rule: "When in doubt, then not out" In other words don't do it unless you know what it does and what might go wrong!