Paradachshund@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 months agoIs CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?message-squaremessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareIs CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?Paradachshund@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square6fedilinkfile-text
Has something new come along? It’s been so long since I’ve needed to do this that I assume CCleaner has enshittified by now.
minus-squaresanataseva@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoAbsolutely not. It was sold to a third party with nebulous privacy policy among other annoyances. Get you some Bleachbit.
minus-squareParadachshund@lemmy.todayOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoAwesome I’ll look into that one. Thanks!
minus-squarepenquin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoBe very careful with Bleachbit, it’s very powerful and can ruin your system if you go too far cleaning. Ask me how I know 😂
minus-squareAlolanYoda@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-211 months agoHow do you know? More specificly, how did you break your system? What did you do? Did you “clean” your partition table or something?
minus-squareCorroded@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoNot that person but I tried to do the secure cleaning mode where it zeros empty space but I think I was also downloading something at the same time. This was several years ago but I vaguely recall my system being unable to boot.
Absolutely not. It was sold to a third party with nebulous privacy policy among other annoyances. Get you some Bleachbit.
Awesome I’ll look into that one. Thanks!
Be very careful with Bleachbit, it’s very powerful and can ruin your system if you go too far cleaning. Ask me how I know 😂
How do you know?
More specificly, how did you break your system? What did you do? Did you “clean” your partition table or something?
Not that person but I tried to do the secure cleaning mode where it zeros empty space but I think I was also downloading something at the same time. This was several years ago but I vaguely recall my system being unable to boot.