CCleaner Summer Sale - 50% off $12.49

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UPDATE - MavericK noticed that this is an auto-renewing annual subscription. As such you have to manually go to their website and submit a request to cancel. Therefore I cannot recommend this deal unless you are into that sort of subscription deal. Personally, I'd not do that. I've bought and paid for the pro version a long time ago and there was no sort of recurring annual charges unless you want to pay for continued support.

CCleaner Summer Sale - 50% off $12.49
Good through July 7th...

I've used it myself for years. I really do not use any of the active monitoring stuff but its handy for cleaning up your registry, temp files, etc.

https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/summer-sale
 
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Turn off auto start, auto update, auto monitor and auto clean.
Or just use the free one and turn off auto start, auto update, auto monitor and auto clean.;)
I got a free PRO key for Glary Utilities many years ago in a promo and never use it.
Windows today runs pretty good without registry clean, registry DEEP clean etc.
Too much snake oil in the soup poisons the broth.
imho
 
Isn't buying CCleaner like buying WinRAR? It was handy to selectively cleanup restore points and temp files, but it really isn't any better than the built-in Windows cleanup program. I would never use the registry cleanup as I've read about too many issues with it over the years. Certainly not worth spending money on when the free version already does everything you would need it to.

Defraggler was pretty good back in the day when the built-in Windows version was shit. Windows 10 is pretty damned good about keeping your hard disks defragmented now along with keeping your solid drives trimmed.
 
Like many, I have used CCleaner countless times over the years. When combined with Windows Disk Cleanup, you can do a pretty good job of scrubbing unneeded stuff from your PC that's hidden from everyday users. Even though many of us work in IT and know where these items are located, utilities like this pull everything into a nice little dashboard where you can wipe the stuff without doing it from individual programs or directories.

With that being said, I still like CCleaner, but Wise Disk Cleaner seems to be more thorough (as in scans more areas for junk items). For me, it has always found items and extra used space that CCleaner did not. It is also available in a portable version.

Armenius said:
Isn't buying CCleaner like buying WinRAR? It was handy to selectively cleanup restore points and temp files, but it really isn't any better than the built-in Windows cleanup program. I would never use the registry cleanup as I've read about too many issues with it over the years. Certainly not worth spending money on when the free version already does everything you would need it to.
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I partially agree with this, with but two exceptions. First, unless something has changed, the professional version of CCleaner will let you clean multiple profiles - not just the one that you run it under. I never purchased it, but that would have been soooo nice when I was a sysadmin supporting PCs that dozens of users logged in to. And second, I always found it necessary to use alongside of Windows Disk Cleanup. There were some similarities, but each program was capable of cleaning things that the other wouldn't. (CCleaner wouldn't purge old Windows updates and Windows Disk Cleanup would only clean stuff related to Windows - not other programs like third party browsers and Google Earth, the latter of which can generate temporary files well into the multiple GB range).

Otherwise I agree that for a home user with a single profile (or even a few that you know the password to, unlike a business environment) purchasing it is largely unnecessary and I too do not bother with the reg clean stuff. I'm sure my registry contains unneeded crap but I can't remember the last time that a registry cleaner fixed an issue that I was having and I don't want to risk it causing an issue that I'm not. It's not like having extra registry entries noticeably slows anything down these days anyway.
 
Cleaning all user profiles (something the free version does not do) in the pro version is one of the main reasons I use it. I used to be in IT at a major hospital and still do all of the IT work for my company now. The newest version has some additional tools and capabilities that the older versions did not have. And yes, while I could do nearly everything manually via multiple tools built into Windows it is far easier having it all in one handy spot as Lateralus mentioned. As a sys admin any time savings at a users desktop is very very much desirable. Of course supporting Priform with less than $15 is a good deal for them to keep it going and keep developing and supporting it.
 
Somewhat interested, but it seems it's a subscription service? If it were just $20 for the Pro Plus version outright, I would get it, but I'm not interested in paying for renewals.

I use the free version all the time, though. Works great.
 
MavericK said:
Somewhat interested, but it seems it's a subscription service? If it were just $20 for the Pro Plus version outright, I would get it, but I'm not interested in paying for renewals.

I use the free version all the time, though. Works great.
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Hmmmm - I did not catch that! In that case I have to withdraw my recommendation. I personally despise any sort of auto-renewing subscription crap.

Sorry about that and thanks for pointing that out MavericK ! Going to update the original post....
 
MixManSC said:
Hmmmm - I did not catch that! In that case I have to withdraw my recommendation. I personally despise any sort of auto-renewing subscription crap.

Sorry about that and thanks for pointing that out MavericK ! Going to update the original post....
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Yeah, and upon further reading it will try to auto-bill you for the non-discounted price, or whatever the price is at the time of renewal. No thanks.
 
I've been using the free version, but as others mentioned it will auto-update and every time it does you get more bloat/crap in it. Guess the name fits :rolleyes: I stopped using it and using Wise Disk Cleaner. Gets alot more crap than crap cleaner ever did and my rig is happy :D
 
Confirmed on the checkout page.
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Lateralus said:
Like many, I have used CCleaner countless times over the years. When combined with Windows Disk Cleanup, you can do a pretty good job of scrubbing unneeded stuff from your PC that's hidden from everyday users. Even though many of us work in IT and know where these items are located, utilities like this pull everything into a nice little dashboard where you can wipe the stuff without doing it from individual programs or directories.

With that being said, I still like CCleaner, but Wise Disk Cleaner seems to be more thorough (as in scans more areas for junk items). For me, it has always found items and extra used space that CCleaner did not. It is also available in a portable version.
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When I did technical support years ago (for external commercial / wholesale customers), CCleaner was the bane of our existence. Basically our web application required ActiveX instantiation to invoke control of a physical USB check scanner. There were a variety of reasons why ActiveX instantiation would be blocked and over the years we grew quiet adept at tracking down various ActiveX killbits in the registry... until it came to CCleaner. Not one success, ever. To this day, I don't think that team ever figured out WTF CCleaner was doing to kill ActiveX, but it doesn't matter anymore; they've since moved onto SignalR. I still have a seething hatred for CCleaner, however irrational it may be. :LOL:
 
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I dont use cleaner alot of hte cleaning is not cleaning ig just removald og semi usefull data ( MRU list etc)

windos built in disk cleaner with a set profile does the tricsks for me

cleanmgr.exe /Sageset:<number 1 to 65536)
this will set you prefer in that profile numbse

cleanmgr.exe /sagerun:<number 1 to 65536)
Will start the cleaning process automatically. perfect for automation tasks
 
SPARTAN VI said:
When I did technical support years ago (for external commercial / wholesale customers), CCleaner was the bane of our existence. Basically our web application required ActiveX instantiation to invoke control of a physical USB check scanner. There were a variety of reasons why ActiveX instantiation would be blocked and over the years we grew quiet adept at tracking down various ActiveX killbits in the registry... until it came to CCleaner. Not one success, ever. To this day, I don't think that team ever figured out WTF CCleaner was doing to kill ActiveX, but it doesn't matter anymore; they've since moved onto SignalR. I still have a seething hatred for CCleaner, however irrational it may be. :LOL:
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Heh, I hear you. When I worked healthcare IT I remember having to install and support some type of USB scanner at the hospital-owned physician practices that worked with a new piece of software that they got, and it too used ActiveX. And was VERY particular about the advanced IE security settings. But I wasn't using CCleaner much then, so I don't know if it would have affected anything.
 
Lateralus said:
Heh, I hear you. When I worked healthcare IT I remember having to install and support some type of USB scanner at the hospital-owned physician practices that worked with a new piece of software that they got, and it too used ActiveX. And was VERY particular about the advanced IE security settings. But I wasn't using CCleaner much then, so I don't know if it would have affected anything.
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Haha, they were probably one of our customers! :ROFLMAO:
 
I use to swear by CC cleaner, I even used it when it first came out and was called CrapCleaner. I kid you not, that was the original name. lol


Any more I see no real need for it and haven't used it in several years. Sometimes if I try to clean someone's infected pc, I may use it...but rarely
 
I use this util in portable versions to clean client computers, specifically windows reg esp on those machines which have been around a bit and seen some action :)
 
I was running the free version but uninstalled it a few weeks ago when the nags for upgrading to the full version became intolerable. Popups 2-3 times a day :(
 
CCleaner is kinda pointless with windows 10 it just screws up the registry.
 
123Lanoix said:
CCleaner is kinda pointless with windows 10 it just screws up the registry.
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I'm suspect on that claim. Maybe if you keep Windows 10 updated to the latest version but run an old version of CCleaner (which also needs to be updated frequently to make sure it works with any new Windows updates properly) and ignore where it asks you to make a backup of the changes, just in case.

While I changed my recommendation of it in the subject of the thread due to that deal being an auto-renewing subscription I do still stand by it as being an excellent tool (the full pro version). As a prior network admin at a major hospital with 3200 desktops and having personally run it on many hundreds of different systems over the years I've not once seen it screw a system up. Their warning and suggestion to make a backup of the changes is something I've always done and never once needed to use. Still good practice of them to recommend that regardless as they cannot possibly account for every single system configuration and scenario with all the different software people might install or use. In my experience, if you follow their precautions it is one of the safest registry cleaners out there and their support is excellent in keeping the program updated to deal with any changes Windows might implement.

That being said - even in the paid pro version I do disable all of the active monitoring stuff as well as the telemetry. I've read that the free version now has telemetry that reports back to Avast which cannot be disabled. If that is the case I also would not recommend the free version.
 
i just see no need for any 3rd party software like this anymore with windows 10. It's like AV software it's just not needed anymore.
 
I bought the full version many years ago (2006) , it was a great program but like all the great ones it was sold in 2017, and bought by Avast
( yes Avast that crappy AV software company)

I uninstalled CCleaner in 2018.

123Lanoix said:
i just see no need for any 3rd party software like this anymore with windows 10. It's like AV software it's just not needed anymore.
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That's just too funny
 
Loose Nut said:
I bought the full version many years ago (2006) , it was a great program but like all the great ones it was sold in 2017, and bought by Avast
( yes Avast that crappy AV software company)

I uninstalled CCleaner in 2018.



That's just too funny
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Loose Nut said:
I bought the full version many years ago (2006) , it was a great program but like all the great ones it was sold in 2017, and bought by Avast
( yes Avast that crappy AV software company)

I uninstalled CCleaner in 2018.



That's just too funny
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not really sure what's funny? you can check out the results yourself? https://www.av-comparatives.org/test-results/
 
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