sanataseva,

Absolutely not. It was sold to a third party with nebulous privacy policy among other annoyances. Get you some Bleachbit.

Paradachshund,

Awesome I’ll look into that one. Thanks!

penquin,

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 😂

AlolanYoda, (edited )

How do you know?

More specificly, how did you break your system? What did you do? Did you “clean” your partition table or something?

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

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.

penquin,

Let’s say, I checked too many boxes and messed with the root directory. Anything that shows as “slow” is dangerous

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

root directory? why are you running bleachbit on linux??

LostXOR,

Probably for the same reason someone would run it on Windows. It has both a Windows and Linux version.

penquin,

Why? To clean up left overs? You think Linux doesn’t have that and is just all pink and unicorns? lol

Paradachshund,

Is there a way to turn on dummy mode?

penquin,

I haven’t used it in a long time, but I know that it has two versions, one root and the other is regular (that’s on Linux, not sure about Windows). Also don’t check those boxes that say something like “slow” or something like that. That’s just my experience. I’m pretty sure if you read up on it or watch a couple of YouTube videos you’ll figure it out.

QuikxSpec,

Make a backup instance on an external drive

SharkAttak,
@SharkAttak@kbin.social avatar

Oh joy. Must also be why they don't have portable versions anymore.

kakes,

Honestly I just run WinDirStat and do it manually.

vodkasolution,

It’s treesize for me

BarrierWithAshes,
@BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social avatar

This but wiztree instead.

NoneYa,

I did the same because having it be portable is so much better especially when you’re dealing with a system that has no space available to install.

monsterpiece42,

Spacesniffer for me. Also portable. But I’ll check out wiztree for funzies.

Davel23,

This but SpaceSniffer instead.

lastweakness,

May I ask why?

Davel23,

I suppose it's mostly personal preference, but I find SpaceSniffer's display to be a lot more intuitive.

Paradachshund,

I think that’s also in my future, but I liked ccleaner for cleaning up old bits of uninstalled things that didn’t remove themselves cleanly.

otter,

Revo for that, but in the moment instead of an afterthought 🤓

iAmTheTot,
@iAmTheTot@kbin.social avatar

Wiztree is like a hundred times faster, fyi.

ivanafterall,
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

He's not exaggerating. I didn't believe it was possible but holy shit so much better.

yukichigai,
@yukichigai@kbin.social avatar

Yeah, just grabbed it and gave it a try. Took under 4 seconds to scan the same drive that WinDirStat took a full 3 minutes to scan.

kakes,

Thanks for the heads up, I’ll give it a shot next time!

srecko,

Spacesniffer is my preferred alternative.

bunkyprewster,

Kind of an unsettling name

RagingSnarkasm,

No kink shaming.

notexecutive,

do not use it. it’s bad.

tordenflesk,

BleacBit+winapp2ool

Paradachshund,

What do each of those do?

supernicepojo,

Ccleaner has been a malware for at least 5 years.

NiaTheCat, (edited )
@NiaTheCat@lemmy.world avatar

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    Paradachshund,

    Awesome thanks! You’re the third vote I’ve seen for bleachbit so I’ll definitely look into that one.

    sirfancy,

    Can you elaborate on how it’s a virus? I hear this a lot but haven’t heard any substantial truth aside from referring to a privacy policy that is identical to 90% of every other website anyone else uses.

    RedEyeFlightControl,
    @RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world avatar

    Piriform was a very trustworthy tool developer until it was surreptitiously bought by a chinese company and immediately turned into a virus for the next release. It instantly lost its trust and has been garbage since that day.

    Marsey_Enjoyer,

    Piriform was a very trustworthy tool developer until it was surreptitiously bought by a chinese company and immediately turned into a virus for the next release

    Avast isn’t a Chinese company

    ridethisbike, (edited )

    Article about it for those interested… According to this it does not still contain malware, but it has been the target of multiple attacks through the years that has in turn compromised many PC’s. The attack mentioned in this article was suspected to be a state sponsored attack by China, not sure about the others.

    usa.kaspersky.com/…/ccleaner-malware

    Lemminary,

    Look at that, very different from “it’s a vahrus!!1!”

    Steve,

    No, it starts up and pesters you even if you disable it as a startup service. Malware.

    balderdash9,

    This is a fucking public service announcement

    0x4E4F,

    Haven’t tried BleachBit on Windows. Does it clean driver installation logs, compress browser databases, MRU explorer cache, opd prefetch files, Windows updates, etc.?

    Deceptichum,
    @Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

    You just dunk the hard drives in some bleach. All the bytes will be wiped away.

    I_Miss_Daniel,

    Patch cleaner is also handy, to clean out that windows installer folder.

    www.homedev.com.au/Free/PatchCleaner

    Paradachshund,

    Oh this sounds nice. Thanks!

    const_void,

    Imagine running an operating system that needs third party “cleaning” utilities

    wildcardology,

    Let me guess. Linux user?

    Grenfur,

    Naa cast-iron pan user. Throw that shit in a fire, melt away the bad and star it over.

    Also kidding, but maybe.

    pivot_root,

    Gentoo, probably. Don’t want your operating system being bloated down by having to be compatible with other people’s devices /s

    SharkAttak,
    @SharkAttak@kbin.social avatar

    Nah, Arch most likely.

    I don't use Arch, btw.

    otter,

    Imagine interacting with other human beings without being a cringelord. No really, try.

    lastweakness,

    People like you are why the Linux community is viewed as being toxic.

    DreamySweet,

    They were never needed.

    jamyang,

    Bleachbit vs BCUninstaller vs WinDirStat vs Wiztree, which should I prefer? I am currently using BCU.

    shalafi,

    Wiztree is so much faster than WinDirStat it’s silly. Never looked back. Maybe things have changed?

    jamyang, (edited )

    Is wiztree much better than BCU and Bleachbit? Like, removing al the vestiges of an uninstalled program. I feel like BCU is half-assing it. Earlier I used to use Revo Uninstaller which is I think much better than BCU.

    themurphy,

    I’m using BCU with no complaints. Why do you think Revo is better? Curious to know if it’s worth switching over.

    jamyang,

    Revo has nice UI. All the options are present in aesthetically and it’s easy to use. But it has a free and a paid version. Which led me to install BCU. But I don’t think BCU is good at cleaning up vestigial files after uninstalling a program. There’s always some files left unremoved which have to be deleted manually after a program is uninstalled. I didn’t have this issue with Revo.

    Evotech,

    TreeSizeFree

    feef,

    Are these cleaning apps still a thing?

    tegs_terry,

    In a similar vein: Is spybot s&d still effective anti malware/virus?

    hperrin,

    Let me get you a copy of Ultimate Boot CD. Or, are you more of a Hiren’s BootCD user?

    tegs_terry,

    Is that a no?

    DreamySweet, (edited )

    Windows Defender does its job for “free”.

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