AKA not cleaning registry logs other data from Windows systems. Now suddenly like Traffic cameras generate ticket revenue, Microsoft wants to watch track and generate revenue from un tampered with systems. Microsoft RegClean 4.1a (Build 7364.1) by Microsoft Corp UPDATE: After reading the answers so far, is it a fair assessment that CCleaner, with the EXCEPTION of the reg clean, can be quite useful, but suffers from being "too powerful" in the hands of users not knowing what the hell they are doing?Īnd do you kn0w of all the other alternative cleaners?Īre they specifically targeting those too for removal? Ya probably not.Īnd these same companies KNOW EXACTLY what TRASH keys can be removed safely as they have done forever since Window 93 - 95 - 98 -ME- XP But I would very much like to know what exactly it is that I am risking by using it? To be clear - this is not a post in defense of CCleaner, in fact I have temporarily stopped using it because of all these negative posts. The closest I've seen are variants of "It doesn't HELP anything" / "We don't NEED it anymore". My question is: Why? What is this based on? While I've seen many negative comments, I haven't seen anybody take the time to actually explain why it's now "considered harmful". So it's not just on various forums and here on Reddit, but apparently the semi-official stance in Redmond as well. Lately I've noticed there is a building momentum against CCleaner, to the point where I saw a Microsoftie in a Channel9 video hinting very strongly that MSFT doesn't like it very much. When friends have asked for help with their old, slow machines, it's typically been step one to install and use CCleaner to remove gigabytes of old crap. I'm a long time user of CCleaner, from back when it was called Crap Cleaner, and I must have installed it on well over a hundred machines through the years.
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