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TastyWheat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Granite@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bleachbit or Glary Utilities

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  • Bipta@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I replaced it with BleachBit after their auto-updater led to a situation where everyone was advised to wipe Windows.

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/how-to/security/ccleaner-malware-incident-what-you-need-to-know-and-how-to-remove/

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    • TastyWheat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Goddamn it gets worse. As soon as I get home from work I’ll give a BleachBit a go. Thanks all!

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  • CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ohhh thank you for suggesting these, I had been considering swapping for CCleaner for weeks now but didn’t know of a good alternative.

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  • Doxanarchy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Glary Utilities has been my go to for years. First time I’ve ever seen anyone else mention it!

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• NoRodent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s a good alternative?

  I haven’t use any such a tool for almost a decade probably and I don’t think there’s a need to nowadays. Occasionally I run the Windows Disk Cleanup utility to get rid of temp files and Windows Update installation files and that’s about it. Cleaning a registry is bullshit anyway that does more harm than good (doesn’t speed up anything certainly).

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• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bleachbit is the open-source community maintained successor

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• Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  nuke and pave is the only real alternative. I do it every 3-4 months and it really only takes me a couple of hours to be back in business with all my apps and settings.

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