I really wish the same ancient, outdated news would stop being rehashed and repeated year after year. That said, I can really hold a grudge when the 'mistakes' made were intentional. Warning: DO NOT install the latest version of CCleaner įWIW, it seems Avast is hearing (whether they are really listening is another issue) and according to their forum admin, they have pulled V5.45 and are working on the issues raised. Here’s What You Should Use Instead of CCleaner So, for example, if I told CCleaner to keep Sysnative cookies, I could clean out the clutter with CCleaner, but not have to re-enter all my log-in credentials for Sysnative and other sites I frequently visit.įor more background on the horrible changes, see CCleaner's Sketchy Data Collection Feature Automatically Re-Enables Itself.

One of my favorite features of CCleaner over every other cleaner out there, including Windows own and excellent Disk Cleaner (which I also regularly recommend), is CCleaner's ability to clean cookies, but let you select which cookies you want to keep.

Too many times throughout history, we have seen great products ruined by new owners. It happens to the best of programs and companies and I blamed Avast, not the CCleaner developers.īut these latest changes are all Avast's intentional doings - something I was afraid would happen when Piriform was bought by Avast. The malware and certs issue a couple months back didn't really bother me. It was the one and only Registry cleaner I used, trusted, or recommended - mainly because it was NOT very aggressive. Avast has ruined one of the best utility programs ever.ĬCleaner has been a favorite program of mine for many years.

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