CCleaner

[Tarun]

There was a huge outcry when they bundled the Yahoo Toolbar with it as well. CCleaner 2.0 is said that it will be made in C++, so hopefully there will be a majority of improvements.

[Jeremy]

No Unicode support. None, at all. Zip. Zero. There was (and still is) a lot of people talking about the Issues section of CCleaner that returns squares and other garbled items. Now, if Unicode was implemented that would resolve that issue.

Never had that happen on any PC I've run CCleaner on.

Overuse of ActiveX. Well, simply put that can cause a ton of errors and issues on computers. It'll crash on most platforms. That does no one good in the end.

Never had the program not run on any Windows system I've run it on.

Overuse of OCX files for everything. Well. Why do you need a special OCX file for the listview? For the checkboxes? The listview in the Issues cleaner? For the progress bar? The Common Controls OCX from Microsoft covers all of that and it works well. If all those OCX files do not register properly, the whole program fails.

I've noticed this.

Visual Basic application. Enough said there, really. VB applications are terrible for deployment to the real world, because of all the OCX files and dependencies they have. Look at how many people come here (the CCleaner forums) asking or support due to the runtimes alone. That says a lot, doesn't it?

I've never received any error message with CCleaner on any system I've used it on.

Elements not functioning as they should. Heck, the progress bar for CCleaner doesn't even work properly. It just loops over and over "to show activity". That's poor coding to any programmer. Make it update with a percentage like the Issues scanner. At least that progress bar works. (Hint: BeginUpdate type method works nicely.)

Yeah, I find those annoying as well.

Even the Issues cleaner needs a lot of work. If key was access denied, it happily acts like it deleted it, animates its removal from the listview. Then you scan again and OH LOOK THERE IT IS AGAIN! Surprise, surprise...

Hmm, I've always thought of CCleaner's registry cleaner as rather safe, but I use the superior jv16 PowerTools 2007 now.

Sad to say, all of these issues still exist. I've even seen CCleaner totally trash several computers by removing certain needed files. Even the registry cleaner has totally killed some machines. After I encountered a few of these issues at the shop I quit using it completely on client machines.

It's never killed any system I've run it on.

I'm keeping an eye out for a nice open-source freeware cleaning application that can easily replace CCleaner.

nCleaner

[ZileXa]

If CCleaner (or another decent cleaner) finds GIGABYTES of removable data on your pc, it says more of your computerbehaviour than of the app itself and it totally isn't important wich app removes the most. You miss the functionality point of these apps.. you should be able to keep your pc a bit more clean... and use these apps as TOOL to support.

Edited June 17, 2007 by ZileXa

[Jeremy]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[Nerwin]

CCleaner is the best program ever!! I told my schools network admin and he was WOW! so he installed it on every computer in the school. I love it, I tell everyone to use it.

[RJARRRPCGP]

There's even one called DCleaner...

It actually is called SBMAV Disk Cleaner and it isn't free.

Thus I dunno.