CCleaner 2.05.555

By Vykranth
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Vykranth

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CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)

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What's new?

CCleaner v2.05

- Updated Index.dat cleaning in Vista.

- File scanning performance increase on NTFS drives.

- Improved exception handling methods.

- Fixed IE cache folder location bug.

- Uninstaller tool now exports foreign languages correctly.

- Fixed bug where IE temp files could be incorrectly listed.

- Performance improvements to secure deletion.

- Tweaks to Uninstall tool detection.

- Minor GUI changes.

- Minor bug fixes.

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Source: Filehippo.com

Edit: Filehippo with a single 'l'

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Neowinian

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blah... It's got adware... Still waiting for the clean version to come out... :(

There is no adware in CCleaner. If you consider Yahoo! Toolbar as "adware" then you are quite mistaken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adware - the first line explains it all:

"Adware or advertising-supported software is any software package which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a computer after the software is installed on it or while the application is being used."

Yahoo! Toolbar doesnt automatically play, display or download advertising material after being installed, so I am not sure where you get that Yahoo! Toolbar is adware.

Softpedia has such an outlandish view of what adware is:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Home-E...gle-Earth.shtml

License - Adware. Um, what?

http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/...ng/Nero-8.shtml

License - Adware. Um, what?

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Azmodan

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It's not adware... it's spyware. And yes, if you have malware bundled with your application it should be treated as malware too, because you're distributing it. You want to download this product, not the virus that comes with it. This kind of practice is sickening and low.

But excellent application nonetheless.

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Azmodan

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It's quite funny, because every time I install CCleaner I simply uncheck the option to install Yahoo Toolbar and magically, it doesn't install. Problem solved!

I don't find it funny at all.

There are 6 options in that part of the install process that are checked by default. The last one contains the Toolbar, which is intelligently integrated with the application (Use CCleaner for your browser). This means that you'll have to get reduced functionality because you're smart enough to prevent spyware on your computer, I'm correct?

How many people can actually read the last line that notices the word "Yahoo!" on it? Why can't the software author just link to the download page to the two products (CCleaner and the Yahoo! Toolbar)? Yeah, because the author knows that some user accidentally won't read that line and will install it anyways.

At least it isn't the psychological crap that some famous MSN Messenger plugin uses, don't install our optional spyware and you're a coward dog that doesn't supports the author (in a more mild language), or yes install it and I'll continue developing this product. Don't get me wrong, those people deserve some profit from the work they do, but harming the user is the way to do it?

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Marcel T

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It's a revenue stream for Piriform so unless you've donated something their way despite regularly using this program, just live with the fact that the default download comes bundled with it. At least there IS a slim version available. Sure the "other half" of the internet wouldn't know where the hell that new toolbar came from but TBH, as long as it isn't malware, those people don't care.

That said, I categorically hate ANY toolbars (don't need need them phoning home ala Google, Yahoo, etc) and love CCleaner.

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Nozavi

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lol, you should really read the whole thing or at least the second part of that page:

'Adware included ... Ask Toolbar... However you can uncheck this at installation. The software is trying to change your Default Search Engine.'

I suppose you take that for normal behavior in a software, right? :rolleyes: Especially a renowned burning application... Interesting...

Well, if you don't read or even look at something to the end of it and applications changing the default search engine or homepage are something quite normal to you... I'm really surprised your computer isn't full of bundled toolbars and programs :p

But getting to the matter at hand: Yahoo! Toolbar (for example) is not adware because of what it does or does not do, it's adware just for what it... is. And what is Yahoo! Toolbar? What is Google Toolbar? Applications BUNDLED with another program, applications NOT needed by the application to run, applications added to the installer that DO NOT serve any purpose to the main software, just to the producer [to earn a few bucks from its (gullible) users]!

I'm not the (only) one who says these programs are not ok. Did you take a look at SiteAdvisor lately? Any website that lists programs with bundled software or, even more important, that change your homepage, is listed as YELLOW. Why? Maybe because that' not normal? ;)

For me it's almost... scary to see how many people see something NATURAL in programs changing the homepage, changing the default search engine, installing toolbars or other crappy software that has NOTHING to do with the program they're really interested in.

As Martin Luther King said it: I have a dream! That all programs are created equal: WITHOUT bundled software :D Just the program I wanna see, not Yahoo Toolbar, not Ask Toolbar, not Google Toolbar, not Congoo NetPass Toolbar. I want CLEAN programs, without ANY useless third-party adware, programs with installers through which you can click your way without the need to read the EULA or search for browser altering components...

But hey... I'm just a dreamer... :)

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