BleachBit vs CCleaner

I have always used CCleaner and been happy with it but i have now heard of a similar program called BleachBit, which i know very little about so far.

Who has used both and in your opinion which is better?

Never tried it…and i have used CCleaner for years and never had a problem with it, so therfor trust it

here is a review http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/BleachBit-Review-121825.shtml

I have used CC for years and now use both!

[I am replying partly because I cannot find how to now post a new topic - the administrators have made this a well concealed secret …]

Having seen the softpedia review, screenshots, I’m not impressed. I too have been using ccleaner for years, interface isn’t complex, covers a great number of applications and as they say if it isn’t broken don’t fix it.

No secret a so**ing great New Topic button at the top of each different forum listing ;D

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"No secret a so**ing great New Topic button at the top of each different forum listing

You will have to have seen a listing to be able to find this topic. So depending on what your topic subject is about, choose the relevant Forum from the forum.avast.com/index.php and open that forum click the New Topic button and you’re off and running, give the topic a meaningful title."

It certainly wasn’t there whilst I was searching around for it (as you indicate) but I have since stumbled on it by some roundabout reply route. Don’t want to progress here as I suspect this is off topic and I risk getting shot by the moderator.

You won’t get shot, hung, drawn and quartered perhaps ;D

Never heard of it. I’ve used Ccleaner on Windows 98, XP, Vista, and Windows 7 and never any problems. I have with some other products in the past. So if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Joe

I been using CCleaner for a long time and i like it.

Ccleaner is light, simple and is doing a great job for me :slight_smile:

DavidR’s reply say’s it all for me :slight_smile:

As David said, I’ll stay with CCleaner.

Open source alternative to CCleaner- tried it on Linux almost a year ago- it works well and I still have it.

http://dontsurfinthenude.blogspot.com/2009/09/ccleaner-for-ubuntu.html

Multi-platform and works on Windows too- here’s the web site.

http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/

What experience do you folk have with the CCleaner “Registry” option? I just use the default “applications” clean myself because I have heard horror stories about people using “registry cleaners”, optimisers etc and regretting it. It would be useful to know if CC’s registry cleaner is safe and idiot-proof

I use CCleaner and Eusing free http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm
I run these with default settings and have never had a problem

I used PC Tools Registry Mechanic once … and that ended with a reinstall :cry:

The ccleaner’s Registry, Scan for Issues function is really rather benign, it doesn’t go into areas that could well convert your system into a paper weight. I have another registry cleaner, which if I ran it after ccleaner’s Registry, Scan for Issues function it would find lots of other things.

So it is one of the safer options as far as registry cleaning goes, but I believe there is no thing such as a completely safe registry cleaner. There will always be an element of risk just that it should be less using ccleaner, like anything to do with the registry always elect to backup any change so it can be reversed.

It provides an easy way to backup changes of the found registry items after you select Fix selected issues…

Yes it does, but some might not choose to do so, which is why I mentioned it.

On my other computer with windows xp i used BleachBit and brought my computer back up from 100mb of free space to 1,003Mb of free space. CCleaner couldn’t even do that. BleachBit is a good program

I use the registry cleaner in CCleaner regularly and have never had a problem. As a matter of fact, after looking at what it wants to delete, I have always told it to go ahead without creating a backup and have never regretted it (you may choose to do otherwise and that’s fine). I therefore would say that it’s perfectly safe to use. When I uninstall something, I use CCleaner to do that too,then I run the registry cleaner (with no backup), then run Auslogics Registry Cleaner which sometimes finds additional left behind things. I also will sometimes use the older version 7 of Registry Mechanic which really does a thorough job and also has a registry compaction option. Auslogics and Registry Mechanic make automatic backups but I have never had to use one. I would not recommend any later versions of Registry Mechanic since it has become very bloated but the Auslogics offering is excellent.

The only Registry cleaning program I ever had a problem with was RegCure and it never caused a problem with the system. What it did was constantly delete valid things that would be automatically restored on the next bootup. I think they had it detect those things to make you think it was doing a better job than it’s competitors.