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How to disable Active Monitoring in CCleaner

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CCleaner already has System Monitoring feature. With this enabled, CCleaner runs in the background and alerts you when cleaning saves you more than 0.5 GB space. Active Monitoring is different from System Monitoring, but also turned on by default, runs from Windows startup to shutdown and monitors for CCleaner updates or new releases.

If you want to turn off CCleaner’s Active Monitoring feature, you can, here is how.

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Disabling CCleaner’s Active Monitoring Feature

1. Open CCleaner, click on Options > Monitoring,

2. Uncheck for ‘Enable System Monitoring’ and ‘Enable Active Monitoring’, click ‘Yes’ to the warning displayed on the screen.

Yes, you need to disable both System Monitoring and Active Monitoring features in Monitoring to turn off CCleaner from Monitoring your computer.

When you try to deactivate Active Monitoring, CCleaner shows this warning: ‘this action is not recommended. Active monitoring will ensure that CCleaner is kept-up-to-date and your computer as clean as possible.

We want to give a clarification on this. CCleaner can still check for updates as’ Automatically check for udpates to CCleaner’ still checked under Settings, but much less when compared to Active Monitoring, that’s all.

What do you say?

Don’t you think Monitoring as an unnecessary addition to CCleaner? Perhaps Piriform here, is wanting you to purchase its Professional version of the tool by offering half features in the free version, which may actually backfire on them by losing free user base as they switch to other tools.

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  1. Jason says

    CCleaner is a great tool and i am using it. I haven’t updated my tool for while and thanks for letting me know the new feature in it.

  2. olo says

    How to disable monitoring feature while unattended installation (ccsetup418_slim.exe /S /L=1045)?

  3. dishj says

    So it’s free and we’re upset because? If you had made a case why having it monitor my computer is a bad thing I might agree with you. Does it slow my machine down? Why would I not want this feature that used to only be available in the paid pro version???

    • Venkat eswarlu says

      It comes down to user choice, it may not slowdown your computer but its an extra process that always keeps running from start up of computer to shutdown. We can say it as half pro feature, CCleaner will keep monitoring your computer and alerts you if you can gain Half GB disk space when you run it. Pro feature not necessarily to be useful.

      • John says

        I think it’s easier – and safer – to clean the system up on a regular basis. Waiting to clean the system only when you amass that much data could potentially leave a gaping hole in your security. I personally disabled it because I just don’t want another program running when Windows starts, especially if I can easily do without it. The lesser experienced users may find it useful but again, on the security front it’s good practice to clean your system irrespective of how much junk you have on it.

        • Venkat eswarlu says

          Thanks for sharing your opinion John, I feel cleaning junk files has nothing to do with the security, but someway they affect system performance. Privacy concerned users can clear browser history. Users these days more concern about system resources, they don’t want to see extra processes running.

  4. Starry Might says

    This has annoyed me about the new CCleaner for quite awhile, but as this article I just found today told me, the real solution is actually super-easy! (I actually would’ve disabled Active Monitoring sooner, but the message prompt scared me off…apparently, it’s no big deal, after all.)

    “Don’t you think Monitoring as an unnecessary addition to CCleaner, perhaps Piriform here, is wanting you to purchase its Professional version of the tool by offering half features in the free version, which may actually backfire on them by loosing free user base as they switch to other tools.”
    I was actually considering switching to the Windows version of BleachBit (since I like that program on Linux) because I was tired of having to use Autoruns to kill the CCleaner Monitoring process after using the program, but thanks to this article, that’s no longer necessary! I think the best thing to do in this case is to simply let people know about this fix.

    I’ve already done this now on a netbook me and my Mom share, and I’m gonna do it to the other Windows machines in the household now. Thanks for the tip, and also, thanks to the other commentors for being unusually sane and constructive.

  6. anonymous consumer says

    As of CCleaner version 5.45 – every time I use CCleaner to clean my PC – it starts system monitoring despite the fact that I unchecked it and the active monitoring boxes to disable them both, and then I disabled CCleaner’s start-up registry key, and then I deleted the start-up registry key for CCleaner.
    I cant run the cleaner without system monitoring starting itself – every time I have to use windows task manager to manually shut off the 2nd instance of CCleaner.exe – which always uses less memory than the 1st instance – which is the scanner itself.

    How do I completely disable system monitoring so it CANT run when I start up CCleaner to clean my PC ?

    I dont WANT any unneeded services running in the background, draining my PCs resources – I manually run CCleaner every day so I dont NEED it running in the background to remind me to clean my PC.

    Please help me control what runs on MY PC or I will be forced to go back to using version 5.44