CCleaner 5.41: Disable Cleaning Summary Screen

The newly released CCleaner version 5.41 has changed the way it displays the cleaning results, till this version before, they were displayed in a single, fixed screen, now will be shown as a cleaning summary.

The new CCleaner’s Cleaning Summary Screen may not be useful to users, apart from adding one more click (on ‘show advanced report’) for the user to see the cleaning results, ads will be displayed at the bottom of screen, which CCleaner uses to show Product tips.

If you don’t like the new cleaning summary and the old style of cleaning results display back in CCleaner, Piriform has provided an option for that in its settings.

Disable CCleaner’s cleaning Summary screen

1. Open CCleaner,

2. Click on Options > Advanced, check ‘ Show Cleaner results as a file list’

Be careful, CCleaner may well install Avast if don’t pay attention during its installation, you can avoid this from happening by using freeware tool such as unchecky.

Don’t forget to read below article which tells how to disable emergency updater aka scheduled task added by CCleaner to Windows with version 5.36.

CCleaner 5.36 adds Emergency Updater and changes Cleaning rules

How to disable CCleaner’s Scheduled tasks and Startup Item

Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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