Microsoft’s new operating system is still in beta and is expected to be available by this year-end to the public. CCleaner is one of the most used PC cleaning utilities out there, the utility now detects Windows 11 and reports your system information in the main window if you’re running the new OS.
Once the most trusted and popular Crap cleaning tool has lost its charm after it was acquired by avast following below incidents:
- Cleaner installer was injected with Trojan, which Avast realized and stopped its distribution
- CCleaner comes bundled with Avast products. The product offers are hard to decline, now it’s possible. Microsoft Defender flagged CCleaner as an unwanted program due to such tactics.
- If you’re using a free product, then you’ll be a product, that’s true and applies to CCleaner owned by Parent company Avast. By installing CCleaner free verison, you’re automatically sharing your CCleaner usage data with the company. This helps CCleaner to further show product upgrades and offers. Visit the Privacy section and uncheck the related settings to prevent that from happening.
CCleaner Pros and cons:
Pros:
- Health Check
- Startup
- Custom clean
- intelligent cookie scan
Cons are many.
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CCleaner Alternatives to consider:
- Bleachbit for cleaning
- Treesize for Disk space Analyzing
CCleaner v5.84 recognizes Windows 11
If you still using CCleaner, good news! The Latest CCleaner Version 5.84 now correctly reports Windows 11 in the PC info section which you notice below CCleaner window controls.
Till now versions prior to this, have displayed Windows 11 as Windows 10 in App main window.
Should you be running CCleaner on Windows 11?
Windows 11 is being tested by insiders and Microsoft. You can still use CCleaner carefully.
You should avoid using its Registry Cleaner, it does more harm than good.
You should also stay away from utilizing Driver Updater and Drive Wiper tools built into CCleaner.
The Piriform team is working to make CCleaner compatible with the new OS. you can already see they fixed one issue with version 5.84.
You can download CCleaner latest version from its website.
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