If we decide to continue using CCleaner should we use an older version – we have installation files going back to at least 2006? Has anyone taken a deep dive into HP’s Support Assistant to see if it is any good?Īre the problems with CCleaner real or is it safe to continue using the application? However, if we run CCleaner’s Custom Cleaner immediately after running HP’s Optimize to empty recycle bin and clean web-browsers history, cookies and cache – CCleaner finds additional 10’s of MBs of bits to remove.

Clean Web-browsers history, cookies and cache.

Under the Optimize your performance option the app can: Support Assistant is a set of apps that can: Our Windows 10 HP computers have an application called HP Support Assistant. Our primary purpose for running CCleaner is to remove any footprints from our drives that can reveal our computer related activity. We have been using CCleaner’s Custom Cleaner to remove detritus from our drives for more than six years without incident but are concerned about privacy.

But I’m out twice the price of the CCleaner and a full day’s aggravation and fear of loss of my system.The AskWoody blog contains numerous criticisms of CCleaner including a recent series of negative comments related to it wiping Firefox extension settings. To save it I had to find and buy a special uninstall program software that cost the same as the CCleaner did! It worked – saved my computer. I just downloaded the renewed subscription and found the software to be infected – I nearly lost my computer.

I have used and recommended Piriform’s CCleaner products for about two years, they have been very good. DO NOT BUY PIRIFORM/CCLEANER PRODUCTS – INFECTED !

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