Brian,

[ Ctrl ][ E ] or options > Expert mode

NEVER delete without inspecting first.

KCleaner once deleted an entire hard drive on me, Windows and all -- ooops!
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Jean-Claude Lorusso,

KCleaner works just fine without a serial number.
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Christopher Anderson,

KCleaner is more efficient.
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Christopher ,

without further information, your comment is just a claim and rather useless.

[ lurline_fay ],

The comment is a joke, based on the advertisement up front:

"... KCleaner is designed to be the most efficient Hard Disk cleaner, tracking every useless byte in order to give you all the resources you may need for your documents, music, pictures, movies ..."

More importantly, anyone can try it and use it and see if they like it rather, than ask others if they will like it.
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seagrape, that would've been a great "How would you improve KCleaner 3.6.4" suggestion.

Jim, Thank you. I submitted it as a suggestion for improvement.

seagrape,

What was found and what was deleted are summarized on screen.

If you can;t see, try [ Ctrl ][ E ] for Options > Expert Mode to see the "found" total at the bottom of the list, and the "cleaned" total under [ Simulate ].
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You can find anything on your hard drives based on size with an easy details list using WinDirStat. I would say WinDirStat is one of my favorite free software programs out there for any computer.

mike,

Try Options > Settings > Check All and let us know if it kills Windows 10 old and installers.
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Niv,

Aside from Disk Cleanup not reliably cleaning up leftover win10 update files for the last few months, win10's built-in solutions seem to leave an awful lot behind in Windows 2 temp folders. Also, if you're trying to shrink Windows footprint, don't forget about the possible hibernation file and accumulated System Restore data, each of which can be several GB.

Niv, For others.... As in: Disk cleanup in Windows 10. In the search box on the taskbar, type disk cleanup, and select Disk Cleanup from the list of results. Select the drive you want to clean up, and then select OK

D Murphy,

1 - Click [ Simulate ] first to see what will be deleted

2 - tick or untick offerings in the results

3 - click [ Clean ] to actually clean.

It's just poor design intended to be one-click for the thoughtless and impatient who do not want to know minutiae.

There's nothing wrong with 2 or 3 clicks to make a program actually do it's final task, and is much safer.
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sammie, Combine CCleaner with WinDirStat and bam, have the programs you need to keep your hard drive clean <3

steve, Continue to use CCleaner. You can't do anything wrong with that!

steve,

KCleaner is more efficient.

And does not leave stuff behind to auto-start or auto-nag about updates or report to the web.
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DrPseudo, if you wanted to keep history, passwords, and autofill information, why did you check the boxes to let ccleaner delete it?

DrPseudo: Idk about KCleaner, but CCleaner is a great free program and you can choose what you want it to clean. As long as you don't check the box to remove "saved passwords" it won't remove them.

DrPseudo,

KCleaner did not eat your saved passwords.

Maybe it cleared your cache where copies of passwords are saved for auto use in web browsers.

If you do not know your passwords, that's your responsibility.

If you use a web browser that can sync ( Chrome, Firefox, Opera ), there's your passwords.

At least now you know how to scrub your computer if you want to give it away, or let someone else use it, or if you fear it might get compromised by public intrusion ( say, before traveling and using it in public ).
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Neil H, The registration address (Name) is "GiveawayoftheDay". In the feald below you put the serial number and everything is successful.

Neil H, Registration Name:
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GiveawayoftheDay

Neil H, Suggest you try reading the READ ME file before you start moaning about not being able to register. All the information you need is there in black and white. Should have gone to Specsavers!

landfill,
so you are one of those 0.00000000000% human beings walking on the globe who never, never did interpret anything wrong in your miserable life and also will never ever makes mistakes. Haven't you realized by now that we are here sort of a "family" who want to learn from each other. So why attack @Neil H in such brutal way? If i were the the administrator of this site, i would have banned you for life. Please go and do a little introspection.

William,
It seems to me that every day, almost without fail, someone wil ask a question based entirely on their own inability or unwillingness to read the instructions in the first place
If people weren't made to feel just a mite embarrassed in asking, the comments section would become very boring indeed. Why they able to read the answer in the comments section but not in the original 'Read- me' is beyond me.

Elena Weiss, Thank you Elena

Neil H, Thanks to Perry Smith and William for the help and support.

I was in a rush to go out this morning and didn't mention that I had also tried 'GiveawayoftheDay' in the 'Name' field, I didn't mention that I was also drinking tea, just in case someone shouted that I should be drinking coffee! There are a lot of other facts that 'landfill' is ignorant of too, can't imagine that their life is much fun from the reaction my comment brought from them! I tried my name and the email as possible alternatives. I had also tried re-installing the software and used all of those possible entries in the 'Name' field. I didn't mention that either. After the third re-install the software registered OK.

For landfill's information, I did read the .txt file, thoroughly, more than once, while wearing some glasses that came from Specsavers, they are new and work just fine. I am literate and computer literate, I first programmed computers +30 years ago. You may be interested to read a definition of 'landfill' - "Landfill is the disposal of waste which cannot be reused, recycled or recovered, into or onto land. It forms the lowest aspect of the European Waste Framework Directive’s waste hierarchy." - https://www.sepa.org.uk/regulations/waste/landfill/

Having a bad day as part of the lowest aspect of the waste hierarchy?

Terry I, You are also jumping to lots of conclusions. Please read my response below.

Neil H,
Er, LOGICAL conclusions based on the fact that that you only supplied limited information as to your initial problem, I'd say.

Terry I, I'd say PROBABLY because they do not extract the zip contents unless they have to and there is NO sticky short FAQ added to the top of the comments section so everyone sees the bare essential instruction to read the readme.txt on every giveaway... and if you have not read the readme.txt and have ANY questions about the giveaway installation or activation/registration read the readme.txt before posting any comments in the comments section and include a checkbox when posting a comment to assert you have read the readme.txt file as a subtle reminder.

There is no justification for belittling a new visitor for being inexperienced and maybe lazy out of ones own impatience or lazyness. It is bad for ones own reputation and bad for the site to not welcome new users! But to be honest landfill was not that rude and not very insulting or brutal, just a little direct and impatient in my opinion, but not the best ambasador for this site.

If people were made to feel a mite embarressed by their asking a simple question for their first time then I would not blame them if they thought "sod this I did not come here to be abused!" And never come back.

Now if they kept asking the same question every day and the answers were always in the readme.txt file or in the description above or a sticky post by GAOTD or the vendor then I would hope the moderator would view the users regular spamming with the same question as spam and stop letting the users spam post out into the public since the person must know the answer by then. Remember not all giveaway activation problems are solved by reading the readme.txt file. Sometimes it may be the vendors own activation mechanisim failing in some way not covered in the readme.txt. Readme.txt is NOT the answer to everything and likely never will be... and if it ever is it will be too long a read for most people to go through as it will end up longer than many EULA that are too lnog for most to bother reading and are blindly accepted without a second thought by most people.

Neil H,

KCleaner works without a serial number.
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Liright47, i have the same question. is it ?

In response to [ Liright47 ],

Yes, of course ANY RAS random access storage can benefit from cleaning out unneeded files, making backups, searches, faster, and returning the space wasted for reuse.
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Liright47, I would not use it on an SSD (unless you were running out of space).

Liright47, all junk cleaners are suitable for use on SSDs. In general, you can use a SSD exactly as you would use a hard drive. The only exception to this, is that there is no need to ever manually defrag them. It's important to note, that unlike what many people claim, it is safe to a defrag a SSD. However, because of the way that they work, any performance gains will most likely very minimal at best.

Liright47, Yes and you won't suffer for that. But it's not necesarily bad for them either but ONLY if the program does not EVER delete any files that will be recreated by windows after it has finished since that just increases the total number of writes to the drive for no good reason. For example if it deleted the hiberfil.sys file without disabling hibernate or hybrid-sleep it would get re-written by the system, same for swapfile.sys or pagefile.sys etc. I would hope the program does not touch those files but cannot say as I wouldn't run it on any of my ssytems unless someone paid me to ... I'd then try it in a virtual machine but not on a real computer.

Personally I would not use this type of program on any of my machines and only would go about cleaning things manually I wanted to clean if space was getting tight in any way. Generally speaking SSD based machines are far less prone to slowing down as space gets consumed, and files fragment, due to the lack of mechanical seek time that magnetic hard drives suffer so there is not such an apparent need to do much about it until it becomes a free space issue... and in that respect it is better to move as much of those temporrary files that can be safely cleaned to other non-system drive partitions to save mussing up the system drive and avoidable writes the the system SSD letter.

Peter Blaise, are you sure about your answer as your answer is saying "Yes" to Liright47 he is "right to assume that this program is not suitable for SSD", then you go on to say the opposite... Am I reading your reply wrong or Liright47's post wrong?

Ruta Lee, I've used it and didn't like it much.

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[ TK ], agreed "yes" or "no" interferes with the point:

In response to [ Liright47 ],

Of course ANY RAS random access storage can benefit from cleaning out unneeded files, making backups, searches, faster, and returning the space wasted for reuse.
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