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Sign in to saveCCleaner (; originally meaning "Crap Cleaner"), developed by Piriform Software, is a utility used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer. It is one of the longest-established system cleaners, first launched in 2004. It was originally developed for Microsoft Windows only, but in 2012, a macOS version was released. An Android version was released in 2014, and an iOS version was released nine years later.
Key facts
- Software.name
- CCleaner
- Software.logo
- CCleaner logo 2013.png
- Software.caption
- CCleaner 7 running on Windows 11
- Software.developer
- Piriform Software
- Software.ver layout
- stacked
- Software.programming language
- C++
- Software.operating system
- Windows 10 and later,macOS Sierra and later,Android 10 and later,iOS 16 and later
- Software.platform
- IA-32 and x64
- Software.language
- Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azeri (Latin), Belarusian, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese (Portugues do Brasil), Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan (Catala), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian (Hrvatski), Czech (Ceský), Danish, Dutch (Nederlands), English, Estonian (Eesti keel), Farsi, Finnish (Suomi), French (Français), Galician, Georgian, German (Deutsch), Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian (Magyar), Indonesian, Italian (Italiano), Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian (Lietuviu), Macedonian, Malaysian, Marathi, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish (Polski), Portuguese (Portugues), Romanian (Romana), Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Espanol), Swedish (Svenska), Tatar, Thai, Turkish (Türkçe), Turkmen, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
- Software.language count
- 58
- Software.genre
- Utility software
- Software.license
- Freemium for home use; commercial for use in organisations and institutions
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.ccleaner.com
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- inception
- 2003-09-23
- software version identifier
- 26.04.0
- Commons category
- CCleaner
- publication date
- 2006-09-23
- social media followers
- 13500
- working title
- Crap Cleaner
- name
- CCleaner
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9 sectionsContents
- Features
- History
- Critical reception
- Data collection
- Bundled software
- Malware infection
- See also
- References
- External links
CCleaner (; originally meaning "Crap Cleaner"), developed by Piriform Software, is a utility used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer. It is one of the longest-established system cleaners, first launched in 2004. It was originally developed for Microsoft Windows only, but in 2012, a macOS version was released. An Android version was released in 2014, and an iOS version was released nine years later.
== Features == CCleaner can delete potentially unwanted files left by certain programs, including Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Windows Media Player, eMule, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Microsoft Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, McAfee, Adobe Flash Player, Sun Java, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and GIMP along with browsing history, cookies, recycle bin, memory dumps, file fragments, log files, system caches, application data, autocomplete form history, and various other data. The program includes a registry cleaner to locate and correct problems in the Windows registry, such as missing references to shared DLLs, unused registration entries for file extensions, and missing references to application paths. CCleaner 2.27 and later can wipe the MFT free space of a drive, or the entire drive.