Paradachshund@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 months agoIs CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?message-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareIs CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?Paradachshund@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
Has something new come along? It’s been so long since I’ve needed to do this that I assume CCleaner has enshittified by now.
minus-squarepenquin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoBe very careful with Bleachbit, it’s very powerful and can ruin your system if you go too far cleaning. Ask me how I know 😂
minus-squareAlolanYoda@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-27 months agoHow do you know? More specificly, how did you break your system? What did you do? Did you “clean” your partition table or something?
minus-squareCorroded@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoNot that person but I tried to do the secure cleaning mode where it zeros empty space but I think I was also downloading something at the same time. This was several years ago but I vaguely recall my system being unable to boot.
Be very careful with Bleachbit, it’s very powerful and can ruin your system if you go too far cleaning. Ask me how I know 😂
How do you know?
More specificly, how did you break your system? What did you do? Did you “clean” your partition table or something?
Not that person but I tried to do the secure cleaning mode where it zeros empty space but I think I was also downloading something at the same time. This was several years ago but I vaguely recall my system being unable to boot.