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[–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 90 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Man that program has gone down the fucking drain. First bundling in bloatware, now this?

What's a good alternative?

[–] NoRodent@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What’s a good alternative?

I haven't used any such tool for almost a decade probably and I don't think there's a need to nowadays. Occasionally I run the Windows Disk Cleanup utility to get rid of temp files and Windows Update installation files and that's about it. Cleaning the registry is bullshit anyway that does more harm than good (doesn't speed up anything certainly).

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago

Bleachbit is the open-source community maintained successor

nuke and pave is the only real alternative. I do it every 3-4 months and it really only takes me a couple of hours to be back in business with all my apps and settings.