Piriform - Changing CCleaner settings For Home For Business Download Support Company Home Docs CCleaner CCleaner Settings Changing CCleaner settings CCleaner Changing CCleaner settings There are several settings you can modify in CCleaner that can make it more Introducing CCleaner convenient to use on a regular basis. You can also change how secure CCleaner's Using CCleaner deletion process is. CCleaner Rules To run CCleaner automatically when Windows starts: CCleaner Settings 1. In CCleaner, click the Options icon at left, and then click the Settings button. Choosing which cookies to keep 2. Select Run CCleaner when the computer starts. Changing CCleaner To check for updates to CCleaner automatically: settings 1. In CCleaner, click the Options icon at left, and then click the Settings button. Changing the language CCleaner uses 2. Select Automatically check for updates to CCleaner. Changing advanced Note: Function “Automatically check for updates” is set to check for new updates settings every 10 days. The frequency of update checks cannot be changed. You can always Cleaning Flash cookies check for updates manually. Changing monitoring To modify the Recycle Bin behavior: settings (CCleaner Professional) 1. In CCleaner, click the Options icon at left, and then click the Settings button. Scheduling (CCleaner 2. Select Add "Run CCleaner" and/or Add "Open CCleaner..." option to Recycle Professional) Bin context menu. Changing monitoring If you select Add "Run CCleaner" option, you will be able to right-click the settings (CCleaner Free) Recycle Bin to automatically run CCleaner. CCleaner How Tos If you select Add "Open CCleaner" option, you will be able to right-click the Troubleshooting Recycle Bin to start the CCleaner application. Advanced Usage To change CCleaner's deletion method: 1. In CCleaner, click the Options icon at left, and then click the Settings button. 2. Do one of the following: Select Normal file deletion (Faster) to delete files more quickly, but less securely. Select Secure file deletion (Slower) to delete files more securely, but much more slowly. CCleaner has four methods of secure deletion: a Simple Overwrite (1 pass), DOD 5220.22-M (3 passes), NSA (7 passes), and Gutmann (35 passes). A 'pass' refers to how many times CCleaner writes over the spot on the hard drive. The more times CCleaner writes to that spot, the harder the file will be to recover by any means. The drawback is that it will take CCleaner longer to complete the job. Note: CCleaner can only securely delete files which have not yet been deleted from the Recycle Bin. If you have already delete files insecurely (for example, using Windows Explorer), you can delete them securely using Recuva. http://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner/ccleaner-settings/changing-ccleaner-settings[2/9/2015 11:43:36 AM] Piriform - Changing CCleaner settings For more information, see the Wikipedia entry on the Gutmann method. To set which drives CCleaner will clean when wiping free disk space: 1. In CCleaner, click the Options icon at left, and then click the Settings button. 2. In the Wipe Free Space drives area, select the drive or drives. To set CCleaner to clean MFT free space (NTFS drives only): The Master File Table (MFT) contains an index of the files on an NTFS drive. As the computer overwrites and deletes files, the MFT can accumulate free space which may contain remnants of index pointers to deleted files. You can now set CCleaner to wipe the MFT free space, just as you have been able to set it to wipe free drive space. To enable MFT free space cleaning, select the Wipe MFT Free Space check box. Note: If you select both Wipe Free Space and Wipe MFT Free Space, CCleaner will wipe the MFT free space first. To increase the size of fonts used in CCleaner: See this topic. Home Download Support Business Follow Us News CCleaner My Account CCleaner Business Products Defraggler Documentation CCleaner Network Solutions Recuva Community About Speccy © Copyright 2005-2015 Piriform Ltd - All rights reserved - Terms of Use http://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner/ccleaner-settings/changing-ccleaner-settings[2/9/2015 11:43:36 AM].