As most of us know, there are many cleaning products out there for our computers, one of the many being that is suggested being CCleaner. I’m personally a big fan of it, for its ease of use and the fact it’s never deleted anything that should have been kept. It also strikes a lot of places that I’ve noticed other cleaners miss due to improper rules or just not looking for the proper location, such as working with some Firefox derivatives, like Pale Moon. But at the same time, one of the biggest complaints I hear about CCleaner is that it misses some applications altogether or that it doesn’t do as good of a job as other applications. Which is where CCleaner Enhancer comes into play and provides a bunch of powerful new features to CCleaner.
CCleaner Enhancer weighs in at about 250 kb, extremely small, and is only used once to download new cleaning rules to your pre-installed copy of CCleaner. You only have to hit the Download Latest, then you can delete the application, seeing as it only downloads the rules you need into CCleaner itself. As you can see below, this is what application cleaning it will add to your copy of CCleaner.
Seriously, it couldn’t be simpler or easier. I’m actually surprised no one came up with this idea before to add functionality to CCleaner, and this now lets me clean up my trial copy of Photoshop history, the Flash cookies without having to install Better Privacy into my copy of Firefox, even after SRWare Iron, which is my personal choice for a Chrome-like browser. (No offense to the Chrome users, but I prefer my privacy, hence why I use the secured version.) So if you use CCleaner and you are looking for ways to add onto it’s default functionality, take a good look at CCleaner Enhancer. It’s not officially supported by Piriform and works for Windows only.
- CCleaner Enhancer – (250 kb)
Shane,
I would also like the .ini file alone. I can’t get your program to work with any of my screen readers. I’m blind, you see. The most success I’ve had with it, was with using a screen reader called NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) nvda-project.org. Free and open source, too.
All I can tell, is there’s some sort of edit box with a progress slider, a edit label field that simply says “X”, and a few other things. Not sure what they all are, but there is no update button or whatever.
Well, anyway, take care on what you remove ! The point is not in removing 10kB if they miss afterwards.
Shane thanks for the responce..
the ini file works properly without the net framework.
can you be so kind to post just the ini file in your site,so we can go an pick it up.,as another option.
thanks
I’ve updated the DNS setting to point the domain (containing WinApp2.ini) to a temporary free host. It might take some time for peoples DNS resolution cache to clear.
@bob; It checks my site for updates to the file in case any serious problem is found the rules can be updated automatically. Unfortunately the system had one major flaw – total failure if my site vanishes :(
Here is the addon enhancer .ini file in megaupload:Just found it,working great.Just drag and drop .ini file to the ccleaner program files folder.That’s all.
zip file.
hi Eric,thanks for the .ini ..also.when downloading it opens another page,be careful..
btrw :.i subscribe to raymond forum site,yesterday and i’am still waiting forthe e-mail confirmation….please admin.
While the author’s site is down, you can download WinApp2.ini with additional filters from here
sendspace.com/file/if4y6z
Put it beside CCleaner.exe
I will host your file at no charge to you. I have a very high limit on outgoing traffic. Please contact me by email or telephone. My phone number is listed in whois, just query petersen.net.
@Shane
Mate, why not use dropbox or similar?
Thanks Paul for the post.
Why can’t the program work without connecting to the site? Except for updates, what does it need to connect it to the site for?
shane its a shame— unless you post winapp2.ini file and throw 220k in the garbage of course.
Hi :)
Unfortunately with the huge traffic that this (and other) reviews have generated my hosting provided has “permenantly” suspended my account. The program does not work unless it can connect to my site, so at the moment it is effectively useless. I’m really sorry guys.
I like SRWare Iron… but I don’t like how their logo is an oval. I hate ovals… I like circles better. XD
Maybe the hosting contracted by the author of CCleaner Enhancer has reached his limit bandwidth.
Anyway, just for now, can anyone upload the program to any free hosting (megaupload, rapidshare, etc.)?
Looks promising.Site is dead,Paul,can you provide a mirror to download?
For those having a problem with the Authors’ site, you can find the file at Major Geeks;
majorgeeks.com/download6547.html?2010-08-06
As of 6:50pm EST on 8-6-10, I am getting this:
“Visitors, we are sorry, however, this site is experiencing difficulties at this time. Please return later.”
“Webmaster, please contact us by email or via Lunarpages Helpdesk at support. Thank you for choosing Lunarpages.”
And the url is /accountsuspended
????
their site is reporting this now..
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This utility uses the .net framework, and if you don’t have that one installed your pc it will give you the 0xc00001350 error. You can install .net 3.5 but you don’t really need to just for one program. The easier way is to dl the ini file directly and place it in your ccleaner folder. here’s the link:
@paul:
It’s nice you brought this up,and especially the “tool”,
but it’s been known you can add your own custom rules to CCleaner,it’s also mentioned on their site:
docs.piriform.com/ccleaner/advanced-usage/ccleaner-ini-files
I saw this a few days ago, D/L ed it, but waited until I could read more on it before using it. Now that I’ve seen your review, it’s now a permanent part of CCleaner on my machine running Win XP 32 bit SP3. Thanks for the review.
This software seems very easy to use but formidable…..
Effective +++
@ Paul\HellNoire & Shane : Thanks :)
St.S.
@F3Speech, might be the amount of people downloading it due to this blog. We don’t have a ‘lifehacker effect’ but it’s close.
@Ahmad, Josef B., Mike and to anyone else experiencing errors, are you using 64 bit Windows by any chance? It might not support it… otherwise, contact the developer, because I’ve had no problems with Windows 7 32 bit and Windows XP 32 bit.
Thanks very much paul
Same here Mike….doesn`t work for me…
Thanks a lot, for the tip and blog. It works great.
So far it’s a great enhancement (i.e., no problems at all)! Use CC constantly–really appreciate your thorough article and recommendation.
i have got 0xc00001350 , too
not work for me either,i get app failed to initialize [0xc00001350 using xp/pro/sp3
There was something like this previously but it went out of development and has not been updated in a long time.
It is good to see that someone has picked the idea up again.
using ccleaner for so loong,never knew about the enhancer. thanks mate!
OMG, i have always used CCleaner. I have never heard of such a enhancer it’s awesome !, Thanks alot fot this program :D
Nice find, I am having problems downloading it…
Could just be a morning thing :)
Thanks a lot Paul\HellNoire. Great tip! You’re great!
Wow…this is amazing…I do not have to manually insert support for SRWare iron…
Users should back up WinApp2.ini in the CCleaner folder before installing this app, if they want to restore their earlier settings.
Hi :)
Thank you very much for the kind review of my program. I really appreciate the extra traffic you have driven to my site as well – will definitely be reading this blog a lot in future.
nice one
thank u !!
raymond forum search not working for me
plz help!
This is great as someone make an interest to enhance our favorite Ccleaner. I hope they support portable version of Ccleaner.
Thanks Sir Paul.
Thanks Paul\HellNoire. It is great addition to already solid software. I am already using it after some customizations.
Thanks a lot Paul. I was looking for such a utility for a long time. Now I can add other applications to CCleaner too…