Two weeks back there was a minor flap when CCleaner sent a cease-and-desist email to BleachBit on the use of Winapp2.ini file in BleachBit. Though the confusion was cleared up in a couple of days, Piriform, the developers of CCleaner didn’t cover themselves in glory in the matter.
Agreed the original article referred was a little misleading, but any developer at Piriform should have been able to put them right.
The whole issue made me think about the importance of (or the importance accorded by Piriform to) Winapp2.ini file w.r.t. CCleaner. Don’t get me wrong. Even without Winapp2.ini, CCleaner is one of the best (if not the best) and safest System Cleaners around for Windows.
The barebones CCleaner operates like the motto of a brain surgeon - “First, Do No Harm”.
What I wanted to see was the difference Winapp2.ini brings to CCleaner (and by extension to the other system cleaners which have also adopted Winapp2.ini, like System Ninja and BleachBit).
Fortunately or perhaps subconsciously, I had not run any system cleaner or anti-spyware tool on my PC after the No Pongal Google Doodle, have a Moodle article. So yesterday was the best opportunity to run such a test.
First I ran (in Analyse mode) CCleaner 3.27 without Winapp2.ini file. Then once more ran CCleaner 3.27 with the most recent Winapp2.ini. That done, out of curiosity, also ran the CCleaner 3.26 and 3.25 versions, with the same Winapp2.ini file. Details settings of the PC and CCleaner are listed at the end for your interest.
CCleaner 3.27 without Winapp2.ini was slick and fast. In 24.3 seconds, it identified 14,181 files of ~2065 MB which can be deleted.
With Winapp2.ini, CCleaner 3.27 took 4 seconds longer, but could identify additional ~2000 files. In 28.3 seconds, CCleaner marked 16,115 files of ~3451 MB for deletion.
Good job Robert Ward with Winapp2.ini and thanks to Piriform for a great system cleaner.
On completion of the test, I ran CCleaner 3.27 with Winapp2.ini with same settings for real, and it skrewed the system in a minor way - The Men in Black effect - more on that in the last paragraph.
Here is the snapshot.
Once that was done, it was time run the CCleaner 3.26 and 3.25 with the same Winapp2.ini file. The result was something unexpected. When we recall CCleaner 3.25 was released on 26 Nov 2012, and CCleaner 3.26 was released on 21 Dec 2012 and version 3.27 has many added functionalities it was a surprise to see the older versions perform just as good as the latest version.
The performance of CCleaner 3.26 and 3.25 was identical to that of 3.27. They identified exact number of files (16,115 files) occupying exactly the same disk space (~3451 MB) in exactly the same time (28.3 seconds). Darn it, even the individual file counts under specific heads were the same.
:-D
Configuration and Settings:
The details of the PC hardware are in the snapshots. CCleaner x64 portable versions of 3.25.1872, 3.26.1888, and 3.27.1900 were used in the tests. The Winapp2.ini file was Version: v3.27.130210.
In all CCleaner versions, under Options:
Under Windows, every box was checked except for Wipe Free Space. [Note: If you use CCleaner with Winapp2.ini, please pay special care to the Tray Notifications Cache and the pop-up warning. Enabling this option, probably cause the minor skrewup - The Men in Black effect].
Under Applications, except for Saved Form info and Saved Passwords in Google Chrome section, and NVIDIA (Play on my TV) and Samsung Kies Backups in Multimedia section, all the other boxes were checked.
Minor Skrewup - The Men in Black effect:
As I said, enabling theTray Notifications Transcoded Wallpaper Cache disregarding the pop-up warning, probably caused this problem. After the actual system cleaning with CCleaner 3.27 with Winapp2.ini, the desktop became black.
Yuck!
It is quite enjoyable and stunning to see Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones dressed in Black. But to try for the same effect on the PC’s desktop is downright crazy. Trust me, for almost one whole day, I suffered with a Black Desktop.
How to Rectify Black Desktop Background is a subject for another article (link updated 22 feb 2013).
Agreed the original article referred was a little misleading, but any developer at Piriform should have been able to put them right.
The whole issue made me think about the importance of (or the importance accorded by Piriform to) Winapp2.ini file w.r.t. CCleaner. Don’t get me wrong. Even without Winapp2.ini, CCleaner is one of the best (if not the best) and safest System Cleaners around for Windows.
The barebones CCleaner operates like the motto of a brain surgeon - “First, Do No Harm”.
What I wanted to see was the difference Winapp2.ini brings to CCleaner (and by extension to the other system cleaners which have also adopted Winapp2.ini, like System Ninja and BleachBit).
Fortunately or perhaps subconsciously, I had not run any system cleaner or anti-spyware tool on my PC after the No Pongal Google Doodle, have a Moodle article. So yesterday was the best opportunity to run such a test.
First I ran (in Analyse mode) CCleaner 3.27 without Winapp2.ini file. Then once more ran CCleaner 3.27 with the most recent Winapp2.ini. That done, out of curiosity, also ran the CCleaner 3.26 and 3.25 versions, with the same Winapp2.ini file. Details settings of the PC and CCleaner are listed at the end for your interest.
CCleaner 3.27 without Winapp2.ini was slick and fast. In 24.3 seconds, it identified 14,181 files of ~2065 MB which can be deleted.
With Winapp2.ini, CCleaner 3.27 took 4 seconds longer, but could identify additional ~2000 files. In 28.3 seconds, CCleaner marked 16,115 files of ~3451 MB for deletion.
Good job Robert Ward with Winapp2.ini and thanks to Piriform for a great system cleaner.
On completion of the test, I ran CCleaner 3.27 with Winapp2.ini with same settings for real, and it skrewed the system in a minor way - The Men in Black effect - more on that in the last paragraph.
Here is the snapshot.
Once that was done, it was time run the CCleaner 3.26 and 3.25 with the same Winapp2.ini file. The result was something unexpected. When we recall CCleaner 3.25 was released on 26 Nov 2012, and CCleaner 3.26 was released on 21 Dec 2012 and version 3.27 has many added functionalities it was a surprise to see the older versions perform just as good as the latest version.
The performance of CCleaner 3.26 and 3.25 was identical to that of 3.27. They identified exact number of files (16,115 files) occupying exactly the same disk space (~3451 MB) in exactly the same time (28.3 seconds). Darn it, even the individual file counts under specific heads were the same.
:-D
Configuration and Settings:
The details of the PC hardware are in the snapshots. CCleaner x64 portable versions of 3.25.1872, 3.26.1888, and 3.27.1900 were used in the tests. The Winapp2.ini file was Version: v3.27.130210.
In all CCleaner versions, under Options:
- Settings, every box was left unchecked;
- Cookies, all the cookies were marked for deletion;
- Include and Exclude, no files were listed;
- Advanced, all the boxes except Enable Windows Jump List Tasks were unchecked.
Under Windows, every box was checked except for Wipe Free Space. [Note: If you use CCleaner with Winapp2.ini, please pay special care to the Tray Notifications Cache and the pop-up warning. Enabling this option, probably cause the minor skrewup - The Men in Black effect].
Under Applications, except for Saved Form info and Saved Passwords in Google Chrome section, and NVIDIA (Play on my TV) and Samsung Kies Backups in Multimedia section, all the other boxes were checked.
Minor Skrewup - The Men in Black effect:
As I said, enabling the
Yuck!
It is quite enjoyable and stunning to see Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones dressed in Black. But to try for the same effect on the PC’s desktop is downright crazy. Trust me, for almost one whole day, I suffered with a Black Desktop.
How to Rectify Black Desktop Background is a subject for another article (link updated 22 feb 2013).
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