January 13th, 2013
CleverCleaner has been added to AlternativeTo.net a website for sharing alternatives to software you already know but also a place where you can show your appreciation about tools you already use by marking it as “I like”. Check it out.
September 30th, 2012
CleverCleaner has been around for quite a while. And although there has not been any recent update there are many users using it every now and then. As I have been using Linux since years I have put my focus on developing applications for that platform. Recently though due to change in my job I have been using CleverCleaner more often. A great opportunity, I thought, to follow up on a maintenance release for CleverCleaner fixing some annoying bugs. I will see how often I get around to continue developing CleverCleaner. However this will also depend on what feedback I get from you guys. So if you find any bugs or have any feature request or feedback, please have a look at the support page to see how you can submit your request. Your are also always welcome to submit a translation. The current translations are not perfect either, so fill free to have a look at them and send in your corrections.
Here what has changed in version 2.1.1:
- Changed Office configuration exception to OPA??.bak to not remove configuration files of new office versions >=2007
- Fixed negative size of deleted files when large amount of files have been deleted.
- Added winsxs to the directory exceptions to speed up search process
- Added French translation
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December 30th, 2009
The CleverCleaner development process can now be tracked on Ohloh.net. If you have an Ohloh account and use CleverCleaner
why not adding CC to your Ohloh stack?
Otherwise Ohloh gives you also a great overview about what’s going on in the CleverCleaner source code itself.
August 22nd, 2009
For usability reasons have I replaced all CleverCleaner Trackers (Bugs, Feature requests, Support requests, Patches) with Trac a easy to use project management system.
Besides a ticket management does Trac also provide a Wiki for documentation. I’ve started to add some pages but there is still a lot of work to do. Feel free to add more documentation about CleverCleaner. The only thing you need to start is a SourceForge account.
December 6th, 2008
I’ve decided to publish the hole content of the CleverCleaner website with all its pictures and texts under a Creative Commons license.
Therefore, you are free to copy, distribute and transmit all you need from this website. Remixing is allowed as well. Sharing your changes back is desired, but not required.
There is only one condition: If you want to use any content you need to set a link to http://clevercleaner.esite.ch as to inform the reader where the content is from.
More details about Creative Commons can be found on creativecommons.org
Note: Only the content of this website is covered by the Creative Commons, but all source code of CleverCleaner is still only available under the conditions of GPL version 2.
May 6th, 2008

CleverCleaner has been tested in the Softpedia labs using several industry-leading security solutions and found to be completely clean of adware/spyware components. Therefore the “100% FREE award” has been granted. Further information can be found on Softpedia.
April 29th, 2008
Finally, after a testing period of more than two months, the final Version of CleverCleaner 2.0.0 has been released.
Bug fixes
- Prevent About Memo box from growing.
- Disable browser check boxes again after changing language.
Changes
- Updated Japanese translation. (Thanks to Tilt)
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March 30th, 2008
This release is a further release candidate before the Final Release. Please keep testing it and let me know, if there is a bug.
Bug fixes
- Fixed issue finding Safari Cookies.
Changes
- By default tick Windows drive instead of executable drive.
- Updated to dxgettext version 1.2.2.
- Updated German translation.
- Updated English translation.
New features
- Added Japanese translation (Thanks to Tilt).
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