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.

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.

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.

If you want to translate CleverCleaner into your own language, at first you need the current gettext-language file (default.pot) which you can get here.
Now, although you can translate this file with any text editor, I would recommend you use poedit which makes it easier to translate it. After you have installed and started poedit, you can just create a new catalog and follow the instructions.
As soon as you have translated CleverCleaner, you can send the new translation file (.po) to the Patch Tracker so that it can be implemented

For a few months ago I have been asked to add a autorun feature to CleverCleaner to start the cleaning process automatically. That would be helpful to start CleverCleaner for instance from within a login.bat file.

This feature has been added to CleverCleaner Version 2. CleverCleaner now provides the following command line options:
/f Path-To-Configuration-File
/autorun

With the /f option, you can specify a particular cc.xml configuration file on your system.
If you set the option /autorun, CleverCleaner will be opened minimized and start the cleaning process automatically. If the option “Display conformation dialog” is disabled, CleverCleaner will automatically delete the found files and then disappear silently.

Examples:
CleverCleaner.exe /autorun
CleverCleaner.exe /f C:\cc.xml /autorun

If you would like to compile CleverCleaner on your machine to modify the source code for your personal needs or to create a patch, you can get the information how to do that on the new developer page. If any essential information is missing on this page, please let me know.

After a long period of developing a complete new CleverCleaner version, the first beta edition is now out there. I have been testing CleverCleaner on many different systems but I cannot test anything. So before I’m going to release the first release candidate of CleverCleaner Version 2 it would be great if as many people as possible could test the new version and report found bugs in the Bug Tracker.

If you need any further information about how to support respectively get support, read the new support page.

The old CleverCleaner website was already older than 5 years. Now it’s definitely time for a new one which should look a bit better (hopefully , comments are allowed) and should be also more flexible in adding new pages and news. So here it is, thank WordPress.