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.

Bug fixes

• Assigned dialog resize limit
• Prevented CC from closing during search/delete process

Changes

• Changed icon set
• Enabled XP/Vista look and feel
• Enhanced “Options”-dialog
• Enhanced “Select Files”-dialog
• Enhanced “Deleted Files”-dialog
• Improved recycle bin handling
• Removed additional option “Favorites”
• Removed additional option “0-byte-files”
• Removed additional option “Run-list”
• Removed additional option “Unnecessary dll-files”
• Replaced option files with one xml file
• Rewritten search algorithm

New features

• Added autorun feature
• Added complete Windows Vista support
• Added directory exception list (wildcards)
• Added Apple Safari support
• Added Mozilla Firefox support
• Added option to shred file instead of just removing them
• Added option to disable searching after file search masks
• Added multi drive select support
• Added wildcard support to file exception list

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In the last few weeks I have been working on a complete new CleverCleaner version. I have been rewriting almost all of the code from version one and adding a lot of new features like complete Windows Vista support. The new release will be open source and published under the GPL v2 (or later) licence. If anything goes well a first beta version should be release either this week or at the latest next week.

Bug fixes

• Fixed scrollbar problem with resizeable dialogs

Changes

• Added Vista compatibility (currently it works only with administration rights)
• Each added file extension or exception will now be selected automatically
• Updated German and English translations
• Removed Greek translation (might be added in a future release again)

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.