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Announcing a new build of Defraggler ready for download! This build adds drive benchmarking, a VSS compatibility mode and improvements to the drive health checking. Release notes: Added Disk and File benchmarking. Added Volume Shadow Service (VSS) compatible mode. Improvements to disk health tab. Added Real Value information to SMART data. Health tab now supports Fahrenheit. Improvements to SSD detection. Minor fixes to scheduler stop commands. Minor defrag algorithm improvements. Translation fixes. Download Defraggler now from www.piriform.com/defraggler Are you on Facebook?Follow us here facebook.com/Piriform </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full blog post

We're pleased to announce the release of CCleaner v3.12! This release has a many improvements across all Internet browsers and added support for Firefox 8.0 beta. Enjoy! Release notes: Added Firefox 8.0 Beta support. Added Firefox 7.0 Final support. Added secure delete for Cluster tips. Added secure delete for Alternate Data Streams. Added cleaning for Network Passwords. Added PATH environment variable cleaning. Added cleaning for Top Sites in Safari. Improved support for Chrome Canary. Improved support for Firefox Aurora channel. Added cleaning for AVG AntiVirus 2012, ACDSee 14, BitZipper and Avast! Antivirus 6. Improved cleaning for VLC Media Player and Axialis IconWorkshop. Added Marathi translation. Minor bug fixes. Download now from www.piriform.com/ccleaner Are you on Facebook?Follow us here facebook.com/Piriform View the full blog post

Hi, We like the Ninite product for it's simple use to update and install products. Unfortunately they're selling it as a Pro version, so are making money from our free products. However we're chatting with them to come up with a solution. MrG

We're pleased to announce a new release of Speccy is out. This build adds TCP IP network connections, including IP address resolving. Along with better hard disk info and an improved graphics card database.Change Log: Added TCP Connections to Network. Improved reporting of Hard Drive data: buffer size, firmware, rotation rate, standards and features. New video card database. Tweaks to Virtual memory calculation. Improved detection of PCI-Express slots. Improved searching algorithm. Stability fix to background update checking. Minor bug fixes. For more information on Speccy and to download visit www.piriform.com/speccy </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full blog post

We're pleased to announce the fifth beta release of CCleaner for Mac. We've been fixing more reported bugs and speeding up the cleaning. Thanks go to our beta testers! Change log: Added uninstall feature. Improved speed of Safari cleaning. Improved QuickTime cleaning. Fixes to Yahoo! widgets. Lots of UI improvements and bug fixes. As this is a beta version, we recommend it for advanced users only.OS support covers Mac OSX 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7, along with all current versions of Firefox, Chrome and Safari. You can download now from www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full blog post

Great news for our Recuva fans! Our new release is out with new content searching and initial support for Windows 8. Release notes: Added content searching for specific text in deleted files. Added regular expression matching to the filter. Added preliminary support for Windows 8. Improved support for BartPE (added new folder creation). Fixed filter drop down highlight issue. Improved recovery of compressed files from drives with non-standard cluster size. Many minor UI improvements. Latvian language added. Download now from www.piriform.com/recuva/download </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full blog post

We very pleased to announce the release of CCleaner Network Professional. This new Business and Enterprise focused product combines the power of CCleaner and Defraggler into a single, powerful application to optimize your entire network! This professional version is specifically designed for installation on corporate networks. With a comprehensive admin interface to simplify the deployment across the enterprise. Optimize entire network from single computer Manage single or multiple computers at once Active Directory support Highly secure client and encrypted communications Support for small and large networks For more information about CCleaner Network Professional, click here To download a free trial version, click here View the full blog post

We've just posted a new build of CCleaner v3.11 to fix a bug with the new Recycle Bin cleaning code. In rare cases CCleaner wouldn't function correctly if you have a floppy drive or corrupt recycle bin. Download now from: http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner Thanks MrG

Announcing CCleaner version 3.11.Right on the Microsoft announcement of Windows 8, we're one of the first to download, test and add fixes ready for your download. Release notes: Added initial support for Windows 8. Added expanded Recycle Bin contents in detailed view. Improved Thunderbird cache cleaning support. Improved Safari history cleaning. Improved "Unused File Extensions" registry rule improvements. Improved Secure file deletion on FAT32 file system. Improved Drive Wiper tool to prevent UI freezing. Improved cleaning for Windows Log Files, Memory Dumps, Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010. Improved Speedbit Download Accelerator Plus cleaning. Added cleaning for AkelPad. Added Latvian translation. Minor bug fixes. Download now from www.piriform.com/ccleaner P.S. Are you on Facebook?Follow us here facebook.com/Piriform View the full blog post

We're pleased to announce the fourth beta release of CCleaner for Mac. We've been fixing bugs and adding support for Opera and Camino. Thanks for all the feedback from testers! Change log: Added support for Opera browser. Added support for Camino browser. Improved support for OS X Lion (10.7). Added cleaning of last directories for non-system applications. Added cleaning of Session data to Google Chrome. Added cleaning for QuickTime Player recent URL list, iPhoto recent database, iTunes recent database, Disk Utility saved disk image list, Adobe Reader 9 and 10, recent files, Microsoft Office 14 recent files, Yahoo! Widgets recent widgets and caches. Fixed issue in Lion (10.7) that could cause the total file count to be incorrect. Improved cleaning of Safari cookies. Added Analyze/Clean context menu to each rule. Added context menus to main tabs. Moved console app to System Applications. As this is a beta version, we recommend it for advanced users only.OS support covers Mac OSX 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7, along with all current versions of Firefox, Chrome and Safari. You can download now from www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner View the full blog post

How healthy are your hard drives? Most disks maintain information about their health and reliability. Defraggler now displays this (SMART) information for you, providing warnings if there's a problem and ensuring the speed and reliability of your system. Release notes: Added Drive Health information. Improved detection of SSD drives. Improved scheduler when the computer is idle. Fixed unnecessary creation of scheduler.his files. Improved uninstallation of shell commands. Fixed issue that could cause GDI leak in the Options dialog. Several small stability fixes for Windows 7. Macedonian language added. Minor bug fixes and improvements. Download Defraggler now from www.piriform.com/defraggler View the full blog post

Apologies, but we've been having a few problems with the forum going down over the weekend. We're working on a permanent fix for the issue. Thanks MrG

We've just updated CCleaner to version 3.10. This new build further improves our support for the latest builds of Firefox and also adds even more third-party application support! Release notes: Added Firefox 7.0 Beta support. Added Firefox 6.0 Final support. Added IE 9.0.2 support. Added Safari 5.1 binarycookies file cleaning and management. Added cleaning for MS Search, Cached Fonts, RegEditX,SpeedBit DAP, Spyware Terminator, SUPERAntiSpyware,Acrobat Distiller 10 and Foxit Reader 5.0. Improved cleaning for Internet Download Accelerator. Improved Opera 9 Last Download Location cleaning. Improved accuracy and reliability for free space and entire drive wiping. Improved Safari local storage cleaning. Improved Google Chrome "Saved Form Information" and "Saved Passwords" cleaning. Updated various translations. Minor optimization tweaks. Download now from www.piriform.com/ccleaner P.S. Are you on Facebook?Follow us here facebook.com/Piriform View the full blog post

A new version of Speccy has been released. This version adds compatibility with newer NVIDIA cards as well improved Operating System data and better RAID support.Releases notes: Added detection of software RAID. Added list of running processes to Operating System. Added list of Environment Variables to Operating System. Improved detection of temperature on newer NVIDIA cards. Fixed bug that could cause virtual memory to be incorrectly calculated. Improvements to PCI data interpretation. Added background check for updates. Added wildcards to search (* and ?). Fixed bug that could incorrectly report SATA drives as ATA. Scheduled tasks should no longer be missing items. Fixed rare hang with older motherboard types. For more information on Speccy and to download visit www.piriform.com/speccy </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full blog post

With product features exploding forward, we're pleased to announce the third beta release of CCleaner for Mac is available to download. This new build fixes compatibility with OSX 10.7 Lion and adds Chrome and Firefox 6.0 support! Change log: Added support for Mac OSX 10.7 (Lion). Added support for Google Chrome. Added support for Firefox 6. Cleaning of Recent Places added. Cleaning of /Downloads added. Cleaning of current user caches: /Library/caches. Cleaning of all user caches: /Library/Caches. Cleaning of font caches (off by default). Check / Uncheck all option added to headings. Private internet browsing data is now cleaned. Front Row moved to non system applications. Calculation of file size now uses 1k = 1000 bytes. More bug fixes and code improvements. As this is a beta version, we recommend it for advanced users only.OS support covers Mac OSX 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7, along with all current versions of Firefox, Chrome and Safari. You can download now from www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full blog post

Our developers have been working hard on CCleaner this month, now that both Firefox and Chrome are being updated on a more frequent basis. This summer release adds Firefox 6.0 support and improved customizations for our advanced users. Changes: Added Firefox 6.0 beta support. Added HTML5 Offline cache cleaning and management for Firefox. Added wildcard support to folders.(i.e. Include1=PATH|%AppData%\*\|*.txt|RECURSE or FileKey1=%AppData%\?*e|*.txt|RECURSE) Added convertion of custom file entry to folder when using wildcard. Added cleaning for Zune, BreezeBrowser Pro, FastStone Image Viewer, Notepad++ and NoteXpad. Improved cleaning for Real Player. Improved Chrome Saved Form Information and Saved Passwords cleaning. Improved Enabling/Disabling StartUp items. Improved icons detection for Uninstall screen. Improved drag-and-drop functionality for Include/Exclude screen. Improved localization support. Improved StartUp items discovery. Improved memory handling and garbage collection. Minor UI tweaks. Download now from www.piriform.com/ccleaner P.S. Are you on Facebook?Follow us here facebook.com/Piriform View the full blog post

We're pleased to announce the second beta version of CCleaner for Mac is available to download. We've been making great headway with development and thanks to everyone who's reported bugs or suggested features! Change log: Added cleaning of system and non-system application caches. Added cleaning of system, user and all user logs. Lots of UI tweaks and bug fixes. As this is a beta version, we recommend it for advanced users only.OS support covers Mac OSX 10.5 and 10.6, along with all current versions of Firefox and Safari. You can download now from www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner </img> </img> </img> View the full blog post

Defraggler has been updated to version 2.06. This new build improves on various features suggested by our users, as well as a few things we've been working on for a while. Enjoy! Change log: Added advanced options to schedule (timeout, idle time). Fragmentation calculation can now be customized. Improvements to file placement algorithms. Defraggler can now be assigned as the default defrag tool for Windows. Added enable/disable shell extension. Fixed issue that could cause df.exe to abort unexpectedly. Scheduler now displays the time it last ran. Improvements to non-English translations. Fixed incorrect tab-stop order in scheduler dialog. Added support for Kurdish language. Minor bug fixes and improvements. Download Defraggler now from www.piriform.com/defraggler </img> </img> </img> View the full blog post

Browsers are being updated more frequently... or maybe it's just the version numbers. With Firefox 5.0 having been released this week, we've been focused on keeping the high level of compatibility that CCleaner has with all browsers. Release notes: Added support for Firefox 5.0. Improve Firefox History cleaning. Improved cleaning for Windows Error Reporting and Other Explorer MRUs. Added cleaning for Ditto, Evernote, I2P, McAfee AntiVirus,MS AntiMalware, PerfectDisk, PowerISO, UltraISO, GIMP,Go!Zilla, MagicISO. Improved cleaning for 7-Zip, Daemon Tools, Windows Defender. Improved DOMStore cookie domain discovery and cleaning. Improved Uninstall tool scanning and uninstalling routines. Improved Registry Cleaner detection algorithm. Improved Start Up tool detection algorithm. Added multiple monitor support. Improved shortcut key accelerators. Improved search response when using wild cards. Added support for root registry keys in the exclude list. Added Kazakh language. Minor GUI improvements and fixes. Download now from www.piriform.com/ccleaner P.S. Are you on Facebook?Recommend us here facebook.com/Piriform View the full blog post

We've just released a new build of Speccy. With version 1.11 we've improved and fixed bugs across the board.Releases notes: Stability and speed fixes on Windows 7 SP1. Improved detection of Norton Internet Security 2011. Fixed issue that caused incorrect reporting of the UAC notify levels. Improved schedule task reporting in Windows 7 SP1. Fixed bug in RAM calculation. Added IP validation to the network section. Fixed accuracy of virtual memory calculation. Fixed highlighting issue with Find feature. Fixed issue that could cause the CPU to be listed multiple times. For more information on Speccy and to download visit www.piriform.com/speccy </img> </img> </img> View the full blog post

Following up on our previous announcement. We're pleased to announce that CCleaner for Mac has been released as a public beta version. We're working on more features and anticipate new releases every few weeks, with a final version out in a month or two. As this is a beta version, we recommend it for advanced users only.OS support covers Mac OSX 10.5 and 10.6, along with all current versions of Firefox and Safari. You can download now from www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner. View the full blog post

Get it whilst it's hot! The new CCleaner release, version 3.07, is out and available for download. We've been working on existing cleaning features and also adding better Flash Player support, so you can clean and manage the site settings on an individual domain level. Change Log: Added Flash Player SOL setting file cleaning and management. Added Safari Icon history cleaning. Added cleaning for Windows Elevated Diagnostics. Added cleaning for Kantaris Media Player, KMPlayer, Orbit Downloader, Pando, Sandboxie and Snagit. Improved cleaning for XFire, Real Player, Windows Log Files, Macromedia Shockwave 10 and 11. Improved Google Chrome thumbnails and favicons cleaning. Improved Google Chrome Saved Form Information cleaning. Improved Google Chrome Save Passwords cleaning. Improved Opera Last Download Location cleaning. Improved Remote Desktop cleaning. Improved Recent Documents cleaning. Improved Exclusion functionality for Registry cleaning. Improved Registry cleaning for Windows Services. Improved Drive Wiper functionality and feedback. Fixed bug in Cookie importing/exporting. Minor translation fixes. You can download now from www.piriform.com/ccleaner P.S. Are you on Facebook?Recommend us here facebook.com/Piriform View the full blog post

Hi, I thought I'd make this announcement on the forum first. In a few days we'll be releasing our first product for a non-Windows platform. CCleaner for Mac OSX! It'll start in beta, but we aim to be in release mode quickly and add support for many other OS features as the product matures. For those of you who don't have a Mac, don't worry we've got more Windows titles in the works! You can monitor the release at: http://www.piriform.com/mac MrG

With new builds of our products coming out each month, we begin each release cycle discussing what features we need to focus on. This month it was speed!So drive scanning and large file defrag should have some noticeable improvements in build v2.05 (Of course we also factor in any bug fixes our users send us.) Change log: Improved defrag speed of large files in 32-bit OSs. Improved drive analysis speed. Improved Solid State drive detection. Fixed bug with incorrect position of Defraggler item in file/folder context menu. Added option to enable/disable shell extension. Fixed problem with df.exe sometimes aborting. Fixed file type exclusion bug. Added support for the Kurdish language. Added last scheduled defrag information. Shell extension fixed to work correctly with UAC. Translation fixes. Online Help link fixed. Minor bug fixes. Download Defraggler now from www.piriform.com/defraggler View the full blog post

With HTML5 browser technologies improving every month, we're working with the manufacturers to be fully compatible! This release has added support for cleaning IndexedDB (formerly WebSimpleDB) - a new method for allowing web apps to store databases locally. Additionally we've improved many other areas, including more comprehensive Opera support and improvements to the Registry Cleaner. Change Log: Added HTML5 IndexedDB cleaning and management for Firefox and Chrome. Added HTML5 Offline cache cleaning and management for Opera and Safari. Added Firefox Site Preferences cleaning. Added Opera Last Download Location cleaning. Added Opera Recently Typed URLs cleaning. Added Opera Session cleaning. Improved Chrome Most visited Sites history cleaning. Improved Registry reading and cleaning algorithm. Improved Intelligent cookie scanning. Improved IE Temporary Internet Files cleaning. Improved IE History cleaning. Improved "Windows Service" registry issue detection. Improved "ActiveX and Class Issues" registry issue detection. Updated Google Chrome icon. Added cleaning for Core FTP, FileZilla, SmartFTP, A-Squared, MySpaceIM and MusicMatch Jukebox. Improved cleaning for CuteFTP. Minor bug fixes. You can download now from www.piriform.com/ccleaner P.S. Are you on Facebook?Like us here facebook.com/Piriform View the full blog post