Jon2211444

Oh okay awesome thank you so much that explains a lot. I was wrong actually I installed the free 5.65 edition not 5.56 I assume all of the same stuff that you said applies to that version as well?

Hi there I have a few questions about Ccleaner. I'm a bit weary of disk cleaning programs as I had a very bad experience with Avast disc cleaning features. It tried to delete everything in my windows/user profile/downloads folder, about 100gb of important materials and if I hadn't told it not to it would have deleted the entire thing. I was VERY distraught over this. I installed Ccleaner 5.56 a few days ago on my primary computer. I didn't run any scans or anything, I noticed the "smart clean" feature enabled. I installed the free version, not the trail premium version. I was very concerned about this "smart clean" feature, fearing it would start deleting things from my computer without any input from me. Within about 5 minutes I completely uninstalled Ccleaner. I've been worried for several days now that it may have deleted important files from my PC, but I did some more research and apparently "smart clean" doesn't really do anything on the free edition besides tell you that there are junk files to clean? I tried installing ccleaner on a throw away computer that has no with important data. It seems so far I haven't been able to get smart clean to do much of anything on the free edition. Is it only the premium edition that smart clean will automatically delete files? I was also wondering about the "run ccleaner" option when you right click on the icon in the task bar, does that just run all of the options in "custom clean"? My fear is that smart clean or run ccleaner will use other features (like the duplicate file delete) besides the custom clean settings (that just delete temp windows files and temp browser cache files) and start deleting random things that are important to me like video files and photos that take up large amounts of space etc. Is it likely from what I am describing that ccleaner didn't delete anything from my primary PC? I don't believe I hit the run ccleaner button as when I went into my windows temp folder I still have files from 2019 that haven't been accessed since 2019. Really need some input on this as I have been very worried about my files. I don't seem to see anything missing but I have a large amount of data that is often difficult for me to keep track of. I appreciate your help, thank you.