Hi, I'm brand new to CCleaner. I decided to give it a try after my regular Windows Disk Management utilities seemed to take forever or didn't work at all. Loaded it up on two computers. The first thing that I noticed was the huge amount of cross sell, nag screens, internal advertising to get you to move to Pro, use this, use that, seemed like I had to bypass a lot just to do a simple scan and analysis, which it did fast and well. So I decided to keep it and just manually do it every few months.
Not so fast.
Even with basic adjustments to settings, it seems to do a lot on its own, both in the foreground and in the background. A couple of times it fired up on its own with Windows startup, I'm guessing to look for updates which I can't figure out how to shut off or just turn to manual. And with that unsolicited start up, I get the associated nag screens to do this, buy that, not a great look from a free disk cleaner that I use once in a while.
The last straw might be the attached - I noticed CCleaner trying to make changes to this folder several times last night, and when I did a little further searching, it's trying to do stuff all of the time. I let the CC Cleaner Updater have that permission but now I'm rethinking this whole thing. The irony of an application that is designed to protect me from the very things that I am encountering while using it is not lost on me. All kidding aside, unless someone can tell me real fast how to turn some or all of this nagging and intrusiveness off, I'm just going to delete this program altogether. I would gladly contact CCleaner support directly on this, but evidently, that doesn't exist either.
That's two strikes :)
Thanks.
