Hi all.
I think Ccleaner is a great free tool, however there are a couple of missing features that are tempting me to pay for ieHistoryX, namely the ability to delete 'todays' history only, and the search function where you can search and delete specific individual entries.
Are there any palns to add these features to Ccleaner (assuming They aren't there already and I've missed them!)?
Thanks.
Hi deek72.
To say that a feature is 'missing' implies it should have been there in the first place, which I think is a little unfair to ccleaner. What you are asking for is quite extended functionality behind just one of ccleaners many functions. After all, ccleaner is far more than an IE history cleaner.
My personal view is that to provide what is effectively an edit facility on your IE history is just too specialised for ccleaner.
If you do go with ieHistoryX I hope you continue to use ccleaner for everything else it offers though
PS Try nirsoft's free IEHistoryView ... don't think it will clear address bar URL auto-complete entries though.
Hi deek72.
To say that a feature is 'missing' implies it should have been there in the first place, which I think is a little unfair to ccleaner. What you are asking for is quite extended functionality behind just one of ccleaners many functions. After all, ccleaner is far more than an IE history cleaner.
My personal view is that to provide what is effectively an edit facility on your IE history is just too specialised for ccleaner.
If you do go with ieHistoryX I hope you continue to use ccleaner for everything else it offers though
PS Try nirsoft's free IEHistoryView ... don't think it will clear address bar URL auto-complete entries though.
Thanks for your quick response.
Hey, I am in no way suggesting that Ccleaner is in anyway lacking, perhaps I could have worded it a little better. In fact I'd say that it's probably amongst the best free software available, and has far more features than IEX (secure deletion/registry/uninstall etc). However, having downloaded and tried IEX, I found the mentioned features extremely helpful. I'm not up on programming etc so don't know how difficult it would be to implement the features.
Sure, if I do decide to go IEX I will certainly still use CC for the other features.
Thanks again.
PS thanks for the link, I'll give it a try.
I don't think they are things that would be technically difficult to imlpement, it's just whether it would sit right with the product (okay it's still 'selective cleaning' ... just how far do you take it?) and how well would having a history editor fit in with ccleaner's compact, fairly simple GUI.
I'm not shooting these ideas down ... that was only my view ... everyone else might think they'd be really useful ... so keep the suggestions going
And if you upgrade to Firefox for most of your browsing it has that delete "x hours" feature built in.
why pay for a program to do something that you can do within IE
If you only want today's history deleted than why not just do it within IE
If you only want today's history deleted than why not just do it within IE
Like IEHistoryView, IEX allows you to delete individual history entries; i.e. individual URLs. I believe that's one of the functions that the OP wants. I think it's easier to do that from an app like that then from within IE, though personally I agree that I wouldn't pay for that either.
From the quick look I had I think you can also 'edit' the address-bar URL auto-complete entries. In IE you can't do that, and afaik in IE you can only clear those entries by removing the entire history.