CC very slow cleaning Chrome

CCleaner for Windows
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Using CC v3.10.1525.

I am experiencing exceedingly long runtimes with CC, especially when it gets to Chrome internet cache.

It often cleans 80-280 mb and takes 4 minutes or more.

I run CC after every browsing session, daily, sometimes twice daily.

The culprit seems to be Chrome.

Running CC when I used to use IE8 browser took hardly any time at all.

I am using secure deletion, with 1 pass overwrite, and also have Wipe MFT Free Space enabled, but not Wipe Free Space drives.

I also recently added CCEnhancer, but to the best of my recollection, these extreme cleaning times were happening even before adding it.

Again, it really looks like an issue between CC and Chrome.

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There's another topic about the newest version being much slower here although I think it was reported before too. Some users are having the slowdown to do with some Firefox box in CCleaner.

Also if you add in a full winapp2.ini file as your CCEnhancer would've done that is known to cause CCleaner to take much longer, it's a case of perhaps trim out the cleaning routines in it that you don't need to give CCleaner a speed boost.

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There's another topic about the newest version being much slower here although I think it was reported before too. Some users are having the slowdown to do with some Firefox box in CCleaner.

Also if you add in a full winapp2.ini file as your CCEnhancer would've done that is known to cause CCleaner to take much longer, it's a case of perhaps trim out the cleaning routines in it that you don't need to give CCleaner a speed boost.

Hello, and thanks for the fast reply!

So, you're saying that CCEnhancer might be to blame, due to the winapp2.ini?

I want to make sure that I understand you.

:)

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Adding winapp2.ini will likely make CCleaner take longer to load on slower machines, but it shouldn't make it hang on any particular cleaning routine that isn't added by winapp2.ini (Chrome)

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So, you're saying that CCEnhancer might be to blame, due to the winapp2.ini?

It's exactly as Winapp2.ini (the member) wrote in the above post, he also maintains the winapp2.ini file hosted on here which tools like CCEnhancer and BleachBit can use.

Some slowness can be caused by the winapp2.ini file having many cleaning routines in it. The trim down I eluded to is to remove any cleaners in it for software you don't have installed on your system, that alone can give CCleaner a speed boost.

You can manually pick and choose what you want in the winapp2.ini file by visiting its topic here, but of course that means manually downloading it, and manually editing out anything you don't need in it.

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It's exactly as Winapp2.ini (the member) wrote in the above post, he also maintains the winapp2.ini file hosted on here which tools like CCEnhancer and BleachBit can use.

Some slowness can be caused by the winapp2.ini file having many cleaning routines in it. The trim down I eluded to is to remove any cleaners in it for software you don't have installed on your system, that alone can give CCleaner a speed boost.

You can manually pick and choose what you want in the winapp2.ini file by visiting its topic here, but of course that means manually downloading it, and manually editing out anything you don't need in it.

I just reduced the cleaning time dramatically by NOT running a Chrome extension called Click&Clean automatically before running CC. It cut the 4+ minute time in half, which is good, but still too long.

Has anyone heard of other Chrome users encountering this issue with CC?

Thanks for the added winapp2.ini advice. :)

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If you open task manager and go to the processes tab, I will bet that you still have chrome processes (either chrome.exe or plugin.container) running

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If you open task manager and go to the processes tab, I will bet that you still have chrome processes (either chrome.exe or plugin.container) running

If I open task manager when? When I run CCleaner?

If you're talking about opening task manager when I have closed Chrome and before starting CCleaner... no, neither of those processes are running.

But that might be because I have unchecked the default 'Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed'.

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If I open task manager when? When I run CCleaner?

If you're talking about opening task manager when I have closed Chrome and before starting CCleaner... no, neither of those processes are running.

But that might be because I have unchecked the default 'Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed'.

So you are saying you checked (not guessed) the Processes tab? If so Than this is a different issue from what other users have experienced.