I had to roll back to version 6, because the tool I used most, the uninstaller, is beyond useless in version 7. I used it in 6 because it was faster than Windows built-in uninstall. I have 877 programs installed. Windows app uninstaller takes about 45 seconds to list them all. CCleaner 6 takes about 10 seconds. CCleaner 7 takes 5 minutes.
On top of that CCleaner 7 has no way to search for a particular program to uninstall. You have to scroll through the list. That is also slow.
So along with everything else that’s being reported wrong with 7, the one thing that I really liked about 6 is gone. I’ve also canceled my license auto renewal for next near.
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You know, I’ve been waiting through a couple of updates to fix this issue.
The uninstaller used to be instant, now it takes 10-15 minutes(every time) to scan/pull up all the apps on my system for uninstalling. Although I just recently resubbed for another 2 years (I’ve been using CCleaner for a long time. Longer than I can remember) and have never been so aggravated to the point of not renewing my subscription at the end of this current one.
I won’t go into the whole new interface but to say it is hot garbage compared to what came before this 7.0 update.
The uninstaller in ccleaner six was just a shortcut to the inbuilt windows uninstall, now it actually looks for reminents like registry entries and folders
I prefer the old way. Maybe add an option to select a deeper search.
As it stands, this formerly useful feature will go unused. I’ve better things to attend to than waiting for this scan to do the search you say it does.
That’s good, in theory. I can understand the actual uninstall process taking longer if it’s going to go the extra work of finding remnants, but why does to take many minutes to populate the list before you even get started? Not to mention the reports I’ve see of this remnant finder deleting things that don’t belong to the program you’re trying to uninstall, and breaking other things on the system. It should be at least as fast as the system uninstaller, and then optionally delete remnants (after telling you what its going to do).
I’ve seen a couple others right after the update. When uninstalling a WebView2 app, it takes out Edge. Pretty sure I saw Chrome needing re-installed after removing something else (probably a Chrome desktop app). So, it’s not one full application taking out another, but the regular Windows wouldn’t have removed the browser after triggering the uninstaller for one of those web apps, because the browser isn’t in the uninstall manifest. Making any assumptions about what’s related to a program when deleting files is dangerous.
Just a guess but I’m wondering if CC7 may be uninstalling WebView2 Runtime when unistalling apps that use it?
Removing WebView2 Runtime would have the effect of crippling other apps that use it. (including CC7 which uses it itself).
TBH I don’t use the uninstaller tool in CCleaner, I’m a long time user of Revo uninstaller