CCleaner 7 vs 6 - I ran 7 then reinstalled 6 and 6 found 1.34Gb of additional junk to delete

[jaddorf]

CCleaner 7 vs 6 - I ran 7 then reinstalled 6 and 6 found 1.34Gb of additional junk to delete..

What else needs to be said?

[nukecad]

Whilst not commenting on the differences between v6 and v7 - you should bear in mind a couple of other things:

Firstly reinstalling 6 will have created junk files. (And if you had uninstalled 7so would that).

Secondly that just runing v6 twice in a row will also find things to clear again.
See this for the reasons why that happens:

Files that keep coming back after cleaning - Explained

Don’t worry too much about it, it isn’t a bug, it’s simply the way a computer works. Firstly you should note that “Clean” doesn’t mean “Delete”, you can clean things out without throwing them away. So just because something always shows up doesn’t mean that it hasn’t been cleaned and isn’t already empty. Windows files : It is normal for some Windows files to reappear straight after you have just cleaned them. Your computer is using and creating temporary files all the time. These particula…

[jaddorf]

I’ve been a computer expert for over 40 years, and a Windows specialist for 20 of them.

I can assure you that reinstalling CC 6 and then performing another clean could not possibly - as you well know - generate an additional gigabyte of files to clean. Particularly since I reinstalled 6 from a stored installer not needing to open a web browser.

Try again, friend.