Hi all,
My Win11 system is running the latest Microsoft Edge and CCleaner Professional.
When one is using the feature "Smart Cleaning > Enable Automatic Browser Cleaning" it is very complicated to use the feature “Cookies > Select The Cookies You Want To Keep…”
Hopefully the team can find a solution for this.
Thanks
Lee
The same ‘Cookies to keep’ list is used by both Custom Clean (so Smart Cleaning) and by Health Check.
So you might want to check out the manage cookies section of Health Check, which may be easier to use.
You can choose to add the cookies for your bookmarks, or from a list of commonly used websites.
Hi N
Thanks for the help.
There is no list of cookies using that option. At least not when I just tested it. Only cookies I can see is what is on the Allow List.
Not possible to check the cookies and allow / disallow. Of course there should not be any cookies, because Smart Clean deleted them all after Health Check closed the browser.
Cookies won’t show on modern browsers if they are open or running in background
That’s correct - those Health Check screens shown tell you what websites are in your bookmarks, and a list of commonly visted websites respectively.
They do not show a list of the cookies that are on your computer.
They are like that because:
The Cookie Allowlist LH side is clearly labled ‘Cookies on computer’, and obviously if you have already cleared them then they are no longer on your computer.
To see them you would either have to view them before cleaning when the browser is still open,
or temporarily turn off rhe Browser Cleaning / Smart Cleaning. (and any cookie cleaning that the browser itself does) so that they are stiil there after the browser has been closed.
What you appear to be asking for is a list to be kept of cookies that were there on the computer before cleaning - so that you could then move them to the ‘Cookies to keep’ side?
However if such a list was kept then that would defeat the whole point of removing them so that there is no longer any trace of them.
Good morning all
I realize that when looking at it from an engineering point of view it all makes sense.
But when looking at it from the end user point of view it is a very bad situation.
That turning off and on smart cleaning (of course the end user should first realize that this is the correct way forward) is weird, cumbersome and unprofessional. Certainly the whizkids can come up with a better solution. Like; Right click and choose pause smart clean for 5 minutes, right click and choose skip next smart clean, right click and pause smart clean + open ccleaner, whatever much much better idea.
