Custom Clean Amount Removed

[JozCC]

Hi Community, I have used CCleaner for a long time. I know I have completed my cleaning when the cleaned amount is nearly zero, though never gets to zero. Recently, even when I have run several cycles, there is always a large amount of GB removed! It is as if the amount removed first time is constantly reported and I am not sure when I have cleaned enough. Is there a way to get the CCleaner to indicate when there is no more to be removed?

[nukecad]

You will never get CCleaner to report zero - simply because Windows is creating temporary files all the time, (CCleaner even creates some when you open it and then cleans them when you run a clean).

Have a read here about why files come back stratight after cleaning, and what you can do to stop some of it happening:

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…

However if you are constantly getting GB reported to clean then you probably have a corrupted Recycle Bin.
The bin is being emptied as it should be, and if you open it there is nothing in there - but one part of Windows has got confused and doesn’t think it has been emptied at all.
That broken part then tells apps such as CCleaner that there are still GB, or even TB, of files in the bin that need to be deleted.

Don’t panic - it is quite common and very easy to fix. See below for instructions.
(The instructions are also in that link above).

Many people have a corrupted Bin and never even notice - unless they use CCleaner or similar.
It been happening since Windows XP/Vista and Microsoft have never bothered to fix it.
Although Windows shows the Bin as being emoty there is a list of files that were in there and that list isn’t being reset by Windows when you empty the bin.

To fix a corrupted Recycle Bin:
Open the start menu and begin to type the word ‘Command’, when it shows you the Command Prompt click on “run as administrator”:

Once the command window is open carefully type in the following exacly as it is written including the spaces (or copy/paste it into the command window)

rd /s /q C:$Recycle.bin

Hit enter.
Job done, you can close the command window.

That removes the corrupted bin and Windows replaces it with a new one.