Not in a communist country or one run by a dictator!
Pretty sure there’s no McDonalds ads in Burger King in a capitalist country too.
In fact in a communist regime would likely have more collusion between state owned franchises (like Gen digital, the current owners of ccleaner and multiple competing antimalwares (many of which also have cleaners themselves))
Finally, you’re talking about public square and government. In a capitalist system there’s the private space where “owner” can set speech and behavior rules as evidenced by CCleaner admin saying no alternate software mentioned in public forum; or, if you will, no Burger King ads in McDonald’s
Under Capitalism man exploits man, under Communism it’s the other way around.
I would appreciate if users participating in this thread would please stay on topic. This ongoing McDonalds vs Burger King banter isn’t providing any useful information for others who don’t want to upgrade to CCleaner v7.x but are concerned about the risks of running the (now unsupported) CCleaner v6.39 app on their system.
Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.7184 * Firefox v149.0.2 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.26030.3011-1.1.26030.3008 * Malwarebytes Standard v5.5.3.246-153.1.5565 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783 * CCleaner Free Portable v6.39.11548 * HDCleaner Portable 64-Bit v2.095
Hi Hmm888:
Just an FYI that new legacy CCleaner v6.40.11558 builds (rel. 16-Apr-2026) are now available posted on the official CCleaner builds download page. This includes the standard Win 7 / 8.x “sunset” installer (ccsetup640_win7.exe) as well as a new CCleaner Portable v6.40.11558 build (ccsetup640.zip) . Release notes are posted <here> and state “This release focuses on fixing update and connection issues affecting users on older versions of Windows”.
According to RENOP01’s 29-Apr-2026 topic 0x6 the handle is invalid. Suggested fix does not work. Can not update to 6.40.11558 On a Win 11 PC users might see a “0x6 the handle is invalid” error when trying to run the standard .exe installer on a newer Win 10 and/or Win 11 machine.
I keep a copy of CCleaner Free Portable v6.39.11548 (rel. 20-Aug-2025) on a removable USB stick that I use for comparative testing with other disk cleaners and it still appears to be running correctly on my Win 10 machine, although I only use the Custom Clean feature (i.e., I never use Health Check, Software Updater, etc.). I haven’t tested the new CCleaner Free Portable v6.40.11558 yet to see if it runs correctly on my Win 10 machine.
Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.7184 * Firefox v150.0.1 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.26030.3011-1.1.26030.3008 * Malwarebytes Standard v5.5.4.252-154.0.5578 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783 * CCleaner Free Portable v6.39.11548 * HDCleaner Portable 64-Bit v2.095