Make use of Recycle Bin

[Alan_B]

Options / Settings gives only two choices for deletion, Normal and Secure.

 

A further choice of "Delete to Recycle Bin" is very desirable.

If an over-ambitious deletion broke Windows or anything, it would all be mended by restoring from the Recycle Bin.

This would by synonymous with the Registry Backups that are available after an over-ambitious Registry purge.

 

After cleaning, the saving of disk space is deferred whilst the unwanted stuff is in the Recycle Bin.

In this state the computer can be shut down, and if it restarts cleanly and the computer still does the things you want, then the Recycle Bin can be purged with confidence that nothing there was needed because Windows etc. was happy without it.

 

This would be especially useful as a default option for new users of CCleaner.

 

n.b. It would be appropriate for "System => Empty Recycle Bin" to have an extra choice that applies Secure deletion to its contents;

and for user convenience, if either option is checked, then (secure) deletion of the Recycle bin is done first, after which everything else that needs deleting would now go into the freshly emptied recycle bin.

 

Regards

Alan