geo2mem Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 (edited) CCleaner runs the "Analyze" portion of the cleaning cycle just as it normally has, but the "Run Cleaner" is horrendously slow. Tonight, after only being on line for less than 3 hrs. it took 236 seconds to "Clean". A month ago that would have taken 10-15 seconds tops! I "cleaned" the pc last night so it wasn't an accumulation of residual files. It gets bogged down at the 41% mark with Google Chrome - Internet Cache files deleting them about 2 every second. WHAT HAPPENED TO CCLEANER? UPDATE: Last night's "Run Cleaner" took 251 seconds! 4 Minutes! Edited February 11, 2018 by geo2mem Update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLJ Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Same complaint here. It used to run quickly. Now it takes forever to do it's thing. Don't know why I still use it. Habit I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted February 17, 2018 Moderators Share Posted February 17, 2018 CC versions? OS versions? what happens when you untick the Chrome cleaning? chrome versions? Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted February 17, 2018 Moderators Share Posted February 17, 2018 It will likely also take a long time to clean IE and Edge, if running Win10. Possibly Chrome is still running in the background tasks if it hasn't been configured to not keep things running as seen here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLJ Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 mta, It's any CC version on Windows 10. I haven't tried unticking Chrome but will do that next time. I believe I have the latest Chrome version. Andavari, I don't have Chrome synced, but I did have it set to allow background tasks running after closed. Will see how that goes. I don't even touch IE but use Edge on occasion. Thank you both for your replies and advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted February 17, 2018 Moderators Share Posted February 17, 2018 wild guess here, but Win10 and the main browsers (FF and Chrome) are changing faster than new CC releases. I know a few versions ago FF (and I think Chrome in recent history) have changed the what, how and where their files live. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geo2mem Posted February 17, 2018 Author Share Posted February 17, 2018 I'm running the latest versions of Win 10, Chrome and CC. Cleaning "Google Chrome - Internet Cache" is one of the primary reasons that I use CC. That is the point everything stops ... 41% completion. Things were doing great before Avast bought CC and started blindly loading their software with each CC 'update'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted February 18, 2018 Moderators Share Posted February 18, 2018 You could also try cleaning with Chrome's built-in cleaning abilities. I've personally had to do that with SRWare Iron (a Chrome/Chromium clone) because CCleaner misses some small amount of cache in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen CCleaner Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 On 2/17/2018 at 18:03, geo2mem said: I'm running the latest versions of Win 10, Chrome and CC. Cleaning "Google Chrome - Internet Cache" is one of the primary reasons that I use CC. That is the point everything stops ... 41% completion. Things were doing great before Avast bought CC and started blindly loading their software with each CC 'update'! Hi geo2mem, It would help a lot to confirm the following information: Which version of CCleaner you are running (e.g. v5.40) Which version of Chrome you are running (Settings > About Chrome) (e.g. v64.0.3282.167) Which version and edition of Windows you have (e.g. Windows 10 Home) (e.g. Windows 7 Professional) (e.g. Windows Server 2016) Your system architecture (e.g. 64-bit) (e.g. 32-bit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geo2mem Posted February 20, 2018 Author Share Posted February 20, 2018 1. 5.40.6411 2. 64.0.3282.167 3. Win 10 Pro build 16299 4. 64-bit FYI, last nights cleaning took 463 sec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen CCleaner Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 Thanks. Are you using the Secure Deletion or Wipe Free Space Drives in Options > Settings ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geo2mem Posted February 21, 2018 Author Share Posted February 21, 2018 I'm at work and I looked at my CC here which should be the same as mine at home. Secure Deletion = No; Wipe Free Space = YES!! I never selected that option. I bet that is the culprit! Agree? You ought to publish this solution to all if those settings can cause the slowdowns I mentioned. I'll check the home laptop this evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted February 21, 2018 Moderators Share Posted February 21, 2018 Do you mean that Wipe Free Space in Cleaner is checked? If so, then a drive has to be selected in Options/Settings for this to come into effect. The default for this is WFS unchecked and no drive checked. If you mean that a drive is checked in Options/Settings then WFS in Cleaner has to checked for this to be effective. As the defaults are unchecked then if both are checked then at some time some human intervention was required to make the change. Yes, wiping free space takes a lot of time, and produces an operation complete message. As your run times are about four minutes then I very much doubt that WFS is running. My normal cleaning run staggers a little at 46 seconds, but is over in around ten seconds or so. That cleans around 2-300 mb on average. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geo2mem Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 Home now ... drive was checked, wipe free space was checked, secure deletion was checked. All unchecked now! I did not check any of these. I think this will surely help. ThankYouVeryMuch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted February 23, 2018 Moderators Share Posted February 23, 2018 You're not the first person to use those and forget to disable them. Wipe Free Space is one of those features that I wish would automatically disable itself after each use, and I've made that suggestion in the past as it can catch any of us out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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