How do you make CCleaner not pop up after a video game is exited?

[Drummerofsummer]

How do you make CCleaner not pop up after a video game is exited? I can't find it online.

[nukecad]

That is Smart Cleaning clearing up junk files and temporary files left behind by the closing game.

You can turn off Smart Cleaning, set how much junk will trigger it to clean, and/or set it to clean the junk without opening or notifying you.
There are also similar options there for automatically cleaning browsers when you close them.

[Drummerofsummer]

Still popping up even when checked off. What do I do now?

[nukecad]

OK, you have CCleaner Free so what Smart Cleaning can do is limited anyway.

Let's go back a step -
Can you tells us exactly (screenshot?) what CCleaner is showing you when it pops-up?
Is it just when you close one particular game, or also with other games and other things?

[rofoun]

I see you have Razer Cortex installed. Do you use its Game Booster feature? If you do, then I'd say it might very well be the culprit. Could you try to add CCleaner to the Game Booster's exception list and see if it helps?

 

[Drummerofsummer]

I will try to run a game and then close it now that I excluded the file and the main folder for game booster.

[Drummerofsummer]

Still didn't work with these directory settings.

[rofoun]

I'm sorry I probably didn't express myself very well. What (in my opinion) is happening is that when you launch a game, Cortex automatically terminates the CCleaner process (the one running in the background) and when the game has finished, Cortex launches CCleaner process again. The problem is that for the latter it doesn't use correct arguments, which leads to opening the main CCleaner window instead of just running CCleaner in the background. So, if all this is a valid theory, there should be two ways out of it, both trying to prevent Cortex from terminating and restoring CCleaner:

• Add CCleaner as an exception to Cortex, so that Cortex optimization will skip it. The exception you added would prevent CCleaner from cleaning Cortex installation folder (which it doesn't anyway). This is not what we need. We need to ask Cortex to stop optimizing CCleaner, so the exception needs to go to the Cortex application.
• Prevent CCleaner from running in the background. This in your case will probably mean switching off automatic updates (in Options -> Updates). If you don't have automatic updates on, then my whole theory is probably invalid.

The first solution is arguably preferable. :)

Edit: It seems that what you need to do is untick CCleaner in the Game Booster window

Edited October 12, 2023 by rofoun

[Drummerofsummer]

I like you. Thanks for the reply to me. I think I got it working. I totally misread the "preferred option" as being where to make the exceptions. I now know boost has exceptions too lol. Thanks.