Why no setting for turning off driver and app monitoring?

[MrPeteH]

Recently, CCleaner has been transformed from a background non-intrusive tool for monitoring the registry... to an intrusive tool monitoring drivers and apps.

And the new intrusive nature has no associated settings. If CCleaner is installed, it monitors drivers and apps (and makes suggestions.)

Not only that, it's not particularly good at that. I don't want to argue about such things. I simply don't need or care about those capabilities.

How do we nicely urge the developers to make such features optional? There are many reasons for this, including:

* I have other tools that already do this and do it better

* This tool is not good at it; it's suggestions are not reliable

 

As such, I am no longer able to recommend CCleaner to others (who typically are less savvy about computing things... having an unreliable set of recommendations in CCleaner is truly a show stopping anti-feature!)

[CSGalloway]

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[Nergal]

I disabled the performance optimizer service and that stopped performance optimizer from being bothersome. But mostly just ignore the features you don't care about and use custom clean (health check runs all that dirt).

For instance i would never update a driver but instead let windows do it, so i ignore the 18 "better" drivers CCleaner suggests.  If i built my own computer i might use driver updater but on a brandname i let the inbuilt tools and windows update which knows better which variation of a hardware i have and its needs.

 

Edited August 15 by Nergal