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[betaluva]

hi, i having been waiting for cccleaner to finally work on reactos, if you dont know reactos is a windows compatible operarting system (www.reactos.org) anyways i just got CCleaner 2 to install and run on reactos, i have uploaded a video for anyone thats interested: , now the bad part, when i click "analyze" CCleaner it just scans endlessly? so my question is, are you guys interested in crearting a special version of CCleaner for reactos? to me if you guys get in early then you have a advantage over other software makers, i would be willing to beta test for you, what do you think?

[betaluva]

is this forum moderated? you think someone from the company would reply? its not hard, either its "yes" or its "no".

[CTskifreak]

This forum is moderated. However, their resources are limited in the sense that they are technically working for free; there are only so many people working at Piriform. Their products are targeted at the majority "user base." What I mean by this is that Windows is the dominating O/S on the market today.

Since they are continually working on their programs to make sure they are bug free, I do not see how they have the time to develop for an O/S that nearly no one has heard of. If it hit the main stream, then they would most likely considering adapting CCleaner to work.

However, have you tried downloading an older version to see if it works??? Go to FileHippo.com to download. I have a feeling that the physical structure of Windows might not be the same as Reactos, so that it can't clean the folders in the same way. What I mean is that it is looking for folders that might not be there.

I'm not trying to be harsh, I'm trying to be realistic.

AJ

[betaluva]

thankyou for your reply, i assumed this was a business so i thought guys might like a heads up about reactos, i didnt think this would be a hard project as reactos uses windows xp folder layout, reactos is open source so all of its code is availble to be studied, to answer your qeustion, yes i have tried older versions of CCleaner. i have uploaded a screenshot of the reactos c: drive :

[Andavari]

betaluva, on Nov 17 2007, 05:29 PM, said:

i didnt think this would be a hard project as reactos uses windows xp folder layout, reactos is open source so all of its code is availble to be studied

I've heard of ReactOS and even have it bookmarked to see what it's future is being interested in it and Ubuntu after my Windows ordeal is over. However just because ReactOS has XP's folder structure doesn't mean making CC work for it is so simple.

I'm not the CC developer nor am I employed by Piriform in anyway so don't take this as an official answer - with that stated I don't think it's going to be so simple to just make CC work with another OS (even though people have previously wanted a Linux and MAC version if I'm remembering correctly).

CC isn't just scanning for folder locations/structures which is currently done via options to include files and folders. Instead after carefully looking at the cleaning routines (prime example winapp2.ini) it relies upon cleaning certain applications due to exactly where their registry settings and/or .exe are located.

In the meantime I'd suggest you get into making some batch or script files that work with ReactOS that will delete the known junk files.

[betaluva]

ok, thanks.