Hi, I was wondering if its possible for the devs to put a new feature to CCleaner that is the ability to do disk scan. When I manually did this operation in my 39 GB main partition, it took 9 minutes to finish.

Scan disk is used to repair bad sectors on the disk and can be done, by right clicking the drive partition, going to Properties, then Tools, then use the Error Checking feature, then check only the "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" option. This is what I think is a different feature from the scan disk option that summons the command prompt which finishes much faster. I have a screenshot of it. This one took me 9 minutes to complete. It is required to be done at least once a week if the computer is used everyday.


I also notice that whenever I try to analyze how much junk files I can clean by hitting the Analyze button, it has very different results when I actually perform the cleaning operations. Maybe they should make this more accurately.

Feedback please

Sure a normal scan chkdsk /f is fine on a weekly basis, however you don't really need to do a full Check Disk (chkdsk) chkdsk /r every week. I personally think running a full scan of the disk everyweek is a waste of time, and only needs to be done at the most once every three months but even that seems like overkill.

I don't personally see why CCleaner would need to have such a facility implemented.

stepping away from cleaning side,

That's the point. Its time consuming so if there is way that this can be made fast, it should be a relief to us who consider that important.

Oppose. This suggestion is out of context of CCleaner. CCleaner is just cleanup utility not a full-fledged maintenance application and I prefer it to be this way.

If you require automated maintenance, please consider using a suite of tools such as TuneUp Utilties.

Alternatively, you can schedule Chkdsk to run monthly using Windows Scheduler found in Control Panel.