sdmiller

Good question. They may be compared to other manufacturers of software and not to the CCleaner free version. Unless CClean cleans EVERYTHING, it's useless.

It works that way for me too. I will be interested to see what the reason is.

I would really be interested in hearing an answer to this. I depend on CCleaner to wipe files when I execute that command. Why would it work on a drive for hours then leave the files so that they could be recovered? A question: Were you actually able to recover the files?

No, it won't really hurt your hard drive, but this kind of writing every day will cause more wear and tear. Hard drives have moving parts, and the more they move, the more they wear. Plus, the media itself has a finite amount of writing that it can take before it starts to wear. It may take years, but you can actually wear your hard drive out. There really isn't a reason for wiping your drive every day unless you're working with something that you want to keep from the prying eyes of someone doing a forensic exam of your drive. If you've erased it, it's very difficult for anyone to recover it unless they have the drive in their posession. Hope this helps!

I agree. With the last few revisions, CCleaner has become painfully slow cleaning the browser cache. Sometimes it takes 30 minutes on my i7 machine with an SSD. What's it doing all this time? I even cleaned the browser history and re-ran CCleaner and it still takes forever. Do I have something set wrong?