CCleaner 5.46 was released yesterday to fix its problems previous version CCleaner 5.45 withdrew from the company.
At new edition, Piriform has added settings that allow you to disable the process monitorings but also disable the sending of anonymous usage statistics.
In the previous version of CCleaner 5.45, users found that they could not permanently disable the application's Active Monitoring feature. The feature started automatically on the next restart of the application or the computer. With the new version you can disable anonymous sending data use in Piriform, which you couldn't do in version 5.45 which the company retired.
It is worth mentioning that in the previous version you could not just disable the function, but you could not close the application too! You could minimize CCleaner, there was no obvious way to shut down the program, which required users to end the process from Task Manager to shut down the program.
So Piriform has decided to withdraw the 5.45 version until it can develop the 5.46 version, which was released yesterday.
The Piriform he says:
Privacy Settings
- Added separate check for reporting anonymous usage data
- Added a link to a data bulletin (https://www.ccleaner.com/about/data-factsheet), which explains the data reported by CCleaner, why it is reported and used.
Smart Cleaning
- We renamed the "Monitoring" feature to "Smart Cleaning" to better describe its function (smart cleaning alerts)
– Reworked the frames control for the sake of clarity
- If Smart Cleaning is off, the CCleaner background process will be shut down and will not run again on startup
General information
- Restore previous System Tray and minimize
- Various stability issues have been fixed
CCleaner 5.46 gives you control over your data
With the release of CCleaner 5.46, users seem to be able to decide how their data them, anonymously or not, to Piriform.
Those wishing to disable the sending of anonymous usage data can do so from the options: Options - Privacy and disable the "Help improve CCleaner by sending anonymous usage data" option.
In the new version, you can now also turn off Smart Cleaning from Options - Smart Cleaning.
If you want to use the application again, you should be careful during the installation as it still shows installation offers for other applications as well, for example you have to untick it to avoid installing Google Chrome or Avast.
Piriform also offers a slim version that does not contain such offers. You can download it from here.
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