Pros Use Bleachbit

I still see far too many comments with people that still use CCLeaner. Bleachbit is a FAR superior product and it’s also free and open source. It won’t try to upsell you a bunch of garbage and has a great track record, unlike CCleaner which was hacked and literally installed malware on thousands of PCs.

[novictim]

I like how everyone says CCCleaner even though it's CCleaner

[MichaelJHathaway]

I like Bleachbit, but you have to be careful using it as it can kill your system if you choose incorrect settings.

[nekoli]

It's sad seeing companies buying good products and turning them into such intrusive apps and honesly malware themselves.

[alanelston]

The extra disc clean up you mentioned looks similar to what is sometimes suggested to me to do by my older computers when the C drive gets close to full. (I have not seen it offered to me yet on any of my newer Windows 10 machines). I had not thought to try and do it before hand. It’s always very helpful IMO when you give us these little snippets of useful info.

[markh.]

Having used the free versions of a number of cleaners over the years, I can say that Windows has so many hiding places for software to stash files and unwanted or unneeded dreck it is amazing. And each cleaner's free version usually hits different places besides the obvious ones, especially if you use their live versions from a CD/DVD/USB stick. If you can, run those cleaners while the device/machine is in Safe Mode, you may get even more junk out.

[alanelston]

I previously used CC just because a lot of people were using it, and told me about it. When Chris first mentioned his thoughts on CC and BB back in 2019, I tried BB, and as a Layman it seemed a lot better getting me out of some memory problems I had, that CC only sometimes helped a bit with. I still use an older BB version on some older machines as I think the BB versions are a bit optimised for a windows OS version. (Having to split this comment as the complete one keeps getting a false positive and being deleted. This is 1 of 4)

[TheBlackRogue]

Oh damn, I can not wait for that extreme debloat video. I have been waiting to reinstall Windows for a while now in hopes that we could get a full start to finish guide for something like that

[vicky]

Greetings from Hamburg/Germany!
Chriss I've been a subscriber for a while, I like how you explain things and are honest with your opinions. I follow your work very intensely and have implemented all your advice, which I understand clearly and unambiguously, to date! I have to tell you that your tuning tips always keep what they promise and my system mutated into a hell machine after a new installation of Windows 11 and the changes you suggested.
Thank you for that!
And please keep it up, I'm counting on your expertise...
love you man!

[allankimuli]

Looking forward to that XP-Level clean up! Keep doing what you're doing Chris, for Windows (as long as it lives) and Linux :)

[kdtas]

I'm really starting to doubt stuff like this makes a worthwhile difference anymore.
I turned 59 last month. I've been doing this stuff for decades.

PC hardware has become cheap and powerful enough that it takes a lot to slow a modern PC noticeably. I'm finding that even something that reduces the process count by say 50 or so doesn't really change the seat-of-the-pants Windows experience that much assuming the machine has enough memory. Sure a benchmark will detect it, but is that enough of a difference to make a difference? I'm not so sure anymore. Just because things are pre-fetched into memory and show up as processes doesn't mean they are slowing down the machine. Then there is the problem of Windows Update regularly undoing the changes. Don't get me wrong. I'm still in the business and still a nerd. When given a choice I'll always choose fewer processes, less bloat, and the cleanest, quickest experience possible. But age, laziness and complacency are powerful forces that eventually raise doubt as to whether repeatedly doing this stuff is worth it.

It'll be nice when your tool is developed to the point where the changes it makes are permanent.

[wharkkyryhniann]

I thank you Chris for another relevant and useful video. You make our computer world experience better.

I now offer a list of all the "alternative" methods people have thus far mentioned in the comments:

System Mechanic
Wise Registry Cleaner
Ghost Spectre's Win11 version
Glarysoft Registry Cleaner
CCleaner's Registery Cleaner
Glary Utilities 5
Privazer
Yamicsoft Win 10 manager
Clearprog
Windows Server 2022

Non-conventional solutions:

Pros don't use anything. They use the OS properly in first place :D All you have to do is Disk Cleanup occasionally.

Delete files the manual away I just take a hammer to the hard drive...And then throw it in the fire pit.

Cloth and some hammers

Windirstat and do it all by hand

:)

[thisismelsemail]

Really looking forward to that extreme windows debloat video. Especially for using certain aspects of it for my customers who have older and slower systems they would like to continue using.

[EmilKarloOLIakaKAN]

Great video and suggestion to use BleachBit, finally, Ive been using it for 4-5years (since recently together with CCleaner, but not anymore :) )
Can't wait to see 'Extreme Windows DeBloat' .. ;)

[Dhananjayyelwande]

Thank you chris for making such a useaful and informative videos. Keep making new ones! One small request though. If possible, can you please reslease the NTLite modified version as an iso? As a student and as an avg Indian I can't afford the software but I really want to use it because of my shitty laptop. No probelem if you don't. One of my fav youtuber.!

[zakit]

The stock ‘disk cleanup’ feature combined with ‘wiztree’ save me a lot of time when I run out of space on my SSD

[kevinct]

I've used it. Also, to uninstall software, I use Revo Uninstaller pro. I've paid for it but it's so much better than the built in uninstaller in Windows. This will delete all entries in Program files and other storage locations and clear the registry keys for the software.

[Viking]

Chris, thanks for everything you do to make computing better, faster, stronger! 💪

[alanelston]

At the start it’s mentioned that it is free AND open source, so is the code available somewhere?

[philippecardin]

Been using Bleachbit for years since it was pretty much the cleaner always available
in linux distro depositories, always there and always doing the job fine, especially after
a fresh installation.

[EverywhereAtOnce]

When you need 33k emails to find the memory