{"id":237,"date":"2011-10-06T17:06:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T14:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=237"},"modified":"2011-10-07T14:46:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T11:46:31","slug":"appcleaner-tool-for-cleaning-up-windows-from-old-applications-settings-and-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"AppCleaner, Tool for cleaning up windows from old applications, settings and files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/client.updatestar.com\/en\/appcleaner\/overview\/\">AppCleaner<\/a> has many utilities. It can delete Browsers temporary file cache, cookies, browsing history etc. It can also clean up registry and uninstall software. I found AppCleaner due to it possibility to delete files older than X days.<\/p>\n<p>With default values, just pressing &#8220;Analyze&#8221; button, the outcome might be something like this (below).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/appcleaner-firstrun.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"681\" alt=\"appcleaner-firstrun\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/appcleaner-firstrun-small.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Settings for Customer files could look like below. (There are camera files in network drive).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/appcleaner-customfiles.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"527\" alt=\"appcleaner-customfiles\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/appcleaner-customfiles-small.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tool shows number of files, size and execution time after &#8220;Analyze&#8221; and &#8220;Clean&#8221; actions. In this case, there were a huge amount of old camera files (see below).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/appcleaner-customfiles-after-deletion.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"561\" alt=\"appcleaner-customfiles-after-deletion\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/appcleaner-customfiles-after-deletion-small.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this case there were 163386 files! All the other options were cleared, so basically this tool can be used for deleting old files too.<\/p>\n<p>For privacy, there are additional options on how to delete the file, ie. not only deleting but rewriting so that file cannot be recovered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/appcleaner-deleteoption-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"597\" alt=\"appcleaner-deleteoption\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/appcleaner-deleteoption-1-small.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AppCleaner has many utilities. It can delete Browsers temporary file cache, cookies, browsing history etc. It can also clean up registry and uninstall software. I found AppCleaner due to it possibility to delete files older than X days. With default &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=237\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}