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How to launch HDCleaner

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fabul Posted messages 42158 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   -

Hello,

Today I received your "howitworks" and I downloaded HDCleaner, I installed it, I launched it but nothing is happening (no visible bar to indicate that it is running).

Did I miss an episode!

Thank you in advance.

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    fabul Posted messages 42158 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   6 066
     

    Hello,

    You are not alone, but we still don't have the answer.

    Check the Event Viewer > Windows Logs > Applications

    You might find the reason there.

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  3. fabul Posted messages 42158 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   6 066
     

    Re Hello, try a more recent version, this seems to be the publisher's site:

    https://kurtzimmermann.com/hdcleanerext_en.html

    https://kurtzimmermann.com/index_e.html#features6-2

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    1. brucine Posted messages 24882 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 175
       

      Hello,

      The effects of advertising, devoured raw without any reflection, are devastating.

      It only takes a "public information" campaign, this is not the first time, to advocate something that at best is useless and at worst harmful for everyone to dive headfirst into it.

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      1. Pierr10 Posted messages 13831 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   5 840 > brucine Posted messages 24882 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         

        Hello,

        This is not a "Public information" but an article from CCM with a download link:

        https://www.commentcamarche.net/telecharger/utilitaires/11629-hdcleaner/

        It's not the same thing!

        Moreover, the article dates back to July 2023. So it is not recent. What was valid a year ago is no longer the case now. (Fabul proposed an update).

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  4. kadmarche
     

    Yes fabulous, I downloaded it here: https://kurtzimmermann.com/hdcleanerext_en.html and it works!

    You need to make several passes to clean the PC.

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    1. fabul Posted messages 42158 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   6 066
       

      Hello,

      No, the writes (passes) wear out SSDs way too much for nothing for an average user.

      I just use Wise Disk Cleaner, CCleaner, and ATF-Cleaner (a few old simple programs).

      But the scheduled tasks of CCleaner make it less recommendable.

      I block them.

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  6. fabul Posted messages 42158 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   6 066
     

    Hello again,

    The CCM links have been corrected.

    I'm marking this as resolved,

    @+

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