Windows 10 Creator removes Ccleaner - and keeps removing it!

Hi,

With the latest Win major update (to build 1709), several programs have been peremptorily removed - without warning the user. This "phenomenon" has been documented and commented on all over the Internet.

Apart from the uncouth manner in which such removals happen (sometimes uselessly and for no reason whatsoever, like the harmless classic Solitaire) and of course the irritating annoyance, one can easily correct things by reinstalling the discarded programs, either by a new clean install or by retrieving them in the folder where MS has stacked them.

With one exception: the always useful Ccleaner.

Reinstalling it offers no problem, and once this is done, one can do whatever one wants as before with it. But from the moment one exits Windows and shuts the computer, restarts or boots up the machine, lo and behold! Ccleaner has disappeared again.

This goes accompanied by a slow reboot (apparently where Windows cleans up the registry and discard once more the program.

This is an unheard of practice. Questions to Microsoft about why they do this results in an automatic reply saying one doesn't need a program like Ccleaner with the new Windows update. Which is patently untrue, because whatever cleanup procedures Windows executes (unasked for) behind our backs, it certainly does not clean the registry, which slowly gets clogged up, or does not discard junk files properly.

So, what can we do about this? Simply: how can we find a way to reinstall Ccleaner and keep it on the machine as before? Whatever the reasons for Microsoft's behaviour, I don't like to be treated like a child by a software company.

Naturally, if Piriform now comes up with a Ccleaner build that can resist the MS shenanigans, we will be out of these woods. But for the moment, this is not the case.

There are more Windows annoyances like not allowing pdf and graphic files to stick to the programs they are meant for, but who are systematically "glued" to either unwieldy Edge or so-called Paint 3D. But that's again another question no-one seems able to resolve.

So, let's keep first to that Ccleaner problem and see if someone has come up with a solution meanwhile - while waiting for Piriform to come up with something.

Best

haku

Well, it is my continuing experience. Couldn't make this up, could I. Moreover, if you consult the Internet, you'll see I am not the only one having to deal with this.

h

CCleaner was removed on mine on upgrading to Windows 10. It has stayed removed because I was having doubts about recent versions before that happened anyway. It has never been installed again.
MS is right to uninstall it in my view. It is unnecessary trivia.

If CCleaner interferes with MS checks on the Registry on Startup then removed, tough. It is CCleaner that should be cleaning up their application.
There is no 'clogging up' of the Registry, you don't understand even basically how it works and it's purpose.

I have no problem at all with PDFs defaulted to my chosen application, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Same applies to various other file types defaulted to applications other than MS recommended ones.

Solitaire - there are about 20-30 versions in MS Store....

Solution to non problems, why get stressed, just move on.

Nicely put, Helmut.

I never really understood the many, various "cleaner" programs.

Just exactly what is it that needs to be "cleaned"? Is something "dirty"? (No.)

What terrible things happen to the hundreds of millions of Windows users who don't "clean" things? (Nothing.)

So why fuss over it all? (No reason at all.)

"Simply: how can we find a way to reinstall Ccleaner and keep it on the machine as before?"

To retain ccleaner, try to replace *.sdb files as written in post Alternative to Daemon Tools Lite to mount Audio Cue/Bin CD images - Page 2 - Windows 10 Forums - make only steps 1 and 4-7. These files are from version 1511.