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BleachBit 0.8.1

File Management/Cleanup And Removal
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BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more. Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster.

  • License: open source
  • Updated: Oct 6, 2010
  • Publisher: Andrew Ziem

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Rated 10/50 by CyberDoc999 at Mar 10, 2010

very buggy killed my firefox.... had to re-install

Rated 30/50 by xsnred at Apr 15, 2010

R-Wipe&Clean more stable and has a file eraser on the fly. Not free but very good. I'll give BB a 3 cause I won't dl it or try it.

Rated 50/50 by Aegis69 at Jun 21, 2010

Only app I know if that does a vacuum of both Firefox and Thunderbird. Cross platform, community supported, rapid development and regular updates. Amazing app.

Rated 20/50 by CompUserAZ at Aug 10, 2010

Took a 4 gig drive that had been formatted to FAT32 with Win 95 on it from an old computer, reformatted to NTFS on Windows XP. Then ran BleachBit with the System -> Free Disk Space on it, hoping to wipe out all old data. Once completed, ran Recuva on it, and it recovered around 1100 files, including images and complete word documents that would still open in MS Word. So don't rely on it to makes files unrecoverable from free space on a drive. The largest file recovered was a 1.6 Mb mp3 file.

Rated 30/50 by egg83 at Sep 30, 2010

Have this on my Ubuntu installation, and have tried on Windows as well, but the thing is, that you have to look at what the program is going to delete! Cannot just say "what the hell" and let it delete everything randomly. Again, have used on Ubuntu with no problems, but on Windows, please use caution, is powerful, can free up a lot of space, but be careful.

Rated 40/50 by Input Overload at Sep 30, 2010

I've installed & un-installed this program twice. I must say it's a bit on the harsh side for me, I believe it is responsible for causing Outlook 2010 not to open after using bleach. As I image often it's not a problem, & I'll give bleach another whirl when it's out of beta whenever that will be, or maybe the next beta.

Rated 50/50 by Uriel at Nov 16, 2010

Open source and does the job. Make sure you do a quick backup of your bookmarks or favorites first so that you can restore them after bleaching the hell out of your browser. This app really disinfects your browser from all history. I highly recommend it.

Rated 20/50 by some guy at Nov 16, 2010

to far behind CCleaner

Rated 40/50 by CyberDoc999 at Dec 15, 2010

sound like it was made for the porn addicts