'A cloth or something': Free software which can permanently delete data from hard drives, solid state and other storage media.
BleachBit is a top-notch application designed to keep your computer running smoothly and keep your personal information secure. With its powerful suite of tools, this program can remove unnecessary files and erase privacy-related data, freeing up space and keeping prying eyes at bay.
Upon completing the quick installation process, you'll be presented with BleachBit's well-organized layout, making it easy to perform operations. The tool is capable of deleting backup, .DS_Store, Thumbs.db, and temporary files, as well as system items like Clipboard content, logs, memory dump, MUI cache, Prefetch, Recycle Bin, and temporary files. And for web browsers like Firefox and Chrome, the program can delete cache, cookies, crash reports, DOM storage, URL history, session restore, and site preferences.
BleachBit also excels when it comes to application-related content, with the ability to clear Flash (cache and cookies), Microsoft Office (debug logs and most recently used files), and Windows Explorer (recent documents list, Run, Search history), as well as WinRAR and VLC media player (most recently used files), among others.
And that's not all! BleachBit lets you preview results, showing how much disk space is salvaged after deleting selected files. Cleaning is easily done with the simple click of a button. Other tools let you shred files and folders to prevent recovery, wipe free space, create a custom list of files and folders ready for deletion, and even create a whitelist.
In our testing, BleachBit required only moderate system resources, responding quickly and finishing cleaning jobs rapidly, without causing the operating system to hang, crash, or display error notifications. We encountered no issues throughout our evaluation.
All in all, BleachBit delivers a powerful suite of tools to keep your system free of unnecessary data and keep your private information secure, all while making space for new files.
Features of BleachBit
- Automation: Schedule tasks to run daily, weekly, or monthly.
- Cleaning: Shred files to hide their contents and prevent data recovery.
- Disk space management: Find and remove large or redundant files.
- File wiping: Remove unused and temporary files.
- Free space wiping: Wipe unused disk space to hide previously deleted files.
- Portable: Run BleachBit from a removable media.
- Privacy protection: Erase traces of Internet activities.
- Secure deletion: Delete files beyond recovery.
- Security: Overwrite free disk space to hide previously deleted files.
- System cleaning: Clean system and application logs, cache and history.
- Windows optimization: Optimize Windows settings to speed up the system.
Compatibility and License
BleachBit is a free application released under the GPLv3 license on Windows from secure cleaning software. With software released under the open source GPLv3 license, anybody can download, install, run and distribute the software with little in terms of restrictions. The latest version we have is 4.6.0 Rev 3 and is available to download here.
What version of Windows can BleachBit run on?
BleachBit can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
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- Free Secure Cleaning Software
- Open source and GPL software
- Space Cleaning Software
