{"id":28219,"date":"2024-04-09T08:09:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T12:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=28219"},"modified":"2024-04-09T08:09:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T12:09:43","slug":"bleachbit-the-free-comprehensive-system-cleaner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/bleachbit-the-free-comprehensive-system-cleaner\/","title":{"rendered":"BleachBit: The Free Comprehensive System Cleaner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>BleachBit: The Free Comprehensive System Cleaner<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Once in a while, we find a freeware program that seems to be like a lot of other applications, but then on closer inspection, we find that it isn\u2019t. BleachBit is one of these kinds of programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On the surface, it may seem to be just another system clean-up tool (yawn!) of which there are dozens of free ones to choose from. But when we looked closer, we found it to be the most powerful and comprehensive free clean-up tool we\u2019ve ever used. And because it can be so powerful \u2013 it can cause problems for some users \u2014 especially those who are inclined to not heed warnings or read program documentation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But we\u2019ve decided to recommend it to you because it cleans areas of your computer that most others don\u2019t touch,\u00a0 BleachBit is a powerful system cleaner, and when it is used with care, it can clean up temporary files, system files, files created by popular browsers such as Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, etc., and much more. Plus its file shredder can make your private files impossible to recover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It goes places other cleaners don\u2019t \u2014 and that\u2019s one of the main reasons we are featuring it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Here\u2019s a simple description from the developer:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>\u201cWhen your computer is getting full, BleachBit quickly frees disk space. When your information is only your business, BleachBit guards your privacy. With BleachBit you can free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn&#8217;t know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean thousands of applications including Firefox, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, 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. Better than free, BleachBit is open source&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"navigation\" class=\"sixteen columns clearfix\">\n<div class=\"menu-header\">\n<div class=\"region region-header\">\n<div id=\"block-system-main-menu\" class=\"block block-system block-menu\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Features<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"eleven columns\">\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"region region-content\">\n<div id=\"block-system-main\" class=\"block block-system\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div id=\"node-2\" class=\"node node-page clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BleachBit has many useful features designed to help you easily clean your computer to free space and maintain privacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delete your private files so completely that &#8220;even God can&#8217;t read them&#8221; according to South Carolina Representative Trey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleachbit.org\/news\/bleachbit-stifles-investigation-hillary-clinton\">Gowdy<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Simple operation: read the descriptions, check the boxes you want, click preview, and click delete.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Multi-platform: Linux and Windows<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleachbit.org\/features\/cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free of charge<\/a> and no money trail<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Free to share, learn, and modify (open source)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">No adware, spyware, malware, backdoors, browser toolbars, or &#8220;value-added software&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Translated to 63 languages besides American English<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shred files to hide their contents and prevent data recovery<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shred any file (such as a spreadsheet on your desktop)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Overwrite free disk space to hide previously deleted files<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Portable app for Windows: run without installation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.bleachbit.org\/doc\/command-line-interface.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Command line interface<\/a> for scripting and automation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.bleachbit.org\/doc\/cleanerml.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CleanerML<\/a> allows anyone to write a new cleaner using XML<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Automatically import and update <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleachbit.org\/documentation\/winapp2_ini\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">winapp2.ini<\/a> cleaner files (a separate download) giving Windows users access to 2500+ additional cleaners<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Frequent software updates with new features<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Uses<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Use BleachBit to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Free disk space<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Reduce the size of backups and the time to create them by removing unnecessary files<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Maintain privacy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Improve system performance (by vacuuming the Firefox database, for example)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Prepare whole disk images for compression (common for &#8220;ghost&#8221; backups and virtual machines) by wiping free disk space<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/bleach24.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/bleachbit1.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/bleachbit2.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you\u2019re looking for a free program that cleans the garbage from your computer and many of the applications that leave traces and junk files behind,\u00a0 take a look at BleachBit. You can <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleachbit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read more about and\/or download BleachBit (free) from here<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; BleachBit: The Free Comprehensive System Cleaner Once in a while, we find a freeware program that seems to be like a lot of other applications, but then on closer inspection, we find that it isn\u2019t. BleachBit is one of these kinds of programs. On the surface, it may seem to be just another system clean-up tool\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/bleachbit-the-free-comprehensive-system-cleaner\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1670,1656],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28223,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28219\/revisions\/28223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}