Any apps like CCleaner but more customizeable?

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schrodinger's cat

After seeing many positive comments about CCleaner here, I installed
it and found that it is indeed a fine program. There seems, however,
to be a major weakness in it, unless I am missing an option that I
just haven't noticed. I can find no way to add my own file selections
to the queue of items to be cleaned. You can add an entire folder, but
apparently not individual files. There is not much point in deleting
your web browser cache and history if you can't also eliminate your
firewall traffic log. Does anyone know of a similar prog which will
allow a more liberal user configuration?
 
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Sue Doo Nym

After seeing many positive comments about CCleaner here, I installed
it and found that it is indeed a fine program. There seems, however,
to be a major weakness in it, unless I am missing an option that I
just haven't noticed. I can find no way to add my own file selections
to the queue of items to be cleaned. You can add an entire folder, but
apparently not individual files. There is not much point in deleting
your web browser cache and history if you can't also eliminate your
firewall traffic log. Does anyone know of a similar prog which will
allow a more liberal user configuration?
Yes, Stephen Gould's Cleanup. To back up how good this program is I ran
Emptemp followed by CCleaner, both with a reboot inbetween. (I thought I
would do a comparison to Cleanup as always interested in trying out new
programs.) After doing this I then ran Cleanup and it cleared another few
hundred kilobytes of clutter. Not much you might say, but remember, this
is after running two similar programs first that are supposed to be good.
If they are that good they wouldn't have left hardly anything behind. You
can now put your own custom files in, cookie control and registry control
and so on. Give it a try you won't be disappointed. Available from:-
http://cleanup.stevengould.org/
 

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