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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by marian0_ on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:17AM (#15275166)
The OS does it by itself. It even includes an application so you can do it yourself if you want which is called "Disk Cleanup".
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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by CamperBob2 on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:24AM (#15275206)
Just as one data point, the last time I ran Disk Cleanup, it hosed my entire Windows installation. The bug in question was documented as occurring in Vista, but wasn't fixed in Windows 7, and for all I know, still isn't:

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/serious-disk-cleanup-probl...

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by pbhjpbhj on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:43AM (#15275322)
I'm admittedly out of the loop, last time I used disk cleanup would have been Win7, I guess MS expanded it to do much more useful work?
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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by floatboth on Monday September 18, 2017 @10:07AM (#15276032)
On my W10 install, CCleaner usually finds ~1GB more than Disk Cleanup, not even counting browser caches.
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