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Monday, February 20, 2012

BleachBit - a Powerful Web Browser and OS Junk File Cleaning Tool for Linux and Windows

This is a nice and very Powerful Web Browser and Operating System, Junk File Cleaning Tool for Linux and Windows. I've used BleachBit for several yeas now in Linux and love it!:) You can clean your Web Browsers Cache, Temp files and other Apps as well, with BleachBit. And it is straight forward and easy to use, if you have a basic knowledge of your System Files...

Don

BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 90 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari,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.

BleachBit

Clean junk to free disk space and to maintain privacy

Features

BleachBit has many useful features designed to help you easily clean your computer to free space and maintain privacy.

Simple operation: read the descriptions, check the boxes you want, click preview, and click delete.
Multi-platform: Linux and Windows
Free of charge
Free to share, learn, and modify (open source)
Free of adware, spyware, and malware
Translated to 52 languages
Shred files to hide their contents and prevent data recovery
Shred any file (such as a spreadsheet on your desktop)
Overwrite free disk space to hide previously deleted files
Portable app for Windows: run without installation
Command line interface for scripting and automation
CleanerML allows anyone to write a new cleaner using XML
Automatically import and update winapp2.ini cleaner files (a separate download) giving Windows users access to 500+ additional cleaners
Frequent software updates with new features

Uses

Use BleachBit to:

Free disk space
Reduce the size of backups and the time to create them by removing unnecessary files
Maintain privacy
Improve system performance (by vacuuming the Firefox database, for example)
Prepare whole disk images for compression (common for "ghost" backups and virtual machines) by wiping free disk space

Cleaners

BleachBit includes a growing list of cleaners. Typically each cleaner represents an application such as Firefox or Internet Explorer. Within each cleaner, BleachBit gives options covering components that can be cleaned such as cache, cookies, and log files. Each option is given a description to help you make good decisions.
The following are a list of cleaners available in BleachBit 0.8.5. You should be able to see a list of options by hovering your mouse over the cleaner name.

Adanaxis
Adobe Reader
aMSN
aMule
APT
Audacious
Bash
Beagle
Chromium
Downloader for X
Deep scan
Easytag
ELinks
emesene
Epiphany
Evolution
Exaile
Filezilla
Firefox
Flash
gedit
gFTP
GIMP
GL-117
GNOME
GNOME Art
Google Chrome
Google Earth
Google Toolbar
gPodder
Gwenview
Hippo OpenSim Viewer
Internet Explorer
Java
KDE
Konqueror
Liferea
Links 2
LiVES
Metacity
Microsoft Office
Midnight Commander
Miro
MySQL
Nautilus
Nexuiz
Notify OSD
OpenOffice.org
Opera
Paint
PDFedit
Phatch
Pidgin
PlayOnLinux
RealPlayer
Recoll
Rhythmbox
Safari
Screenlets
SeaMonkey
Second Life Viewer
Skype
sqlite3
System logs
System
TeamViewer
Thumbnails
Thunderbird
TortoiseSVN
Transmission
Tremulous
VIM
Virt-Manager
VLC media player
Vuze / Azureus
The Battle for Wesnoth
Winamp
Windows Defender
Windows Explorer
Silverlight
WINE
winetricks
WinRAR
WinZip
WordPad
X11
XBMC Media Center
XChat
Xfce
Xine
X-Moto
Yahoo! Messenger
yum
Zsh

Add 500+ cleaners by using winapp2.ini (Windows only).

Advanced cleaners

Going beyond standard deletion of files, BleachBit has several advanced cleaners:

Clear the memory and swap on Linux
Delete broken shortcuts on Linux
Delete the Firefox version 3 URL history without deleting the whole file—with optional shredding
Delete Linux localizations: delete languages you don't use. More powerful than localepurge and available on more Linux distributions.
Clean APT for Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Linux Mint
Find widely-scatted junk such as Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files.
Execute yum clean for CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat to remove cached package data
Delete Windows registry keys—often where MRU (most recently used) lists are stored
Delete the OpenOffice.org recent documents list without deleting the whole Common.xcu file
Overwrite free disk space to hide previously files
Vacuum Firefox, Google Chrome, Liferea, Thunderbird, and Yum databases: shrink files without removing data to save space and improve speed
Surgically remove private information from .ini and JSON configuration files with deleting the whole file