![]() I would assume the latter if you had not noticed that your copy of CCleaner had not been working for the past 16 months or so. There had been several notifications of this, although if you'd blocked CCleaner notifications or hadn't used CCleaner for the past year or so you may not have seen them. As moderators we were last week given a 'heads up' that these updates would be happening this week and next. Next week it is intended that versions 5.74 to 6.0 will also be automatically updated to v6.11Īs noted - These automatic updates of outdated versions can be prevented by more advanced users, who realise that by doing so their old CCleaner version is unsupported and will not be cleaning things properly. ![]() ![]() This week versions 5.36 to 5.73 that are still in use will be automatically updated to v6.11. (I have not seen the notifications myself but believe that they would have also told you how to prevent the automatic update if you really wanted to). Browsers, apps, and Windows change all the time so the cleaning has to change to keep up.Īs you were using a very old version of CCleaner you should have been getting notifications that this update would happen soon. You need to keep your CCleaner up to date for it to be effective. In particular you should note that CCleaner versions below v5.92 no longer clear cookies effectively, because the major browsers have changed how they handle and store cookies. There is a system in place to periodically update outdated/obsolete versions of CCleaner.ĬCleaner versions 5.# have reached End-of-Life and so are currently being updated to the latest version, v6.11.
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