WinCleaner v0.10.0
Added
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A portable build. Drop a file named
portable.txtnext to
wincleaner.exeand the application stops writing to%APPDATA%: the
exclusions list and the Recycle Bin measurement move to
<exe dir>\WinCleaner\, so a copy on a USB stick leaves nothing behind on
the machine it is run from. The content of the marker is never read — it is
a marker, not a configuration file, and a user creating it by hand cannot
get it wrong. One resolver decides for both stores, so a store added later
cannot quietly stay in the roaming profile, and a sandbox still keeps
precedence over both layouts. Settings → About says "Portable" when the mode
is active, which is the only way to tell the two apart from inside the
window: no path crosses the IPC boundary here either. Theme, language and
the automatic-update consent stay in WebView2's own storage and do not
move. Releases now carryWinCleaner_<version>_x64-portable.exenext to the
MSI and the NSIS installer; WebView2 is still required, and it ships with
Windows 11. -
A read-only command line.
wincleaner --analyzemeasures every rule and
prints a table;--jsonprints one stable object instead, for a script or a
support ticket, and--rules id,idnarrows the run. It opens no window: the
arguments are answered before Tauri starts, and the release binary attaches
the calling terminal's console to print at all. The measurement is the
application's own — same catalogue, same detected Winapp2 entries, same
stored exclusions with the same fail-closed rule, same concurrent scan — so a
figure printed here is the figure the window would show. There is no
--cleanand there never will be: the confirmation before a deletion is an
invariant, and an unattended flag would be the way around it. No option
takes a path either —--rulesaccepts rule ids and refuses anything the
catalogue does not know. Exit codes are 0 for a run, 1 for a scan error and
2 for a bad argument, which is what a script actually branches on.
Installers are unsigned until SignPath signing is configured in the repository secrets — see docs/code-signing.md.
Full changelog: https://github.com/CaseReed/wincleaner/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md