Bulk Crap Uninstaller v4.15

Changelog

Features and fixes

• Added checking if junk might belong to a different application with a similar name to junk scan (e.g. Chrome, Chrome Updater, Chrome Remote Desktop) - more accurate junk confidence with less false positives
• Added quiet uninstall of Edge developer builds
• Reduced lag when writing in the search box
• Fixed loading dialog staying on top of all windows
• Fixed Scoop not being detected if placed in a custom directory
• Fixed corrupted registry string values causing crashes
• Fixed crash when trying to start an empty uninstall task
• Fixed deadlock when changing filtering options rapidly
• Fixed issues with starting helpers crashing list loading
• Fixed junk scanner crashes crashing the whole process (now the crashed scanner is ignored)
• Fixed system restore being wrongly detected as unavailable if periodic restore point creation was disabled
• Fixed rare ObjectDisposedException when closing BCU during uninstall
• Fixed rare nullreference crash when closing uninstall progress window

Translations

• Fixed invalid format crash with Turkish translation
• Fixed invalid format crashes with Arabic translation
• Fixed FormatException on some locales when updating statusbar

Bulk Crap Uninstaller v4.14

Changelog

Features and fixes

• Added detection for applications installed by Scoop
• Added export command to bcu-console and updated help
• Added "App" and "Game" folders to potential executable folder names
• Added App.config to bcu-console, fixes some issues
• Added Slant.co search engine
• Added context menu to uninstall progress list to help with accessibility
• Improved certificate caching, startup speedup after 1st start if cachin is enabled
• Improved loading times by using Everything search engine if installed
• Improved detection of application binary folders - better portable/unregistered scan and exe detection
• Fixed BCU-console not scanning some application stores
• Fixed ComScanner crashing on some registry configurations
• Fixed crash on invalid COM entries
• Fixed crashes on some Japanese systems
• Fixed main application list being unresponsive during uninstaller processing

Translations

• Added partial Japanese translation (very limited)
• Fixed some tr translations not being used

Bulk Crap Uninstaller v4.13

Changelog

Features and fixes

• Added "Advanced operations\Take ownership" function
• Added COM leftover scanning
• Improved junk result duplicate filtering
• Fixed DebugTracing junk scanner crash when an application has no install location

Translations

• Merged Dutch translation update by Jaap Kramer
• Merged French translation update by Thierry
• Merged Italian translation update by Luca Carrabba
• Resource cleanup

Bulk Crap Uninstaller v4.12.3

Maintenance release.

Changelog

• Added junk scanner for Debug Tracing/Logging Configuration
• Use renewed code signing certificate (fixes unknown publisher warning)
• Fixed invalid Steam library folders causing detection issues

Bulk Crap Uninstaller v4.12.2

Maintenance release.

Changelog

• Improved detection of System Restore availability (option is grayed out if not available)
• Fixed restore points not being created under Windows 8 or newer if there was a restore point made within last 24 hours
• Fixed unnecessary dialog showing up when clicking the create restore point button
• Made 1st Startup Wizard mandatory to always show network usage consent settings
• Merged Turkish translation update by Harun Güngör

Bulk Crap Uninstaller v4.12.1

Hotfix for crash on systems that don't support one of the new languages (tr-CY).

Fixes

• Fixed unsupported languages causing crash
• Fixed powershell scripts failing to run because of wrong argument order
• Fixed portable installer not showing directory selection if BCU was installed

Bulk Crap Uninstaller v4.12

Changelog

Additions and improvements

• Start command line uninstallers minimized if running quiet
• Minimize automatizer daemon by default
• Install location of chocolatey is now detected
• Improved "Uninstall in Chocolatey" junk confidence
• Added "Improve wallpaper quality" tweak
• Clearer naming of "Show x under This PC" tweaks
• Always run loud uninstaller if user clicks "Run uninstaller" in uninstall progress window
• Made Drive junk scanner thread-safe, code cleanup

Fixes

• Fixed NSIS exit code 1627 not being treated as success
• Fixed ScriptFactory crashing if .Net 4.5 is not installed, but 4.0 is
• Fixed automatizer daemon trying to automate CLI windows and helpers
• Fixed data merging in some cases mismatching uninstaller types and commands, causing bugs
• Fixed invalid strings in registry causing normalization crashes
• Fixed msiexec.exe showing in junk results in some cases
• Fixed uninstallers sometimes being detected as main executables
• Fixed wrong ordering of removing junk (mostly applicable to Chocolatey uninstall)

Translations

• Added Turkish translation by Harun Güngör
• Merged French translation update by Thierry

Bulk Crap Uninstaller v4.11

Changelog

Additions, improvements and changes

• Added multithreading to information gathering
• Added multithreading to registry scan
• Improved application merging logic, better memory use and speed
• Improved speed of predefined application scan
• Separated Script/tweak scanner into a new helper executable
• Updated OneDrive script information, override built-in windows entry
• Updated TaskScheduler library

Translations

• Merged German translation update by Thomas W.
• Fixed translator names not separated properly in about box

Fixes

• Fixed Chocolatey scan not working
• Fixed crash on closing loading dialog with null owner
• Fixed crashes in threaded directory scan
• Fixed running info adders out of order
• Fixed some info adders not being run in some cases
• Fixed inaccurate loading progress bar when merging
• Fixed settings failing to save on some systems
• Fixed some startup entries crashing the junk scan
• Fixed simple delete overriding other uninstallers in some cases

Bulk Crap Uninstaller v4.10

Changelog

Additions, improvements and changes

• Scan all physical disks at the same time for applications
• Use a second thread to scan application stores
• Added color blind friendly mode
• Added accessibility hints to search box
• Added "binaries" directories to program executable scanning
• Blacklist common DirectX redist directories from drive scan
• Added check to ensure that working directory is correct at start
• Increased rating cache lifetime
• Standardized additional store app scanners - they have the same output and log format now
• Hide unavailable filters in sidebar instead of just disabling them
• Enabled tabbing in startup wizard
• Tweaked list colors slightly

Translations

• Merged German translation update by Thomas W.
• Merged Slovenian translation update by Jadran Rudec
• Updated Polish translation
• Fixed wrong/invalid default extensions in some languages when loading/saving some files

Fixes

• Fixed "key doesn't exist" error when trying to remove a non-existing registry key
• Fixed crash when opening application registry key as list selection changes
• Fixed detection of shortcuts to unregistered Steam games failing
• Fixed dialog boxes showing in screen corner when main window is not visible
• Fixed some directories inside system directory not being detected as system dirs
• Fixed possible race condition in rating cache
• Fixed search box not being properly focused on startup
• Fixed tab focus ordering in some controls
• Fixed unhandled security exception in FirewallRuleScanner

Bulk Crap Uninstaller v4.9

This release introduces Scripts (custom detection rules) and Tweaks.

• Scripts create custom entries on the application list and allow end-user to add functions to their BCU installs. Scripts are placed in the Resources\Scripts folder.
• Tweaks (e.g. Disable subscribed content) are displayed on the application list and can be "uninstalled" just like normal programs. This allows users to add them to uninstall lists and run automatically. Tweaks are implemented as scripts and can be taken as examples.

Changelog

Additions

• Added support for scripts (custom user-created list entries)
• • Added PowerShell Script uninstaller kind
• Added Tweaks (uses the new script functionality)
• • Added Tweak filtering
• • Added disable-subscribed-content script (stop automatic app downloads)
• • Added mouse acceleration disable script
• • Added script to disable easy access keyboard shortcuts
• • Added scripts to remove special folders from This PC
• Added Custom rules, Scripts and Tweaks section to readme

Translations

• Merged fr translation update by Thierry Delaunay and Orphée V.

Improvements and changes

• Changed default portable install dir to C:\BCUninstaller
• Don't scan Steam size if not necessary
• OneDrive uninstallation will now remove explorer hooks (uses a script now)
• Improved setting save error logging
• Improved WindowsFeatureFactory fail message
• Increased default window height slightly

Fixes

• Fixed crash on some Japanese systems
• Fixed crash with invalid config files
• Fixed error when scanning services with badly formatted filenames