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As Administrator on an NTFS drive, ClutterCutter reads the Master File Table directly, which is far faster than walking the filesystem — see Scanning & performance. Without elevation it falls back to a slower walker that still works. You can decline elevation.
In MFT mode, hard-linked files (heavily used by WinSxS) are counted once by their canonical name; tree-walking tools count each path separately. ClutterCutter's total reflects what's actually on disk.
The binaries are currently unsigned, and the app requests admin + reads the raw NTFS volume — behaviour heuristic scanners flag. Choose More info → Run anyway. The source is public and builds are reproduced by GitHub Actions; signing is planned. See Security & privacy.
Nothing until you say so. That view lists known temp/cache locations; you pick what to recycle (multi-select, or Recycle all). Everything goes to the Recycle Bin, so it's recoverable.
No. Recycling updates the view in place on a background thread — the sizes along the path adjust with no freeze and no rescan.
ClutterCutter-rust.exe (no runtime needed) for most people — it's the winget build. ClutterCutter.exe is the C# build and needs the in-box .NET Framework 4. Both are the same app.
winget install StruisICT.ClutterCutter
winget upgrade StruisICT.ClutterCutterSee Installation.
Everything lives under %APPDATA%\ClutterCutter\: your preferences (theme, size units, default panel, which columns to show, and the other File → Settings options) in settings.cfg, the window size in window.cfg, and the table's sort column/direction in sort.cfg.
Help → About → Check for updates asks GitHub for the latest release and tells you if a newer one is out, pointing you at winget upgrade StruisICT.ClutterCutter or the releases page. It's opt-in and never downloads or runs anything on its own.