Installation

Installation

Pre-built binaries are attached to every GitHub Release.

Windows

The easiest way is winget:

winget install StruisICT.ClutterCutter
winget upgrade StruisICT.ClutterCutter   # later, to update

winget installs ClutterCutter-rust.exe as a portable package (under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\...) and adds it to PATH as the cluttercutter alias, so you can also launch it from a terminal.

Or download from the releases page and just run the .exe — two builds of the same app are attached:

Build	Notes
ClutterCutter-rust.exe	Rust build. No runtime dependency. This is the winget build.
ClutterCutter.exe	Original C# build. Needs the in-box .NET Framework 4 (present on every modern Windows).

On first run, ClutterCutter offers a one-click UAC relaunch so it can use the NTFS MFT fast path — see Scanning & performance.

SmartScreen / Defender: the binaries are currently unsigned, and ClutterCutter requests administrator rights and reads the raw NTFS volume — behaviour heuristic scanners may warn on. Choose More info → Run anyway. Authenticode signing (SignPath Foundation OSS program) is planned to remove this friction.

System requirements

• Windows 10 / 11 (x64).
• Administrator is optional but recommended for the fast MFT scan path on NTFS drives.