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@Swatto86 Swatto86 released this 19 Oct 19:07
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v0.1.2
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The rest of the safety review behind 0.1.1: fixes for rarer cases in all three cleaners and in how the app starts.

Registry cleaner

  • With "Exclude removable drives" switched off, entries on a mapped or subst drive letter (such as Z:) were taken for missing when WattClean ran as administrator, which cannot see your own mapped drives. A letter that is still taken is now left alone.

Disk cleaner

  • Shred refuses a file whose data has other names (hard links): overwriting it destroyed the data under every name. A shredded file that cannot be removed gets its own name back instead of being left empty under a random one.
  • Wipe free space removes its filler files with retries, so a virus scanner holding one no longer leaves the drive full. The command line's wipe tidies up after an earlier one, and Ctrl+C stops a wipe, shred or clean between items (a second Ctrl+C ends it).
  • winapp2.ini entries meant only for other Windows versions (DetectOS) are left out, and Detect= keys may hold wildcards.
  • A cleaner never walks into a folder link (junction) found partway down its path.

Uninstaller

  • Other installed programs are protected however Windows knows where they live (Windows Installer's records and their shortcuts too), so a program with no recorded install folder is still protected.
  • A folder shared by several programs (such as Windows Kits\10) is left in place with a note instead of offered, and a component shared with another program is not taken for the program's folder.
  • Another account's AppData\Local\Programs, Temp, Packages and package cache are never offered whole, and Windows' default-program lists are protected in the 32-bit registry too.
  • Removing leftovers checks each one again against the PC as it is at that moment; one another program now uses is left in place and reported.
  • A batch uninstall's restore point is named for the batch.

Everywhere

  • The first-start copy of the old apps' data (WattCompClean, WattRegClean, WattUninstaller) tries a locked file again at the next start instead of skipping it for good, and lists anything it could not copy.
  • Restart as administrator no longer risks leaving no WattClean open.

Downloads

  • WattClean_0.1.2_x64-setup.exe: installs for all users (asks for administrator rights once), with a Start menu shortcut and the command line. Installs over earlier versions, keeping your settings and backups.
  • WattClean_0.1.2_x64-portable.exe: runs without installing (starting with Windows needs the installed app).
  • WattClean_0.1.2_x64-cmd.exe: the command line on its own.
  • THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt: the licences of the open-source packages WattClean is built with.
  • SHA256SUMS.txt: checksums of the files above.

Requires Windows 10 or 11 (x64) and the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (included in Windows 11; for Windows 10 see https://developer.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/webview2/). No automatic updates yet. MIT licence.

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