CleanWin v0.3.4 Servicing Release - January 2021

Released on 2nd January 2021

Last edited on 15th January 2021, 14:57 IST

Fixes

This release fixes the following issues:

• False-positive malware detection [needs mass testing].
• Uninstall apps using CleanWin-AppsList removing all AppX packages on system in GUI.
• Continuously looping app uninstallation message in CLI.
• Continuously looping registry cleanup message in CLI.
• Write-Host errors in some places in CLI.
• Avoid probable errors for re-appllying changes in CLI.
• Missing function errors in CLI.
• General inconsistencies across the entire codebase.
• A lot of errors located programwide that might arise in different usage scenarios.
• Random errors and crashes throughout program.

Changelog

Apps & Features

• Remove Office online web app shortcuts from Start Menu (currently exists within Uninstall all bloat apps).
• CLI: Drastically simplify the app uninstallation process.
• GUI: Cleanup of bloatware registry keys has been merged to Uninstall all bloat apps function.
• Switch from Windows Package Manager to Chocolatey Package Manager (this change might persist until WinGet will ship prebuilt with Windows 10 on general availability channel).
• GUI: Uninstall OneDrive (currently exists within Uninstall all bloat apps).
• GUI: Remove Install dotNET 3.5 (because really less people actually find it useful).
• GUI: Add Snip and Sketch to the list of apps that get uninstalled.
• Update strings to ensure consistency across functions.
• GUI: Don't produce errors on repeated functions.
• Random errors and unexpected crashes.

Maintenance

• Remove Network status.
• Remove System Restore (code currently seems to be nonfunctional with 20H2 update, tends to produce errors).

Privacy & Security

• CLI: Remove O&OShutup10 and Block telemetry using hosts code.
• GUI: Kill O&OShutup10 task before cleaning its executable.

Windows Explorer

• Add Hide Meet Now and Restore Meet Now icon from tray (currently implemented into Cleanup Explorer function) [CleanWin might be one of the first projects to implement that].
• Automatically restart explorer.exe after cleanup is peformed.

Contributors

• Thanks to @xSylla for testing fixes for false positive antimalware detection.
• Thanks to Siddharth for testing fixes for false positive antimalware detection.
• And many more people who have contributed to CleanWin. If I didn't credit you here, please message me on Telegram.

Release notes

• I'm confident to say that this release of CleanWin is one of the most stable releases since the very first release of CleanWin. It sets benchmarks on program reliability and stability.
• Each and every function of this release was thoroughly tested multiple times across diverse environments to ensure maximum stability, reliability, and a bugfree experience.
• With this release, CLI variant enters Maintenance mode. This means that features will no longer be actively worked on it, support will be dropped and only bug fixes will be provided. CLI variant will be fully dropped in a future release.
• Regular drill: If you have a suggestion, feature request or a bug report, please go to the respective places (Issues and Pull Requests) and do the needful.

Known issues

• Uninstall OneDrive might not work for some users.