I admit that I haven’t been overly complimentary toward Wise software in the past, especially when they were bundling the awful ”Ask toolbar”. Anyway, I’ve been using Wise Disk Cleaner (portable) as my default drive cleaner for quite some time now, on my own machines and on clients’ machines, and have found it to be extremely safe and effective. I had heard that CCleaner had moved into the dark side since being acquired by Avast but this was the first time I’d witnessed proof of that firsthand. Personally, I haven’t used CCleaner for years and when I downloaded the free portable version for comparison purposes while compiling this article, the very first thing that happened, on the initial run, was a popup advertising the commercial edition… disappointing: That still holds true today and I guess CCleaner’s reputation for safety is what keeps people using it. However, I proved through a series of articles back in 2012 that just about any other free drive cleaner does a better job than CCleaner. The installed file LiveUpdate.dll is the auto-update component of the program which is designed to check for software updates and notify and apply them when new versions are discovered.For many years CCleaner has been the ubiquitous free drive cleaner, trusted and used by millions of people worldwide.

The setup package generally installs about 26 files and is usually about 19.48 MB (20,430,884 bytes). The primary executable is named wisecare365.exe. The software is designed to connect to the Internet and adds a Windows Firewall exception in order to do so without being interfered with. A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). Delaying the start of this service is possible through the service manager. It adds a background controller service that is set to automatically run. Manually stopping the service has been seen to cause the program to stop functing properly.

Upon being installed, the software adds a Windows Service which is designed to run continuously in the background. It adds registry entry for the current user which will allow the program to automatically start each time it is rebooted.

The most common release is 2.09, with over 98% of all installations currently using this version.

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