To install CCleaner Portable extract the ZIP file to a folder of your choice on a flash drive or burn the files to a CD or DVD.
Start the CCleaner by double-clicking on portable.exe instead of CCleaner.exe and use CCleaner normally.
Known limitations
CCleaner Portable requires administrator or power user rights to run. These rights are needed for registering the required CCleaner components.
CCleaner Portable Settings
To change CCleaner Portable Settings you need to manually edit the values in portable.ini under [PORTABLE] section.
DebugMode - Show CCleaner Portable debug window.
0 - Disabled (default)
1 - Enabled
CCleanerPath - Full or relative path to folder containing CCleaner files.
CCommandLine - Add parameters in CCleaner command line.
IfInstalled - Changes the behaviour when CCleaner is installed on the system.
0 - Backup installed CCleaner (default)
1 - Run installed CCleaner
2 - Error message
CCleaner Portable command line options
/DEBUG - Adds /DEBUG in CCleaner command line.
/AUTO - Adds /AUTO in CCleaner command line.
/REG - Registers CCleaner component's and writes settings in registry.
/UNREG - Unregisters CCleaner component's and removes CCleaner registry entries. *
/NOIC - Skip CCleaner installation check.
/DBG - Shows the CCleaner Portable debug window.
/FORCE - Starts CCleaner even when there is fatal errors.
* When using /UNREG CCleaner Portable skips the CCleaner installation check.
CCleaner Settings
Since version 1.37 CCleaner supports loading/saving settings to an INI file (CCleaner.ini) rather than the registry. CCleaner Portable uses this option and it should not be disabled. CCleaner settings are stored in CCleaner.ini under [Options] section.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Improved Windows 7 jump list cleaning.
· Improved Windows 7 thumbnail cache cleaning.
· Added support for Windows Server 2008 R2.
· Improved 64-bit support and performance.
· Fixed issue with Windows 7 task scheduler.
· Fixed issue with Startup tool, displaying incorrect folder contents.
· Added support for AVG Antivirus 9.0.
· Added support for ExcludeKey in INI files.
· Improved support for wildcards and RECURSE/REMOVESELF.
· Fixed minor GUI bugs in non-English versions.
· Fixed minor GUI usability issues.
· Improved input validation.
· Lots of minor bugs fixed.
