CleanSweep Changelog

What's new in CleanSweep 2.3.5.0

Jan 11, 2023
  • FIX - Additional exception handling to allow CleanSweep to continue after failing to access specific cache folders in Chrome and Edge.

New in CleanSweep 2.3.4.0 (Jul 2, 2022)

  • REMOVED - Copyright info.
  • REMOVED - Localization/Globalization.
  • UPDATED - Version info.

New in CleanSweep 2.3.3.0 (Jun 16, 2022)

  • Update Program.cs

New in CleanSweep 2.3.2.0 (Jun 3, 2022)

  • FIX - User File History not existing/errors out when corrupted.
  • FIX - MSO Cache crash when directory not available/accessible.
  • FIX - Windows Error Report error.
  • FIX - Typo in comment for Windows Error Report.

New in CleanSweep 2.3.1 (Jan 2, 2022)

  • NEW - CleanSweep2 Command Line Interface. See the updated README for more information on commands and scheduling.

New in CleanSweep 2.3.0 (Dec 5, 2021)

  • NEW - Localization updates for GUI.
  • NEW - Added brackets around directories for non-verbose mode.
  • NEW - Icons for copy/clear log.
  • NEW - Placeholder menu options for language selection (this does not work yet!)
  • CHANGED - Localization strings to Resource.
  • Many string spelling errors/grammatical errors/consistency issues were fixed.
  • CHANGED - Refactored most of the code to C# standard style guidelines.

New in CleanSweep 2.2.0 (Nov 22, 2021)

  • NEW - CleanSweep2 now remembers your last sweep and will recall it on launch.

New in CleanSweep 2.1.9 (Nov 19, 2021)

  • FIX - Line ending for total space saved which forced user to scroll down to view the amount of space saved.

New in CleanSweep 2.1.8 (Sep 23, 2021)

  • FIXED - Exception handling and issues related to WER folder missing/already removed.

New in CleanSweep 2.1.7 (Jul 18, 2021)

  • FIXED - Bug that allowed multiple Sweep It!s to occur when by not disabling "Select All", and "Deselect All" while operations were being performed.

New in CleanSweep 2.1.6 (Jul 16, 2021)

  • CHANGE - Force all CMD windows to use shell instead of spawn from app.
  • CHANGE - Set Windows Update logs location to the full logs directory since it can be removed.
  • FIX - Some line endings and additional error and exception handling.

New in CleanSweep 2.1.5 (Jul 15, 2021)

  • FIX - Exception handling for MSOCache.
  • FIX - Some verbose strings were outputting in non-verbose mode.
  • FIX - Calculation of MSOCache not being in saved space summary.
  • CHANGE - Remove build folder from source.
  • CHANGE - Removed PowerShell dependency as CleanSweep no longer uses PowerShell to carry out cleaning operations.
  • CHANGE - Verbosity lines in Chrome Cache cleaning operation.
  • CHANGE - Remove RichTextBox function as it was unused.
  • CHANGE - Some additional exception handling on GetFiles function on MSOCache.
  • CHANGE - Removed unused button functions.

New in CleanSweep 2.1.4 (Jul 14, 2021)

  • NEW - Select/Deselect All buttons.
  • NEW - Divider line between cleaning operations and "Sweep It!" button/log window for better clarity.
  • CHANGE - Background color of Menu Toolstrip.
  • CHANGE - Code cleanup on button enabling and checking.
  • CHANGE - Cleanup string arrays to be readonly.
  • FIX - Unhandled exception in Chrome Cache cleaning option.

New in CleanSweep 2.1.3 (Jul 13, 2021)

  • FIX - Issue causing Windows Installer Cache operation from removing files.

New in CleanSweep 2.1.2 (Jul 13, 2021)

  • NEW - Additional tooltips on menu items.

New in CleanSweep 2.1.1 (Jul 13, 2021)

  • FIX - Newlines on Temporary Internet FIles and Delivery Optimization Files log window.

New in CleanSweep 2.0.12 (Jul 12, 2021)

  • NEW - Windows Installer Cache cleaning option.
  • CHANGE - The way some output scrolls.

New in CleanSweep 2.0.11 (Jul 11, 2021)

  • FIX - Scrolling to be more smooth when non-verbose mode is selected.
  • FIX - Multiple line endings and spacing issues.
  • FIX - Typos in non-verbose mode that listed files successfully deleted as green x's.
  • FIX - Typo in Chrome Cache cleaning option text.
  • FIX - Some other cleaning options to show directories deleted or failed in non-verbose mode.
  • CHANGE - Basic text error messages to include reasons for files and directories not being deleted for all cleaning options to be more descriptive and more consistent.

New in CleanSweep 2.0.9 (Jul 11, 2021)

  • NEW - Edge Cache cleaning option.
  • NEW - MSOCache cleaning option.

New in CleanSweep 2.0.8.1 (Jul 10, 2021)

  • FIX - Typo in Thumbnail cache cleaning option that prevented it from working.

New in CleanSweep 2.0.8 (Jul 10, 2021)

  • NEW - Option to remove Chrome cache.
  • FIX - That Windows Log File Removal was available as a cleanable option despite not being implemented.

New in CleanSweep 2.0.7 (Jul 9, 2021)

  • NEW - Added all potential cleaning methods.
  • NEW - Multiple new cleaning methods.
  • NEW - Disabled unimplemented cleaning methods.
  • NEW - Some additional error handling for certain cleaning methods.
  • CHANGE - Cleaned up some comments, and added regions in source for unimplemented cleaning methods for transparency.
  • CHANGE - Removed output log text when CleanSweep2 couldn't access IE5 Content because this is intended by Microsoft.
  • FIXED - Cleaned up some newlines.

New in CleanSweep 2.0.6 (Jul 5, 2021)

  • NEW - Windows Delivery Optimization Files option.
  • CHANGE - Some text description in initial reclamation check.
  • FIX - Redundant for loop bool check in array.

New in CleanSweep 2.0.5 (Jun 27, 2021)

  • NEW - UI lockdown while operation is being performed to prevent duplicate operations from starting
  • CHANGE - The way cleaning was locking per operation
  • CHANGE - The way checkboxes being unchecked were affecting cleaning
  • FIX - All methods now start with uppercase as correct syntax

New in CleanSweep 2.0.4.2 (Jun 27, 2021)

  • CHANGE - Pre-check other operations to disable sweeping faster.

New in CleanSweep 2.0.4 (Jun 26, 2021)

  • NEW - Recycle Bin Empty Feature
  • CHANGE - Duplicate line of code for checking Event Logs were cleared
  • FIXED - Line endings to be correct regardless of cleaning options chosen

New in CleanSweep 2.0.3 (Jun 25, 2021)

  • NEW - Sweeping of Event Viewer Logs
  • CHANGED - Some text log outputting to be more clear
  • CHANGED - Re-arranged some log output text

New in CleanSweep 2.0.2 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • NEW - Temporary Internet Files removal
  • CHANGED - New text when unable to recover more than 1MB for any category
  • CHANGED - Source code visual readability improvements
  • FIXED - Some duplicate code