DIY FCleaner To Yours
FCleaner has supported ‘Custom Cleaner’ feature from this version 1.1.0.1215. ‘Custom Cleaner’ feature allows you to define your own cleaning tasks. Now you can DIY FCleaner according to your needs. You can download this new version here http://www.fcleaner.com/download.htm
In this version, you can find ‘Custom Cleaner’ in ‘Options’ tab. There is a button on the left panel for ‘Custom Cleaner’.
Click it, you will see a list window of custom cleaners you have defined.
Here, you can add new cleaners, edit or remove the existed cleaners, or browse the folder you used in your cleaners.
When you click ‘Add’ or double click an existed cleaner, you will see a form for you to define a new/edit an existed custom cleaner like below.
The ‘Name’ part is the custom cleaner name you want, each custom cleaner should have an unique name. The ‘Searching folder’ part is the target folder you want to clean. ‘Include/Exclude file types’ supports wildchars such as *, all file types should be separated with semicolon (;). If you check ‘Search subfolder’ option, all subfolders under ‘Searching folder’ will be scanned. It maybe takes a lot of time to do scan action if there are many subfolders in ‘Searching folder’. So we recommend you use a direct path in ‘Searching folder’ field if you need a quick scan. In ‘Report type’ part, there are three options for you to choose. You can select one of them as the report type for your custom cleaner.
After you define the custom cleaner, you will see it in ‘Cleaner->Windows->Custom’.
Now the ‘Analyze/Run Cleaner’ action will also include the custom cleaners you have checked. The report is like below. You can change the report type for each custom cleaner easily in ‘Custom Cleaner’ form.
You can define unlimited custom cleaners according to your task. All checked custom cleaners will be used in Analyze/Clean action.
The ‘Custom Cleaner’ feature gives FCleaner an unlimited expanding ability. You can DIY it now!
I like your cleaner, but I cannot find anywhere in the software where you may choose how many times it overwrites data, such as 3 time (DOD) or 7 passes (NSA) or 35 passes (Gutman). This would be a great help in your software if it is not there and if it is not, that option should be included. If it is there, perhpas you can write me and tell me where? I always use 7 or 35 passes to insure software or whatever I want overwritten is truly destroyed.
But your software is very good, I like it…. Keep up the good work..
@Ivan
We will discuss this issue with our developers later. It seems like a ‘Secure Delete/Erase’ feature. 🙂
Thank you and Merry Christmas Holidays!
I just downloaded FCleaner and thought that it was a Spyware or Virus Cleaner. Is that correct, or am I just confused? Probably a dumb question, but just needed to make sure that I was protected.
@David
FCleaner cannot clean virus, you need an anti-virus software to do that.
any chance of a portable version anytime soon?
@mcaleck
I will talk this issue with our developers later.
Very nice, clean piece of software! Sweet interface, flexible options, low OS overhead. Impressive! I agree that the only thing it needs is a ‘shredder’ erase option for deleted data. Or at least to delete data to the recycle bin where anothe rutility can do it.
One question – I’d be interested to know what it does to the index.dat file and what precisely is removed.
@Steve H
Thank you Steve. The ‘shredder’ feature has been planned, it will be added in the future version of FCleaner.
@mcaleck
FCleaner portable edition is coming! You can get it next week:-)
Hi,
Can you tell me how to clear the “recent directories” record in IrfanView ?
We will test this later.
what does the. f .mean. in fcleaner.
It may be Free, Fast, Final, ….
xfjU0c Kewl you should come up with that. Excelnlet!