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ccleaner offers to delete Passwords. in Edge, Explorer, Firefox and other browsers.

If I delete the passwords from Edge, will that ONLY delete them there or all passwords in other browsers too?   It is not relly clear, and testing it, might be not a very good idea.

(I have uninstalled Edge completely and Firefox is the only one installed right now, but I will (most probably) install Brave again...)

Can I simply click everything at all the browsers, except the one that I actually use?

Thank you...

I have not used CCleaner for many years.

But it still has its share of fans.

@Nukecad can probably best answer your question.

He is a forum moderator at the CCleaner forum and our resident CCleaner "guru"....

Is there a reason you can not do that by hand.   Recommend doing that sort of stuff by hand so know that you only have yourself to blame.

CCleaner is not recommended for use for the reasons you are asking as well as deleting registry entries it should not have touched.

System Ninja is a useful tool, New MS Program : https://pcmanager.microsoft.com/en-us as well.

Frankly, none of these 3rd-party "cleaner", "optimizer", "tune-up", "debloater" tools is necessary.

None has been shown to measurably, verifiably, objectively improve performance benchmarks.

To the contrary.

Most - if not all - will potentially lead to breaking something, especially if not used carefully/properly and if the user does not have a system image to restore if things go pear-shaped.

The new MS tool has only been available for a few months. It seems to be MS's answer to CCleaner. Whether or not is valuable and helps to measurably improve performance remains to be seen....

But anyway, we can wait for @Nukecad to answer your SPECIFIC question.

(I have uninstalled Edge completely and Firefox is the only one installed right now,................................)

Before you attempt removal of your Microsoft Edge passwords, export your Firefox passwords. It's basically just a plain-text file of all your Firefox logins  - see here . If things go horribly wrong then you'll have a backup.

By the way, professionals consider CCleaner as little more than snake oil and its so-called "Registry cleaner" has the potential to cause catastrophic problems. Even Microsoft doesn't recommend its use.

ccleaner offers to delete Passwords. in Edge, Explorer, Firefox and other browsers.

 

If I delete the passwords from Edge, will that ONLY delete them there or all passwords in other browsers too?   It is not relly clear, and testing it, might be not a very good idea.

 

(I have uninstalled Edge completely and Firefox is the only one installed right now, but I will (most probably) install Brave again...)

 

Can I simply click everything at all the browsers, except the one that I actually use?

 

Thank you...

This has been asked a few times on the CCleaner forum.

CCleaner's Custom Clean (where the delete browser Passwords option are) will only clear what you tell it to clear.

If you look you will see that there is a seperate 'Saved Passwords' option for each browser that you have, it will only clean them for a browser if/when you have ticked it for that browser.
(Those are all unticked by default, wouldn't want someone deleteing their saved passwords unless they specifically choose to do so).

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You can also right-click on any of the options in those list (even if it isn't ticked and so greyed out) and you will get a context menu where you can 'Ananlyze' just that option to see what it would clean. eg
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If you want to be extra sure then simply make a backup of your logins/passwords in Firefox, its easy to do.
Firefox menu>Passwords>3-dots menu>Export passwords.

And of course you don't have to use CCleaner, you can always go into each browser and delete your passwords there rather than using CCleaner to do it.

EDIT to add-
For a test, (because TBH it's a while since I'd last tested it),  I just used CCleaner to delete my saved passwords from Edge, that's all it did and my Firefox saved passwords were not touched.
(Now I have to put them back into Edge, but of course I had backed them up before deleting them).

Edited by Nukecad, 28 March 2024 - 06:58 AM.

 

ccleaner offers to delete Passwords. in Edge, Explorer, Firefox and other browsers.

 

If I delete the passwords from Edge, will that ONLY delete them there or all passwords in other browsers too?   It is not relly clear, and testing it, might be not a very good idea.

 

(I have uninstalled Edge completely and Firefox is the only one installed right now, but I will (most probably) install Brave again...)

 

Can I simply click everything at all the browsers, except the one that I actually use?

 

Thank you...

 

This has been asked a few times on the CCleaner forum.

 

CCleaner's Custom Clean (where the delete browser Passwords option are) will only clear what you tell it to clear.

 

If you look you will see that there is a seperate 'Saved Passwords' option for each browser that you have, it will only clean them for a browser if/when you have ticked it for that browser.
(Those are all unticked by default, wouldn't want someone deleteing their saved passwords unless they specifically choose to do so).

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You can also right-click on any of the options in those list (even if it isn't ticked and so greyed out) and you will get a context menu where you can 'Ananlyze' just that option to see what it would clean. eg
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If you want to be extra sure then simply make a backup of your logins/passwords in Firefox, its easy to do.
Firefox menu>Passwords>3-dots menu>Export passwords.

 

And of course you don't have to use CCleaner, you can always go into each browser and delete your passwords there rather than using CCleaner to do it.

 

EDIT to add-
For a test, (because TBH it's a while since I'd last tested it),  I just used CCleaner to delete my saved passwords from Edge, that's all it did and my Firefox saved passwords were not touched.
(Now I have to put them back into Edge, but of course I had backed them up before deleting them).

 

Thank you NukeCad. I basically want a ccleaner like version 508 back, which simply did everything I want, and no more. But those days are always gone, once a company like Avast gets its fingers on it...

It is always funny, how many answers one has to read in ANY forum, before getting to an answer that actually answers the question that was asked. The others are, more often than not, even false information. You cannot image how often I have been told that Win 7 isno longer updated, which of course is BS.  I used ccleaner every day before closing down Win7 and not once in many, many years did a problem occur because of deleting unnecessary reg items.

Of course the set-up of ccleaner suggests that it will do no more than delete the Edge passwords, even though I have Edge completely. And it also simply says (delete) "saved passwords". Given garbage like edge, or rather: M$, that steals whatever data it can get, I have no problem imagening that it collects all passwords from all other drivers also. I have seen worse in my 30 years of computer life...

ccleaner is a nice tool, that will, once correctly set, delete everything I want gone, by two mouseclicks. Setting it correctly was a matter of a few minute, now it takes half an hour, and inquiring in a forum.

So, Thank You.

Edited by ThomasMann, 28 March 2024 - 04:05 PM.

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Edited by Pkshadow, 28 March 2024 - 05:03 PM.

. I basically want a ccleaner like version 508 back, which simply did everything I want, and no more. But those days are always gone,

Unfortunately as you say those days are gone.
But don't blame Avast, or rather InGen oops, Gen Digital as that is now who 'owns' CCleaner as well as Avast and quite a lot of others.

Piriform is still run as a seperate company and makes it's own decisions on the development of CCleaner and the other Piriform products.
CCleaner itself was changing well before the aquisition by Avast.

You will see some crossover between the Gen Digital companies - the now share a common licencing system for one thing.
Their developers also share code, and recently CCleaner started creating a 'Norton' folder in error. (Spotted by an eagle eyed forum user).
The developers had shared a pice of code from Norton, and hadn't removed an instruction to create that folder if it didn't already exist, once created it just sat there with nothing using it.

Of course you can use CCleaner just the same as it always was, simply ignore all the new 'features'.
Set Options>Setings to use Custom Clean as your Home Screen and just use Custom Clean.
(I don't use any of the other stuff myself - unless I'm testing something to answer a question on the forum).

Edited by Nukecad, 29 March 2024 - 10:08 AM.