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BleachBit v4.6.2

Clean Your System and Free Disk Space

When your computer is getting full, BleachBit quickly frees disk space. When your information is only your business, BleachBit guards your privacy. With BleachBit you can free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean thousands of applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari,and more. Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. Better than free, BleachBit is open source.



Features
• Shred sensitive files, so one can ever read their contents.
• You always have the "Pro" version: BleachBit is free of charge
• Anonymous: you do not need to register an account
• Simple to operate: read the descriptions, check the boxes you want, click preview, and click delete.
• Multi-platform: it runs on both Linux and
Windows
• What's hiding in your software? BleachBit is free to share, learn, and modify because it is open source, so there are no secrets.
• No adware, spyware, telemetry, malware, bloatware, backdoors, browser toolbars, or "value-added software"
• Translated to 66 languages
• Overwrite free disk space to hide previously deleted files
• On Windows, choose to either install or run in portable mode. like from a USB drive.
• Command line interface for scripting and automation
• Advanced users can write their own cleaners using CleanerML
• Automatically import and update winapp2.ini cleaner files giving Windows users access to thousands of additional cleaners

Uses
• Free disk space
• Reduce the size of backups and the time to create them by removing unnecessary files
• Maintain privacy
• Improve system performance
• Prepare system for backups by removing junk data that wastes space and time.
• Prepare whole disk images for compression (common for "ghost" backups and virtual machines) by wiping free disk space


Cleaners
• Cleaners contain the rules for cleaning specific applications, and BleachBit includes a growing list of cleaners for Google Chrome, Edge, Firefox, VLC, system logs, temporary files, and many others.
• Many more cleaners for Windows and Linux are available in the CleanerML community repository.
• Add thousands of cleaners by using winapp2.ini (Windows only).

Advanced cleaners
Going beyond standard deletion of files, BleachBit has several advanced cleaners:
• Clear the memory and swap on Linux
• Delete broken shortcuts on Linux
• Delete the Firefox URL history without deleting the whole file—with optional shredding
• Delete Linux localizations: delete languages you don't use. More powerful than localepurge and available on more Linux distributions.
• Clean APT for Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Linux Mint
• Find widely-scattered junk such as Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files.
• Execute yum clean for CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat to remove cached package data
• Delete Windows registry keys—often where MRU (most recently used) lists are stored
• Delete the OpenOffice.org recent documents list without deleting the whole Common.xcu file
• Overwrite free disk space to hide previously files
• Vacuum Firefox, Google Chrome, Liferea, Thunderbird, and Yum databases: shrink files without removing data to save space and improve speed
• Surgically remove private information from .ini and JSON configuration files and SQLite3 databases without deleting the whole file
• Overwrite data in SQLite3 before deleting it to prevent recovery (optional)

Changes
v4.6.2:
Clean more cookies, cache, and sessions in Google Chrome.
Fix ValueError: Unexpected UTF-8 BOM (decode using utf-8-sig) when cleaning JSON files in Google Chrome

Linux
Add packages for Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 39 and 40, and openSUSE Slowroll.
Fix detection of Wayland.
Fix error SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence with Python 3.12.
Fix missing developer name in metainfo.xml file.

Windows
There was a major update to the Winapp2.ini file on August 29, which includes many updates for various cleaners. When enabled in the preferences, it is available OTA also for older releases of BleachBit.
Restore the missing DLL to fix the regression causing the error "Code execution cannot proceed because msvcr100.dll was not found" that affected many users.
Renew the digital code-signing certificate and switch certificate authority. The publisher will now show as Open Source Developer, Andrew Ziem.
Fix the excessively long application name in Task Manager and when the application was not responding
Fix errors like [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: '\\?\C:\
WINDOWS\Sysnative\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Content.IE5': Command to delete
Hide a Linux-specific option in the preferences.










This download is for the Windows portable version (very bottom of page).
All other download assets are below:


Windows:
BleachBit-4.6.2-setup.exe
Linux:
CentOS 9 Stream
Debian 11 (Bullseye)
Debian 12 (Bookworm)
Fedora 39
Fedora 40
Linux Mint 19 - 19.2 (Tara - Tina)
Linux Mint 20 - 20.3 (Ulyana - Una)
Linux Mint 21 - 21.3 (Vanessa - Virginia)
Linux Mint 22 (Wilma)a>
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minitaur)
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)
openSUSE Slowroll
openSUSE Tumbleweed



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Downloads Views Developer Last Update Version Size Type Rank
6,285 17,612 Andrew Ziem <img src="https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/gallery/thumbs/BleachBit1_th.png"border="0"> Mar 30, 2025 - 21:08 4.6.2 12.38MB ZIP 5/5, out of 76 Votes.
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