You will have the options of enabling all, some or none of these functions, and this functionality will be uniquely controlled from the UI. We will separate out Active Monitoring (junk cleaning alerts and browser cleaning alerts) and heartbeat (anonymous usage analytics) features in the UI and we will give you the ability to control these individually. Most modern software companies collect anonymous usage data as it is very helpful when prioritising bug fixes and future improvements in the product experience. This data is completely anonymous, and through collecting it we can rapidly detect bugs, identify pain points in the UI design and also understand which areas of functionality we should be focusing our time on. You now need to disable Active monitoring via its Settings, disable the CCleaner startup entry using MSCONFIG and then kill the program using the Task Manager.

When you click on ‘x’, the program just minimizes itself to the notification area.

You cannot now close CCleaner using the ‘x’ button. But is will start monitoring on computer restart! Hereafter, CCleaner will not appear in your system tray after closing. Un-check the box marked against ‘ Enable Active Monitoring’. Then, from the following three options listed. Launch CCleaner and select ‘Options’ from the main screen of the program. A simple solution to deal with this situation is to turn off Active Monitoring if you do not prefer CCleaner monitoring your system. While the CCleaner Active Monitoring feature offers a great and easy way to clean up junk files, at times, like this, it can really come across as a major irritant. Still, if you prefer CCleaner to not monitor your system, you can turn off Active Monitoring by following the steps outlined above. Even when you try to disable it via CCleaner Settings > Monitoring, it will commence the monitoring activity again.Īctive Monitoring allows CCleaner Free to monitor your installation in the background, for any updates or new releases, so you don’t have to worry about keeping up-to-date. This has invited angry reactions from the public over the flawed functioning of the ‘ Active Monitoring’ feature. It is almost impossible to disable the Active Monitoring of CCleaner. In the recent CCleaner 5.45 version released by Piriform/Avast, a new active monitoring feature has been introduced.

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