[Tip] Enable or Disable “Health Check” Option in CCleaner
This tutorial will help you in enabling new “Health Check” option in CCleaner software. It’ll also help you if you want to remove new “Health Check” option and want to restore previous “Easy Clean” option in CCleaner.
Recently Piriform released new version of popular cleaning and optimization tool CCleaner which comes with a brand new feature called “Health Check“. This option has been developed to replace previous “Easy Clean” feature which was implemented for non-technical users to scan and clean unnecessary files quickly and easily without any technical knowledge.
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Since the release of a few versions of CCleaner, the company is releasing new features via A/B testing. Some users receive new features while some other don’t like previously released “Easy Clean” feature. Same thing happened with new “Health Check” feature.
“Health Check” option is available for some CCleaner users only while other still get previous “Easy Clean” option in main CCleaner window.
Now there might be 2 types of CCleaner users:
- Users who received new “Health Check” feature but they want to disable it and want to restore “Easy Clean” feature
- Users who didn’t receive new “Health Check” feature and they want to manually activate and enable it right now
Fortunately CCleaner allows users to enable or disable new “Health Check” option using Registry Editor. Interested users can turn on/off “Health Check” option in CCleaner by modifying Windows registry. Once you disable “Health Check” option, it’ll automatically restore “Easy Clean” option in CCleaner.
If you also want to enable or disable new “Health Check” option in CCleaner, following steps will help you:
1. Make sure CCleaner is completely closed in your computer. If you see its icon in system tray, right-click on it and select Exit option.
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2. Now press WIN+R keys together to open RUN dialog box. You can also open it from WIN+X menu. Now type regedit in RUN dialog box and press Enter. It’ll open Registry Editor.
3. Now go to following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Piriform\CCleaner
4. In right-side pane, look for (Cfg)HealthCheck string.
If value of (Cfg)HealthCheck is set to 0, it means the “Health Check” option is disabled in CCleaner.
If value of (Cfg)HealthCheck is set to 1, it means the “Health Check” option is enabled in CCleaner.
So double-click on (Cfg)HealthCheck string and change its value to 0 or 1 to disable or enable it according to your requirements.
That’s it. Now launch CCleaner and you’ll get new “Health Check” option or previous “Easy Clean” option based on the string value changed in Registry Editor.
PS: If you want to remove both “Health Check” and “Easy Clean” options in CCleaner and want to restore classic Cleaner option, following tutorial will help you:
Thanks VG for this tutorial,
I love this new option in CCleaner.
Thanks for tutorial. The registry tweak worked!
Changing the “1’s” to “0’s” worked, but only for a short time. Ccleaner keeps defaulting back to the Health Check version.
Ran the new Ccleaner with Health Check once, worked just fine it seemed. Today it is now at the one hour mark for Health Check “Patching Up Your PC”. Never did this before. Will remove CCleaner and do without for awhile until they get things patched up. Or never. Was a good product, hate to see it die at it’s own hands.
Many thanks for this tip.
I have disabled CCleaner’s new Health Check feature.
The Health Check feature suggests I upgrade my TrueCrypt software from Version 7.1a to 7.2.
It would be easy to think that all upgrades would be for the best and to accept CCleaner’s default recommendation. However, I would never want to make the mistake of upgrading TrueCrypt to version 7.2.
TrueCrypt’s functionality to create new encrypted volumes was REMOVED from version 7.2, but it still exists in version 7.1a.
It’s a pity that CCleaner’s options screen doesn’t (at the time of writing) allow the user to disable the software-upgrades part of the Health Check feature.
Thank you, AskVG.
Great tip!
Thanks Vishal. You always seem to have the right answer at the right time. Keep up the good work.
NR
Washington DC
I have done this registry tweak loads of times and each time CCleaner reverts to Health Check the next day. Can’t we just have a setting in CCleaner itself to enable us to select Health Check or Custom Clean, please?