[Tip] Enable or Disable New “Easy Clean” Option in CCleaner

The newer versions of popular cleaning and optimization tool “CCleaner” come with a new feature or functionality known as “Easy Clean” mode. The new Easy Clean mode is a simplified cleaning mode which has been developed for non-technical users who can’t understand which options should they select in CCleaner to clean temporary files from their computers.

Inexperienced users had difficulties in understanding the options which were required to select/deselect before start cleaning using CCleaner. That’s why CCleaner team introduced new Easy Clean mode option to help non-tech savvy users in using CCleaner easily without worries.

The new Easy Clean mode allows users to clean junk and temporary files quickly and easily by clicking on Analyze and Clean buttons. It’s now very easy to use CCleaner to delete temporary files from computers to free up disk space.

Easy Clean option has been put at the top of the main sidebar where all options such as Tools, Options, etc are present. Don’t worry! The previous Cleaner option is still present for advanced users but now it has been renamed to “Custom Clean” option.

Older CCleaner users who prefer to use classic Cleaner option, can still use the feature by clicking on “Custom Clean” option given in sidebar. It’s same as before. No changes have been made to this classic cleaner function.

Many CCleaner users reported that the new Easy Clean option is not visible in their CCleaner program even if they upgraded to the latest version. Some CCleaner users complained that Easy Clean option appeared when they installed new CCleaner version but after some time it automatically disappeared from the program and now they can’t find Easy Clean option in the tool.

On the other hand, there are some CCleaner users who got the new Easy Clean option but now they want to disable or remove it from CCleaner as they want to use the previous advanced Cleaner option by default. They don’t want to switch to Custom Clean option every time they launch CCleaner.

Today in this tutorial, we’ll tell you how to enable or disable new Easy Clean option in CCleaner. You can show or hide Easy Clean option in CCleaner by modifying Windows Registry. That is the reason behind Easy Clean option appearing and disappearing for several CCleaner users.

Actually the visibility of Easy Clean option is decided by a key in Windows Registry. If the key in registry is set to 1, then Easy Clean option is turned on in CCleaner and appears to users. If the registry key is set to 0, the Easy Clean option is turned off and disappears to users and classic Cleaner option becomes available to users as shown in following screenshot:

If you also want to add or remove Easy Clean mode in CCleaner, following methods will help you:

How to Add Easy Clean Mode Option to CCleaner?

If Easy Clean option is not available in your CCleaner program, following steps will help you in forcefully enable the option:

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.

2. 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:

4. In right-side pane, right-click and select New -> String Value option. Set its name as (Cfg)QuickClean and change its value to 1

PS: If (Cfg)QuickClean is already present in your computer, double-click on it and set its value to 1 or delete the String.

Now open CCleaner and you’ll get new Easy Clean option back.

How to Remove Easy Clean Mode Option from CCleaner?

If you already have Easy Clean option in CCleaner but you don’t like it and want to get rid of the option, following steps will help you in disabling or removing the option from CCleaner:

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.

2. 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:

4. In right-side pane, right-click and select New -> String Value option. Set its name as (Cfg)QuickClean and change its value to 0

PS: If (Cfg)QuickClean is already present in your computer, double-click on it and set its value to 0

Now open CCleaner and Easy Clean option will no longer appear in CCleaner. The classic Cleaner option will be back in CCleaner sidebar.

BONUS TIP: Making Custom Clean as Default Option in CCleaner

If you don’t want to remove Easy Clean option from CCleaner but want to set Custom Clean option as default so that whenever you launch CCleaner, the Custom Clean option is selected by default, following steps will help you:

1. Open CCleaner and click on Options tab.

2. Now click on Settings option.

3. In right-side pane, select “Custom Clean” option given next to “CCleaner Home Screen“.

That’s it. Close and relaunch CCleaner and now Custom Clean mode is selected by default.

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