Features

BleachBit has many useful features designed to help you easily clean your computer to free space and maintain privacy.

Simple operation: read the descriptions, check the boxes you want, click preview, and click delete.
Multi-platform: Linux and Windows
Free of charge
Free to share, learn, and modify (open source)
Free of adware, spyware, and malware
Translated to 35 languages: Arabic, Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai and Turkish.
Shred files to hide their contents and prevent data recovery
Shred any file (such as a spreadsheet on your desktop)
Overwrite free disk space to hide previously deleted files
Portable app for Windows: run without installation
Command line interface for scripting and automation
CleanerML allows anyone to write a new cleaner using XML
Frequent software updates with new features

Uses

Use BleachBit to:

Free disk space
Reduce the size of backups and the time to create them by removing unnecessary files
Maintain privacy
Improve system performance (by vacuuming the Firefox database, for example)
Prepare whole disk images for compression (common for "ghost" backups and virtual machines) by wiping free disk space

Cleaners

BleachBit includes a growing list of cleaners. Typically each cleaner represents an application such as Firefox or Internet Explorer. Within each cleaner, BleachBit gives options covering components that can be cleaned such as cache, cookies, and log files. Each option is given a description to help you make good decisions.

The following are a list of cleaners available in BleachBit 0.7.1. You should be able to see a list of options by hovering your most over the cleaner name.

Adanaxis
Adobe Reader
aMSN
aMule
APT
Audacious
Bash
Beagle
Chromium
Downloader for X
Deep scan
Easytag
ELinks
emesene
Epiphany
Evolution
Exaile
Filezilla
Firefox
Flash
gedit
gFTP
GIMP
GL-117
GNOME
GNOME Art
Google Chrome
Google Earth
Google Toolbar
gPodder
Gwenview
Hippo OpenSim Viewer
Internet Explorer
Java
KDE
Liferea
Links 2
Metacity
Microsoft Office
Midnight Commander
Miro
MySQL
Nautilus
Nexuiz
Notify OSD
OpenOffice.org
Opera
PDFedit
Phatch
Pidgin
PlayOnLinux
RealPlayer
Recoll
Rhythmbox
rpmbuild
Safari
SeaMonkey
Second Life Viewer
Skype
sqlite3
System logs
System
TeamViewer
Thumbnails
Transmission
Tremulous
VIM
Virt-Manager
Vuze / Azureus
Winamp
Windows Defender
Windows Explorer
Windows Media Player
WINE
winetricks
WinRAR
X11
XBMC Media Center
XChat
Xine
X-Moto
Yahoo! Messenger
yum
Zsh

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 version 3 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-scatted 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, Liferea, and Yum databases: shrink files without removing data to save space and improve speed

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