Download BleachBit 4.6.2: Free Disk Space Cleaner and Privacy Tool

When your hard drive begins to fill up, BleachBit swiftly clears up valuable disk space. If safeguarding your data matters to you, BleachBit ensures your privacy remains intact. This powerful tool enables you to remove cache files, erase cookies, wipe your browsing history, securely delete temporary files, eliminate logs, and clear out unwanted clutter you might not even know existed.

Compatible with both Linux and Windows operating systems, BleachBit efficiently cleans up data from a multitude of applications, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari, among others. Beyond basic deletion, BleachBit offers sophisticated options that include securely shredding files to avoid recovery, wiping free disk space to eliminate traces left by other software after file deletion, and optimizing Firefox for enhanced performance. Best of all, BleachBit is an open-source solution, making it better than free!

Key Features of BleachBit:

Erases private documents so thoroughly that as noted by South Carolina Representative Trey Gowdy, “even God can’t read them.”
User-friendly interface: simply read descriptions, select desired options, preview results, and click delete.
Supports multiple platforms: available on Linux and Windows.
No cost involved and no financial tracking.
Open-source—freely share, modify, and learn.
Free from any adware, spyware, malware, unnecessary toolbars, or other “value-added”software.
Available in 64 languages, including American English.
Securely shred files to prevent content recovery.
Ability to shred any file, for example, a spreadsheet on your desktop.
Overwrite free disk space to erase traces of files that had been deleted previously.
Portable option available for Windows: can run without installation.
Command line interface for automation and scripting.
CleanerML feature enables users to create new cleaners using XML.
Automatically integrates and updates winapp2.ini cleaner files (available for download) to give Windows users access to over 2500 additional cleaning options.
Regular updates bringing new functionalities.

Advanced Cleaning Options Offered by BleachBit:

Clear memory and swap space on Linux.
Remove broken shortcuts in Linux.
Erase Firefox URL history without deleting entire files, with optional shredding capability.
Delete unused language localizations in Linux, offering better functionality than localepurge and compatible with more distributions.
Clean APT for Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Linux Mint systems.
Identify and delete widely scattered junk files like Thumbs.db and. DS_Store.
Execute yum clean command for CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat to clear cached package data.
Erase specified Windows registry keys, which typically house MRU (most recently used) lists.
Remove the OpenOffice.org recent documents list without affecting the entire Common.xcu file.
Overwrite free disk space to erase remnants of previous files.
Optimize Firefox, Google Chrome, Liferea, Thunderbird, and Yum databases by vacuuming without removing data to save space and enhance performance.
Meticulously eliminate sensitive information from. ini and JSON configuration files, as well as SQLite3 databases without fully deleting them.
Offer an option to overwrite data in SQLite3 before deletion to prevent recovery.

BleachBit Version 4.6.2 Updates:

Here are the changes made since version 4.6.0:

Enhanced cleaning of cookies, cache, and session data in Google Chrome.
Resolved ValueError: Unexpected UTF-8 BOM (now decoding using utf-8-sig) during JSON file cleaning in Google Chrome.

Linux Enhancements:

New packages added for Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 39 and 40, and openSUSE Slowroll.
Improved Wayland detection.
Fixed SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence issues with Python 3.12.
Corrected missing developer name in the metainfo.xml file.

Windows Improvements:

August 29 witnessed a major update in the Winapp2.ini file, encompassing numerous updates for various cleaners. It is available OTA for earlier BleachBit releases when enabled in preferences.
Restored missing DLL to rectify the “Code execution cannot proceed because msvcr100.dll was not found”error, which affected many users.
Updated the digital code-signing certificate and switched certificate authorities; the publisher is now noted as Open Source Developer, Andrew Ziem.
Corrected excessively lengthy application names in Task Manager and improved response during hangs.
Fixed issues like [WinError 3] indicating that the system cannot find specific paths during deletion attempts:
'\\?\C:\WINDOWS\Sysnative\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Content.IE5': Command to delete
Concealed Linux-specific options in the preferences menu.

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