Agreed, there is no information or control over the internal decisions or actions the program will make, no explanation for unusual descriptions like “Normalizing the Filepage” ( web search those terms and get nothing ! ).
The presentation window is not resizable, a clue to the programmer’s lack of interest in their customer’s equipment – we have large display screens, and high-pixel-count display screens, and sometimes safe-mode low-pixel-representation display screens, yet they do not respect that.
Black Bird Cleaner DOES have some neat advantages though:
– WIM FILES: The Disk Analyzer feature sorts a drive in file-size order, and there at the top was the Windows wim file for the original Windows installation, which I had copied to C:\i386 ( good for me, copy the installation media to C:\i386 immediately after installing Windows ) … a wim file needed by Hasleo EasyEUFI Windows to USB, I note that Hasleo can not find that wim file at all let alone as fast as Balck Bird.
– DELETE SERVICE: it has the ability to delete a service, not just turn it on or off, and that’s a useful utility, like for when a service hangs around and prevents installing a later version, or hangs around after uninstalling a program.
– FIND INSTALLERS: it quickly found installers, such as under IObit’s self-updates, installers that I can right-click on and open the folder and move to my own C:\Install\… directories for use on-demand and copying then from computer to computer for use elsewhere.
– FIND ZIPS: same as quickly finding installers, nice to quickly locate zips, and do whatever I prefer with them.
I will not be using the cleaner or optimizer features.
If wanted to learn more about them in spite of the programmers, I’d try these steps:
– make a restore point
– reboot
– make another restore point
– run ONE selection from cleaning or optimizing
– reboot
– inspect my computer for a full day of hands-on-experience
– restore to previous if anything misbehaves or if I was missing something
– make a note to never use that Black Bird feature again
… repeat TRYING ONE BLACK BIRD FEATURE PER DAY until I either master the program, or never never never use the cleaning and optimizing features ever again.
Are we smart yet?
Alternatives to cleaning … seriously?
Free Temp File Cleaner by Old Timer form [ BleepingComputer. com ]
Free Temp File Cleaner v3 from Add PCs ( web search off their site )
Free KCleaner by [ KCSoftwares. com ]
Free Glary Utilities
Free CCleaner OLD versions only, who knows the safest version number? Please share, I do not use it anymore.
Free IObit Advanced System Care with no registry cleaning, just turn off registry cleaning.
Free Revo Uninstaller cleaning tool.
Free Wise Cleaner
Free YLComputing WinUtilities [ PCClean. io ]
… endless.
Others may share their favorites – PLEASE.
Black Bird has a -l-o-n-g- way to go to earn recognition:
– explain in precise detail each action,
– let us control each action, that is, show us a “found these results, toggle each item before deletion begins”
– resize the presentation windows,
– include undo feature,
– make copious logs of actions.
Note, [ BlackBirdCleaning. com] has free non-pro versions of all of their software, and they have a variety of tools that do offer some features and benefits that I have used successfully, and appreciate, so check them out and compare to alternatives.
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