Ccleaner - Have Changes Been Made To The Free Version?

Have been using Ccleaner for many years, and yet now, when l select hidden icons on the right of the taskbar,
there it is.
It has also placed an entry into startup in my msconfig file.
Deleted everything "Ccleaner", and re-installed the free version from Piriform themselves....same thing happens!
Is this what the latest version does?
Personally, l do not want anything to run "automatically" and would prefer to run it as and when l want.
It's just another thing that could potentially slow the computer a tad.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Regards

 

Yes, they've added/changed several settings in the latest versions, you'll need to use the Settings section to try to retake control over what it does and get it working only when you want it to and, probably, to try to reduce privacy risks from it sending data back to the (Avast) mothership.

After changes and a reboot, check your settings have stuck, I've noticed the odd claim that not all of the settings changes survive a reboot.

 

Ye gods! Thanks satrow.
Tinkered around with the settings and everything is now back as it should be.
Thanks again.
Post can be closed as solved.
Regards

 

No worries, expect other changes (hopefully good ones) next month

 

After determining that "Active Monitoring" will re-enable itself, after being turned off numerous times, I have reverted back to 5.44.6675.

 

@bearsound: did this occur after a reboot (Something I rarely do, last was 9 days ago) ?

 

Yes, after rebooting "Active Monitoring" returns.

 

Thanks, I'll lookout for any potential fixes/workarounds for that.

 

@bearsound: Are you running the portable version? https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/ccportable.html

 

As suspected, some changes are afoot after the feedback on the latest version:

"You spoke, we listened. Here's what we're doing:

1. We will separate out Active Monitoring (junk cleaning alerts and browser cleaning alerts) and heartbeat (anonymous usage analytics) features in the UI and we will give you the ability to control these individually. You will have the options of enabling all, some or none of these functions, and this functionality will be uniquely controlled from the UI.
2. We will take this opportunity to rename the Advanced Monitoring features in CCleaner to make their functions clearer.
3. We will deliver these changes to the software in the coming weeks."

https://forum.piriform.com/topic/52360-changes-in-v545-and-your-feedback/

Hat tip to Winchester73 at Landzdown.

 

I was running the"Slim" version, wherein there is usually less "funny business". It is encouraging to hear Piriform is listening, and will make changes to allow "feature" control.