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bleach bit
I am finding I believe that bleach bit doesn't work on registry keys. Am
I right? It seems to be a pretty good tool though. Bill |
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bleach bit
In message , Bill Cunningham
writes: I am finding I believe that bleach bit doesn't work on registry keys. Am I right? It seems to be a pretty good tool though. Bill What _does_ it do? (I've never heard of it.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Bother,"saidPoohwhenhisspacebarrefusedtowork. |
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... What _does_ it do? (I've never heard of it.) Some people have mentioned it and claimed that Clinton cleaned her system with it. IDK how unless the entire HD was overwritten. It does that how many times IDK. A microreading device can read things overwritten once. There's journals too. With NTFS and ext3 among others. IDK that it does anything mail wise it might. Bill |
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On 10/24/2016 1:38 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... What _does_ it do? (I've never heard of it.) Some people have mentioned it and claimed that Clinton cleaned her system with it. IDK how unless the entire HD was overwritten. It does that how many times IDK. A microreading device can read things overwritten once. There's journals too. With NTFS and ext3 among others. IDK that it does anything mail wise it might. Bill I don't think this is a security program. If I understand correctly, your browser has to sort thru the cache every time you load a page to see if it's cached. The bigger the cache, the longer it takes. Mine deletes about half a gigabyte of stuff every week or so. |
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bleach bit
Paul wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: Bill Cunningham WROTE: I am finding I believe that bleach bit doesn't work on registry keys. Am I right? It seems to be a pretty good tool though. What _does_ it do? (I've never heard of it.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BleachBit Written in: Python Since Windows does not come bundled with a Python interpreter, users of BleachBit would have to install one, like ActiveState's Python (http://www.activestate.com/activepython). I don't use Java-based tools, either, because of the need to install an interpreter. While I do have some cleanup tools (e.g., CCleaner), probably the first line of privacy defense is to configure the web browser to purge *everything* upon its exit. I know some folks like to retain Site Preferences on exit; however, it has been shown that data can be used to generate a unique hash that can track you across web browser sessions. If you are purging all caches, DOM storage, cookies, etc to protect your privacy, you need to dump the site preferences, too. And then there is the HTML5 Canvas read() scheme to create a unique hash to track you so you need to block those, too (actually an add-on to return a value but randomize it is better; I use CanvasBlocker in Firefox). The more convenience features the web browsers authors cater to (for sites), the less privacy we have. By analogy, it might be a CCleaner. The difference is, CCleaner does fiddle with the registry, and it's recommended to turn that part of CCleaner "off". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCleaner It is one of the safest registry cleaners. I always have it store a backup of the portion of the registry it intends to change so that I can restore in case problems crop out after cleanup. Of course, a registry backup (.reg file) is worthless if you cannot boot Windows to apply the ..reg file so regular backups are recommended (along with scheduling them to eliminate relying on the user to remember to do the backups - which will fail after awhile). CCleaner will show you every change it intends to make. You can remove some if you like. This is far better than registry cleaners that leave users in the dark as to what they change. As with any registry cleaner, and obviously only those that expose their intentions, it is still the responsibility of the user acting as admin of the computer to know what the hell is being proposed for registry changes. Boobs and ignorants should NEVER use registry cleaners. Even experts should plan an escape route to recover from registry cleanup. Unlike BleachBit which uses Python hence is cross-platform, CCleaner only runs on Windows (because it is compiled, not interpreted). |
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"VanguardLH" wrote in message ... Paul wrote: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: Bill Cunningham WROTE: I am finding I believe that bleach bit doesn't work on registry keys. Am I right? It seems to be a pretty good tool though. What _does_ it do? (I've never heard of it.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BleachBit Written in: Python Since Windows does not come bundled with a Python interpreter, users of BleachBit would have to install one, like ActiveState's Python (http://www.activestate.com/activepython). I don't use Java-based tools, either, because of the need to install an interpreter. While I do have some cleanup tools (e.g., CCleaner), probably the first line of privacy defense is to configure the web browser to purge *everything* upon its exit. I know some folks like to retain Site Preferences on exit; however, it has been shown that data can be used to generate a unique hash that can track you across web browser sessions. If you are purging all caches, DOM storage, cookies, etc to protect your privacy, you need to dump the site preferences, too. And then there is the HTML5 Canvas read() scheme to create a unique hash to track you so you need to block those, too (actually an add-on to return a value but randomize it is better; I use CanvasBlocker in Firefox). The more convenience features the web browsers authors cater to (for sites), the less privacy we have. By analogy, it might be a CCleaner. The difference is, CCleaner does fiddle with the registry, and it's recommended to turn that part of CCleaner "off". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCleaner It is one of the safest registry cleaners. I always have it store a backup of the portion of the registry it intends to change so that I can restore in case problems crop out after cleanup. Of course, a registry backup (.reg file) is worthless if you cannot boot Windows to apply the .reg file so regular backups are recommended (along with scheduling them to eliminate relying on the user to remember to do the backups - which will fail after awhile). CCleaner will show you every change it intends to make. You can remove some if you like. This is far better than registry cleaners that leave users in the dark as to what they change. As with any registry cleaner, and obviously only those that expose their intentions, it is still the responsibility of the user acting as admin of the computer to know what the hell is being proposed for registry changes. Boobs and ignorants should NEVER use registry cleaners. Even experts should plan an escape route to recover from registry cleanup. Unlike BleachBit which uses Python hence is cross-platform, CCleaner only runs on Windows (because it is compiled, not interpreted). I run and have run ccleaner all the time. As far a Python I don't to my knowledge have any runtime libraries other than what the installer might install. I don't have a python interpreter or compiler either. A Compiler sounds a little odd for Python. Which can be used in scripting too. Bill |
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Bill Cunningham wrote:
As far a Python I don't to my knowledge have any runtime libraries other than what the installer might install. I don't have a python interpreter or compiler either. A Compiler sounds a little odd for Python. Which can be used in scripting too. Python programming is a scripting language. You will need an interpreter (not a compiler) to run the Python-based scripts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python...mming_language) Any author can either bundle Python into their installer (just another package to install) or go retrieve it if not found on your computer and then install it. I have use PDFCreator and Bullzip PDF Printer and both rely on Ghostscript. PDFCreator requires the user to go get and install Ghostscript. Bullzip looks and will retrieve a copy if not found. Sometimes when bundled or retrieved, the support software may be either installed as a global program (in a standard path and any script can use it) or as a private program that is local to only the parent program (usually as a subdirectory under the parent program's install path). For example, you can install the K-Lite Codec pack which is globally available to all media programs versus VideoLAN's VLC player which includes its own set of media codecs under its own install path that are accessible only the VLC player. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BleachBit "BleachBit is written in the Python programming language and uses PyGTK." So you'll need both a Python interpreter (to run the BleachBit scripts) along with the PyGTK for the graphics library. Neither of those come in Windows. They have to get installed (or, at least, copied) to your computer. Python is probably included in most *NIX distributions; that is, unless you perform a custom OS setup and overtly deselect Python, it will get included in a *NIX install. http://www.bleachbit.org/documentation/installation That doesn't list Python requirements for Windows; however, that does not preclude the program installer from including a Python installer or the portable version from including a Python interpreter. Bundling is often used for Windows packages. The latest released package is at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ble...leachbit/1.12/ Look in the .gz.tar package. When I tried, Peazip puked on that file. Besides, .gz (compression) and .tar (archive) are for Linux, not Windows. So I grabbed the 1.10 released version. They provide an .exe for its installer but I wasn't interested in decomposing the executable to find out what is inside. Instead I looked at the portable version. Yep, that includes Python. Go look. |
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"VanguardLH" wrote in message ... Bill Cunningham wrote: As far a Python I don't to my knowledge have any runtime libraries other than what the installer might install. I don't have a python interpreter or compiler either. A Compiler sounds a little odd for Python. Which can be used in scripting too. Python programming is a scripting language. You will need an interpreter (not a compiler) to run the Python-based scripts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python...mming_language) Any author can either bundle Python into their installer (just another package to install) or go retrieve it if not found on your computer and then install it. I have use PDFCreator and Bullzip PDF Printer and both rely on Ghostscript. PDFCreator requires the user to go get and install Ghostscript. Bullzip looks and will retrieve a copy if not found. Sometimes when bundled or retrieved, the support software may be either installed as a global program (in a standard path and any script can use it) or as a private program that is local to only the parent program (usually as a subdirectory under the parent program's install path). For example, you can install the K-Lite Codec pack which is globally available to all media programs versus VideoLAN's VLC player which includes its own set of media codecs under its own install path that are accessible only the VLC player. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BleachBit "BleachBit is written in the Python programming language and uses PyGTK." So you'll need both a Python interpreter (to run the BleachBit scripts) along with the PyGTK for the graphics library. Neither of those come in Windows. They have to get installed (or, at least, copied) to your computer. Python is probably included in most *NIX distributions; that is, unless you perform a custom OS setup and overtly deselect Python, it will get included in a *NIX install. http://www.bleachbit.org/documentation/installation That doesn't list Python requirements for Windows; however, that does not preclude the program installer from including a Python installer or the portable version from including a Python interpreter. Bundling is often used for Windows packages. The latest released package is at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ble...leachbit/1.12/ Look in the .gz.tar package. When I tried, Peazip puked on that file. Besides, .gz (compression) and .tar (archive) are for Linux, not Windows. So I grabbed the 1.10 released version. They provide an .exe for its installer but I wasn't interested in decomposing the executable to find out what is inside. Instead I looked at the portable version. Yep, that includes Python. Go look. You can get 7zip for windows and it works with bz2 gz tar iso winrar zip xz and of course 7z. Bill |
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bleach bit
Bill Cunningham wrote:
VanguardLH wrote https://sourceforge.net/projects/ble...leachbit/1.12/ Look in the .gz.tar package. When I tried, Peazip puked on that file. You can get 7zip for windows and it works with bz2 gz tar iso winrar zip xz and of course 7z. Did you actually try to decompress and unarchive that .tar.gz file? It could be corrupted. I switched from 7Zip to Peazip because Peazip is faster - and even includes the lib to support 7Zip. If Peazip puked on that file, so might 7Zip. |
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VanguardLH wrote:
Bill Cunningham wrote: VanguardLH wrote https://sourceforge.net/projects/ble...leachbit/1.12/ Look in the .gz.tar package. When I tried, Peazip puked on that file. You can get 7zip for windows and it works with bz2 gz tar iso winrar zip xz and of course 7z. Did you actually try to decompress and unarchive that .tar.gz file? It could be corrupted. I switched from 7Zip to Peazip because Peazip is faster - and even includes the lib to support 7Zip. If Peazip puked on that file, so might 7Zip. The BleachBit Portable version, shows the package comes with "python25.dll", so that's an example of what handles the python interpretation. https://s12.postimg.org/fr3cq4n3h/bl...t_portable.gif The source doesn't necessarily need to have the build environment documented in it. That would be left as a "detail for someone building the packages". Paul |
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"VanguardLH" wrote in message ... Did you actually try to decompress and unarchive that .tar.gz file? It could be corrupted. I switched from 7Zip to Peazip because Peazip is faster - and even includes the lib to support 7Zip. If Peazip puked on that file, so might 7Zip. Well I did uncompress it. And extracted the tarball into a directory stored in it. It seems fine to me. Bill |
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