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[–] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 77 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I hate how all-around scammy this is. Who knows what the hell that thing does when plugged in..

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It seems it's a fairly cookie cutter program that wastes an awful lot of bytes and CPU cycles on just emptying your recycle bin, removing "internet clutter," (i.e. clearing your cache and temp files), removing broken shortcuts, twiddling your run-on-startup apps, etc., which are all actions that are not only fabulously unlikely to make your Windows machine perform any faster but are also all things you could do yourself in about thirty seconds.

I lifted that screenshot from this video, chosen purely on the merits of this guy's hat.

You can also find plenty of places to download the installer found on the Win Cleaner USB drive (it's just a cheap USB storage stick in a funny shaped housing) and try it yourself... possibly preferably inside a virtual machine.

[–] Michal@programming.dev 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ironically, clearing cache will make your Internet browsing slower.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nuh-uh, I never visit the same site twice

[–] Michal@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not even Google, to google Google?

[–] Klear@quokk.au 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I prefer to go to Bing to google DuckDuckGo.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

So it doesn't even remove unnecessary startup apps? Are you fucking kidding me? What a waste of money.

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

"privacy items". In other words it deletes your cookies and forces you to login to everything again.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

It most likely does nothing. I'm a bit angry that idiots certainly made a lot of money out of that scam.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago

Before you know it you're debugging Snaps.

[–] laz@pawb.social 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Blast from the past? Windows 8.1?

oh.

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

True, though this does seem super dated for Windows 8. This company was releasing early XP shit in 2012+

^also wow windows 8 was released 13 years ago?^

[–] tautalas@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Yeah, same. Thought "oh, it's pretty recent" lol

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The company is still around. They chose an interesting name for their Mac software. No Linux drive, though. Wonder why

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not sure if real or if I'm gullible

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A witty one like you? No chance

[–] grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

You might be in trouble, though. Luckily for you, I'm selling an app that protects you from scams!

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The MacWeenCleaners, such a shitty clan.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Compatible with Windows 8.1
"Blast from the past"

Come on, my guy. Give me a freaking break.

[–] shane@feddit.nl 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Windows 8.1 was released in 2013, so yeah, a blast from the past!

[–] adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Your comment being 1 minute old would also qualify it as a blast from the past.

People out there waging wars over money and power when the real battle lies in semantics.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your reply only further reinforces what I'm saying. 2013 was not that long ago.

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I genuinely thought this was a joke way of packaging a Linux distro.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unlimited use on ONE computer for a YEAR!

So what happens with the hardware part after a year? 🤔

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

It always bothered me that the machine cooks itself but the tape is perfectly fine.

[–] lennee@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

love how its unlimited but limited in every way

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Should archive it and see if someone will do a decompile and analysis on it to see what it actually does.

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm betting it looks at things that run-on-startup and more to check if theyr'e not system mandatory turns that off second would probably be erasing temp files, since windows notoriously has temp file deletion, and lastly might (heavy might) delete objects like Downloads that you haven't opened for more than a year or so, assuming you simply forgot those

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's probably pretty scammy, but I love the design which is 1:1 that of an actual cleaning product.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It basically just did what CCleaner does. Defrag your HDD and clean up the registry.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

CCleaner defrags only if you install their defrag app (the probably just calls the Microsoft tool on background)

[–] lazylion_ca@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 1 month ago

Did it just increase the mouse pointer speed?

[–] beirut_bootleg@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

My guy, that's not unlimited.

[–] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

Go scatter these on the floor at blackhat

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

win 8, the past i'd rather forget

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Windows 8 was just Windows ME2.

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm curious what's on it. I'd guess it's just a storage device with an antivirus and some system cleanup utilities. And enforces it's restriction by storing a timestamp of when it was used.

I put in a low effort search trying to find out. Saw a couple of YouTube videos that might say, but not in a position to watch those right now. Also found a reddit thread asking the same question but the comments wouldn't load. Gave up at that point.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you still care, someone in here summarized it. And it’s about as worthless as you’d guess

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

Thanks! I gave it a read.