It is a major pain in Windows to have to rebuild a search index for file Explorer or Outlook because it takes hours after using Bleachbit. Also it is very time-saving in daily work. So the temptation is not to clean it out.
On the other hand, for snoopers it is presumably one of the most powerful sources of information on my PC about me.
Has anyone found a way to retain the power of the MS Search Index without leaving it open to assorted Peeping Toms, Stasi, NSA and other pond life?
This is surely a dumb question but I cannot work it out: which of the Bleachbit cleaners is the one that removes the MS search index for Outlook and for file Explorer?
No doubt I'm doing something dumb (newbie alert) - but I've just loaded Bleachbit and ticked lots of things to clean: some of them clean up just fine (e.g. Recycle Bin empties OK, C:/....AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.MSO\ empties OK
etc)
but others such as browsers (Opera, IE11) retain URL history and Adobe Reader still shows Recent Files.
Yes, I'm closing down all these applications when running BleachBit. I guess I must be following the basic process OK because Recycle Bin and others are emptied by BleachBit.
I recently used bleachbit 0.8.8 on my Windows 7 (x64 Ultimate) laptop with the option to remove recently used items selected. After the run, my recently used programs list in the "Start" menu was blank as expected. But as I used my computer over the next several days the list continued to either remain empty or only show one program.
I did extensive web searches about this kind of problem and tried all of them without any success (disable then enable, change number of items to save, remove NoRecentDocsMenu key in regedit, reboot, reboot again, etc.)
I cannot download a 64 bit version of the updated0.8.0 and the 32 bit version will not install, instead failing to an error message stating that I have the incorrect type of program for my operating system. The download link only opens a 32 bit .exe.
