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Run CCleaner Silently by Creating a Shortcut or Hotkey

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool for cleaning your Windows PC which protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more secure. Today I will show you how to create a shortceu or hotkey to run it silently like the “Run CCleaner” option on the Recycle Bin.

 

It will run the same option as when you right-click on the Recycle Bin (with a command-line switch on a shortcut) :

In order to make our desktop looked tidy and nice, I think not all of us show the Recycle Bin on our desktop (prefer to keep the desktop icons hidden instead). This is why I’d rather have a shortcut or hotkey somewhere else.

 

Setup Your Options

When CCleaner is run automatically you’ll need customise its settings you want it to run. Take an example, I’d look at whether or not you want to clean out your cookies or recent documents.

 

Then go to Options \ Advanced and make sure that the “Save all settings to INI file” option is checked (it should be checked by default). This makes sure that whatever settings you’ve chosen are saved out to an INI file in the same directory.

 

Also you can take a look in the file. You will find that since I turned off recent documents and cookie cleaning, those are now set to False in the file. (You don’t need to touch this file)

 

What’s more, you can use the Options \ Cookies tab to decide which cookies you would like to keep. This is very useful if you would like to continue to be signed in automatically to certain sites, or if your bank has a “Site Key” functionality that remembers your computer.

 

Create the Shortcut to Automatically Run CCleaner

On the first step, just right-click on the desktop or elsewhere, and choose New \ Shortcut from the menu.

 

Then browse to the location of CCleaner on your computer, which will typically be found at the following path (but could be elsewhere).

C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCleaner.exe

 

Now you need to add the /AUTO switch at the end (make sure to put a space between it), which will typically put the full string like this:

“C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCleaner.exe” /AUTO

 

Note: The /AUTO switch will tell CCleaner to run automatically and not show the GUI as well. If you are curious what the (x86) in the screenshot path is… I’m running 64-bit Vista, which has one directory for 64-bit programs and another for 32-bit programs.

 

After you give the shortcut a useful name (like “Run CCleaner”), you should have a nice-looking icon on your desktop:

 

At this point, you can open up the properties of the icon and assign a Shortcut key as long as you like.

 

Note: Shortcut keys will only work if the icon is in the Start Menu or desktop, not the Quick Launch Bar.

Once you run the shortcut, you’ll be prompted with the UAC prompt (if you didn’t Disable UAC), and then CCleaner will run silently and clean up your computer.

 

 

 

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