BleachBit: CCleaner Software for Linux

Surely you are not familiar with CCleaner is not it? Free software that can "clean" PC while protecting privacy is very popular among Windows users. Well, BleachBit is a software whose function is similar to CCleaner, but it can be used in the computer operating system Linux. BleachBit be a solution for all Linux users who want to wake the computer from the accumulated junk files that are not useful.

Features BleachBit 
Clean up useless files to free disk space is maintained
Maintain privacy by clearing cache, cookies and log files
Improve system performance
Swap and clean up memory on Linux
Remove broken shortcuts on Linux
Remove the language that you do not use on Linux
Cleaning the APT for Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Linux Mint
Find and delete junk files and Thumbs.db sepertu. DS_Store
Yum clean run on CentOS, Fedora and Red Hat to clear the cache of data package
Delete the list of recent documents in OpenOffice 
Overwrite Free Disk Space to hide the previous file


How to Use BleachBit
1. Clean up your computer
In contrast with CCleaner, BleachBit featuring a selection of data that can be removed by the application. Suppose that in Firefox, you can choose what data you want to clean. You can also scan junk files, then delete these junk files. We recommend that before you delete a file with BleachBit, make sure you preview first one if you do not delete.

2. File Shredding  
In addition to clean up the computer in the usual manner as above, BleachBit also be used to clean computer files permanently. In this way the data you've deleted will not be returned by the file recovery software.

To activate it, access the Edit -> Preferences, then check it "Overwrite files to hide contents". Reactivation of these features make the process clean up a little longer. You can also permanently delete a file or folder you want via the menu BleachBit

3. Deleting System Files
When you try to delete system files, such as localozations, it will usually arise because of permission denied error. This is because you run BleachBit of the standard user account. To avoid errors you should run it as root. When in Ubuntu, you stay close BleachBit, press ALT + F2, then type gksu bleachbit. BleachBit will directly run the privilage as root so that you can remove a variety of system files that you want.

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