[SOLVED] What is the best Steam cleaner out there?

[Lord Mystirio]

Hello everyone,

I've been googlin' for the best tool to help get rid of my steam junk files. Here is what I've found. Based on your own experience, which route do you suggest me to take?

Steam Cleaner

(https://github.com/Codeusa/SteamCleaner)

Winapp2 + CCleaner

(https://github.com/MoscaDotTo/Winapp2)

Tikione Steam Cleaner

(https://github.com/jonathanlermitage/tikione-steam-cleaner)

CCEnhancer

(https://singularlabs.com/software/ccenhancer/)



Thanks for your help

[ReBoot]

1. None. Really, what do you need to clean?
2. Stay away from CCleaner, its makers are pretty incompetent in deciding what's worth cleaning. CCleaner tends to "clean" up stuff Steam actually needs.

[Snapjak]

Steam should never get to the point where the client itself is taking up so much space that you need to clean more than the web browser cache.

ReBoot původně napsal:

1. None. Really, what do you need to clean?

[Lord Mystirio]

Really, what do you need to clean?

My steam folder is more than 260 Go. It's quite a lot (at least for me _ I usually tend to limit it to ~150Go but I have more games now, so... ^_^). Of course I could simply unistall some games, but I've already uninstalled all the games and softwares I did not wanted to have full time on the computer. Then a friend told me there are other files (motsly dependency and temporary files) that could be erase after a game is installed/uninstalled but steam doesn't automatically erase them.

This is why I was looking for a way to clean them. :-)

[ReBoot]

Temporary files are nit to be messes with and they're not in the Steam folder anyway. As for dependencies, I recommend https://sagenhaft.codeplex.com/releases/view/92802 for 2 reasons:
1. You can trust it as you can check the code yourself
2. It ONLY cleans runtime installers, not touching Steams bookkeeping
Still, don't expect miracles. The runtime installers aren't that much.

[Lord Mystirio]

ReBoot původně napsal:

Temporary files are nit to be messes with and they're not in the Steam folder anyway. As for dependencies, I recommend https://sagenhaft.codeplex.com/releases/view/92802 for 2 reasons:
1. You can trust it as you can check the code yourself
2. It ONLY cleans runtime installers, not touching Steams bookkeeping
Still, don't expect miracles. The runtime installers aren't that much.

Thanks for your advices and for the link to Sagenhaft. I noticed it's about 5 years old. Is it still "ok"?

[ReBoot]

The link is to Rex, the runtime installer cleaner. Sagenhaft is pointless as Steam has native support for moving games.

[Seven7]

Few custom rules for portable build ccleaner this is more than enough
Clearing common redists is stupid - after any crash steam re-dl it -
At us, in Russia, the Internet tariffs are not limited, and we can afford this nonsense, but in many countries there is a limit on the traffic, which in this way is very quickly exhausted ... not to mention the fact that our unlimited Internet tariffs are much cheaper...

[Lord Mystirio]

ReBoot původně napsal:

The link is to Rex, the runtime installer cleaner. Sagenhaft is pointless as Steam has native support for moving games.

Oh yes, my bad ^^

Seven7 původně napsal:

Few custom rules for portable build ccleaner this is more than enough
Clearing common redists is stupid - after any crash steam re-dl it -
At us, in Russia, the Internet tariffs are not limited, and we can afford this nonsense, but in many countries there is a limit on the traffic, which in this way is very quickly exhausted ... not to mention the fact that our unlimited Internet tariffs are much cheaper...

Good to know. I guess I'll simply leave my steam files as they are now ^_^ .

[Seven7]

In fact, there is not much point in cleaners - most caches now are cleaned with three buttons in the client itself
And obsolete rules in the windows firewall ccleaner cleans automatically

[Techno78]

I have made recently a cleaner that can remove old data from Local Appdata, Steam main folder and in the Steam common game folders, it removes old log files and cache files. I found files from 2017 that where not needed anymore. You can download it here: https://www.peusens-software.nl/