Multron-Community/MultronWcleaner v1.29.1

Multron Windows Cleaner v1.29.1 beta

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Multron Win Cleaner 1.29.1 Update

Cleanup log

• The log no longer grows forever. A new Clear the log automatically option in Settings > Cleanup Log empties the log file every week, every month or every 3 months, or never. It is set to every month by default; the first month starts counting when you open 1.29.1, so your current log is not removed at once. Clear Log File still empties it by hand at any time.

Updating

• From 1.29 or earlier: the app updates itself to 1.29.1 as usual (Settings > App Updates).
• New installs: download mwc_setup.exe (installer) or mwc.zip (portable) below.

Multron Win Cleaner 1.29 Update

A new, simpler main screen

• Cleaning Selections in its own window. The long list of Windows and app categories moved out of the main screen. A Cleaning Selections card at the top shows how many groups are selected (74 groups selected); click it to open the window with every category, Select All / Unselect All and the search box. The window can be minimized and maximized, and long item names wrap.
• Cards open smoothly. Opening a card grows its content in with a short animation (in the simple and the advanced view) and closing it shrinks it back. The card next to it keeps its size and place instead of stretching to the same height, on the main screen and in Cleaning Selections; closed cards in a row still line up.
• Matching drop-down lists. The Microsoft MRT and Multron Malware Scan scan type lists on the Malware Scan card, and the browser profile lists, use the app's rounded style instead of the plain white Windows box, fit inside the card, line up with the option text above them and fade when they are turned off.
• See the paths of an item. Point at an item in Cleaning Selections and a Paths panel at the bottom of the window lists the folders and files it cleans, with an Open link for each one that exists on this PC and a Copy paths button. The paths are no longer packed into the tooltip. The panel can be turned off in Settings > Interface Mode.
• Categories are cards. Windows categories and apps are shown as cards in two columns, with an icon, a short plain description and On / Off. Click a card to turn it on or off; the arrow on the right shows the single items. Turning a card on selects only the items the database recommends, so the risky ones are never picked by a click.
• Extra scans are cards too. Windows Disk Cleanup, DISM, SFC, Deep Log Files Scan, Malware Scan, Duplicate Files, Firewall Rules, Shortcuts and Security each have a card with a short description and On / Off. A click turns the step on or off and remembers which options were on; the arrow shows its options.
• See what is running. While a step runs during a scan, its card shows a spinning ring instead of On / Off.
• Plain descriptions and badges. Hover a category to read what it removes in plain words. Advanced marks categories to check before cleaning (Windows upgrade leftovers, the component store, installer caches, personal data, your own folders); Takes a while marks DISM, SFC and the deep log scan; Testing marks Malware Scan, as the cloud scan is still being tried out and its results and behavior may change.
• Windows Disk Cleanup is one choice. Its options are round buttons, as only one of them can run.
• Advanced interface. Malware Scan, Duplicate Files, Large Files, Firewall Rules, Shortcuts and Security are at the top of the list, and the cleanmgr, DISM, SFC and Malware Scan cards now have descriptions.

Notifications

• New look. Notifications look like part of the app: a header with the Multron icon, the app name and the time, a glossy round icon in the color of the result (green when all is well, blue for information, orange for warnings and red for danger) with a soft glow, a light wash of the same color across the card, the amount on a colored badge and a matching button. They slide in from the side, the icon pops in with a ring around it, and they fade out when closed.
• No more Windows balloons. When Malware Scan keeps running in the background or finishes, Multron shows its own notification (with an Open button) instead of a Windows tray balloon.
• Cleaning results as cards. A finished cleaning also adds a message card with the space freed and the files deleted. The messages area can be made taller or shorter by dragging the handle above it; double-click the handle to reset it.
• Cleanup log on by default. The cleanup log and the last log entry are now on by default and the log is saved in the program folder. A new Also log notifications switch writes every message card and notification to the same log file.
• Malware warnings after every scan. When threats are found, a red notification appears as soon as the scan ends, also for scans you start yourself. Click it to see the results.
• Cleaning reminder. If no scan or cleaning is started from the main window for 30 days while the app runs in the background, a reminder appears. In Settings you can turn it off, choose the number of days, how often it repeats, and whether it also appears while the window is open.

Tray, taskbar and closing

• Malware Scan tray icon. The Malware Scan tray icon is a clear tile with a bold white shield. A small badge in its corner shows the state: a spinner while a scan runs, a red warning sign when threats were found, a yellow one when only suspicious files were found, and a blue info sign when nothing was found.
• Main tray icon shows what is happening. While a scan or cleanup runs, a small spinner turns in the corner of the Multron icon instead of replacing the whole icon. Afterwards a badge shows the result: green when cleaning is done, blue for a new message or scan result, yellow when a restart or an update is waiting and red when threats were found. Opening the window clears it.
• Progress on the taskbar. The taskbar button of the main window and of Malware Scan fills with the Windows green progress bar during a scan or cleanup. It turns red as soon as Malware Scan finds a threat and yellow when it finds only suspicious files, and stays that way after the scan until the results are cleared.
• Closing the app. Multron asks before it closes completely (Settings > System Tray > Ask before closing Multron Win Cleaner, on by default). When the tray icon is on, you can choose what the close button does: hide to the tray, close the app, or ask every time in a small window with a Remember my choice box. A separate switch hides the app to the tray when you minimize it.
• New right-click menus. All right-click menus have rounded corners, roomy rows and a soft shadow. The Utilities tray menu lists the running tools (Memory Cleaner, Malware Scan, Startup Manager, Large File Finder, Duplicate File Finder) with Show and Close for each and a Close all tools button; the Malware Scan tray menu shows the scan status, Show Threats and Stop the scan.

Settings

• Disk information can be hidden. A new option under Interface Mode shows or hides the drive panel on the main screen.
• Easier on the eyes. In the light theme, input boxes and the option boxes in Settings are a soft tint instead of bright white.
• New layout. A list of sections on the left takes you straight to what you need, and every section is a clean card with an icon.
• Smooth section jumps. Clicking a section in the Settings menu glides to it instead of jumping; the mouse wheel stops the glide.
• Animations can be turned off. A new Show animations option in Settings > Interface Mode turns off the glows, pulses, slides and card animations everywhere in the app. Progress indicators keep moving so you can see that work is going on.
• Search in Settings. A search box above the sections finds any option by its name or description: only the sections that contain it stay in the list, and Enter jumps to the first match.

Clear results

• Cleaning result card. Instead of a block of orange text, the result shows 1.24 GB freed on drive C: in large green figures, with the files deleted, files that will be deleted after a restart and files skipped because they were in use on lines of their own. Hover the card to read why the space freed can be smaller than the size of the deleted files.
• Scan result card. The scan result is a blue card with the size that can be cleaned, the space DISM can reclaim from the component store and a hint to click Clean; a stopped scan shows an orange card. It used to be one line of red text that looked like an error.
• Friendlier result messages. When a scan finds nothing to clean, the card turns green and says Your PC is clean. Every other result adds a short note that matches its size, from Your PC is in good shape for a small result to a recommendation to clean for a large one, and a stopped scan says the size was found before the scan stopped. After cleaning, the card says Already clean when there was nothing to remove. The scan result card appears as soon as the file scan is done, while the firewall, shortcut, security, duplicate, large file and malware steps keep running.
• Live scan status. While scanning, the panel under the Scan button shows the item being scanned and its path instead of a line of bright blue text, and the percentage done is shown under the ring. The scan log uses the same tidy rows as the clean log: Scanning and Completed badges, readable item names (Google Chrome Profile Dawn Web GPU Cache instead of GoogleChromeProfileDawnWebGPUCache), the size found and the path in a lighter color, instead of a colored box around every line.
• Clean log. Each line of the clean log shows its result as a small colored badge (Cleaned, Locked, Access Denied...) with an icon, followed by the item name, the details such as the number of files and size, and the path in a lighter color, so the names line up and are easy to scan. New lines slide in softly (when lines arrive quickly during a scan they appear at once, so the window stays smooth even with thousands of lines), the icon pops when a line changes from cleaning to its result, and long paths end in "…" instead of running off the window; the whole line is in its tooltip. The restart notice has a Restart now button. Folders that were already empty are shown in gray instead of orange, so only real problems stand out.
• Smoother windows and notifications. Every window slides in softly when it opens, the main screen's panels slide in after the loading screen, notifications slide in from the side and fade out when they close, and the scan type cards in Malware Scan lift slightly when you point at them. The Apply Actions bar and the server warning in Malware Scan slide in when they appear.
• Disk bar. The drive is shown on a small card: its name and how full it is on one line, a slim usage bar with a soft gradient and the free space under it (358.9 GB free of 1.82 TB). It takes less room than before, the bar turns orange above 85% and red above 95%.
• Restart warnings where you need them. When a restart is needed to finish cleaning, the result card shows a clear warning box with how many files are waiting and a Restart now button, so the left panel no longer overflows and the disk information stays in view. The Killing Done! card shows the same warning when a Kill left files to delete at the next restart, and when Malware Scan could only schedule threats for deletion at the next restart, the Malware Scan panel and card on the main screen warn about it with their own Restart now button. The warning disappears from cards once the PC has been restarted.
• Messages as cards. Messages that arrive after a change, such as Killing Done!, duplicates deleted, firewall rules removed, shortcuts fixed, security settings fixed or a Utilities tool finishing, stay on the main screen as colored cards until you close them with ✕, also after the app is restarted. They have their own section at the bottom of the left panel, under the disk information, so the scan result and the disk bar stay in view; up to two cards are shown and the rest scroll. Each card shows the time, the newest card is on top, and each tool has one card: a new message from it replaces the old one. A finished Malware Scan adds its result too. The Killing Done! card has a Show details button that brings the Kill log back on the main screen, also after a restart. The text is split into short lines with a bold title, for example Killing Done! / 5 Process Killed / 7 Files Deleted / Freed Space: 21.51 KB. Each card has a round status icon, a colored strip on the left and a soft shadow.
• Clear Kill log. Each step of a Kill has its own row with an icon (program closed, file deleted, skipped service, deleted at restart), the file name with its folder under it, and a summary card at the end. Started... is readable in the dark theme, and Killing Done! is green instead of red.
• Cleanup log that works. Keep a cleanup log now really turns the log on and off, the file is created in its default place without pressing Apply first, and cleanings, Kill results, removed duplicates, firewall rules, fixed shortcuts and security settings and Malware Scan results are all written to it with the time. The Cleanup Log section in Settings has a new layout with the last five entries, and Show the last log entry shows it as a small line under Ready to scan instead of replacing it.
• Every tool has its own icon. Utilities, Memory Cleaner, Large File Finder, Duplicate File Finder, Startup Manager, Malware Scan and System Optimization each have their own icon in the taskbar and Alt+Tab, made in the style of the main app icon, and their settings and helper windows use the same one. The same icons are on the Utilities cards and on the option cards of the main screen; Firewall Rules shows a brick wall, System File Check a document with a check mark and Deep Log Files Scan a document with a magnifier. The category cards in Cleaning Selections and the scan type cards in Malware Scan use the same icon style. The main window, Settings and every tool window show their icon next to their name in the title bar; the Utilities title matches the main window, with Utilities as a small badge like the version. The Utilities tray icon is turned on and off in Settings > System Tray instead of in the Utilities title bar. The result panels after a scan (firewall rules, shortcuts, security, duplicates, large files, malware, DISM and SFC) show the tool's icon with a small colored status dot instead of a bright colored circle; Scan Logs and Quarantine have their own icons too. The text on the round Scan / Clean button uses the same typeface as the window title.
• One button style. The blue buttons in Startup Manager, Duplicate File Finder, Large File Finder, Memory Cleaner, Settings, Malware Scan and the main window now share the look of the Utilities buttons: a soft blue gradient, rounded corners and the same hover and press effect. Unselect All next to Select All keeps its light color in the same shape, and Select All in Cleaning Selections is blue like on the main screen.
• More depth, less flat. Windows and panels have a soft gradient, a light edge at the top and a darker one at the bottom, cards have a glass sheen, buttons have a gloss highlight and the round Scan / Clean button looks like a polished orb. Scroll bars have a shaded thumb, and where a window has rounded corners the scroll bar is now cut off by the corner instead of sticking out. This applies to every window in both themes, also with transparency effects on. Check boxes, switches, text boxes and progress bars look set into the surface, drop-down lists have a gloss and a divider before the arrow, and switch knobs cast a small shadow. Cards and icon tiles cast a soft shadow, and window frames and the Utilities cards have a bevelled edge. Highlights were kept low so the windows stay calm, and the light theme is softer and easier on the eyes.
• A livelier Scan button. The round Scan button grows slightly when you point at it and presses in when you click it. A ring ripples out, the edge lights up and the glow takes the button's color: blue for Scan, green for Clean, red for Cancel and orange for Kill. When the button changes from one to another, the color fades over.
• Found files in their own window. After a scan, a Found Files card at the top of the results shows how many files were found, in how many folders, and their size. Click it to open the list in its own window with Select All, Unselect All and a search box that looks in file names, folders or both and can match part of the name or the exact name, chosen next to it (folders with matching files open and show how many of their files match). The card and the window show how many files are selected and their size, which is what Clean will remove. Right-click a folder to open it, copy its path or always skip it from now on (it is added to the exceptions); the other scan results stay on the main screen under the card.
• Save lists as CSV. Found Files, Large File Finder and Malware Scan have an Export list button that saves what the list shows, after search and filters, as a CSV file you can open in Excel.
• A glowing Scan button. While the round button waits, a soft glow in its color pulses behind it (blue for Scan, green for Clean, orange for Kill); during a scan the button fills up like water with the scan progress, with a gently moving wave on top.
• Smoother progress ring. The ring around the Scan button is a little thinner, has a soft blue gradient and a small light at its tip, and its round ends no longer overlap into a notch when the scan is almost done.
• Roomier result cards. The cards after a scan (firewall rules, shortcuts, security, duplicates, large files, malware, DISM and SFC) use the full width for their text, and their buttons sit in a row under it instead of squeezing the text into a narrow column. The icon lines up with the title.
• Different icons for different things. Every Windows category in Cleaning Selections has its own icon (printer, key, store bag, robot, terminal...) instead of the same folder, app cards show the icon of their group, Windows Repair (DISM) no longer shares the Utilities wrench, and the settings windows of Large File Finder, Duplicate File Finder and Malware Scan have a gear icon.
• Locked Files window. It has a lock icon in the title, both search boxes side by side, each locked file group as a card with its process count, rows with a program icon that can be ticked anywhere, and Select All, Unselect All and Close buttons at the bottom. The mouse wheel scrolls the list.

Loading screen

• The loading card slides in softly over a gentle blue glow, the logo glows while the app loads, each step has a round badge whose icon spins while it runs and pops into a green tick when it is done, the progress bar fills smoothly with a blue gradient, and the screen fades out instead of disappearing at once.
• The loading screen shows its steps, Checking for updates and Loading the cleaning database, each with In progress / Done / Skipped, and a progress bar with the real percentage while the database downloads and loads. It used to update a progress bar hidden behind it.

Malware Scan

• Running Apps scan. A new scan type checks only the programs that are running now, as listed in Task Manager.
• Running & Startup scan. Checks the running programs together with everything that starts with Windows: startup apps, services, drivers, scheduled tasks and other autostart entries.
• Critical Scan. Checks services, startup apps, scheduled tasks and running programs, plus the critical places malware targets: the Windows, System32, SysWOW64 and drivers folders, the temp folders, AppData and ProgramData.
• Many more file extensions. Settings now lists 95 extensions you can turn on or off one by one, grouped under the existing categories. Programs, scripts, installers and shortcuts are on by default; documents, archives and PDFs stay off until you choose them, because they can contain personal files.
• Simpler Custom Scan. Choosing Custom Scan shows what is selected with Select Folder, Select Drive and More Options buttons. Folders, drives and files now have their own window and are no longer in Settings. A Custom Scan needs at least one folder, drive or file.
• Security-style layout. A large shield shows the status with a wide Scan button under it, and the scan types sit next to it. The shield turns green when the scan is clean, red when threats are found and orange when a scan stops or fails. During a scan the scan types make way for the live progress, so the window no longer grows too tall.
• Scan type cards. The six scan types are cards with a short description (Every fixed drive. Can take hours.) instead of a drop-down list.
• Suspicious results are called suspicious. When every result is only suspicious, the Malware Scan window and the main screen say suspicious files instead of threats, and the warnings are orange instead of red. In the main screen's list, suspicious files are shown in yellow and threats in red. Threats and suspicious files have separate filters and counts in the results and in the live scan view.
• The action box is never empty. Set all to shows your default action. Showing it changes nothing in the list, and clicking the option already shown applies it to every file.
• The main window follows the scan. When Malware Scan starts during a main scan, the result panel scrolls to its card once, and it does not pull you back if you scroll away. When the scan ends with no threats the panel returns to the top; if threats are found, it stays on the results and a red bar offers Scroll to top and lists what the other steps found (firewall rules, shortcuts, security settings, duplicate and large files).
• The scan progress fits. In the main window at its default size the scanned count (6,341 / 31,635) was cut off, the filter buttons were stacked and long statuses pushed Cancel out of view. The numbers now shrink to fit, the filters are on one line and long statuses end in "…".
• Cloud server status. A button next to the lock in the title bar shows in real time whether the cloud scan server is online and its latency (Server online · 42 ms). It is checked every 5 seconds while the window is open, every 3 seconds while the server is unavailable, and at once when the internet connection changes or a scan connection drops or succeeds. Click it for details: latency, last check, server address and a Check now button. When the server is down, under maintenance or being updated, or there is no internet connection, a colored bar explains it, and a scan does not start until the server is back; a malware step started from the main scan says why it was skipped. The button can be turned off in Malware Scan settings; the server is then checked only when a scan starts.
• A living shield. The shield in Malware Scan breathes softly while it waits, sends rings out while a scan runs, and when a result arrives its color fades over and the icon pops in.
• Apply Actions stands out. When results need a decision, a colored bar above the list says how many files are waiting (red for threats, orange for suspicious files), with Set all to and a large Apply Actions button, instead of a small button among the other tools.
• The results list fits. Status badges such as Quarantined by user are no longer cut off, long file names and paths end in "…" with the full text in their tooltip, the check boxes have room, and the size and action columns keep their width in a small window. The result tools wrap to a second line together instead of leaving the delete button alone.

Startup Manager

• New look. A summary at the top (13 apps start with Windows, 3 high impact), filters for All, Enabled, Disabled and High impact, and rows with the app icon, a switch, an impact badge and a remove button. Windows' own scheduled tasks are hidden unless you turn on Windows tasks.
• Turning items off now really works everywhere. Items in the Startup folder and 32-bit programs looked disabled but still started with Windows. They now use the same settings as Task Manager, so a change made in either place shows up in the other, also while the window is open.
• Items that cannot be turned off say so. RunOnce entries and Winsock protocol providers have a locked switch instead of a switch that did nothing.
• More consistent impact rating. Paths with spaces and no quotes, environment variables and programs found through PATH are now read the way Windows reads them, and items started through rundll32, cmd, powershell or a launcher such as Update.exe --processStart are rated by the program they really start. Discord, for example, was rated by its small updater and shown as Low.
• Every startup location of this PC and your account is checked. The list now covers services, drivers, Store apps, policies, logon scripts, Explorer extensions, system providers and WMI event subscriptions as well.
• More items you can control. Third-party automatic services (also those that run a third-party DLL inside a Windows host) and Microsoft Store apps' startup tasks can be turned off here. Group Policy and Terminal Server Run entries and 32-bit RunOnce entries can be removed.
• Advanced locations can be turned off, with a warning. Turning one off asks Yes or No first, because a wrong change can stop Windows from working. The original setting is saved, so a turned-off item stays in the list and can be turned back on. Covered: RunOnceEx, all Winlogon values and extensions, logon and startup scripts, Windows Load and Run, Active Setup, Command Prompt AutoRun, Boot Execute and Session Manager commands, the Safe Mode shell, AppInit and AppCert DLLs, Explorer extensions, third-party drivers, Winsock, print, security (LSA), network and time providers, program hijacks (Image File Execution Options, silent process exit, changed .exe / .bat file associations), Remote Desktop startup programs and WMI event subscriptions.
• Less noise. Drivers that ship with Windows are not listed, and the apps start with Windows count leaves out services, drivers, providers and Explorer extensions, so it only counts apps.
• Only real startup items. Tasks that run only when they are created, and disabled triggers, no longer count as startup items; other files in the Startup folder (not only shortcuts) are listed.
• Errors are shown. Changes applied successfully appears only if every change worked, and an item that could not be removed stays in the list with the reason.
• Alerts arrive at once. A new item in the Run keys or the Startup folder is reported in under a second, a new scheduled task about as fast. Services and other locations are checked every 5 seconds instead of every minute.
• Turned-off items have no impact. They show None instead of a High or Medium rating and no longer appear under the High impact filter. Turning an item back on restores its rating.
• The new item is shown to you. Open Startup Manager on the new startup item notification opens the list, scrolls to that item and makes its row blink for 5 seconds.
• Add and Add Operation work again. Both buttons had stopped doing anything.
• Open file location. Right-click a startup item to open the folder of the program it starts or copy its path.
• Clearer Add Startup Application window. It matches the Add Boot Operation window, and a short line under the startup methods explains what each one does.
• Add Boot Operation works now. The window was redesigned and operations you add now appear in the list. Files and folders can be deleted, moved or renamed at the next restart, a folder can be emptied, and you can schedule a program, your own command, SFC, DISM, temporary file cleanup, Windows Update cache cleanup, a network reset or emptying the Recycle Bin. Commands run once at the next administrator sign-in. Removing a scheduled item from the list cancels it, and system locations are protected.

Large File Finder, Duplicate File Finder and Memory Cleaner

• Large files in the scan. A new Large Files step looks in every user's folders and on your other drives for large personal files (photos from 25 MB, music from 50 MB, videos from 300 MB, other files from 500 MB) that have not been used for 6 months by default, or 3 months if you choose. System and program files are left out. Only videos, music, photos, archives, disk images, installers and documents count; game and program folders are left out. Show Files opens the whole list in Large File Finder, largest first. Nothing is deleted automatically, and cloud-only files are not downloaded.
• New look. Both windows match the rest of the app: a status card at the top with the scan button on the right instead of a big round button, softer panels and an empty-list hint until a scan has run.
• Large File Finder. Each result shows the file name with its folder under it, and file types are chips you click on or off. Select one or more files and right-click to move them to the Recycle Bin, and the status line shows the total size of the files found.
• Duplicate File Finder. Folder and arrow icons are clean line icons, and the long settings panel scrolls so the results stay on screen.
• Memory Cleaner. The RAM ring and system info have their own card with a soft shadow, the Clean button sits under the RAM ring, and every option is a switch in two tidy groups. The ring and the percentage glide to each new value, a glow behind the ring breathes in blue, orange or red depending on how full the memory is, a light sweeps around the ring while it cleans, and the result pops in under the button. The panels slide in when the window opens.
• Stronger, simpler memory cleaning. The old Quick Clean only cleaned Multron itself and freed a few megabytes, and a bug stopped the deeper cleaning from running. Cleaning modes are replaced by a Cleaning repeat list in the settings (Off, 3, 5, 8 or 10 times, 3 by default) and separate switches for system memory and file cache, merging identical memory pages and releasing all cached memory.
• More Memory Cleaner options. Clean automatically when RAM goes above 50, 60, 70, 80 or 90% (a new limit is checked right away), clear the DNS cache, keep the app you are using untouched, and list apps whose memory should never be cleaned.
• Every option explains itself. Each Memory Cleaner switch has a ? button that tells you what it does and what it costs. Show notification after cleaning now really controls the notification.
• Classic widget. The classic Memory Monitor widget is smaller and tidier: RAM and CPU sit on two compact tiles, and the app usage list uses the full width.

Utilities and look

• Utilities cards have icons, and Security Check, Malware Scan and Shortcut Fixer have short descriptions; the full text is in the tooltip.
• Checkboxes are calmer: a light tint with a blue tick instead of a solid bright blue square.
• Expand arrows are thin chevrons instead of filled white circles, and section borders are soft.
• Blue status text is readable in both themes: it was a dark blue that looked navy on the dark background.
• One look for search boxes. The scan results list, Locked Files, Malware Scan results and the live scan list use the same rounded search box with a magnifier, a hint inside and a ✕ to clear. Esc clears it too.
• Tidier buttons in Utilities. All buttons share one rounded look: main actions are blue, secondary actions are softly tinted, and red is kept for fixes and closing tools. Progress bars are slim and rounded across the app, scan results appear in clear colored messages, and the firewall and shortcut lists show the program name first, group repeated rules and keep every detail on the row. The Utilities window has a new title bar with minimize and full screen buttons, and the Settings and Utilities buttons on the main window have a softer look.
• Calmer title bar. The Discord, GitHub and Patreon buttons sit together in one rounded group, and their icons grow slightly when you point at them. Settings and Utilities are soft glass buttons with a blue icon that fill with blue when you point at them.
• The title bar fits narrow windows. When the main window is narrow, less important labels are hidden so the title no longer runs under the Dark Mode switch.
• Settings shows where you went. Clicking a section in the Settings menu now always marks it as selected, including the last sections, and the section glows for 3 seconds so it is easy to spot.
• Large File Finder matches Duplicate File Finder. Search settings moved out of the main view into their own window, opened with the Settings button, so the results have more room. Selected rows are now highlighted, and you can search the results by name or path. Both tools let you choose individual file extensions and start with a default selection.
• New Memory Cleaner widget. The widget now opens as a compact bar that shows RAM, CPU, disk and network use, with a button that cleans RAM. Expanding it shows a Performance Monitor with gauges, the apps using the most RAM, CPU or disk, and an End Task button. After a cleaning, a small card shows how much memory was freed, and the widget has a button that opens Memory Cleaner. The old panel is still available under Widget style in Memory Cleaner and also has an End Task button. The usage bars glide to each new value, and the expanded panel and the cleaning card slide open. While memory is being cleaned, the broom on the Clean button sweeps, its sparkle twinkles and a shine runs across the button; when it is done, the button briefly turns green with a check mark and the icon on the cleaning card pops in with a ring.
• Easier to read results. Scan results show each file name, its folder, dates and size on separate lines, and the cleaning log shows files waiting for a restart in clear cards.
• Apps grouped by kind. Cleaning Selections now sorts apps into Browsers, Internet & Communication, Media & Graphics, Office & Productivity, Development, Games, Security and System Tools instead of one long list. Each app's group comes from the cleaning database, so it stays the same on every PC.
• Widget size. The Memory Cleaner widget can be made smaller or larger in Memory Cleaner settings, or with Ctrl and the mouse wheel over the widget.
• Calmer Malware Scan toolbar. The result tools use lighter buttons and the filter chips are softer, and the secure cloud scan note moved behind a lock button in the title bar.

Fixes

• After a Kill and Reset, the bar with Select All, Unselect All, Selections and Database stayed hidden until the app was restarted.
• The Show Threats button on the main screen did nothing when the Malware Scan window had not been opened yet, and the window could open behind the main window. It now always opens Malware Scan in front, inside the screen.
• The app and tool icons were missing from the taskbar on some PCs, such as virtual machines. Each window now gives Windows its icon in the exact sizes the taskbar and title bar need.
• Unselect All on the main screen turned off only Malware Scan; Duplicate Files, Large Files, Firewall Rules, Shortcuts and Security stayed on. It now turns every extra scan off.
• On the Malware Scan card the Multron Malware Scan Cloud option no longer repeats (Testing) next to the Testing badge, and the Malware Scan settings & results link wraps instead of being cut off in longer languages.
• Add Startup Application could not add a program with the Userinit WinLogon method: the name box was turned off but still had to be filled in.
• Large File Finder showed 1 years ago and showed dates and sizes in the format of the PC's region instead of the app language.
• The Configure Optimization Services window had plain system buttons; it now has the same title and buttons as the other windows.
• The Open Log and Copy Details buttons in the threat removal window had no room around their text, so it touched the edges.
• In the light theme the title bar of the Configure Optimization Services window was dark and its buttons could not be seen.
• Clean Memory Now was cut off in French; the text now shrinks to fit.
• Translations: a space was missing after labels such as Repaired: and Could not fix: in ten languages, Disinfect was not translated into Turkish, and the CPU load in Memory Cleaner showed the percent sign in front of the number outside Turkish.
• Many colors were hard to read in the light theme: the Suspicious status in the threat lists, the warning icon and yellow button of the new startup item alert, orange and yellow warnings, green and blue status texts, the Kill button and badges with white text on orange. Each now uses a color that is readable on that theme, and text in the light theme is a little darker. This also covers the version badge, the Cloud badges, links in Malware Scan, the red Delete buttons in Quarantine and Scan Logs, and Malicious in the threat list.
• The Settings and Utilities buttons, and the buttons that open tools from Utilities, now bring the window to the front when it is already open, also when it is minimized. The Utilities button also restored the Settings window instead of its own.
• With transparency effects on, the dark theme looked greenish. The chosen color now tints the windows without changing their brightness.
• Reset now also clears the result cards of the previous run (firewall, shortcuts, duplicates, large files, malware) instead of keeping them until the next scan.
• The mouse wheel scrolls the scan results: inside a file list first, then the whole list.
• Less memory after a malware scan. The file fingerprint and header caches stay on disk after the scan instead of in memory, which frees about 150 MB on a typical PC. The next scan loads them again in under a second.
• Stopping a malware scan is clear and quicker. After you press Cancel or close the window, the screens say the scan is stopping instead of counting on, large files no longer have to finish hashing first, and a stopped scan is reported as stopped.
• Duplicate File Finder results stay usable. While the main scan was still running, finished results showed a Cancel button that stopped the main scan. The button now stays Clean, returns to Scan after cleaning, and the number of duplicates matches the main screen instead of also counting the originals.
• Removing firewall rules could close the app. When Windows Firewall could not be reached (for example its service is stopped), removing invalid rules closed Multron Win Cleaner. It now shows Failed to remove firewall rules and lists the rules as not removed.
• Custom folder scans start finding files sooner. Collecting the files of custom Malware Scan targets no longer waits in short sleeps for new folders.

Checked in every language

• Every window was opened in all 12 languages. Translations that were missing were added, text that was cut off now wraps or ends in "…", and the user list in Settings is disabled again while All users is selected.

Updating

• From 1.28 or earlier: the app updates itself to 1.29 as usual (Settings > App Updates).
• New installs: download mwc_setup.exe (installer) or mwc.zip (portable) below.

For earlier updates see the v1.28 release (close open browsers before cleaning, additional databases, faster Malware Scan, VirusTotal check), the v1.27.3 release (live scan status, every file checked by Malware Scan, LZMA uploads), the v1.27.2 release (no file counted twice), the v1.27.1 release (file types to scan, Quick Scan of the critical places, deep log filters), the v1.27 release (Disinfect, much faster cloud scans, per-file actions, secure deletion) and the v1.26.6 release (report wrong scan results). For signed database updates see the v1.26.5 release, for signed app updates the v1.26.4 release, and for the full list of what is new in 1.26 the v1.26.3 release, the v1.26.2 release, the v1.26.1 release and the v1.26 release.