Stealth Clean

Stealth Clean is a multi-tab maintenance suite that recovers disk space, cleans the registry, audits startup programs, manages installed apps, finds large downloads, and creates system restore points - all from a single window.

Tabs Overview

Cleaner Tab

What Gets Scanned

Pills along the top toggle which categories to scan:

Click Scan to analyze. Results appear as expandable categories showing per-area sample files and total recoverable space.

Cleaning

Select any combination of categories and click Clean Selected. A full-screen progress overlay shows per-item status, files removed, and space freed in real time. Optionally enable Backup to back up before clean.

Registry Tab

Targeted registry cleaner with explicit category toggles:

• Obsolete software
• Extensions / shared DLLs / app paths
• MUI cache
• Autorun entries
• Fonts, help, sound events, services

Workflow:

1. Select categories
2. Click Backup Registry before cleaning (always do this)
3. Click Scan
4. Review virtualized list of issues with expandable details
5. Click Clean Selected

Startup Tab

View and manage every program that runs at Windows startup, regardless of source.

• Source badges identify each entry as Registry / Task Scheduler / Startup folder
• Filter by All / Enabled / Disabled
• Search by name
• Enable, Disable, Delete, or Open Location for any entry

Apps Tab

Comprehensive installed application manager.

• Filter by All / Desktop / Microsoft Store / Recently Installed
• Search apps by name
• Expand any row for full app details
• Uninstall - standard removal
• Deep Clean - removes the app plus leftover files and registry entries

Downloads Tab

Audit and clean your Downloads folder.

• Scan and list everything in Downloads
• Filter by All / Documents / Media / Executables
• Search by filename
• Scan Selected - security scan path for chosen files
• Delete or Open Folder

Backup Tab

System protection and file backup in one place.

System Restore

• Toggle System Protection on/off
• View existing restore points
• Create Restore Point for the current state
• Restore from any saved point
• Delete old restore points

File Backup

Configure scheduled file backups: pick destination, schedule, file categories, and drives. The existing-backups list shows what's already saved.

Settings Tab

Scheduled Cleanup

Stealth Clean can run a cleanup automatically on a schedule. Enable scheduled cleanup, then choose:

• Frequency: Daily / Weekly / Monthly
• Time of day
• Day of week (for weekly)
• Categories to clean

When enabled, Stealth registers a Windows Task Scheduler task (StealthVPN-ScheduledCleanup) that runs a generated script - temp folders, recycle bin, prefetch, browser caches (Chrome, Edge, Firefox), and event log clear attempts.

External Uninstall Monitoring

Optional setting that watches for apps uninstalled outside of Stealth and offers to deep-clean their leftover files.

Defaults

Save / reset settings to defaults.

What's Always Preserved

Stealth Clean never touches:

• User documents, photos, videos, music
• Installed programs (unless explicitly uninstalled in the Apps tab)
• Browser bookmarks, passwords, history
• Email and message archives
• System files required for Windows operation

Best Practices

Back up the registry. Run Backup Registry before any registry clean.

Restore point first. Create a restore point before scheduled cleanup is enabled for the first time.

Deep Clean apps. Use the Apps tab → Deep Clean instead of Windows Settings → Apps to remove leftover registry and file fragments.

Weekly schedule. Set scheduled cleanup to weekly for steady-state maintenance.

Audit startup monthly. Installers love to add startup entries - review the Startup tab regularly.