Hus-Clean

Hus-Clean is a lightweight, secure tool for cleaning up temporary files and unwanted cookies/cache (ads, trackers) on Windows. This version is a complete rewrite in Rust, designed to be more robust, lighter and more privacy-respecting than the original C++/Qt version.

• Temporary file cleanup (%TEMP%, %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp), recursive scan (subfolders included).
• Removal of unwanted cookies (Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi), with detection of multiple profiles per browser.
• Browser cache cleanup, in addition to cookies.
• Sent to the recycle bin rather than permanently deleted: can be undone.
• Individual file selection before cleanup (checkbox per item).
• Intuitive interface with confirmation before any deletion.
• No administrator rights required (no UAC prompt).
• No network connection: zero telemetry, by design.
• Full transparency: no file is deleted without explicit confirmation.

• Windows 10/11.

Simply grab hus-clean.exe at the root of this repository and place it wherever you want on your computer. It's a single, standalone executable: no archive to unpack, no folder of .dll files alongside it.

See Procédure Hus-Clean.pdf for a step-by-step illustrated guide (download, unblocking on Windows, usage).

1. Launch hus-clean.exe.
2. Click "Scan" and choose what you want to analyze (temporary files / cookies / cache).
3. Uncheck the items you want to keep.
4. Click "Clean" and confirm.
5. The selected items are sent to the recycle bin (except those locked by an open browser or a system file currently in use, which are clearly flagged).

• Close your browsers before cleaning their cookies/cache.
• Since the software isn't digitally signed (code signing is paid), Windows may show a warning on first launch ("came from another computer" block + SmartScreen): see the PDF guide to unblock it — this is normal for any free, unsigned software.

The source code is in the src/ folder. It's a Rust project (Cargo workspace):

• src/crates/hus-clean-core: scanning and cleaning logic, no GUI dependency, independently testable (cargo test).
• src/crates/hus-clean-gui: graphical interface (egui/eframe).
• src/docker: Dockerfiles to reproduce the cross-compilation environment (Linux → Windows, via mingw-w64 and cargo-xwin/MSVC) and the test environment.

Build (from src/, with the Rust toolchain + x86_64-pc-windows-msvc target installed, see src/docker/Dockerfile):

cargo xwin build --release --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

• No unsafe in the project's code (verified via cargo-geiger).
• Dependencies audited via cargo-audit (RustSec vulnerability database).
• Static analysis via cargo clippy.
• The binary only links against standard Windows system DLLs, no external dependency to install.

© 2026 Spellskite-coding (https://github.com/Spellskite-coding) & Marwane Toury (https://github.com/MarwaneToury).