In this paper we partially answer two open questions concerning clean rings. First, we demonstrate that if a quasi-continuous module is strongly clean then it is Dedekind-finite. Second, we prove a partial converse. We also prove that all clean decompositions on submodules of continuous modules extend to the entire module.

We define two classes of rings calling them weakly clean rings and weakly exchange rings both equipped with the strong property. Although the classes of weakly clean rings and weakly exchange rings are different, their two proper subclasses above do coincide. This extends results due to W. Chen (Commun. Algebra, 2006) and Chin-Qua (Acta Math. Hungar., 2011). We also completely characterize stro...