CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) removes all sorts of unused files, temp files, cookies, log files, cached files and other files from your computer. This is something that all computer users should do on a regular basis, not just to free up space on the hard drive but for better performace as well. A hard drive cleaner would be the first thing you would use when you have performance problems or system starts behaving erratically.
Rating: 5
Version tested: 1.33.382
As hard drive cleaners go this is one of the coolest out there, not just because it is 100% free but because it is very fast and does the job efficiently and has a nice, intuitive interface.It also completely erases all internet “tracks”, including cookies and history files, protecting your privacy from anybody who might want to monitor your internet behavior. CCleaner works with IE, Firefox, and Opera. It will also automatically detect the recently used file lists of most installed applications and erase those tracks as well.
CCleaner also delivers 2 other functionalities as a registry cleaner and uninstaller. Although these both seem to work quite well, I must confess that I almost never use them, and it is the hard drive cleaning functionality that I makes me install and use this software. Having said that I will also admit that the registry cleaner seems to work quite well, in that it finds and resolve issues and does not seem to cause any undesirable side effects that are always a risk with registry cleaning tools in general. It also allows you to back up the registry before doing any intervention in case you wanted to undo these afterwards.
Note: this software will attempt to install the Yahoo toolbar (UK version) on your machine if you use the default install options, which is a bit annoying. If you don’t want this, make sure to uncheck the Yahoo toolbar checkbox in the install options.
A free alternative to: Windows Washer, etc…
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Good Utility for removing the temp file
¡¡Excelente, muy buena utilidad!!
I used both the uninstaller and registrycleaner in CCleaner, and in my opinion they both work very well. Note that the registrycleaner is very conservative, meaning it will not clean as many things as most standalone cleaners. But in my opinion this is not a bad thing, because cleaning the registry to thoroughly often does more bad than good. I can’t remember that I caught this registrycleaner ever to make a mistake that corrupted my machine. But just to make sure, CCleaner let’s you make a backup to reverse all changes.
I tried Ccleaner and it worked good. The only problem I have with it if you check to see if all registry problems are gone and run it right after you cleaned the registry you won’t find zero registry problems but a whole host of new registry problems. That is why I like Registry Fix. Registry Fix cleans the registry and if you run it again right after you clean the registry you get zero registry errors. I would be very careful with Ccleaner and I would avoid Registry Cleaners that come up with new errors after you run them again right after you clean the registry.
RE: Richard Lewis
You think thats a bad thing?
By doing this, CCleaner demonstrates its ability to pick up linked entries in the ActiveX and file types etc. in your registry that were linked to the initial ‘dead’ values, that were cleaned in the first pass. By doing another scan, CCleaner then finds all the ‘new’ dead links, and possibly even more new dead entries on subsequent scans.
That is thouroughness for me!
If registry fix only does one pass and then finds nothing the second time round, I would be skeptical at how far it goes to finding obsolete entries in your registry.
I use this all the time — one caveat, it will try and install Yahoo Toolbar when you set it up (and every time you update it). Just be aware.
I also find CCleaner to be safely conservative, with the exception that I uncheck the “Unused File Extensions” box. Unused now doesn’t mean unused later, and sometimes apps used frequently will show file extensions as unused.
Also, Active X issues requires care, as it keeps wanting to delete entries having to do with AVG anti-virus. Use it as you would a more aggressive registry cleaner–just delete Active X entries from apps you know you have deleted.
I installed this on recommendation of this site, and found it to be EXTREMELY (apologies for using uppercase) useful. It “does everything it says on the tin”.
BTW – Love The Site!!
Good Utility