To its credit, Piriform doesn't make any claims that CCleaner is anything other than what it is, and the company provides tools for other system maintenance tasks.
What's different about this one is that it will uninstall programs that Windows won't for whatever reason, and it will remove programs on the installed programs list - which is a real help when a program is partially uninstalled but leaves its ghost behind in the form of nonremovable icons. Of course, you know that Windows includes an Add or Remove Programs choice in the Control Panel. One other CCleaner feature that can be a real help in some cases is a software uninstaller. Both capabilities can be handy for some applications, such as keeping your hard disk free of junk without having to think about it.
However, unlike the others, it doesn't provide a report of exactly how much it found, although it does tell you what it proposes to do and later what it did, both of which are nice in case something goes wrong.ĬCleaner also has some capabilities that you won't find in other packages, including the ability to run the program from the command line and to run in the background. Also like the other products, it didn't always get everything on the first pass - CCleaner found 1,029 registry issues, but it took three passes to do it. Like the other products in this comparison, CCleaner is able to analyze your registry and remove entries that don't need to be there. It's a long list, but fortunately, CCleaner remembers your choices from one use to the next. However, you need to know which cookies are important so that you don't, for example, inadvertently keep your favorite e-commerce site from recognizing you. For example, CCleaner will clear out all of the cookies that Web sites place on your computer, and it will give you a list of proposed deletions that you can make changes to. However, you do have to know something about your computer and the functions you perform with it. Found fewer registry problems - may require multiple passes.
Free.Ĭons: Limited functionality (other free companion utilities are available).
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