I actually stumbled upon this software by accident. I was downloading one of my preferred apps, defraggler (will be in another ES Post), when I found this tied to the developer’s website. I am not one of those people, personally, who really cares about deleting log files and freeing up wasted space on their computer. I’ve never really needed to because I have a crapload of hard disk space and I don’t run Windows 95. I do run into people who are picky about these things so that’s where this little program comes in.
Developed by Piriform, CCleaner (formerly “Crap Cleaner”) will clear your hard drive of all the crap files left on your computer that you don’t really need…and most of the time you don’t know are there. Most people delete IE history or even temporary files, but this thing goes DEEP into your system to delete anything that you don’t really need. I was on a computer about a month back, and the machine was running very slow with only 90MB left of disk space. Yes, 90MB not GB. So I ran this little tool that wound up deleting almost 800MB of crap files…most were logs from windows updates and temp files. I was amazed. Add in the fact that it will even clean up wasted and error prone items from your registry, and that makes it a winner in my book.
Download CCleaner from the developer’s website, here.
Registry scan and clean
Windows Cleaner
