Before CCleaner fans take me to the gallows for speaking against it, I would like to be provided with the chance to present my case. I have been a long time critic of CCleaner and despite my arguments for highlighting the weak areas of this tool, the love for CCleaner has only increased among it’s fans. You can see some of the details regarding the enhanced CCleaner in our post here. Moreover, its recent enhancements have included support for HTML5 Indexed DB cleaning, management for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer 9, as well as improved “ActiveX and Class Issues detection. One such example is CCEnhancer, which adds support for cleaning junk files from 270 additional applications (as shown in the screenshot below). What makes CCleaner even more useful than other utilities are 3rd party add-ons. It provides many enhancements which are lacked by standalone cleaning software, such as portability, registry fixes, start up application configuration, system restore point management, drive space wipe and of course junk file removal. It cannot be denied that CCleaner has been a favorite cleaning utility for a large number of users.

Lets take a look at the pros and cons of using this famous junk file removal tool. It’s rapid success among users can be analyzed by the details given in our earlier post 10 Lessons Software Developers Should Learn From CCleaner’s Success. In this post we will analyze the best system utilities and provide you with a conclusion regarding the most effective tool for your PC.ĬCleaner is perhaps one of the most widely used system cleaning utility. While some are more capable of removing junk files from the system, others seem to be more effective in providing registry fixes and extras like file shredding, trace erasing and malicious file removal. We have previously covered many free system cleaning utilities which provide multiple benefits such as system maintenance and cleanup. However, it is not as effective as one might like, therefore, many users resort to alternative third-party software for cleaning system clutter. Windows provides Disk Cleanup as a default junk file removal utility.

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