- Softonic Rating:
- Excellent910
- License:
- Free
- Added:
- September 12, 2007
- Updated:
- June 26, 2008
- Publisher:
- Website
- File size:
- 2.8 MB
- Downloads:
- 87,168
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“A freeware system optimization and privacy tool”
by Nick Mead
CCleaner is a small utility that will take care of a few of the important maintenance tasks that every computer user should carry out as regularly as possible to keep their systems in top shape. Fast, reliable and easy to use - it's one of the best cleaning systems out there.
For me, the beauty of this program is the speed at which it carries out the various scans and fixes. Its main purpose is to clean any unnecessary files from your hard-drive and on opening the program you see the various aspects of Windows that you can search through and clear. It will also detect your installed applications that may hold on to files which are no longer any use, such as Google Earth histories or Flash Player configurations.
The interface is very easy to navigate and before taking any action, you will always be asked to confirm that you are sure about what you want to do. There is a useful registry checker that will quickly check its integrity, and let you fix bad entries after making a backup. The uninstall and startup tools are handy to have and simply add to the usability of this very rounded little maintenance assistant.
The most recent release now works on Vista with Admin permissions where available and features various bug fixes and imrpovements to the translated versions.
CCleaner makes keeping your PC clean easy for beginners and experts alike. It's small, fast, comprehensive, and free to download it - get cleaning now!
Languages:
English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese Trad, Gallego, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish
Recent changes in CCleaner:
- Added full support for Internet Explorer 8.0 beta.
- Improved Opera 9.5 support to fix cache cleaning.
- Improved interface for Startup tool.
- Changed memory management routines to reduce footprint.
- Fixed rare 64-bit performance issues.
- Added splitter bar to interface.
- Fixed repaint issues with certain themes.
- Fixed Spybot cleaning detection.
- Internal code optimizations.
- Updated installer engine to fix icon bug.
- Minor GUI tweaks.
OS requirements for CCleaner:
- OS: Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP/Vista
- Very quick
- Simple to use
- Features a handy uninstall program utility
- You may accidentally delete files and programs that you need
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From the publisher of CCleaner
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less that a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!
CCleaner was designed from the ground to be safe and secure to use. It has multiple levels of checks in place to ensure that it cannot delete any useful information or documents you may still need.
Posts about CCleaner in our blog
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My kinda program
Ccleaner is my cornerstone app to clean up my PC. It definitely finds lots of crap like old archives or unused regsitry files. I always surprised how much junk I actually pile up in my PC. I really... read more
Updated opinion
While CCleaner is still very useful, I no longer clean cookies with it as it wipes fout Google preferences, and I cannot figure out how to stop it. I have tried making exceptions for Google cookies... read more
Essential App
This app is on a level with Ad-Aware. It's a must-have. It is simple, customizable, quick, and small, and incredibly, FREE. But it keeps a permanent, automatic blacklist for cookies, effectively ... read more
Ccleaner is great!
I use this on my computer and it works great! It gets rid of all those annoying temporary files and files that aren't necessary. You can also delete the programs which run at startup so your comput... read more
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