Tag: CCLEANER

At work, I usually either use a drive imaging program to load the operating system and applications onto a machine. If I'm reformatting a customer's machine, I use WPI (Windows Post Installer) to silently install programs. At home, however, I'm a little less cautious when I reformat and often forget to back up my program installers. That's when something like the Smart Installer Pack might come ...

Like the dark corners of your C: drive, your Windows registry can accumulate quite a bit of clutter. Little Registry Cleaner is on the job, ready to locate registry refuse and dispose of it. The application weighs in at just over 1mb and is fully portable - just extract the exe file's contents to a folder using an application like 7zip. Start it up, click the scan button, and LRC will locate ...

CCleaner has long been a favorite app of our readers, and its developers continue adding improvements to the already great program. One big addition in the current build is support for Google Chrome, which rounds out CCleaner's ability to tidy up after the five major Windows web browsers (IE, Firefox, Crome, Opera, and Safari). CCleaner has actually been sweeping up after Chrome since December, ...

NirSoft has released an updated version of CleanAfterMe, a free Windows system cleaning utility. The program lets you select from a list of locations where Windows tends to store a ton of files. Cleaning these files out can both free up some disk space and protect your privacy, since you can delete things like your browser history, cookies, and recend documents folders. Version 1.10 adds support ...

PC running sluggishly? We know the feeling. Enter Advanced WindowsCare v2 Personal, another new entry in the "one-step scan and optimization of your PC" arena. Similar to CCleaner (though lacking a few of CCleaner's extras), Advanced WindowsCare v2 will scan your machine for spyware, incorrect registry entries, browsing history, and junk files, with the ability to delete said files quickly and ...

It's amazing how much junk your PC accumulates just by running for a few months, or even days. Perform a fresh install of Windows, add a few programs, remove a programs, and you'll see what we mean. Even if you only run a few applications, odds are you're storing a lot of unnecessary information in a cache file somewhere. Wise Disk Cleaner and Wise Registry Cleaner are two easy to use freeware ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Windows_Add_Remove_programs_replacements'; If you spend a lot of time trying out new software, you probably also spend a lot of time uninstalling software. And the thing is, Microsoft's add/remove programs applications just don't cut it. From the earliest days of Windows, Microsoft has bundled a handy utility for removing unwanted programs. And every version ...

If you run Windows, your operating system, web browsers, and other applications have a tendency to tie up system resources with all sorts of "temporary" files that never seem to get deleted. nCleaner helps you remove thousands of unnecessary files in one fell swoop. Like other system cleaners, nCleaner lets you clear disk cache, user history files, and also invalid Windows registry settings. But ...

We've been using CCleaner to clear off temporary files, cookies, and unused registry settings for years. The program is updated so often that almost every time we load it we're prompted with a message asking if we'd like to download the latest version. The updates are usually incremental. But now it looks like the folks behind CCleaner have pushed out a beta of version 2.0, with some exciting ...

You know how when you uninstall Windows software you always wind up with a few leftover files and entries in the windows registry? You could skip the Control Panel and use a program like CCleaner to remove programs and then perform periodic registry scans. Or you could try Revo Uninstaller, a free program that cleans up after itself when it uninstalls software. Revo Uninstaller works with PCs ...

I've never really had much use for programs that let you recover deleted files. I remember back in my DOS days, struggling with undelete programs and always being disappointed when a Word document I recovered was filled with errors. Well, times have changed, and when I heard that the makers of CCleaner, a system optimization program I use all the time, had released Recuva, I decided to take it ...

Ah, the registry--can't live with it, can't delete it. There are ways, though, to slim it down, give it a little polish, and give your system a little boost. Most of those ways are distressingly un-free, but Email Battles has a nice post about a trio of free tools that, in concert, will get the job done. First you use CCleaner to scrape out all the accumulated cruft. Then you use RegSeeker to nuke ...