Cclean you computer (CCleaner)

Member Name: mtpatton

Product:	CCleaner
Date:	13/09/09 (177 review reads)
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Advantages: Free, Quick, Easy to use

Disadvantages: Could maybe do with a few more features

Ccleaner is a very useful freeware piece of software that can be run to clear personal information, which in turn can help improve the performance of the computer you are using.

So whats good about it?
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Well firstly it free. It can be downloaded from http://www.ccleaner.com/, Installation is very easy and is just hitting the next button. The software can also be installed in numerous languages. The website also has a useful forum on it in case you experience any problems.

It claims and does remove temporary internet files from all recognised verisons of Internet explorer. When you start the application you are presented with a screen which by default is to scan windows for things that it could remove from the machine without affecting anything you do on it. This can also clean up applications as well. scanning is easy, as all you need to do, is click analyse which will show you what it can remove and after reviewing this list you simply click run cleaner. This is the only area for improvement, The analysis will show it clearing some much data, but when running the cleaner it clears alot less then claimed.

My favourite thing about this application is the registry cleaner which is in built with it. The registry is something which greatly affects the performance of any machine. For example, the way windows operates, whenever you uninstall any application from a machine it doesn't always remove entries to it in the registry. Therefore as your computer is used more, it will mean that the machine has more things that could easily be removed to improve the performance. Whenever you run the registry cleaner you need to instantly run it a second time as curing one issue often leaves a second issue behind.

Another feature with the application is the ability to remove any program from the machine. Truthfully I havent used this, but from a quick teat appears to function easily as well. Within here there is also the ability to look at things which run when the computer starts up.

Conclusion
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This is a really useful tool, which i use in my day job. I'm a IT Desktop Support person and this makes many of the tasks that we need to do on users machines easy to do. Highly recommended.

The software unfortunatley cant be run automatically and you have to run it yourself. I suggest running this monthly, perhaps more depending on what you have done on your machine recently.

Summary: A Ccleaner computer is a happy computer

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