The top-of-the-line Professional Plus (reviewed here) is a $39.95 application that adds three standalone apps for hard drive defragmentation, file recovery, and PC spec viewing. The $24.95 Professional plan builds on the free option by offering more thorough computer cleaning, real-time system monitoring, automatic history cleaning, and automatic software updates. It has basic PC-cleaning capabilities, as well as privacy-protection tools that let you delete cookies, passwords, and other related browser files. The free version is, as you'd expect, the least feature-packed option. Piriform has corrected the problem in subsequent CCleaner releases. Still, Iolo System Mechanic remains the category's Editors' Choice due to its thorough cleaning tools and unlimited licenses.Įditors' Note: This is PCMag's first CCleaner review since the tune-up utility suffered malware-related issues in 2017. CCleaner is pricier than Windows 10's free, integrated tune-up tools, but it comes in at a lower price than some competing products, offers features that dramatically improved our testbed's boot time, and is easy enough to use that it's worth the investment. It boasts many system-enhancing features, including a registry repairer and real-time system monitoring, as well as extra features like privacy protection and drive-wiping tools. Piriform's CCleaner Professional Plus is one of many tune-up utilities capable of giving a heavily used PC a new shot at life. Performance improvement not as large as the competition's in some areas.How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages.Search for specialized utilities if you really need that feature specifically. Context menu items are normally added alongside other programs and removed, when you uninstall said program. Windows Settings > System > About > Advanced System Settings > Advanced > Startup and Recoveryįor more advanced boot options, use the bcdedit command. If you want reliable system recovery, start doing real backups with software like Veeam or Macrium. Windows Settings > System > About > Advanced System Settings > System Protectionīut honestly: I would not rely on restore points. There are plenty free alternatives for that. Seems to be the only legit feature they have. Of you can use the Windows-built-in "Storage Sense" feature: Windows Settings > System > Storage > Configure Storage Sense or run it nowįor clearing browser caches, each browser has a function for that, somewhere in their menu. Temporary files clean themselves up automatically. What does this exactly do? Registry doesn't need to be "cleaned". Microsoft actually discourages the use of tools like registry cleaners. At worst, they can actually cause damage. This kind of software at best doesn't add much value beyond what's already built into Windows.
Thats why Cleaner Softwares can be useful if you want to do it all at once) Windows can do everything itself already, and many stuff can be done in the softwares itself (example: cleaning your borowser history, or deleting your paper bin yourself. If you actually want to clone your whole drive, or create a backup of your whole drive, I recommend Clonezilla or RedoRescue (latter one is my personal favourite)īut as KrakenOfLakeZurich said, most of stuff you dont even need. well the Windows intern system restore manager is actually good I think. Here is an archived post where there is a list of Duplicate finders and Image Comparers.Īs for system restore points. Usually, if a software specialized into a certain topic, they are better in that, compared to all-in-one softwares. It will basically only detect registry ntries belonging to that software you uninstall and give you the choice if you want to delete them or not.įor Duplicate finders, there are tons of other good ones. It is opensource and also comes with registry check, after uninstalling a software. Its just txt data, wont take any space from your PC, and unused registry entries will stay unused, so nothing to worry about.įor uninstalling Softwares I recommend BCUninstaller.
And to be honest, there is no much need of cleaning it. So I would not allow any registry cleaner to touch my registry. A wrong step, and you can accidently mess up your whole system. I would actually dont touch registry cleaners. As Chomu_ aready mentioed, for cleaning Bleachbit is recommended.
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