- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: February 06, 2005
- Total Downloads: 6,558,088
- Downloads last week: 74,325
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 3411 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Although it lacks a few of the bells and whistles found in other PC-cleaning applications, this free program offers more than enough features to make it a worthy download. CCleaner's interface is logically designed and makes it easy to wipe away your tracks from Internet Explorer and Mozilla, various Windows system areas, and some third-party applications.
CCleaner doesn't support a large number of extraneous programs as some competitors do, but it can erase traces from such popular programs as Spybot - Search & Destroy and WinZip. Also missing is a secure file shredder, but it makes up for the omission by supplying a Registry-cleaning utility, which quickly scans for invalid entries before removing them. CCleaner can even back up your Registry before removal, in case it accidentally removes a crucial component, and the download includes a feature for uninstalling any program on your machine.
Since this free application handles the majority of PC-cleaning chores and offers a nice extra, we have no problem recommending CCleaner to all users, except those who need to get rid of supersensitive data.
Publisher's description
From CCleaner :CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a system optimization tool. It removes unused and temporary files from your system, allowing it to run faster and more efficiently, and giving you more hard-disk space. The application cleans traces left by Windows, Internet Explorer, and third-party applications. Version 1.17.090 adds a bulk of new features.
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User reviews of CCleaner 1.17.09
- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 3411 votes
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: CCleaner 1.17.09
Pros: Very fast, takes around a second
Effective, can clear files out quickly
Registry cleaner works good
Easy to use
Small download size =)
Cons: Clicking on each of the registry problems one by one was annoying for me...
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1 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: CCleaner 1.17.09
Pros: Cleans every junk file in just 1 click!
Cons: Unable to add more files/folders to clean :(
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Version: CCleaner 1.17.09
Pros: this product does everything it needs to cleans registry and much more.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: CCleaner 1.17.09
Pros: One click, and all the "c" is safely gone.
Cons: It needs a bit of tailoring at first, e.g. what cookies or MRUs to keep. But once that's done, no more worries...
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: CCleaner 1.17.09
"they give it away free, nutters!"
Pros: i have used norton cleansweep & utilities for years, as well as the xp disk cleanup, but av scanning still went from 20minutes to over 1 hour (40,000 files to 100,000)in the last 6 months. i ran this, and 60,000 files were cleared away the others missed. 6gb cleared from the local temp file alone! a lot of trial software that i had uninstalled also showed up as still partly around, and were removed. all things the other clean ups missed time after time.
Cons: the listing of what it finds, that you then select to remove or keep can look scary.
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