- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: December 22, 2008
- Total Downloads: 7,096,784
- Downloads last week: 50,651
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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 on November 07, 2008
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, Firefox, Opera, and Google Chrome from various Windows system areas, and from some third-party applications.
CCleaner doesn't support the large number of extraneous programs that some competitors do, but it can erase traces from such popular programs as Spybot - Search & Destroy and WinZip. CCleaner now offers secure file erasing along with a Registry-cleaning utility that 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 rudimentary 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 strongly recommend CCleaner to all users, except those who need robust tools to remove supersensitive data.
Publisher's description
From CCleaner :CCleaner is a 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 cleans: Internet Explorer (temporary files, URL history, cookies, autocomplete form history, index.dat); Firefox (temporary files, URL history, cookies, download history); Windows (Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files, and Log files); Registry cleaner (advanced features to remove unused and old entries, including file extensions, ActiveX controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, application paths, icons, and invalid shortcuts. Version 2.15.815 adds support for Google Chrome and fixes several bugs.
What's new in this version:
- Added command-line secure deletion.
- Added Google Chrome thumbnail cleaning.
- Moved language files to /lang folder.
- Improved options cookie list browser detection.
- Fixed minor bug in XP prefetch cleaning.
- Fixed bug in IE History Index.dat cleaning.
- Fixed two minor compatibility bugs with Win98.
- Installer engine updates.
- Minor architecture improvements.
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User reviews of CCleaner 2.15.815
- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 3411 votes
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Version: CCleaner 2.15.815
"i had 344mb left and this program free up 82gigs!"
Pros: easy to use & fast.
Cons: nothing really.
Summary: awesome program. i was literally down to nothing and this program gave my computer life again!
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Version: CCleaner 2.15.815
Pros: Best junk file cleaner available till date. No doubt about that.
Cons: I cant see anything.
Summary: You cant afford not downloading this one. Must have for all.
THE REGISTRY CLEANUP FEATURE COULD HAVE BEEN A BIT MORE EFFICIENT.
Updated on Jan 26, 2009 -
Version: CCleaner 2.15.815
"I really love this software!"
Pros: cleans up the junk and is so easy to use.
Cons: absolutely no cons at all
Summary: Ccleaner cleans up spyware and other junk that I pick up while browsing the internet and it is so easy to set the options as to which 'cookies' to retain. The registry cleanup is also simple. I don't try to do any advanced stuff with that, but the '... read more >>
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Version: CCleaner 2.15.815
Pros: Removes Junk that i don't need.
Cons: Nothing, it's great!
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Version: CCleaner 2.15.815
Pros: easily removes files not needed from registry and lets you back up
also delete all junk with oneclick
best of all free with no pushing you to upgrade for moreCons: none works very well
Summary: it would be very power full if the program also included spyware remover and realtime watch and maybe even an antivirus .....
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