Many years ago we published a series of articles pitting the then ubiquitous CCleaner against several free alternative junk file cleaners. The purpose of that exercise was to try to convince CCleaner users that there are more effective free alternatives available. Since then, and since […]
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CCleaner certainly has a faithful following. Seems every time I write anything negative about the popular junk file cleaner, there are plenty of users prepared to jump to its defense. I’ve been messing with computers for over 40 years, have been fixing and building computers
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Download CCleaner Love it or hate it, CCleaner is still a popular tool for removing temporary junk from your system. I usually only use this once a month. I’m in the habit of cleaning out my temp files before I make a system image. If
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CCleaner has had an interesting history. It was developed by a British software company, Piriform, and launched in 2004. Originally called “Crap Cleaner”, the name was shortened to “CCleaner”. It became quite popular for cleaning potentially unwanted files and invalid registry entries from Windows. Over
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CCleaner Infection I have always recommended CCleaner as a good utility for the normal Windows user to help keep their Windows systems free of clutter, and I still do. By “normal”, I mean those of us who are not geeky, power freaks who are able
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The much used and venerable CCleaner’s interface has remained virtually unchanged for years but, with the release of its latest CCleaner version (v5 Beta), Piriform has decided it’s time for a new look. As you can see from the above screenshot, the new ‘flat’ design
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A classic confrontation – the venerable old feller versus the upstart newcomer! Back in February 2012 we presented a series of articles comparing three alternatives to the well established CCleaner. You can catch up with those articles here: Part 1: SlimCleaner — Part 2: Toolwiz
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A couple of day ago we reported on the confusion surrounding Piriform’s change in policy, where an extra ‘Home’ version costing $24.95 has been added to the downloads for products such as CCleaner and Defraggler – see HERE. We have since received an email response
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If you are not familiar with the name Piriform, they are the publishers of very popular freeware products such as CCleaner, Defraggler and Recuva. It appears Piriform has revamped its policy somewhat and this is causing confusion among users. Piriform products have previously been available
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