Uncommonly good freeware. Volume 1

Published on March 6, 2005 By Kobrano In Personal Computing

This is the first in a series of articles I will be doing for a computer users group I belong to, which I am going to cross post here. Basically, its a false, but common belief out there that to get good software, it has to cost money. This series will set the record straight, and indeed prove that there usually are free and just as good (if not better) alternatives to commercial products.

CCleaner
www.ccleaner.com

First up, we have CCleaner. CCleaner is easily the best cleanup and system maintenance utility i've found, and best of all, its free! You can find CCleaner by clicking this Link

Considering its been downloaded almost 3,000,000 times, you know its probably a pretty solid product.

From their website:
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it's fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) and Free.

Cleans the following:

* Internet Explorer Cache, History, Cookies, Index.dat.
* Recycle Bin, Temporary files and Log files.
* Recently opened URLs and files.
* Third-party application temp files and recent file lists (MRUs).
Including: Firefox, Opera, Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Office XP, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and more...
* Advanced Registry scanner to remove unused and old entries (includes backup).
Including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more...
* This software is completely free and contains no Spyware or Adware.

Try it, and you'll like it!
http://www.boredmofo.com/

Comments (Page 2)

Phoon

on Mar 07, 2005

I also tried it and I don't see a problem. I simply stated the obvious.. be careful.
The only thing I noticed is that it killed Stardock's Enhanced Dialog. Haven't looked real deep at that yet though.

BlueDev

on Mar 07, 2005

I too have been using Crap Cleaner for a about 6 months now. Excellent program. Solid, efficient. I highly recommend it as well. Good post Kobrano.

LittleBearJason

on Mar 07, 2005

There is also a simliar called Disk Cleaner ...

http://www.xs4all.nl/~mp2004/

Double Zero

on Mar 29, 2005

This is the first in a series of articles I will be doing for a computer users group I belong to, which I am going to cross post here.

Ummm..is that it? I thought this would be a series?..LoL.
Ccleaner is cool, cant wait to see what else gets posted.

Zero.

Double Zero

on Mar 31, 2005

Well, in case anyones interested Ccleaner has been updated to v1.18.099 since this post..

Zero.

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