Thankfully, strong cleanup software can throttle it back into gear. Just like a car, your PC gets slower over time. So if you follow a good guide to speeding up and cleaning up your PC, your machine should get better service than a free cleaner can offer.īut for quality care, use dedicated cleaning software designed and built by professionals.

Free PC cleaners often stuff their product with random programs, advertisements, and other bloatware. None of those detections are from a major antivirus provider, and from the names these seem to be based on low user score, well it's a new program, so I'll let you be the judge.Ī more established alternative is BleachBit.Though most quality PC cleaners offer a free trial, you’ll need to pay for the full service to clean your whole machine. The 32-bit executable had 4 detections on VirusTotal, while the 64-bit version had none. I was hoping this was fixed in the latest update, but it wasn't. Example: 23.2MB worth of Log Files were reported as 46.3MB. It also incorrectly reported the size of some junk files, to be precise it was twice of what the actual amount was.

I noticed a couple of bugs while testing the program, the 'Icon and Thumbnail Cache' wasn't being deleted. But, the update files tend to take up a lot of space, I think having an option to delete those without enabling it by default, and giving the user the choice whether to delete those would be a welcome addition. Perhaps the developer is playing it safe by not letting the program delete system files, and I think that's a good idea in the case of the antivirus files. The next one isn't an issue but more of a feature I wish it had, SCleaner does not delete Files related to Windows Update and Windows Defender. The obvious workaround for this, is to open the Recycle Bin using Explorer. This may not be an issue for some users, but I'm sure that there are a few users who'd rather double-check the recycle bin's contents before hitting the Clean button. There is no option to preview the content that you are about to delete. I'm aware it's still in beta, so I'll cut it some slack.

SCleaner is equally fast in deleting the data as well, though in its current form it doesn't do the job quite completely.

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