#Folder tidy review free#

#Folder tidy review free#

Both capabilities can be handy for some applications, such as keeping your hard disk free of junk without having to think about it. However, unlike the others, it doesn't provide a report of exactly how much it found, although it does tell you what it proposes to do and later what it did, both of which are nice in case something goes wrong.ĬCleaner also has some capabilities that you won't find in other packages, including the ability to run the program from the command line and to run in the background. Also like the other products, it didn't always get everything on the first pass - CCleaner found 1,029 registry issues, but it took three passes to do it. Like the other products in this comparison, CCleaner is able to analyze your registry and remove entries that don't need to be there. It's a long list, but fortunately, CCleaner remembers your choices from one use to the next. However, you need to know which cookies are important so that you don't, for example, inadvertently keep your favorite e-commerce site from recognizing you. For example, CCleaner will clear out all of the cookies that Web sites place on your computer, and it will give you a list of proposed deletions that you can make changes to. However, you do have to know something about your computer and the functions you perform with it. Found fewer registry problems - may require multiple passes. Free.Ĭons: Limited functionality (other free companion utilities are available).

With CCleaner, you load the program, run an analysis to see what the program thinks you can do without, make any changes in what you want it to do, and let it go.

You don't have to deal with functions you don't need, and you don't have to worry about getting lost in complexity. What's nice about CCleaner is that it's just what it says it is. All of these are free downloads from Piriform's Web site.

If you want to recover lost files, then you'll need Recuva. If you want disk defragmentation, you'll need to get it from another Piriform Ltd. It will also protect your browsing privacy by killing your browser's history files. Instead, it's a freeware solution intended to clean junk out of your registry and off your disk. CCleaner doesn't try to be a comprehensive answer to system performance.