No system is an island - Using Windows And Tech Step By Step

Some of the best things in life are free.
CCleaner is one of them.

As Windows users,we find our machines getting slower and unresponsive even if there are antivirus apps which are updated and firewall secured.

One very basic reason for this is temporary files which over a period of time grow and make the computer slow.Apart from this temp files,there are orphan registry keys (Registry entries of applications which are uninstalled a long time ago,cookies and other stuff which add up in this slowness.

How much would you pay for an application that deletes temp files,scans and fixes registry problems and also provides a nice dashboard from where you can uninstall Windows applications in a jiffy plus manage startup services?
The answer in this case is zero bucks,CCleaner is the utility that you have been looking for.[I know I sure was for a long time,by the way the first C in CCleaner rightly stands for Crap,as in Crap Cleaner :)].

This utility is by far the most elegant system tune-up utility for Windows and being totally free doesn't hurt either.Do keep in mind this is a tune-up utility and not a virus/spyware/malware/adware cleaner.

The basic components of it's interface are : Cleaner,Registry,Tools and Options.




CCleaner does what it says - cleans up temp files from your browsers(both Internet explorer and Firefox),as well as the temp files left by Windows applications.



Registry will check for registry settings - basically scan for reg keys that are orphan or useless and remove them.Prior to removal,you will be prompted for backing up the registry which is very good.



Tools will have the list of all applications installed on the machine and will assist in uninstalling them as well as managing startup services (no need for msconfig).There is even a cool logging feature which will keep a list of all the installed applications in a text file.

Options have lot of things from removing of cookies to controlling how temp files are deleted,feel free to test it out.

Hope it has been an informative post.

Peace.