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Clean your cache, browser history, etc with CleanAfterMe

Posted Jun 9th 2008 4:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

NirSoft has released an updated version of CleanAfterMe, a free Windows system cleaning utility. The program lets you select from a list of locations where Windows tends to store a ton of files. Cleaning these files out can both free up some disk space and protect your privacy, since you can delete things like your browser history, cookies, and recend documents folders.

Version 1.10 adds support for Firefox and Opera web browsers, meaning you can clear your browser history, cookies, cache, download history, and other files. The latest verison also features a resizable dialog box and support for cleaning the last logged-on user name.

The program is portable, which means you can throw it on a USB flash drive and run it on any Windows system. You can also show a cleaning report before actually running the cleaner, which lets you see if you're about to delete anything you might want to hang onto.

If you're looking for a cleaner with a few more features, we'd recommend checking out CCleaner. It does pretty much everything CleanAfterMe does and then some, and also runs a bit more quickly. ~~But unlike CleanAfterMe, CCleaner is not portable, which means you have to install the application before you can use it~~.

Update: As several readers have kindly reminded us, CCleaner 2.0 has been portable since last year.

Advanced WindowsCare v2: Repair, protect, and optimize your PC

Posted Jan 14th 2008 8:00PM by Simon Kerbel
Filed under: Security, Utilities, Productivity, Freeware, Troubleshooting

PC running sluggishly? We know the feeling. Enter Advanced WindowsCare v2 Personal, another new entry in the "one-step scan and optimization of your PC" arena. Similar to CCleaner (though lacking a few of CCleaner's extras), Advanced WindowsCare v2 will scan your machine for spyware, incorrect registry entries, browsing history, and junk files, with the ability to delete said files quickly and easily.

Our initial scan took about five minutes, and found a bevy of things to fix on our test machine. Advanced WindowsCare Personal allows you to look into the gritty details of each problem and repair them with a single click.

You can also check out Advanced WindowsCare v2 Professional, the always-on upgrade to the free Personal edition. For a limited time, you can get the Professional version for "free" (with the completion of one of 100 "free" offers; we'll let you decide whether it's worth it).

Advance WindowsCare is designed for Windows Vista, XP, and 2000.

Clean your registry and junk files with WiseCleaner

Posted Nov 28th 2007 5:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

It's amazing how much junk your PC accumulates just by running for a few months, or even days. Perform a fresh install of Windows, add a few programs, remove a programs, and you'll see what we mean. Even if you only run a few applications, odds are you're storing a lot of unnecessary information in a cache file somewhere.

Wise Disk Cleaner and Wise Registry Cleaner are two easy to use freeware solutions for cleaning out the cobwebs. As the names suggest, one application helps find and fix incorrect registry settings while the other helps delete temporary files stored on your PC.

While we've long been fans of CCleaner, Wise Cleaner is highly customizable, allowing you to search for just certain temp file types. In a highly unscientific test we ran a few minutes ago, Wise Disk Cleaner found about twice as many removable files as CCleaner using the default settings on both programs.

[via jkOnTheRun]

Windows Add/Remove programs replacements

Posted Nov 19th 2007 9:00AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

If you spend a lot of time trying out new software, you probably also spend a lot of time uninstalling software. And the thing is, Microsoft's add/remove programs applications just don't cut it. From the earliest days of Windows, Microsoft has bundled a handy utility for removing unwanted programs. And every version right up to Windows Vista seems to have a few quirks. The add/remove programs dialog is slow to load, often leaves registry entries behind, and sometimes just misses programs altogether.

Here are a few alternate uninstallers that we've run across. They're all free, and they all claim to be better than the Windows utility in one way or another.

Continue reading Windows Add/Remove programs replacements

Keep your PC clean with nCleaner

Posted Sep 10th 2007 9:01AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

If you run Windows, your operating system, web browsers, and other applications have a tendency to tie up system resources with all sorts of "temporary" files that never seem to get deleted. nCleaner helps you remove thousands of unnecessary files in one fell swoop.

Like other system cleaners, nCleaner lets you clear disk cache, user history files, and also invalid Windows registry settings. But unlike our favorite system cleaner, CCleaner, we're not sure we'd recommend nCleaner for computer novices. Some of the options selected by default could erase user data that you might actually find useful.

For example, if you use the password manager in your web browser, there' s a good chance you'll accidentally delete all of your web site logins the first time you run nCleaner if you don't pay close attention to all of the options. And there are a lot of options, so it's easy to miss a few.

All told, we were able to save a few gigs of space on our test rig with nCleaner, and when we ran CCleaner afterward, it only found a handful of files missed by nCleaner.

[via TechnoBuzz]

CCleaner 2.0 beta goes portable

Posted Aug 16th 2007 2:30PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware, Beta

We've been using CCleaner to clear off temporary files, cookies, and unused registry settings for years. The program is updated so often that almost every time we load it we're prompted with a message asking if we'd like to download the latest version. The updates are usually incremental.

But now it looks like the folks behind CCleaner have pushed out a beta of version 2.0, with some exciting new features:

CCleaner can be run from a USB thumb drive
With you when visiting your parents for the holidays.
Faster analyzing and cleaning
Select files, folders, and registry keys to ignore
Rebuilt in C++ to support 64-bit compatibility and Windows Vista compatibility
Redesigned GUI

The fact that you can now carry CCleaner with you on a USB drive is huge. Or rather, tiny. The file takes up almost no space at all, making CCleaner a great addition to your portable toolkit.

This is beta software, so not everything works as well as it could. For example, CCleaner includes an application for uninstalling programs from your PC. Generally it loads up a lot faster than the Windows Add/Remove programs menu or Revo Uninstaller. But on our test rig, CCleaner 2.0 was only able to find one program installed on our Windows Vista PC.
[via CyberNet]

Remove unwanted programs with Revo Uninstaller

Posted Jul 24th 2007 6:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

You know how when you uninstall Windows software you always wind up with a few leftover files and entries in the windows registry? You could skip the Control Panel and use a program like CCleaner to remove programs and then perform periodic registry scans. Or you could try Revo Uninstaller, a free program that cleans up after itself when it uninstalls software.

Revo Uninstaller works with PCs running Windows 2000/XP/Vista. At its most basic level, the application lets you find and remove programs. But once its done running the uninstaller, it will ask if you want it to search for leftover files and unused registry entries, which you can delete with just a click or two.

You can also run Revo Uninstaller in "Hunter Mode," which lets you drag an icon over various programs to uninstall them, or just to find more information or kill running processes. Another feature lets you manage what programs auto-start with Windows, while another useful tool cleans up your web browser cache.

[via CyberNet]

Recuva files you accidentally deleted

Posted Jan 20th 2007 10:34AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

I've never really had much use for programs that let you recover deleted files. I remember back in my DOS days, struggling with undelete programs and always being disappointed when a Word document I recovered was filled with errors. Well, times have changed, and when I heard that the makers of CCleaner, a system optimization program I use all the time, had released Recuva, I decided to take it for a spin.

I have to say, I like Recuva a lot. It's super-fast to install and to run. You just select a drive, and Recuva will scan for deleted files that have been deleted, including files that you've emptied from your recycle bin. If the file's recoverable, Recuva will tell you. If it's not, it will tell you that as well.

Recuva's not the only free undelete program around, but if you have an itchy trigger finger when it comes to the recycle bin, it's worth checking out.

Free tools for optimizing the Windows registry

Posted Jan 31st 2006 7:05PM by Jordan Running
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

Ah, the registry--can't live with it, can't delete it. There are ways, though, to slim it down, give it a little polish, and give your system a little boost. Most of those ways are distressingly un-free, but Email Battles has a nice post about a trio of free tools that, in concert, will get the job done. First you use CCleaner to scrape out all the accumulated cruft. Then you use RegSeeker to nuke the really hard-to-find junk. Finally, you use RegDefrag to physically defrag your registry to make it work faster. All three tools are free and together they'll make your registry feel like new.

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Clean your cache, browser history, etc with CleanAfterMe

Advanced WindowsCare v2: Repair, protect, and optimize your PC

Clean your registry and junk files with WiseCleaner

Windows Add/Remove programs replacements

Keep your PC clean with nCleaner

CCleaner 2.0 beta goes portable

Remove unwanted programs with Revo Uninstaller

Recuva files you accidentally deleted

Free tools for optimizing the Windows registry

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