CCleaner

CCleaner

CCleaner on Windows 7
Developer(s)	Piriform
Initial release	23 September 2003; 8 years ago (2003-09-23)
Stable release	3.12.1572 / 24 October 2011; 29 days ago (2011-10-24)[1]
Operating system	Windows 2000 and later[2] Mac OS X 10.5 and later[3]
Platform	IA-32 and x64
Available in	47 languages
Type	Utility software
License	Freemium
Website	www.piriform.com/ccleaner

CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner), developed by Piriform is a utility program used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer.^[4] A public beta version for the Mac OS X has been released.^[3]

Features

CCleaner supports the cleaning of temporary or potentially unwanted files left by certain programs, including Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome, Windows Media Player, eMule, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Microsoft Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip, and other applications^[5] along with browsing history, cookies, Recycle bin, memory dumps, file fragments, log files, system caches, application data, autocomplete form history, and various other data.^[6] The program also includes a registry cleaner to locate and correct problems in the Windows registry, such as missing references to shared DLLs, unused registration entries for file extensions, and missing references application paths.^[5] As of v2.27, CCleaner can wipe the MFT free space of a drive, or the entire drive itself.

CCleaner can be employed to uninstall programs. In addition, CCleaner allows the alteration of start-up programs, similar to the Microsoft Windows MSConfig utility. Users can disable start-up programs.^[7] As of version 2.19.901, CCleaner also allows users to delete system restore points.^[1][8]

Languages

In addition to English, CCleaner is available in the following languages:^[9]

Albanian Arabic Armenian Azeri Belarusian Bosnian Brazilian Portuguese Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Estonian

Farsi Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Kazakh Korean Kurdish Lithuanian

Macedonian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese

Critical reception

CNET editors gave the application a rating of 5/5 stars, calling it a "highly-recommended" and "a must-have tool" in spite of some minor glitches. In addition to that, CCleaner was awarded the April 2009 Editor's Choice Award by CNET.^[10]

See also

• Desktop Cleanup Wizard
• Disk Cleanup
• Norton Utilities
• TuneUp Utilities

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "CCleaner Version History". Official web site. Piriform. 24 Oct 2011. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/version-history. Retrieved 24 Oct 2011. 
2. ^ "What operating systems does CCleaner support?". CCleaner - FAQ. Piriform. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/faq/installing/what-operating-systems-does-ccleaner-support. Retrieved 5 November 2010. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "CCleaner for Mac OS X". Ccleaner.com. http://www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner. Retrieved 2011-10-26. 
4. ^ "CCleaner - Optimization and Cleaning - Free Download". Ccleaner.com. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner. Retrieved 2011-10-26. 
5. ^ ^{a b} "CCleaner - Features". Official web site. Piriform. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/features. Retrieved 3 June 2010. 
6. ^ "Tuning Windows: Less Bull, More Speed". 20 May 2009. http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2009/05/20/tuning-windows-less-bull-more-speed/. Retrieved 2 June 2009. 
7. ^ "Screenshot #5: The Startup Tool". Official web site. Piriform. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/screenshots/screen/ccleaner5. Retrieved 5 November 2010. 
8. ^ "Screenshot #6: The System Restore tool". Official web site. Piriform. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/screenshots/screen/ccleaner6. Retrieved 5 November 2010. 
9. ^ "Changing the language CCleaner uses". CCleaner Documentation. Piriform Ltd. http://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner/ccleaner-settings/changing-the-language-ccleaner-uses. Retrieved 28 October 2011. 
10. ^ Rosenblatt, Seth (28 October 2010). "CCleaner". Download.com. CBS Interactive. http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/. Retrieved 15 May, 2011.