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CCleaner 2.0 Beta Released - Clean the Crap off your Computer
supertechnogeek:
More Registry Cleaners here:
Free Registry Cleaners
PhilB66:
Is that your new Website supertechno? So now we are promotong RegCure, are we not?
Steven Avery:
Is that your new Website supertechno? So now we are promotong RegCure, are we not?
-PhilB66 (April 09, 2008, 04:09 AM)
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Good pickup, Phil. RegCure can probably be considered borderline rogue-ware, so imo we have to ask if anyone promoting it has a financial incentive. Integrity first.
As for CCleaner, while it is a good product for sure, even excellent, and to a large extent made the niche public, I am always looking for better. CCleaner is fine for basically cleaning out temp files and such but even there I do not think it has a global entry, only user by user. If that is still the case, a major limitation in terms of one-pass efficiency. Some weakness in save or rollbacks comes up, as mentioned, and the possible incaution on registry entries and even cookies comes up, with a lack of selectivity between preview and action modes (to be fair, the fact that it has a preview mode is excellent). Especially in registry cleanup, where in the perfect world you would visually confirm every deletion entry and not delete any that you are not sure of. Essentially I would delete entries that are clearly connected to removed software and leave most everything else alone, unless I was very conscious of a save/restore mode, perhaps using ERUNT as the registry save program.
Cleanups in general, here is my list with the complimentary products and alternatives (not focusing on registry issues, which are imho, independent and squirrelly, potentially dangerous and can be overdone).
Not a bad idea to settle on the two or three best, since no one covers everything. CCleaner of course has a place at the table. I think Cleanup! has the global capability I mention above, not sure about the others.
Freeware
Advanced Disk Cleaner v. 5 (free registration code)
http://www.innovative-sol.com/cleaner/index.htm
Innovative Solutions - interesting mix of software products
Advanced Window Care Personal - Iobit
http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscareper.html
Professional is $30, Personal has good rep, too.
ATF-Cleaner - Atribune (fella is very helpful on Vundo problems)
http://www.atribune.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=25
Web Forum, not real active on ATF-Cleaner
http://www.atribune.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=1332&hl=ATF-Cleaner
CCleaner - Piriform
http://www.ccleaner.com/
WebForum
http://forum.piriform.com/
Cleanup Assistant (concern added three posts below)
http://www.cleanupassistant.com/
Cleanup! - Steven Gould
http://www.stevengould.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=69
Web Forum
http://www.stevengould.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=f9da72020a2c457951c5af1d86314a91
Good rep, solid, slightly dated tab interface.
System Cleanup - Franckey
http://www.xs4all.nl/~franckey/franckey/software/systemcleanup.htm
Zappit - Cloudeight
http://www.zappit.net/
Shalom,
Steven Avery
Queens, NY
Steven Avery:
Hi Folks,
An addition to the above list is in a company known for an excellent freeware uninstaller.
Revo Uninstaller
http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_unisntaller_features_benefits.html
Includes a Junks Files Cleaner, a Windows cleaner, a Browsers Cleaner, and an MS Office Cleaner and some other complementary tools.
Now if an industrious reviewer wants to compare all the freeware products .. :)
Shalom,
Steven Avery
Steven Avery:
Hi Folks,
And now some more freeware cleanup alternatives.
Glary Utillities Free
http://www.glarysoft.com/gu.html?tag=download#
Generally reviewed very favorably (Snapfiles, Fileforum, CNet)
Along with Advanced Windows Care, seem to be the two best free utility suites, both include cleanup functions, Glary may be more full-featured. Possibly the Pro has scheduling (no big deal) and a bit more, apparently there is a bit of nagging in the free, according to one poster, other distinctions unclear. No web-support forum. Oh, maybe Revo, is also in this mix of freeware multi-products, as a semi-suite box of chocolates.
Dustbuster
The developer mentions that legacy versions are downloadable online,
http://www.casperize.com/dustbuster/
English Google translation
http://tinyurl.com/52cvex
Unclear whether there will be English version, future version, freeware, etc.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/DustBuster.shtml
Dustbuster : Kudos - good techie ok from Gizmo
http://www.techsupportalert.com/matts-list.php
"1) DustBuster: a secure yet quick file cleaner and nice add-on to CCleaner..
Some of the program's messages are in Italian too but the user controls are in English."
Empty Temp Folders
http://www.danish-shareware.dk/soft/emptemp/
With a recommendation from Gizmo, despite being a 2001 release
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm
Wise Disk Cleaner 3 Free
http://www.wisecleaner.com/
Current discussion on GiveawayoftheDay of Wise Disk Cleaner Professional Giveaway
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/wise-disk-cleaner-3-professional/
Compare Pro and Free
http://www.wisecleaner.com/freeandpro.html
Note that the GAOTD page has an exclusion list recommendation from Jonathan of JonathansTool Bar And Grill .
"... I based my exclusion list on the default list in nCleaner, and it includes these subfolders in the C:\Windows folder: \assembly, \boot, \system, \system32, \security. (If you exclude the entire \Windows folder, you won’t be able to delete old Windows update files, which are space hogs.) I also excluded C:\System Volume Information and C:\MSOCache ... "
However even that should not give a false sense of full safety, as nCleaner, the last addition for now, is considered on the agressive side anyway.
ncleaner
http://www.nkprods.com/ncleaner/
Concern about aggressiveness based on Snapfiles and Fileforum and CNet reviews
(This is also a general concern for many products)
http://www.nkprods.com/forum/
Webforum
Shalom,
Steven Avery
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