Question Trusted apps like ccleaner?

[Costyiii_93]

These apps actually doing something good?
I wanted to have one in my pc but idk what to choose.
I heard about ccleaner, wise care.Which is good?

 

[PC Tailor]

Personally I would avoid all of them unless absolutely necessary. CCleaner is the better one of all of them and is mostly fine, but everything this software can do, you can do yourself through normal windows operation.

Disk Cleanup / Trim = Disk Cleanup in Windows
Startup Optimisation = Task Manager > Startup
Browser Clean = Browser history cleanup through your browser
Disable and Uninstall apps = Control Panel or Software specific uninstallers

If I were to use any, I would use CCleaner and it can be useful to have all of these tools under one roof, but you can do all of these yourself, but the word of warning I would give, is anything that has a registry cleaner, should be avoided. Cleaning a registry does not help your PC, and messing with the registry will either do nothing, or do harm - as most of these programs do eventually.

If you want the comfort of using a bunch of cleanup tools under one roof, CCleaner is potentially the only one I would use, but only as a last resort really. And regardless, avoid its registry cleaner and any registry cleaner software.

 

[Gam3r01]

Unless you have some specific need, none of them.
You shouldnt be casually using these programs, they would do more harm than good if used regularly.

 

[rscheetah30]

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[mdd1963]

Ccleaner is fine, but, they will darn sneakily bundle free AVAST AV by default in with it if you are not careful and paying attention during install....; trust me , i know!

 

[Deleted member 14196]

As mentioned above they’re all garbage and I wouldn’t use any of them

 

[JustAsking1234]

CCleaner nowdays just slows your computer because it runs on backround. I use Bleachbit and Windows' disk cleanup.

 

[hunghoang]

@JustAsking1234 I must say ccleaner doesn’t slow down any PC and also it is one of the best Apps to clean unwanted files.

 

[PC Tailor]

@JustAsking1234 I must say ccleaner doesn’t slow down any PC and also it is one of the best Apps to clean unwanted files.

True, i have tried many apps some of them slow down the PC and sometime don't clean very much but ccleaner is amazing.

This can be true, yet the general consensus is, everything CCleaner can do, you can really do yourself also.
It's just useful to have it all under one roof if that's what you want.

But as always, avoid using CCleaners registry cleaner anyway!

 

[britechguy]

Registry cleaners should be avoided like the plague! From my days on Bleeping Computer:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/686061/best-alternative-to-ccleaner/#entry4771208

I have used (and still use) CCleaner, BleachBit, and SystemNinja [depending on the machine, I have no real allegiance] and their junk file cleaning and browser cache cleaning functions.

But I never use any registry cleaner. I've seen how "that way can lie madness."

 

[Sagar_20]

I agree.

Clean registry has only given me problems, though i only use ccleaner to fix registry issues.

Some days back, for the first time i experienced something called "slow right-click" problem. I'm not sure if that was because of registry issue but it turns out that Daemon Tools was the culprit. This i found while troubleshooting with an app called shell extensions manager.

and currently i don't have the "new" option in right click.

also when i right click on "My computer", i'm not redirected to the "Systems" page i just get a normal properties page just like some .exe file properties, however when i'm inside my computer then properties from right click takes me to system.

I've so many little problems that i would probably need to reinstall the windows.

 

[PC Tailor]

Clean registry has only given me problems, though i only use ccleaner to fix registry issues.

Personally, I wouldn't even do that.
There is no evidence to suggest that a "unclean" registry can cause any issue. And I've yet to see a Registry Cleaner actually solve an issue.

Registry cleaners are much more likely to remove files that shouldn't be removed, which can then corrupt the OS. And ultimately, they've shown to cause more harm than good, regardless as to who programs it.

Frankly I think it's a bit of a shame that Piriform have a registry cleaner, because then I think it's a solid product that brings various tools under one roof, with a handy interface to suit, however I wished they focused their attention to tools that could actually make a difference rather than suck people into the marketing trap of "registry cleaning" I honestly believe if it didn't have that feature, I'd recommend it significantly more.

 

[USAFRet]

I agree.

Clean registry has only given me problems, though i only use ccleaner to fix registry issues.

Some days back, for the first time i experienced something called "slow right-click" problem. I'm not sure if that was because of registry issue but it turns out that Daemon Tools was the culprit. This i found while troubleshooting with an app called shell extensions manager.

and currently i don't have the "new" option in right click.

also when i right click on "My computer", i'm not redirected to the "Systems" page i just get a normal properties page just like some .exe file properties, however when i'm inside my computer then properties from right click takes me to system.

I've so many little problems that i would probably need to reinstall the windows.

That certainly sounds like a borked up OS install.
Wipe and reinstall would be indicated.