

Once CCleaner Professional has worked its magic, it will display how much hard drive space it has freed up.Ī cleaning can result in several gigabytes of reclaimed storage. After that, you click Run Cleaner or Fix Selected Issues to finish the job. Regardless of what you’re fixing to repair, you begin by initiating a system scan to identify problem areas. The app’s left-side navigation column houses the tools that let you clean either the system files or applications.Īs well as covering Windows browsers and such, flicking over to the Applications tab, you will find your other browsers and installed applications too.Īdditionally, the included Registry Cleaner lets you repair the often-troubled Windows registry. Next, you are invited to run CCleaner Pro.

Once installed you are given a variety of options, including shortcuts. I am mildly aware of their malware issues last year.

I installed it on to my laptop, just in case something terrible happened. It’s quite a lightweight app and it both downloads and installs quickly. You download the software directly from the Piriform site. Set upĬCleaner is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP computers. The main benefits of this first level paid for service over the ‘freemium’ version are the Real-time Monitoring, Scheduled Cleaning, Automatic Updates and Premium Support. A nice touch and more than a little hint that now is a great time for some Spring Cleaning. So, I was sent a software key along with a computer cleaning pack. The latter two are not part of the CCleaner suite though. Here you also get some monitor hardware as well as hard drive defragmentation, and file recovery software. This builds on the free option by offering more thorough computer cleaning, real-time system monitoring, automatic history cleaning, and automatic software updates.įinally, above that, is the top-of-the-line Professional Plus. The next step up is the Professional plan. It has basic PC-cleaning capabilities, as well as privacy-protection tools that let you delete cookies, passwords, and other related browser files. The free version, as you’d expect, contains the bare bones.

Piriform actually offers three CCleaner plans. Recently, I was approached to take a look at their Professional version. I had the free version running on my tablet for a while. Piriform’s CCleaner software is pretty well known.
