Can Anyone Recommend a Good PC Cleaner Program?

[markdf]

Youtube produces quite a lot of temp files, being a video site. 

 

I don't understand this 'need' to format. If you actually maintain your computer, you shouldn't need to format at all. It's like my uncle who formats each time he gets virus, apparently it's just easier. I don't see how it is somehow. I have windows 8.1 and it runs as smoothly as the day I built it, 3 years ago. I have a 120GB SSD for OS and a few files, but most of it is empty space, and a large HDD for games, files etc. Boots in 6 seconds, why format it? 

 

I find that people who used PCs before Windows XP tend to think this way. I have a six year old laptop still running XP pretty decently!

 

People who run the "user-friendly" Linux distributions like Ubuntu seem to reformat pretty often too, like every time there is a major update to the operating system or tools.

[blue1820]

Just for a future reference anytime you need something for your computer try this site, good bit of shareware but most is free and gets the job done, http://www.majorgeeks.com/ 

[Veladarius]

The only times I have reinstalled windows is after cleaner programs killed windows (CCleaner included). Only once of about 6 times has it actually worked and not killed my windows installation.

[Zikare]

I would do one clean install from scratch and take a backup of the boot partition.

 

It's the sanest solution imho. Within 5-10 minutes you can return to a clean slate and zero worries about left-over corruption, infestation or whatever might have been broken.

 

I couldn't see myself ever continuing to use a Windows install after it had been infected once. Even aftermeticulously reverting all file system and registry changes. I also wouldn't want to keep years of accumulated cruft - eg. uninstall Visual Studio 2012 and install Visual Studio 2013 (or Office or another big software package) - there's always tons of crap left behind. I'd feel dirty just from knowing and sitting in front of that system

[Krasovskiy]

I use CCleaner (free) for basics every two days or so and then maybe once a month or so I bring out Advanced System Optimizer 3. The thing I liked most is that it found all outdated drivers and updated them for me, and these drivers weren't findable by Windows or by hand. It's a really nice, heavy-duty program.

[jordisslave]

Good GOD. None of them.

 

These programs are worthless, you'd be better off finding someone professionally in IT support (a friend) and asking them to have a look (this is what I do, we recommend none of these programs for a reason, after research and testing too).

 

I see CCLeaner on a daily basis running and doing nothing on bloated, broken installations. Shouting RUN FASTER at your machine continuously for an hour a day would be approximately as effective.

[PsychoMachina]

 

Youtube produces quite a lot of temp files, being a video site. 

 

I don't understand this 'need' to format. If you actually maintain your computer, you shouldn't need to format at all. It's like my uncle who formats each time he gets virus, apparently it's just easier. I don't see how it is somehow. I have windows 8.1 and it runs as smoothly as the day I built it, 3 years ago. I have a 120GB SSD for OS and a few files, but most of it is empty space, and a large HDD for games, files etc. Boots in 6 seconds, why format it? 

 

I find that people who used PCs before Windows XP tend to think this way. I have a six year old laptop still running XP pretty decently!

 

People who run the "user-friendly" Linux distributions like Ubuntu seem to reformat pretty often too, like every time there is a major update to the operating system or tools.

 

 

Really?  I have a laptop that was running winxp and after another required update borked (3rd time since I got the laptop) resulting in a constant looping of installing update - restart OS - installing update - restart OS, I replaced winxp with Linux Mint.  To date, I have yet to reformat because of a system or any type of update.

 

 

For my win7 desktop I use BleachBit and, if the situation calls for cleaning the registry, RegSeeker.