Blue Screen of Death(BSOD), unexpected crashes and restart are normal symptom of a slowing PC that needs to be clean and optimize. Although Windows comes with its own Defrag and Cleanup utilities, it is somewhat slower and not effective after use. CCleaner from Pericom is a freeware that will be one of the best and must have utilities to clean and optimize your Windows PC registry for best performance and minimum errors.
The registry is actually one of the most important components of an entire computer. The registry is the place where PC stores all of it’s setting for all the different software applications installed on a computer. It also hold the data for personal preferences and those of each computer user. After a while, these registry becomes extremely big in size and drops the PC’s performance or even cause unexpected crashes. Although some may think this is hardware issue or due to spyware or virus infections, a quick run with registry cleaner will tell if it is otherwise.
CCleaner is one of the quality registry optimizer and cleaner which is able to scan PC system for errors and then fix them. They will either fix them all or give the option to pick and choose. Nowadays, almost all registry repair programs come with a backup or restore feature so that you can always revert back to original settings. CCleaner free up more hard disk space and it is fast when running its scan and fixes. It took about less than 30 seconds to scan a 160 Gb hard disk drive and return the results and the about same amount of time when doing the fixes.
In a nutshell, the CCleaner cleans the following:
- Internet Explorer: History, Cookies, Index.dat. Temporary files, Auto-complete form history.
- Firefox: Download history,History, Cookies, Temporary files, Auto-complete form history.
- Google Chrome: Download history,History, Cookies, Temporary files, Auto-complete form history.
- Opera: Temporary files, history and cookies.
- Safari: Temporary files, history, cookies, form history.
- Windows: Recycle Bin, Recent Documnets, Temporary files and Log files.
- Advanced Registry scanner and cleaner to remove unused and old entries. Including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Shared DLL, Fonts, Applications Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts, Unistallers, Help Files and etc.
- Recently opened URLs and files.
- Third-party application temp files and recent file lists (MRUs). Including: Firefox, Opera, Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Office XP, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and more…
- Backup and restore capabilities before attempting to fix Windows registry.
Additional feature:
- Freeware that is spyware free, virus free and adware free
- Configure program to enable or disable to run during Windows startup
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