![]() It has been around since 2004, garnering countless glowing CCleaner reviews for the most part of its history. Not a great name but it has never messed anything up even once in all that time and you can really see a huge difference before and after.CCleaner is a piece of scrubbing software originally developed by Piriform. The program I have found most reliable for cleaning Windows machines over about 20 years is (The old joke about ringing MS help line: the first time they tell you to re-install, the second time they tell you to re-install, the third time they tell you to upgrade.) The best way to clean Windows is to re-install but otherwise, un-installing programs causes more problems than anything so it's best just to leave them. This all causes huge problems and it's a devil to sort out when something stops working,but you can probably still run that copy of Tomb Raider you bought in 98. Hundreds of services that load on start up taking 16gb of memory and turning it into about 2 with services to run dial up modems and fax machines for instance. MS legacy means that until I think Win8, they still had DOS running in the background and the OS has been patched up with layers on layers on layers, with open sockets, hundreds of outdated printer and screen drivers etc etc. ![]() It's a really big difference in philosophy.Īpple change everything, write everything from new, dump all the old stuff and we may complain sometimes that this older thing or that won't run, but they give a squeaky clean, light OS with security holes plugged. You will gradually get hundreds of dead or broken links and non-existant files.Īnd MS are proud of 'legacy'. tmp file so they take up huge amounts of space. dll files any more like we used to, but every time you close a Windows computer down without allowing it to shut down properly, you dump the entire OS into a. Talking Windows on the other hand- well it is a lot better than it used to be and we don't have the problem with. I don't think there even is a registry to clean and the OS recompiles itself on boot if I'm not mistaken. In older versions of the OS you had to leave the machine on overnight sometimes to allow it to repair permissions and do maintenance but even that isn't necessary any more and you never have to defrag. I agree with the people above that say anything else is unnecessary, and I've only rarely used the above in 11 years. Sometimes, a program doesn't run properly or has become stuck with a setting that stops it from working in which case you search for the 'plist' file, delete it and reboot when mac OS will build another one. I wouldn't recommend doing this sort of thing automatically. It will tell you which programs or files you haven't used for a while etc. If you want to check out and delete unnecessary programs, then click on the apple logo>about this mac>storage>manage>remove clutter. You can reset or clear the management controller too which is necessary sometimes if something like the sound stops working. If you want to clear RAM, then there's a key combination at start up (I think it varies with OS). ![]() This automatically runs the maintenance program and doing anything else is not recommended. ![]() If you want to run maintenance on cache and temporary files on a macOS, all you have to do is reboot the machine.
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