This does a dummy clean, which you can check before doing it for real. If a browser window is open you will get an error when you try to run CCleaner as it won’t be able to clean the files associated with it.Ĭlick the Analyze button. To run the application, make sure your Internet browser (Firefox, Chrome, etc.) is closed. The same goes for the Applications tab just leave the defaults as they are unless you want do a very deep clean, which would mean also deleting some potentially useful data, like stored passwords. Of course, if you’re happy to delete that information, go ahead and tick those extra boxes. This will give you system a good clean but will also keep some of the useful data that is stored, such as Saved Passwords and Autocomplete Forms History, intact. I would recommend you leave the as they are and just go ahead with the defaults. I usually check these but whether you do this or not is up to you. There are also a number of options that aren’t selected and are slightly greyed out underneath those that are checked. When you first open the application, the options that are selected are the recommended defaults for cleaning, so you see things like Internet Cache, Internet History, etc. Run CCleaner on Windows and your Applications
#Clean open with menu with ccleaner update
If this isn’t the first time you’ve used CCleaner, click Check for Updates and update the program before using it, to ensure you have the latest version.
When you first open it you will see that there is a list of programs under the Windows tab, a menu on the left hand side, and a Check for Updates link on the bottom right. Once this is done, open the CCleaner application.
#Clean open with menu with ccleaner free
In this post we’ll be using CCleaner, which is a free application you find online. In this post, the first in the Spring Clean Your System series, I guide you step-by-step through the process of cleaning out the junk files. There are various free tools we can use to remove them, all of them safe and secure. They’re a fact of life the computing equivalent of that fluff ball that always appears in the corner of the room. Sometimes these introduce security vulnerabilities but more often than not they just fill up the computer and slow it down. When we use our computers – writing documents, editing photos, checking our e-mails, browsing the Internet, or whatever – the programmes that we use create and store temporary files that build up unless we manually delete them.
Regularly cleaning your computer’s hard drive, removing unwanted and outdated files, is an important computer maintenance task that can be easily overlooked but that is quick to do and has lots of benefits in terms of security and the smooth-running of your equipment.
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