CCleaner: The Ultimate Utility for Administrators?
If you (or your IT department) routinely spend a lot of time dealing with such clogged-up PCs, consider making CCleaner a permanent part of your toolset. Originally known as "Crap Cleaner," this famous freeware utility performs dozens of system-cleaning and -optimization functions, from clearing out temp files to deleting URL histories to sprucing up the Registry. The latest version includes support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and improved capabilities for Windows 7 (such as thumbnail-cache and Jump List cleaning). You can read more about CCleaner in Michael Pietroforte's FREE: CCleaner - Improve Windows performance by removing unnecessary files and registry entries. We absolutely echo his sentiments: It's a must-have tool for individual users and IT pros alike. (Just make sure System Restore is up and running, just in case you run into any complications. They're rare, but better safe than sorry.) |
Windows often gets knocked for growing sluggish over time, but let's face it: It's not the OS itself that causes slow performance, but rather all the stuff that accumulates in it over time, like so much plaque in human arteries.
