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CCleaner 6.0 is the newest version of the famous "cleaner" for Windows systems

CCleaner 6.0 is the new version of this popular "cleaner" for Windows systems that, to be honest, has seen better days. But it's still there and if you're one of those people who regularly messes with the system by installing and uninstalling apps, you're careless with their maintenance, etc., you might be interested in having your services again. Or maybe not.

And is that CCleaner, as I say, had better days, but that was a long time ago. At the time, Piriform software was one of the essentials for Windows, until several changes made it fall out of use. Namely: the inclusion of previous advertising, fraudulent versions that were inadvertently distributed with backdoors; the purchase of the company by Avast, whose ownership remains...

Microsoft itself recommends not using CCleaner because of the problems it caused with deep cleaning the Windows registry and later blacklisted the application a bit for all of the above.

However, at the beginning of the year the application became part of the Microsoft Store catalog without hearing anything negative about it, and nothing less than echoing it, in case anyone is interested, as it is a multipurpose tool that affects not only the , on the other hand, and that's Microsoft's fault and no one else's, Windows' disastrous registry system.

CCleaner is essentially a system cleaner, useful for leaving everything as it was before installing the apps you ended up uninstalling but left a lot of traces along the way. CCleaner is actually also used to uninstall Windows apps in a more organized way than the system itself; it cleans your registry, gets rid of cached files and history (beware of that, it removes you from sites you are logged into), scans privacy and security, and much more that you can customize.

But CCleaner is also useful for other things, like automating updating hardware drivers, a task that is often a bit cumbersome that this tool easily solves; and as for CCleaner 6.0, its main novelty is a performance optimizer that basically analyzes the processes, lists them according to the load they exert on the system and invites you to suspend them when you are not using them to save resources.

However, CCleaner has taken a turn in recent years, even before its purchase by Avast but also after, and what was a hundred percent free tool ended up losing its most useful options only to paying users, which in a way it's normal if it's good and they want to monetize it. That is, better that than blatantly spamming or worse. The downside, of course, is that if you don't pay, you're a useless piece of junk... sort of.

In other words: where CCleaner doesn't go, you can go and in the process learn to maintain the system a little, which never hurts as the app shows you what needs to be fixed. And although there are alternatives, this one, which is still one of the best known in its category, ends up taking the cat to the water on many occasions. 

mundophone