PC Cleaning Tools

Is your PC is slowing down significantly of late? That could be due to the building up of trash in the computer hard drive, thanks to the many installations and uninstallations, hours of web surfing, and the many files you have created over the last few months.

However, there is no need to worry overtly about falling PC speeds. These cleaning tools could help you to clear the junk and give the PC a new lease on life, like never before.

Let’s begin with a couple of general cleaning tools. The first on the list is the PC Decrapifier, and its purpose, to clear the brand new PC of its unwanted craplets from its hard disk. However, don’t expect the Decrapifier to clean the entire PC. Its role is limited to sweeping out certain specific sets of craplets and trailware programs – specifically put in new PCs – such as Wild Tangent Games, QuickBooks Trial, and Dell URL Assistant.

Tune up Utilities 2007, on the other hand, has it all – every cleanup tool one could imagine. It does everything from cleaning up the hard drive and cleaning-up and optimizing the registry to overall system optimization, controlling the programs running at startup and deleting/un-deleting files, to name a few. See the website for more info.

In the Application Cleanup department, here is one tool that could rein in programs that run automatically at startup, often without the knowledge of the PC user. This tool – Autoruns – shows which all applications and services run on startup (Windows has no such option), its details and location in the PC hard disk. Based on that, the user can decide which applications should be let to run at startup and which ones not.

Security Task Manager is another tool that does a similar kind of job. This $29 software even allows the user to delete those programs that he/she thinks is unnecessary.

Duplicate Music File Finder is a utility tool that lets one find out the duplicate MP3 files in the hard disk, even if the file names of the duplicates are differently spelt. This free utility does so by comparing the file size, performing CRC checks, and even verifying MP3 metadata tags (ID3), alongside searching the file name individually. Easy Duplicate Finder is another software utility that does a similar type of job, but this time, its scope includes files of all kinds, including .doc files, graphics files, and music files.

Another aspect that progressively slows down the PC is web surfing. But the R-Wipe and Clean tool not only keeps tab of everything the user does while surfing the internet, but also cleans out all the unwanted residues that the act lefts in the hard drive of the PC at the end of the day. The user can configure the ones he/she may want to delete/leave behind. HackCleaner is another software tool that does the cleaning out job efficiently.

Wise Registry Cleaner and Registry Commander are two decent registry cleaning tools.