Do you use and recommend purchasing ccleaner pro and pro plus, I was thinking of buying the pro plus with Hardware Analysis and File Recovery but seen some say that they had to uninstall and reinstall windows 10 due to it not working with the Win 10 Creators Update and deletes important system files. see conversation.

https://twitter.com/antonmrl/status/854301542391873536


Because I download quite a bit of videos I was wondering if its a good tool to purchase?

No, it's a complete scam. There's no software that you need to buy for windows to run better.

Cleaning your browser cache, and all the rest of it is just rubbish. It's no better than believing in horoscopes, or uranium mining stocks in Alberta.

Notice that there's no business oriented software in this area. No professionals are taken in by the scam.

CCLeaner is a useful tool

free version is plenty

Was a useful tool *

They say

Doesn't it only delete history cookies etc when you close browser or run clean cleaner only, which means its not really protecting the privacy while viewing pages going from one website to another, the cookies have already tracked browsing history etc.

Probably true, and you can set your browser to delete cookies when it closes so not sure what the point is

Yes, it doesn't claim to do that.

I might not be reading it correctly from their website as English is not my first language but this is from their website

https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

The same thing can be done with free browser extensions.

To put it another way because i worded the op wrong, my bad, if pro plus was a free tool would you use it, so are any of its features actually a worthwhile tool, like file recovery and hardware analysis, Defragmentation etc, or no?

No. Pretty much all that stuff is handled better by the OS.

Not entirely sure what "hardware analysis" is supposed to do or mean, but it seems pretty useless.

If your PC has a solid-state drive you don't want to defrag anyway.

Since it's windows 10, the default file recovery is pretty good.

Is there some problem you're trying to solve, some file you're trying to recover, are you having some specific problem?

I wouldn't expect that the average person with 25 years experience at Microsoft would be able to evaluate problems with disk fragmentation, but I'm willing to listen to what specific problem you're having.

After you ran this software what would be your strategy for evaluating the file structure on your computer?

p.s. There's nothing you need to add to windows unless you have a specific problem you're trying to solve that windows doesn't handle. Really!

no didn't use any of its extra tools only the free version

i just thought deleting history and caches made the computer work faster from reading online about it

From reading a bit I think there are a few pluses for it, for example..

The paid versions updates automatically while free version manually, so with the complaints about some saying that they had to uninstall and reinstall windows 10 due to it not working with the Win 10 Creators Update and deleting important system files this was due to the free version not being updated to work with the new Win 10 Creators Update.

If you only use one browser say Google Chrome and delete history and caches it doesn't delete from Microsoft edge and internet explorer so you need to do each browser individually.

Edit since the two replies before i posted this reply ^^ suggest otherwise, so OK.

If you don't use Edge/IE etc then there should be nothing to delete.

But you can do all of this basic stuff (deleting history, caches etc) by using the browsers themselves, and/or by using extensions (in some browsers) to automate it, and/or by using the free version of CCleaner. I don't understand what you're trying to achieve otherwise.

If you're just an average joe wanting to conceal his browsing history locally on the machine, use the private browsing / incognito mode in the browser to start with. That way there won't be any history etc that you need to delete.

I only use Google chrome but if i go to

> internet options
> setting
> view Files

There's a heap of cookies in that folder and after deleting them and using only Google Chrome and if I go back to internet options again there's cookies in that folder again.

Only reason I asked about this tool is since I download quite a bit of videos for work and from what I read about this tool is that it makes the computer faster.

To give a example after a days downloading of videos and browsing, the ccleaner pop up option displayed saying there was 700MB stored and did you want to run cleaner to delete the 700MB.

Repeatedly deleting 700mb of videos isn't going to noticeably speed up your computer unless you're way low on storage space, in which case you have bigger fish to fry. Your browser may be able to specify a cache size and it'll delete old stuff to make space for new stuff as necessary, no interaction from you necessary.

I'm using CCleaner(free version), i never had to reinstall windows or anything like that. im running on win 10 btw.

thanks for the info, i guess i'll stick with the free version.

When I say deleted 700mb, I wasn't deleting videos but stored cashes history cookies etc and whatever else ccleaner said it was deleting.

Type of content deleted doesn't matter for performance. And you should still be able to set how much data your browser stores.

Edit: or at least I think you could on older versions of chrome. No clue where to find it on this new version.

Ccleaner made the news - for having a legitimate signed version containing malware.

http://blog.talosintelligence.com/20...s-malware.html

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/18/1...lware-security

You think you know better than google how chrome should operate, so you use 3rd party software to make it worse.

I just don't get it.

Do you reach under the hood of your automobile and grab a handful parts and pull them out?

I just don't get it.

I've been using computers for 40 years and I can assure you that experts are working on making browser caches bigger and faster. In no way is your computer made better by having to redownload things after you've deleted them.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/cont...-need-read.htm