CCleaner 6.0 is a new version of this popular “cleaner” for Windows that, frankly, has had better times. But it is still there, and if you are one of the people who regularly work on your system by installing and uninstalling applications, you don’t care about its maintenance, etc., you may be interested in having its services again. Or maybe not.

And it’s the CCleaner, as I say, had better days, but That was a long time ago. At that time, Piriform software was one of the basic elements for Windows, until various changes caused it. Namely: the inclusion of past advertising, fraudulent versions that were unknowingly distributed through the back door; acquisition of Avastem, whose ownership remains …

Microsoft itself does not recommend using CCleaner because of the problems it caused when deep cleaning the Windows registry, and later blacklisted the application for all of the above.

At the beginning of the year, however, the application became part of the Microsoft Store catalog without hearing anything negative about it, and less so than to hear about it if anyone cares, as it is a multi-purpose tool that affects not only the other side, namely is a bug in Microsoft and no one else, a disastrous Windows registry system.

CCleaner is basically a system cleaner, useful for leaving everything as it was before installing applications that you eventually uninstalled but left with a lot. In fact, CCleaner is also used to uninstall Windows applications more neatly than the system itself; it cleans your registry, gets rid of cached files and history (watch out, removes you from the sites you’re logged in to), sweeps privacy and security, and many other things you can customize.

But CCleaner is also useful for other things, such as automating hardware driver updates, a task that is usually a bit difficult and easy for this tool to handle; Y As for CCleaner 6.0, its main novelty is the performance optimizer which basically analyzes processes, lists them according to the loads they put on the system, and prompts you to pause when you are not using them to save resources. However…

However, CCleaner has been a turnaround in recent years, even before its purchase by Avast, but even then, what was a 100% free tool has ultimately lost its most useful options only for paying users, which is in some ways normal if it’s good and they want it. monetize. This is better than shamelessly spamming you or worse. The downside, of course, is that if you don’t pay, it’s a pretty useless mess … more or less.

In other words: where CCleaner doesn’t go, you can go there and learn how to maintain the system a bit, which will never hurt, because the application will show you what needs to be fixed. And while there are alternatives, this one, which is still one of the best known in its category, eventually takes the cat to the water on many occasions.

Yes indeed: install it better from the Microsoft Storewhich doesn’t update as fast, but will always be more reliable and faster.