If you want one, Piraform’s CCleaner Free does the job well enough for most people. ParetoLogic’s PC Health Advisor may be a reputable product – I’ve never used it – but you don’t really need it, and you don’t need to pay $50 a year (or whatever) for a clean-up program. This kind of marketing puts people off the whole category, and as a result, even reputable programs suffer. The problem is that they can find hundreds or even thousands of “errors” and then ask for money to complete the clean-up. Tune-up and optimisation programs could still be useful, because they provide a lot of tools in one handy package.

This is the case in the area where it really matters: browsers. Also, many third-party programs have their own update systems. However, I’ve never seen any evidence that registry cleaners provide benefits, and they can be harmful. The main things it lacks are a registry cleaner and a way to check third-party programs to see if they need updating. Its new Task Manager provides a simple way to control what your PC loads at start-up. Windows 10 already includes a disk clean-up program and an add/remove programs utility, plus some monitoring and disk defragmentation routines.

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