Is your computer’s disk full, Windows is taking a long time to start and your applications are lagging? This free app can automatically clean your PC to restore its full health.
Over time and use, a Windows PC ends up becoming cluttered with a multitude of various files which pile up on its disk. And that slows it down, especially when storage space runs out. To keep it perfectly functional and responsive, it must be cleaned regularly, exactly as you maintain a car that is running and getting dirty. However, it is impossible to do this cleaning by hand, because some files are difficult to find and therefore difficult to delete.
Fortunately, there is specialized software that can carry out this cleaning automatically. CCleaner is the best known, but it has lost its luster in recent years, reserving many practical functions for its paid version. And today it is better to turn to truly free and very effective applications for cleaning and optimizing a PC.
Among all the solutions available, one of them is definitely worth a try: HDCleaner. This free utility, developed by Kurt Zimmermann, is a complete and formidable toolbox for cleaning a PC in depth in a few minutes… but not only that! The application in fact offers a whole series of tools for maintaining, optimizing and securing a computer, all from a very simple interface and entirely in French (even if a few shaky translations are still lying around here and there).
HDCleaner first allows you to carry out a complete and automated cleaning of the system, by deleting temporary, useless or obsolete files which have accumulated over time, and by cleaning up the Windows Registry. And as with other utilities of the same type, it is obviously possible to exclude certain elements from cleaning, in order to keep the history or cookies of your Internet browser for example, and avoid having to reconnect to your favorite sites .
But HDCleaner also offers several other powerful and very practical tools. The application has, for example, a “shredder” which allows you to permanently delete files, or even erase an entire disk securely, so that the data can no longer be recovered. This is particularly useful when you want to resell or give away a computer, for example. HDCleaner can also check the health of a hard disk (HDD) and defragment it, or automatically detect duplicate files on all storage spaces, internal or external, of the computer.
And the application even has some good surprises in store. It has a tool to rename several files at once (with text replacement and automatic numbering), another to create a bootable Windows USB key, a function to completely clone your disk to another storage media, or even a real-time monitoring tool to optimize PC performance and many other useful functions!
In addition, HDCleaner weighs only 5 MB and even has a portable version, which can be used without installation. It is therefore a perfect little Swiss army knife to keep in a corner of your PC or on a USB key, to launch it from time to time and keep your computer in good working order. Finally, its developer is very active and its last update was only on September 23, a sign that the application is followed, maintained and therefore sustainable.