Best Pc Cleaner?

[moonraker558]

I was going to download CC Cleaner but i see it it full of nasties. I need to free up space on my HD

[The Builder]

I've been using the free edition of Ccleaner for years.
Used regularly, it'll do exactly what you want, Moon.

[moonraker558]

Ok. That will do for me then thanks for the info.

[Lie-in King]

To add to The Builder's post - use it carefully. If you select "Custom Clean" (I do), make sure you look at the ticked boxes under both columns - "Windows" & "Applications".

I've known people dive in & lose their saved passwords, for example.

[gingejbee]

A better alternative to CCleaner (according to Computeractive) is BleachBit 2.2, available from their snipca URL.
Type www.snipca.com/31306 into your browser address bar.

[gingejbee]

^looks like they've updated to version 4.0.0

[Buenchico]

Quite some time ago now, someone managed to attack CCleaner's website and add malware to the version of the program that could be downloaded at that time. However the latest version of CCleaner is perfectly safe. (It's now owned actually owned by Avast, who bought out Piriform but who still use that name in relation to the product).

BleachBit, as mentioned by Gingejbee, seems to gaining many fans these days, although I know nothing about it. The only program I'd use myself, as an alternative to CCleaner, is Glary Utilities:
https://www.glarysoft.com/
(Like CCleaner, it's available in both free and paid-for versions but the free one should do everything that you need).