(e-mail address removed) wrote in
I can't comment on CleanUp, but CCleaner is a small, fast, safe and
effective freeware program, under active development, with updates
released frequently. It is extremely popular with this group and
virtually certain to win a place on the 2006 Pricelessware list.
I was curious about cleanup, since I remember it used to be popular with
the group. I went and installed Cleanup 4.0. Here are some impressions.
Cleanup like ccleaner covers the basics like index.dat ,cookies, browser
caches of IE,firefox, temp folders, recycle bins etc etc.But I think
CCleaner supports a larger list of external apps (Spybot logs,Java cache
etc etc) and does MRUs of many more third party applications than cleanup.
I don't think cleanup does MRUs.
However, I notice despite a smaller list of supporteted app, Cleanup might
actually have the potential to free up more space, because by default it
removes all files ending with extensions like bak, tmp etc. Depending on
how often you mess with txt files and other programs you use, this can be a
lot of space wasted. Of course, you don't really need a seperate app to
search and delete all files of a certain extension (a batch file for
example!), but since it's there..
Another point is that Cleanup offers "Secure cleaning" while ccleaner does
not. It's getting popular for cleaners to offer this option to make file
recovery difficult, it's strange that ccleaner does not yet offer this.
However Whether this is important to you or not, depends on your security
needs.
All in all cleanup is an oldie compared to ccleaner, I might be wrong but
it used to be on pricelessware.
If you don't mind the lack of secure deletion, and you use a batch file to
remove files with bak and tmp extensions, you probably don't need cleanup
and should opt for ccleaner.
On the other hand, both programs are so smaller, it wouldn't hurt to run
both too, if you really need a very through cleaning.
