C Cleaner Reviews Free CCleaner Aims

C Cleaner Reviews Free CCleaner Aims

The free CCleaner aims to clean up your OS X system (version 10.5 and greater) by managing cookies (bits of data used to track your Web browsing activity), repairing permissions, and freeing up hard disk space.

CCleaner worked as touted in my tests, improving system performance, reclaiming GB, and helping protect online privacy, but it didnt improve the overall system performance as well as some other apps weve tested.

Options is where you tinker with cookies from the various Web sites that youve visited.

You can also Repair Permissions (when access rights are damaged) and Erase Freespace (which writes data over unused space, preventing prying eyes from digging up deleted files with data recovery software).

These options arent well defined; the function descriptions use obtuse language which may cause confusion among casual users.

Clicking Analyze causes the app to scan your Macs hard drive and return a report detailing the number of files found and their sizes.

CCleaner returned nearly 4,000 junk files when I ran the program, which the program removed after I clicked Delete.

Before CCleaner scrubbed the system, the 1.83-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Mini with 1GB of RAM, and 80GB hard drive achieved a 2,540 Geekbench score, booted in 56.7 seconds, and transferred the 1.1GB folder in 1 minute and 27 seconds.

In fact, the GeekBench score didnt budgeit remained exactly the same.

That said, the boot time decreased to just 49.2 seconds, the file transfer speed dropped to 1 minute and 8 seconds, and the app recovered over 3GB of hard drive space.

Its GeekBench performance was a bust, and two poorly-defined features may cause you to consult Google for explanations, but dont let that stop you from downloading this OS X utility.

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