CCleaner Professional Plus

Overview

CCleaner became the default maintenance tool because it did one thing well and did not pretend to do more. It finds the files that accumulate and serve no purpose, temporary folders, browser caches, thumbnail databases, crash dumps, installer leftovers, log files from applications that never clean up after themselves, and it removes them with a report of exactly what went and how much came back. On a machine that has run for years, the first pass commonly returns tens of gigabytes.

The Professional tier adds scheduling and real time monitoring, so the cleaning happens without being remembered, and a browser cleaning pass can run automatically when a browser closes rather than requiring the application to be shut for a manual sweep. Health check bundles the ordinary passes into one action for people who do not want to read a checklist of categories.

The Plus bundle is where the other tools arrive. Defraggler handles conventional drives with file level defragmentation and free space consolidation, and correctly leaves solid state drives alone rather than wearing them down. Recuva recovers deleted files from drives, memory cards and cameras, with a deep scan mode for volumes that have been reformatted. Speccy inspects the machine and reports processor, memory, motherboard, storage, graphics and temperature detail in one place.

The registry cleaner, startup manager and uninstaller round out the ordinary maintenance set. Startup entries, scheduled tasks, context menu items and browser extensions can all be disabled from one list, which is usually a bigger contributor to a slow boot than anything on disk. Every destructive operation offers a backup first, and the cleaner shows a preview of what it intends to remove before it removes anything.

Key Features

• Cleaner for temporary files, caches, logs, dumps and installer leftovers with a preview before removal
• Scheduled and real time cleaning with automatic browser passes on close
• Health check bundling the ordinary maintenance passes into one action
• Registry cleaner with a mandatory backup offer before any change
• Startup manager covering startup entries, scheduled tasks, context menus and extensions
• Software uninstaller including entries the standard list fails to show
• Defraggler for file level defragmentation and free space consolidation on conventional drives
• Recuva for recovering deleted files from drives, cards and cameras with deep scan
• Speccy for hardware inspection including temperatures and storage health
• Secure deletion with multiple overwrite passes for files and free space

What Changed in This Build

• Updated cleaning rules for the current browser versions
• Lower background resource use for the real time monitor
• Improved detection of leftover files from removed applications
• Hardware inspection expanded with more storage and sensor coverage

System Requirements

Processor	Any x86 or x64 processor
Memory	1 GB
Storage	200 MB free
Operating system	Windows 7 or newer
Permissions	Administrator rights for system level cleaning

Release Details

Full title	CCleaner Professional Plus
Version string	6.41.0.2
Publisher	Piriform
Category	Utilities
Licence	Full version, all tools included
Platform	Windows 10 and 11, 32 and 64-bit
Interface language	Multilingual, 40 plus interface languages
Archive size	94.6 MB
Mirrors	4 active, all reporting online
Listed	refreshed 4 weeks ago, checked again 40 minutes ago

Installation Notes

• Review the preview list before the first clean. The defaults are conservative but they will empty caches you may have wanted.
• Do not defragment a solid state drive. The tool detects them and skips by default, leave that setting alone.
• If you intend to recover a deleted file, stop writing to that drive immediately and run the recovery tool from another volume.

Before You Start

Read the notes above before running setup. Most of the problems people write in about are covered there, and almost all of them come down to an older version of the same software still being installed, a graphics driver that predates the release, or a security suite quarantining part of the package mid install.

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