* Most applications you have on your computer come with a dedicated uninstaller which removes the application you decide to stop using from your system. This is achieved by rewriting files with zeroes (zero-out) multiple times before permanently removing them from your hard drive. Yet sometimes you need to remove files for good and this is where CleanMyPC?s Secure Erase will help you.įiles and folders removed with Secure Erase cannot be recovered.

* When you simply remove files to and from Recycle Bin they can still be brought back by third party data recovery software. * In addition to cleaning and scanning features CleanMyPC comes with a set of built-in utilities which are aimed to help you keep your computer reliable, fast, clean and working like a new one. – Crash reports – files created by applications and Windows when something crashes, application quits or a critical error occurs. – Recycle Bin folders located on all your hard drives. The latest restore point will not be removed by CleanMyPC to ensure you can always recover your system). – Restore points (backup files created by Windows. * In this section CleanMyPC scans for various files you can?t usually access on your own but still can remove. If needed, you can only check those application translations you want cleaned. Since you only want your application in one language you can safely remove the rest – gaining free space.ĬleanMyPC will scan your computer and find applications which have multiple language translations, offering you to remove extras. This only influences interface translations you can still type text in any language within the app.

* Some applications also come with built-in language translations (for example Spanish, Russian or German). You can safely remove help files for the applications that you already use freely.ĬleanMyPC allows you to selectively remove help files by clicking the corresponding Help Files section of the sidebar and checking only those you want removed. * Most applications (as well as Windows itself) come with help files which contain information about program functionality and workflow. Removing them will not affect the functionality of your applications but might recover you hard drive space. Log files record the activity of Windows and applications and are usually used for informational purposes. CleanMyPC can identify those files and let you know which of them are safe to delete.

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