UPCleaner
UPCleaner is a highly configurable, freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. This nifty little program may lack a little bit of things what high powered and paid counterparts of it does. But it is a great free software, which packs a punch which makes it a worthy download.
It also allows the user to select which types of problems to look for and which types and specific items to leave untouched. This is compatible with Windows only and it supports both 64 and 32 bit versions of Windows XP, Windows 7, Vista, Windows 2000, ME, Windows 98, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server. UPCleaner helps you to keep your PC clean and makes it faster by clearing lots of unwanted files. I have seen that many freeware cleaners just clean the browser cache and the temporary folders to allow a temporary performance boost. But UPCleaner can dig deep and is capable of cleaning temporary files from common third party applications as well.
The vendor’s list of cleaned programs includes Adobe products (Flash Player, Photoshop, and Reader to name a few), Firefox, Kazaa, Microsoft Office, Nero, Norton Antivirus, Open Office, Real Player, WinAce, Windows Media Player, WinRAR, WinZip, and the Google, Windows Live, and Yahoo Toolbars.
It walks the extra mile using some handy mini tools. A registry scanner removes old and unused entries, including ActiveX Controls, fonts, installers, shared DLLs, fonts, help files, application paths, icons, unused file extensions, and invalid shortcuts.
However, you need to know what exactly you’re doing when dealing with the registry as it may cause the system to crash or render some program inoperable. It will also delete the stored passwords and usernames if you don’t know what you’re doing. But if you take time to go through the help files and the developer’s site:
http://blog.upcleaner.net you will gain sufficient knowledge to make UPCleaner work effectively. UPCleaner is freeware and can be downloaded at
www.upcleaner.net.
Tzip There are times, when we poor average PC users wonder where all the precious hard disk space vanished. We open the system partition and stare at the screen dumbstruck when the properties say there’s only 100 Mb available of your 40 Gb partition. And we browse the folders trying to locate the culprit, unsuccessfully and often losing ourselves in catacomb of system folders.
There are many software program, some paid, some freeware that help to locate and recover lost hard disk space. Tzip is a small program that provides users with a graphical representation of the content on the hard drives.
The interface is simple and to understand the results you don’t have to be tech savvy. Users can select the hard disk to be analyzed and the program will get to work. The files and folders will be shown as an assortment of rectangles of different sizes. At first it may look daunting since the result is a jumble of rectangles. But you can quickly fix this by pressing ‘Less Detail’ on the tool bar.
If you need to filter results, the Filter field to the rescue. You can find more details on the help file as well as Tzip software, the program comes as a ZIP file and is accessible after extraction >>
http://www.tzipfree.com