We all face the need to take apart papers and other unnecessary things on our desktop. Someone more often, someone less often, but everyone has to do it. Your electronic assistant - a computer - just like a traditional workplace, sometimes it requires general cleaning. But if everything is clear with a traditional table, then how do you determine if it is time to clean your computer?
Here, too, everything is simple: if the applications run too slowly, and the web pages refuse to load at all, then clearly the time has come to thoroughly clean the system.
Currently, there are special tools for this, namely utilities. Everyone has a word for this, but many do not understand its meaning and feel some discomfort when communicating with computer professionals.
To get started, let's get rid of this nasty feeling and figure out what a utility is.
Utility - these are some application helpers designed to optimize PC performance and solve tasks that are too tough for the operating system. Most of them are designed to serve file systems and disks. Initially, the term "utility" meant small programs, but at the moment these are full-fledged programs that are not inferior in weight and functionality to office suites.
There are paid and free utilities for cleaning your computer, video card settings, utilities that protect your system from keyloggers, parasitic programs, adware, and many others. But since we decided to arrange a general cleaning of the system, we will dwell in more detail on the utilities for cleaning the computer.
The most effective utility for cleaning the computer CCleaner. This program is focused on working with the registry: the more it grows, the slower the computer runs. CCleaner deletes temporary files and cleans browser coockies. This utility is completely free and easy to use.
No less useful utility for cleaning the computer Glary Utilities, the output of which in 2005 made a splash. It makes it possible to clear the browser history, fix defective shortcuts, delete temporary files and even stop the operation of malicious programs.
Its only drawback is the fact that from browsers it only recognizes Internet Explorer.
Another fairly common utility for cleaning the computer is AppCleaner. The operation of the application is somewhat similar to CCleaner. It checks and cleans the registry, Windows tools, applications, and browsers. The cleaning process takes a minimum of effort and time, but a significant drawback of the program is the lack of automatic copying of the registry. As a result, the product is simple and effective, but requires some knowledge of the principles of the system and caution in use.
Sometimes users are faced with the need to clean the trash left by antivirus programs. Most often these are drivers launched by pests. To solve this problem, there are specialized utilities for cleaning the computer. Kaspersky E.V. and his company released the Kaspersky Removal Tool, which is used to quickly search and delete files damaged by viruses, worms, trojans, and other malicious programs. This is just a utility for cleaning your computer, so it is recommended to install this utility as an addition to the main anti-virus product. The main disadvantage of this program is the lack of database updates, that is, to
check the computer you will need to uninstall the application and download its new version every time.