Personally, I haven’t used CCleaner for years and when I downloaded the free portable version for comparison purposes while compiling this article, the very first thing that happened, on the initial run, was a popup advertising the commercial edition… disappointing: That still holds true today and I guess CCleaner’s reputation for safety is what keeps people using it. However, I proved through a series of articles back in 2012 that just about any other free drive cleaner does a better job than CCleaner. For many years CCleaner has been the ubiquitous free drive cleaner, trusted and used by millions of people worldwide.
