Ever thought that right-clicking and select Empty Recycle Bin don't actually clear all the unwanted files from your Recycle Bin. Yes, your life have been a lie.
Prompted by S to write this to introduce CCleaner, your next best friend in clearing trash permanently and even uninstall files from your computer efficiently.
The program is pretty straightforward. Fire the program up after installation and it'll look something like this.
Select the appropriate boxes under the "Windows" tab and the "Applications" tab. And let me digress a bit.
Temporary Internet Files holds browser caches. They store pages and other data such as video and audio files so you can load webpages more quickly. Notice how you'll take longer to load a website you've visited for the first time and subsequent visits are much faster?
Cookies is a piece of data which stores the previous activity or state you have visited a site. Like how you login Facebook and even when you reopen the browser, it stays logged in. That's the cookie in action.
Okay, back to CCleaner. Click on the Analyze button after you've selected what you want to scan.
The resulting will appear. It tells you which part is eating how much storage space and click Run Cleaner at the bottom right corner to clear all the files you've analyzed.
What's good about CCleaner is that it even allows you to remove registries which are obsolete or broken although I don't really recommend you to fiddle with registries if you don't know what it is. Just stick with using the cleaner as taught above.
Personally, I've frequently scanned to clear random trash from my Recycle Bin because clicking "Empty Recycle Bin" doesn't delete your trash permanently. It just takes it away from your sight. Just few days back, I did a scan and cleared 8GB of "invisible" trash. So do download CCleaner and start clearing your "invisible" trash and free up those space for better use.
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