The Software I Use – CCleaner

It's nice to have access to a program that knows all the hidden nooks and crannies of your computer. Like your desk draws, your hard drive has tons of places for things to get hidden away.

CCleaner is a freeware system optimizer that can run through your computer and remove unused and unnecessary files quickly and painlessly. The result can be a faster computer with more available hard drive space.

For me, the selling point on CCleaner was the fact that it hit just about every nook and cranny that tends to build up on your PCs hard drive. Temporary files, form histories, browsing histories and even document drafts can be wiped out all in one pass! The first time I ran it on my desktop PC I was surprised to find nearly a gig of cached files that I really didn't need to have.

If you're computer is running slow, or your running low on disk space, you might give CCleaner a go first.

CCleaner is made by the folks who also made Recuva, a data recovery program recently featured on Lifehacker.