DisCleaner Portable Edition

DisCleaner is a lightweight and portable software program that comes bundles with numerous features for removing unnecessary or unused files from the hard drive, in order to free up space and make room for new items. It has advanced settings but they are pretty intuitive to figure out.

As installation is not necessary, you can drop the app files in any location on the HDD and just click the .exe to launch DisCleaner. It is also possible to copy it to a USB flash drive to open it on any PC with minimum effort. It doesn't create new entries in the Windows registry or Start menu.

The GUI is made from a clean window with a neatly organized look, where all cleaning options are structured in a list. You can check out their description as well as select the target directory or drive for cleanup.

It is possible to empty Windows temporary directories, Recycle Bin, system and app logs, prefetch files, chkdsk file fragments, thumbnail files, Start menu recent documents and invalid shortcuts, and so on. All you have to do is select one or more entries from the list, and ask DisCleaner to take care of the rest with one click.

You can make a safe selection, restore settings to default, select or deselect all items from the list, securely delete files to prevent third parties from recovering data using specialized software, as well as get statistics with the total space gain, objects cleaned and program runs.

DisCleaner also lets you exclude any files or directories from the cleaning job, include custom files and folders, specify the number of passes for secure deletion, as well as enable or disable message confirmations and window transparency.

Scanning and cleaning jobs are carried out in reasonable time while DisCleaner remains low on system resources. It worked well in our tests, without triggering the OS to hang, crash or prompt error dialogs. Taking into account its intuitive interface and options, DisCleaner can be easily handled by anyone looking to rapidly clean up the computer.