Little Disk Cleaner

With an active Internet connection, you hard disk drive is constantly used to write and read files in order for you to have preferred content load fast. However, this and other activities you perform can leave a lot of undesired and useless files behind that can one day fill up disk space. In this regard, Little Disk Cleaner wants to help you out with a bit of cleaning.

Before you get to enjoy all the application has to offer you need to make it functional, meaning install it on your computer. Just make sure to carefully read all offers or you can end up with other third-party programs installed as well. Apart from those, your PC needs to be fitted with .NET Framework, which is usually bundled up in latest Windows iterations, but you can also select it from the installer.

With the application up and running you can take a bit of time to go through what it has to offer, although it’s not a difficult task to figure out from the name. Junk and temporary files are the main concern, but the options menu gives you the possibility to choose the directories to include and exclude from the process, as well as the types of file to look up.

The application can only target your local, fixed disk drive, so if you plug in an USB Flash drive it won’t work. In any case, the core function is to keep your system intact. Needless to say that hitting Scan Disk puts the process in motion, following any rules you might have changed in the options menu.

Scanning doesn’t take too long, but this depends on the number of selected search areas. A list shows all files as name and extension, with sadly no other corresponding details. What you can view, on the other hand, are the generic file properties, which are brought up at the press of a button.

You can choose to have the files removed without your consent, moved in the recycle bin, or placed in a special folder in case some analysis needs to be done. Moreover, there’s a built-in scheduler that lets you configure recursive scan and cleaning process daily, weekly, and monthly.

You still need to perform a cleaning operation if you want your computer to keep a good balance in performance, or worse, to avoid having to install Windows and other programs from scratch, thus losing your data, and applications like Little Disk Cleaner prove to be just the right solution.