Portable Little Disk Cleaner

Made as the portable edition of Little Disk Cleaner, Portable Little Disk Cleaner is an approachable application designed to remove junk files from the computer to free up space. It features advanced customization options.

.NET Framework must be installed on the PC before launching this tool. You can simply copy the downloaded files to a custom location on the HDD and double-click the executable to launch Portable Little Disk Cleaner. Another possibility is to keep it stored on a USB flash drive, in order to run it on any PC. It doesn't add new entries to the Windows registry.

As far as the GUI is concerned, the utility has a user-friendly window and can immediately scan the disks for unnecessary files. The task list shows their name, extension and location, along with the file size and last access date. All selected entries can be removed from the disk with one click. System restore points are auto-created before removal, but this option can be disabled.

When it comes to configuration settings, you can pick the drives to take into account for the scanner, send the files to Recycle Bin or move them to a specified folder instead of permanently removing them from the HDD, scan write-protected files and those currently in use, identify zero-length files as junk, opt for safe, medium or aggressive search mode, as well as edit the filetypes to detect.

File removal can begin right after scan without your analysis or confirmation. Other search filters focus on the file attributes (hidden, read-only, archive, system), date range (creation, modification, access), size range (kilobytes), target folders, together with excluded files and folders. Autoscans can be scheduled to run daily, weekly or monthly. Lastly, you can restore Windows to a previous state.

To conclude, Portable Little Disk Cleaner comes packed with rich and powerful configuration settings for junk file removal. Tasks were carried out fast in our tests, while system resources usage was minimal.