WinUtilities Disk Cleaner

WinUtilities Disk Cleaner is an application designed to clean your computer by removing junk files that take up too much space. This way, you can make room for new files as well as increase the performance of your machine.

This freebie gets installed swiftly and painlessly. Its interface consists of a clean and intuitive wizard that guides you every step of the way, which means that even unskilled PC users can give it a go.

After selecting one or more drives or folders, the tool performs a scanning operation to determine the junk files, such as invalid shortcuts, CHKDSK log files, temporary junk items, and memory dumps. This report can be exported to HTML format for closer investigation.

Before proceeding with the removal procedure, you can handpick the items to eliminate while keeping the rest. WinUtilities Disk Cleaner is capable of sending the items to the Recycle Bin, moving them to a custom folder, or permanently removing them from the disk.

It can be instructed to create a system restore point before doing this, in case you need to revert Windows to a previous state if it becomes unstable.

Moreover, it's possible to exclude any folders from the search job, skip files or folders by attributes (read-only, hidden, system), find files that haven't been recently accessed, as well as select the file formats to take into account for each category (e.g. .tmp and .temp for temporary junk files). Options can be restored to default.

It's wrapped in an approachable wizard that helps you clean the computer by removing unnecessary and unwanted objects. It's suitable for both casual and experienced users, thanks to the range of advanced configuration settings it provides.

Scan and removal jobs may take a while, depending on your hardware's configuration, disk size, as well as specified options. However, these are generally fast. CPU and RAM usage was minimal in our tests.

To sum it up, WinUtilities Disk Cleaner proves to be a handy tool for cleaning and optimizing the disk.