Software Listing of Author : "Piriform"
- CCleaner
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00


If you’ve used any computer for fairly long time, you might have noticed it gets slower and slower over the time. This process is slow and generally goes unnoticed until your computer gets too sluggish to go unnoticed. This is due to unused registry entries, fragmented disk space, temporary files and unnecessary data in your PC’s Hard Disk. Although Windows has a built-in tool popularly known as Disk Cleanup, more often than not, it fails to deliver desired results. Fortunately, there is a free tool which is basically made for the same purpose with added features. This free tool is CCleaner; let’s look at its usefulness, effectiveness and efficiency.
CCleaner is a free utility that helps in cleaning unnecessary files and garbage registry entries generated by unused applications and sometimes operating...
- Platform: Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64
- Recuva
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00


Losing files from your computer can be quite a worrying situation, especially if these files are those which are known to contain valuable content. There can be numerous reasons of file deletion, virus and malware, hard drive failure, seek errors are a few of them. Recovering a file or its part can be a daunting task at times. There are, however, file recovery software products which exist, that you can use for the successful restoration of files to your computer. We’d be taking an insight on Recuva and we’ll see how good it is at the task at what it is made to do.
Recuva is available in three versions: free, a paid one which costs $24.95, and another paid one which costs $34.95 with the difference being the support and the number of systems you can use the product on. It works on all major Windows versions...
- Platform: WinOther
- Speccy
- License: Shareware
- Price: 19.95


Sometimes PC users need to find out the details about specific hardware components in their laptop or desktop. This can be driven by sheer curiosity at times. You may also feel like checking whether your GPU is capable of running a specific game with steep requirements or whether your CPU is ideal for using a heavy-duty image editor. Windows inbuilt tools can be used but there are more capable third party diagnostic utilities that you can use. Thankfully, some such tools do not cost you anything! One such example is Speccy. Made by Piriform, the company known for making some quality windows utilities, Speccy can be used to retrieve a plethora of information on all hardware components, networking, and software configuration.
Speccy has a tiny installer and supports Windows XP and later versions. You may also opt for its...
- Platform: WinOther
