


Other programs, like Windows Media Player, Microsoft Office, McAfee, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, and WinZip also leave such files on your computer. Internet browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera all leave behind unwanted files.

CCleaner takes care of all that.ĬCleaner removes all the “junk” on your computer. The programs we download and run sometimes leave small traces like broken shortcuts and temporary files. And, in 2014, the company launched an Android version as well.īelieve it or not, computers accumulate a lot of junk over time. However, in 2012, Piriform developed and released a CCleaner version for macOS. The software initially only worked on Microsoft Windows. It was first launched way back in 2004 by a company called Piriform, which Avast only recently acquired in 2017. Originally called Crap Cleaner, the software shortened its name and now only goes by CCleaner. CCleaner is a downloadable computer utility program.
