If you have ever had to fix a speed issue, for yourself or somebody else,  what bases do you cover? Disk Clean-Up and Defragmentation are two major bases to cover when troubleshooting such issues. Beside speed issues have you ever lost a file or accidently deleted that term paper, or precious family photo, it can be hard to find a tool to recover these priceless files, until now. Now all of these issues are real they, unfortunately, are extremely common! A company call Piriform has created solutions to all the problems above, and did it in a rich way!

CCleaner 

CCleaner is, by far, Piriforms most known program. CCleaner is a very handy tool that allows you to delete things like cookies, temp files, browser history, recycled files, and Windows log files. Now all the above files sit on your Hard Drive and just take up space, that you could you for pictures, documents, and music to name a few. Another feature of CCleaner is the registry cleaner. The Windows registry is like the Amazon Jungle on steroids, and that’s an understatement, and it can get even worse throughout daily use. Things like unused extensions and missing shared DLLs only hurts the computer and bogs it down. A simple swipe or two of CCleaner can clean up the factors of the registry that can hurt your computer’s performance.

Defraggler

When your OS is writing to the Hard Drive it can’t always put the entire file in continuous sectors. So it ends up putting parts of it here and there. So when the OS is reading the file it has to skip all over the place to find all the parts. Defraggler organizes the files in a more organized manner, speeding up file access and reducing HD wear and tear. Hence giving your Hard Drive a long and healthy life!

Recuva

Have you ever had your computer crash or deleted that extremely important file? Well did you know when you delete something out of your Recycle Bin is still on your Hard Drive, this is a good thing for the accident prone. Thought not usable the file or files are still there in a sense, and Recuva can dig them up and restore them to a usable state. So next time your computer crashes or your pictures get deleted, don’t shed a tear, Recuva is here. (Yes, I know that was extremely cheesy!) 

Speccy

Ever wondered how much RAM was in a computer, what processor, or even what graphics card? Well Piriforms latest piece of software, Speccy, can do the job and more! Down to the finest details about your Hard Drive or  any aspect of the hardware in your computer. Speccy is helpful when trying to download drivers for a custom build computer, when you don’t know the make and model of the certain part of the computers anatomy.

All of Piriforms applications are available in installable files or portable applications. This is a great advantage for the user not having to install, use, and then either leave it or uninstall it. Just being able to run it strait from a flash drive or disk is a much better and easy way of carrying and using these applications on the go!

Marc Billow

TechCores Blogger