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CCleaner Professional Plus

The maintenance bundle with the cleaner, the defragmenter, the file recovery tool, and the hardware inspector together, all running at the professional tier.

Version 6.41.0.2 118 MB Windows 7 / 8 / 10 / 11 (64-bit) Updated 2 days ago

Overview

What this release is

The Plus bundle is four separate programs rather than one. The cleaner itself removes temporary files, browser caches, log files, and the accumulated leftovers of uninstalled software. Defraggler handles drive defragmentation on the file level, Recuva recovers deleted files, and Speccy reports what hardware is actually inside the machine down to the memory module timings.

The professional tier adds real time monitoring to the cleaner, which watches disk usage and clears junk automatically when a threshold is crossed, along with scheduled cleaning and automatic browser cleaning on close. On a machine used heavily this keeps a drive from slowly filling with cache that nobody ever looks at.

The registry cleaner remains the most argued about feature, and the sensible position is the conservative one. It finds genuinely orphaned entries, it backs up before every change, and it is worth running occasionally rather than obsessively. The startup manager beside it is more useful day to day, since disabling three autostart entries does more for boot time than any registry pass.

The driver and software updaters at this tier check installed versions against a catalogue and flag what is behind, which is a reasonable way to catch the applications that never prompt for their own updates.

Feature set

What you get

Cleaner

Removes temporary files, browser caches, logs, and the leftovers of software that was uninstalled long ago.

Real time monitoring

Watches disk usage and clears junk automatically when the configured threshold is crossed.

Defraggler

File level defragmentation with the option to target individual large files rather than the whole drive.

Recuva

Recovers deleted files from drives and memory cards, with a deep scan mode for difficult cases.

Speccy

Full hardware inventory down to memory timings, drive health, and component temperatures.

Startup manager

Lists and disables autostart entries, scheduled tasks, and context menu additions in one place.

Changes in this build

What changed

Cleaning rules updated for current browser versions
Health check reworked to explain what it intends to remove before doing it
Driver updater catalogue expanded
Smaller memory footprint for the background monitoring service
Fixed the scheduled clean that failed to run after a system sleep

Installation

How to install it

Extract the archive to any convenient folder.
Run setup as administrator and deselect the optional components you do not want during installation.
Apply the included licensing step before the first launch.
Open the program and confirm the professional features show as active rather than as upgrades.
Review the cleaning rules before the first run so nothing you want to keep is removed.

Hardware

System requirements

Processor	Any 1 GHz or faster processor
Memory	1 GB minimum, 2 GB recommended
Graphics	No requirement
Storage	500 MB free space
Display	1024 x 768
System	Windows 7 through Windows 11, 64-bit

Package

Release information

Title	CCleaner Professional Plus
Version	6.41.0.2
Developer	Piriform
Category	System Utilities
Platform	Windows 7 / 8 / 10 / 11 (64-bit)
Package size	118 MB
Interface languages	Multilingual (40 interface languages)
Release identifier	BS-06410002
Listed	7 years ago
Last rebuilt	2 days ago
Total downloads	243,772

Questions

Before you start

Is the registry cleaner safe to run?

It backs up before every change. Keep the backup until the machine has run normally for a few days.

Does it clear saved browser passwords?

Only if that box is ticked. Check the browser section before the first run.

Should an SSD be defragmented?

No. Use the trim function instead. Defraggler detects solid state drives and warns accordingly.

Do the four programs install separately?

They install together but run as separate applications with their own windows.