Today we will be taking a look at nCleaner. It is a free Windows system cleaning application. This app will let you clean your system, applications, free more disk space, boost your system's speed and get more stability and privacy protection. All for the low, low price of free...

Who could say no to all of that?

Plus in case you're wondering how this differs from apps such as CCleaner, read on for a full list of what Ncleaner will do for you....

nCleaner contains the nkProds patented system and application cleaner chock full of over 90 cleaning items. That is enough to keep any geek busy for an evening. These tools include:

  • a Registry Cleaner
  • a Tweak Manager
  • an advanced Startup Manager
  • a Junk Finder
  • a Free Space Shredder
  • a System Resource Monitor
  • a System Adviser
  • real time system resources monitoring
  • full on logging
  • advanced Scheduling
  • automatic updater
  • plug in options
  • custom clean
  • and advanced statistics

Wow that sure is a mouthful!

So the claim that caught my eye was this:

"nCleaner has the best cleaning ration on the market due to an advance detection algorithm, also providing security and stability. With nCleaner you can free up to 2 GB of unnecessary disk space. nCleaner supports and handles all major Internet browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer (and all derived browsers like Avast), Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and Opera. It also supports and handles all major Instant Messaging applications like Yahoo Messenger, Windows MSN Messenger, ICQ, AOL and Skype, office applications, and system items."

Those are some pretty awesome claims, don't you think?

Let's put nCleaner to the test on some of the laptops I have in a pile labeled "Where computers go to die...". I managed to get a machine up and running and more importantly I got someone's crap filled hard drive going as well. On boot up I saw some crazy icons loading up... But don't worry I am on a separate network so I won't be infecting my co-workers (not today anyway).

I jumped right in and downloaded the <900kb file and performed the default Clean in Analyze Mode. You will want to keep the settings at the defaults, so you don't screw stuff up. After you get a little more comfortable with it deleting files (that cannot be recovered) then you can go back to it (make a backup before you do anything you are not sure of.)

So as you can see, it found all sorts of crap to clean and I let it do its thing and we freed up more than 17 gigz of space. Woot!

Check out some more screen shots of the available options:

What should we clean? I left the choices at their defaults...

Let's remove garbage from our machine. Old log files, help files, Scan Disk files and loads more. Again I left the defaults as to not get into trouble!

So many damn options. Check out the option to auto clean when a partition drops to a certain percentage of free space.

I have tried loads of these types of applications but nCleaner from the same guys who make cCleaner have a great product here and best of all it is absolutely fricking free for non-commercial use. I have introduced this to several end users and they instantly fell in love. Some of them love the memory cleaning options while others like the 'set it and forget it' options included.

Do you have a favorite Windows cleaning application? Let us know what you use in the comments.