SlimCleaner Free

Slimware Utilities SlimCleaner Free cleans and tunes Windows PCs using ratings and recommendations aggregated from its user base. Users can rate programs, startup items and services, and those ratings are shown to the rest of the community. In this way SlimCleaner combines a cleaning utility with a community of users and does a good job cleaning systems full of unwanted software.

Features:

• Use the clean feature to remove unneeded files while keeping the ones you want
• Use the optimize feature to manage which programs start with Windows and rate programs
• Speed up boot time by disabling unnecessary startup items and services
• Schedule tune-up sessions

Tunes your PC for better performance using crowd-sourced ratings and recommendations from other users.

SlimCleaner has an easy to read interface with a clear color scheme. It has many tabs for different features including Cleaner, Optimize, Software, Browsers, Disk Tools, Windows Tools, and Hijack Log. SlimCleaner also displays the PC's operating system, CPU, and GPU information.

The Cleaner area is a section that contains tabs for Windows, Applications, Browsers, Advanced, and Registry. Using the Analyze button makes the program search for and return a list of unneeded items. Using the Clean button gets rid of junk files and web cookies but can preserve log-in cookies.

The Optimize option lets you choose which programs and services start at boot and rate them. The Software section warns you if you are about to remove software that is well rated by the community. In order to load the community ratings, you must be connected to the internet.

After optimizations, one review reported noticeable improvements when opening common programs like iTunes and Steam.

One review stated that they didn't like how SlimCleaner sometimes opens a secondary window when you choose an option.

PCMag listed "Powerful tune-up abilities. Free." among the pros and gave SlimCleaner 4.0 a Best of the Year award in its utility category. You can also schedule tune-up sessions and use browser clean-up/search engine selection tools.

Among the cons PCMag noted "Can't uninstall multiple applications at once". Version 4.0 also added Intelligent Defrag, SSD optimization, a Duplicate File Finder and a Software Updater. Some users do not like that the community features need a web connection.

Holistically SlimCleaner Free has effective features combined with community ratings. It is no longer developed: later SlimCleaner releases became trial software that needed a paid license, and the Slimware Utilities website is now offline.