Microsoft Made Its Own CCleaner

Microsoft has a program called "PC Manager" which aims to help you "clean up" Windows - but should you use it?

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[SpanishGarbo]

5:25 I love how for advanced users b-roll they just walked up to Jake to film him chilling at his desk at that's it.

[testadirapanello]

- How many air quotes shall we put?
- Yes.

[ghostbiggie]

Never thought I’d see a video from LTT towers featuring Jose Mourinho

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Damn Riley, you got a permit for those assault air quotes?!

[BobMotster]

Wow, an app that lets me restore all the unwanted apps that come with Windows and which I meticulously removed as soon as I installed the OS. How convenient!

[JoeBob]

Funnily enough, the only reason I use CCleaner is to clean up the registry.
Of course I know it's not going to speed up my system. but I just use it after I uninstall a bunch of programs, particularly when I have to force-delete parts of the program that wouldn't uninstall properly, like Norton, Photoshop, malware, etc.. Because CCleaner is good for finding dead parts of the registry after the programs get removed.

[vedanshchn]

That PC Manager app doesn’t kill any of those MS apps though which clearly hog the memory yet are absolutely useless.

[erniemiller]

I tried PC Manager early on. One of the files it immediately "cleaned" was any passwords Chrome had saved for me. But, it left those saved by Edge. It also loaded a screen that asked whether i wanted to switch to Bing, and as i went to press the "No" button, it loaded another image that moved the "Yes" button to where the "No" button was ...thus I hit "Yes" instead of "No" and required some major PC surgery to change it back.

[worldsails]

"I don't think" you "know how" to use "air quotes" properly.

[Scionwest]

Why wasn't the MSI sponsorship wrapped in air-quotes like everything else in the video lol.

[gallorumrex]

For those that remember Vista, the whole "secret" to keep that running smooth was at least a weekly clearing of the temp files. Once I had that habit, I never let it go and have been doing it since. So, not having to dig down to the disk cleaner and one tapping it from PC Manager has been seen as a good thing here.

[LunaStar]

I personally will give this a go as even though I've been using PCs for about 28 years and have a decent amount of understanding how to use a PC, just because of my ADHD and some learning difficulties it'll cut down on myself being overwhelmed, lost and stressed.

[carlbeaver]

But will it remove OneDrive? It IS the most common complaint and NOBODY wanted it in the first place.

[BlueHorde]

I switched from CCleaner to Glary Utilities a few years ago- I'd love to see a really good comparison.

Glary is not as polished, but has more features and gives better control of what it does. I made the switch because of rumblings about CCleaner vulnerabilities and to get away from Avast - which had annoyed me as a antivirus, so I switched to AVG - only to have that be taken over by Avast - necessitating my migrating to Bitdefender. So Avast acquiring Piriform was enough for me to look for a CCleaner alternative.

Glary does the job pretty well, but I don't know if it is really better - I'd love to see a match up.

[rossgirven]

1:22 some ‘unwanted crap’ keeps running every time I boot up my pc.
I think it’s called windows or something like that.

[zomfgroflmao]

I resolved the 'family IT person' problem by just installing Linux on the hardware of my parents. They just use their laptops to browse, answer emails or write some text, all of which is easily done with Linux and so far there were no accidental downloads and the only two times I was called on was because some files wouldn't open because the default program wasn't set yet.
Overall made my life a whole lot easier.

[delicious_seabass]

Microsoft: "We'll help you remove all that bloat... so we can install our own."

[ChrisSh]

Wait, wasn’t there a video recently where LTT said CCleaner was actually pretty good?

[ALionlikeMane]

As a 20yr it guy (and obviously the family tech too), I not only want this to get my own dupes under control... I wanna install it on every older client's computer.

[soulaesthete]

I dropped CCleaner many years ago and now use Glary Utilities, which does a great job with no issues.