You can contact the company for support via a contact form and live chat. There’s a basic FAQ section for SlimCleaner online.
Slimware sells premium tech support for all devices (Image credit: SlimCleaner) Support
That said, these are useful if you’re running an older version of Windows, and it’s handy to get community recommendations and comments on the software and startup items that you have installed.
The Startup Optimizer and Software Manager don’t add anything that you can’t do with built-in Windows 10 tools. The same is true for the Large Files tool. You can’t run the Duplicate Files tool on individual folders, for example, so if you have big drives, it can take a long time to find and sort through duplicates. The default settings are well thought out, though, and Slimware’s Intellicookie system is designed to only remove cookies related to tracking, while keeping cookies that you use to log into websites.īut besides the Disk Scan tool, none of the features are particularly in-depth. It’s worth checking the Disk Scan options before you purge items from your hard drives, as you might irreversibly delete something that you need.
It’s always clear how to do something in SlimCleaner, and everything is well laid out.Įach tool has its own set of preferences and options. By default, when you boot up the program, a Disk Scan is performed automatically. SlimCleaner’s user interface is professional and modern. Please note that the TRIM command is only supported natively in Windows 7, not XP and Vista.The SlimCleaner disk analysis tool works quickly (Image credit: SlimCleaner) Interface and in use
However, the TRIM command, which simply marks a sector as containing no information without actually erasing it-thereby saving a write-has helped tremendously to up the practical write-life of SSDs, though the same are still limits. The latter has generally been thought of as no use performance-wise, and wasteful of an SSD’s limited write cycles.
New features for version 4 include a duplicate file finder, intelligent hard disk optimization, a software updater to compliment the driver updater, and get this-SSD optimization. You can easily add information to the databases from within SlimCleaner, and the company awards you status according to how accurate and helpful your reporting is.Ĭolorful but logical, the Slimware Cleaner interface is easy to use. View Results launches your browser to take you to a database catalog telling you the safety and/or purpose of each item. Community Rating lets you see how other SlimWare users have rated the program and lets you rate it yourself, and More info tells you everything that SlimCleaner and its online database knows about the item. Every item in every pertinent list generated by SlimCleaner has a Community Rating, More info, and View Results button next to it. Run any of the above tools and you’ll most likely see a list of results: Programs that are installed, registry entries that are obsolescent, plug-ins that are present, etc. SlimCleaner neatly divides its functionality over seven main tabs/tools: Cleaner, which removes detritus from the registry, temporary files, and so on Optimize, which lets you to edit startup items and services Software, which lists and uninstalls programs Browsers, which does the same for browser plugins Hijack Log, which lists software that might be cantankerous Disk tools, which lets you optimize or wipe disks and Windows, where you’ll find all the native Windows utilities in one place and in an arguably better arrangement. Aimed primarily at cleaning the junk out of your system, it has the capabilities of several popular programs, including Piriform’s CCleaner and Trend Micro’s HijackThis. SlimCleaner is by far one of the more useful multi-utility tools I’ve run across.