There is an ever growing selection of cleanup utilities that in each case, view the problem of cleaning up a hard drive from a different point-of-view. Many good tools exists that allow you to clean porn almost all of which feature additional cleaning capabilities. Also remember that there is much more these applications can perform; some have other functions, ie. they can do free space cleaning, perform automated porn removal, find unlicensed software installed on the computer, and show where drive space is being used.

Performance gains can be achieved by cleaning up your computer. Regardless of computer type, a PC can work faster for you when fewer files exist that must be looked after and otherwise handled by the drive storage system. Space freed up after taking the time to do a clean-up will naturally offer performance improvements due to reduced clutter. And the act of defragmenting the drive is vastly improved when the system has lots of free space to shuffle files around in. Also, when private files are deleted, there is less chance that they can be misused by users that have no right to access your data.

What is the best way to go about cleaning your drive? Consider these options; the first option is to select files manually, or secondly you can use an automated tool to do the job. Manual cleaning means examining by hand, the folders on the hard drive and then making a decision about which items can be erased safely, and purging them in your own time. Because you examine each file manually the risks are less than automated methods but the process is time consuming and tedious. Automated cleaning software products that can determine information which include file properties, last opened dates, etc. and internally build a table of files and folders to be removed from the hard drive.