RejZoR's little secrets

There are loads of programs that promise incredible speedups, superior registry cleaning, best file cleaning, best dishwasher and dog walker. The reality is that some of them are ok, but in general they are all bloated and their efficiency is questionable. They tend to clean, well, too much. It sounds cool when a file cleaner cleans several gigabytes of data and registry cleaner shows a 4 digit number of cleaned entries but sooner or later, some program or game will get corrupted because of that.
I'm using Piriform tools for years and even after several months and years of usage, not a single thing went wrong. I'll describe the tools a bit so you'll know what to expect from each.

CCleaner
This was probably their first tool. It's designed to do various maintenance tasks like:
- clean unnecessary files
- clean unnecessary registry entries
- clean sensitive history data
- manipulate startup entries, System Restore points, uninstall entries
- option to securely wipe deleted data

It's very minimalistic but still incredibly powerful and reliable. Clean all the junk and never have to worry about stuff going wrong.

Defraggler
There are bunch of defragmenters on the market and they promise all sorts of things and they come with load of bloat. Defraggler is more straight forward. It's small, it's fast, simple to use and doesn't come with loads of junk. It's basically just one very powerful EXE.
It can quickly defragment files, perform a full placement optimization, allows defragmentation scheduling and even has ability to defragment system locked files at boot-time (pagefile for example).

Recuva
Recovah' aka file recovery tool. It's simple, easy to use and powerful recovery of files. If you ever delete anything by mistake, Recuva just might save your bacon. Have used it couple of times to recover stuff and it did a pretty darn good job.

Speccy
Can't really say much more than it's a system information tool. It will churn out info about your system, what hardware it has inside, what is its status and what software is installed on it.
Nothing more, nothing less.

Also one of the best things about all their tools is that they offer them completely free of charge.
If you need a priority tech support, you can get it for a fee, but programs alone are free.
Good thing is also that you can unpack each installer with 7-zip or WinRAR and extract one EXE and make all these programs portable and even smaller with less stuff on disk.

Piriform webpage:
http://www.piriform.com