Installer
A very straight foreward installer. It has your typical lisence agreement and choose install directory menu but my only gripe is that you have to uncheck a box at the end of the installer in order to avoid a popup to your web browser linking to another product that they have.
NOTE:
After installing the program I ran CCLeaner to see what it cleans first and to see if this program catches anything I missed.
CCLeaner found exactly 2.00MB of data (turns out I have a pretty clean computer).
Software Review
At first glance you would be surprised to find a very, very clean and refreshing user interface. The light colors go very well with windows and are very easy on the eyes. There are 6 toolbar options. Cleaner, Uninstaller, Startup Manager, Tools, Options and Status.
We start in the Cleaner tab and find what appears to be your standard "Check & Clear" interface like CCLeaners, a report box with Analyze, Run Cleaner and Statistics button and what appears to be the companies blog feed and software version history. Also, instead of showing basic hardware information like CCLeaner, they show the current software version, Current master drive, master drive usage and a check for updates link. I would kind of like if the system information was there, but hey the drive usage is much more context relative in this case. So lets see what this program could find...Wow! To my surprise it found more data than CCLeaner in only 1.905 seconds. 3.18MB in all. Looks like CCLeaner might find it's way out of my toolbox. Lets move on to the next page.
The uninstaller is lightyears ahead of CCLeaner's and should be an application in it's own. You have a list of all your apps installed in your PC and when you select one you can click one of the menu bars which are Uninstall, Repair, Update, Support, About and Remove Entry. It's only missing the "Rename Entry" like CCLeaner, but I will forgive them since I never use it. It also has a search function which is REALLY helpful for people like me with over 200 programs in their computers. For an added bonus the bottom bar also has information regarding the application like Name, Location on Drive, Publisher, Version, Support Website, Information Website, Update Website and Contact Link. I'm really a fan of the "Update Link" just so you can make sure where the updates are coming from. So let's uninstall a program...say, CCLeaner? It was pretty straight foreward. Click the uninstall button and it brings you to the uninstaller automagically. Next feature.
The startup manager is again, LIGHTYEARS ahead of CCLeaner's and again should be its own application. It gives you the same list as CCleaner however it loses points because it missed one program in my autostart which is Adobe Bridge. But makes up for it in all the features it gives me. It gives me my standard Disable, Enable and Remove button, but unlike CCLeaner which only gives you Enabled/Disabled Status, Key, Program and File this program gives you Application Name, Command, Company, Signatory, Group and Status. and on the bottom gives you even more detailed information like Description! Now then, next feature.
The tools bar basically just launches built in windows functions like Security Center, System Restore, System Information, Command Line and Scheduled Task with a brief description. It'd be REALLY nice if you can put your own tools there though for techs on the go. But still, it's pretty good to have these quick at hand instead of going through the start menu.
The Options menu lets you customize FCleaner. General Options allows you to Change the language of FCleaner, Run FCleaner on Startup, Auto Clean when FCleaner starts up, And "RUN FCleaner" and "Open FCleaner" to recycling bin context menu, Play sound after analyzing and cleaning, Secure Deletion options, and control the colors of the companies blog links. Browser Cookies allows you to view your current browsers cookies in seperate browser. Meaning there is a drop down box for every browser installed in your system. I like this feature a lot. and the Custom Cleaner allows you to Add, Edit, Remove or Browse custom directories for FCleaner to run through during it's cleaning.
And finally the Status page has three features. About FCleaner, FCleaner Statistics and Supporter... The About FCleaner gives you a plethora of FCleaner information and a paypal link. the FCleaner Statistics button tells you How much your system has cleaned, System information (Ooh, looks like I take back what I said earlier about the lack of basic system information) And Memory information like Physical Memory, Virtual Memory and PageFile. The supporter button just pops up a message that says "Enter your email address here" so I have no idea what it does.
All in all I find this product all around amazing. The only thing though is it doesn't seem to have a manual System Restore tool. So for that reason only I will hold on to CCleaner. But other than that this product is 100% better and I will start using it instead of CCleaner. 10/10
