![]() You’ll also find information, such as drive capacities, CPU speeds, system temperature, system load, and network activity readouts, all readily accessible.Ī new feature in version 4.12.4 brings an alert for heavy and unexpected battery consumption.ĬleanMyMac has a simple layout that offers a variety of functions. Version 4.12 gained Ventura compatibility and 4.11 brought substantial update to the Menu Bar, which now offers additional information, such as your laptop’s battery, temperature, and health, your hard drive’s capacity and overall health, your free RAM capacity, and your CPU load and hardware temperature. This popular utility gathers a number of useful tools all in one package, including a file cleaner that will delete junk and unnecessary cache files, optimisation and maintenance tools, an application uninstaller (so that you delete all the files that the app scatters around your Mac) and a malware remover. Plus, there’s a free version available to download if you’d like to try before you buy. It’s also available to buy as a one-time purchase if you don’t want to get into a subscription. At time of writing, it’s $34.95/ £29.95 for a one year subscription for one Mac. The download is free, and you can choose from several subscription offers to keep your Mac safe and running smoothly.A heavy hitter in the clean-sweep stakes is CleanMyMac X by MacPaw. What would be neat to have in Combo Cleaner is the ability to collect and draw data from reports it creates, just to see if you can find trends of privacy issues like time of year when you see more hacks, or map it against the times of the month you have visited more shopping sites than more work related sites.Įven without this extra, Combo Cleaner is a huge plus to have if you have a Mac. Once I restarted, my Mac was like a new machine. I was shown a few gigabytes of unused files, which I proceeded to delete. I have to admit, my Mac was not running as well as it was when I first bought it, so I thought, let’s give this a try. I would highly recommend a Full at least once a month, and an occasional Quick if you have suspicions.Īfter that, I went over to the Disk Cleaner. Other options for antivirus include Quick Scan and Custom. I ran the Full Scan, because I wanted to scrub my machine clean. To start, I ran the Antivirus, just to see if anything popped up and it did! Combo Cleaner found bad files and listed them for me so I could decide on what to do with them. Why keep all of those files if you are not using the app? ![]() The app also offers an App Uninstaller which I found to be brilliant, as so many apps can be “uninstalled,” leaving behind so many files for that app that you don’t need anymore. This includes the Duplicate File Finder, Big Files Finder, Disk Cleaner, Privacy Scanner, and Antivirus. Underneath this, you get results of each function you may have run. ![]() First off you get a dashboard view of the app’s findings: The layout is clear and you can get to each of the app’s functions instantaneously and easily, thanks the icons neatly stacked on the sidebar. Sounds like a strange combination, but it will make all the sense in the world once you download and use it. Combo Cleaner is an app for Macs that I would highly recommend you look into if you are looking to keep your stuff safe and help your Mac run as efficiently as possible. Yet, one has to think that with the advancement of computing power and the cleverness that so many hackers seem to be wielding these days, our Macs may be in need of some assistance to be thoroughly protected. For the most part, they are also very tightly contained, thanks to robust operations systems and meticulous vetting of apps that are “allowed” to run on Mac’s OS’s. Left to their own devices, they deliver superb computing power, freeing you from being fettered by slow running operating systems of yesteryear.
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