
These are quite annoying because they may: Unfortunately, lots of free software comes with more or less unwanted add-ons or browser toolbars. Browser toolbars have been around for years, however, in the last couple of months they became a huge mess. In one of our previous posts we wrote about browser extensions and their possibly unwanted effects on our customers' computers. The free version has everything you need and the premium version is only $14.99.Īvast is an excellent company that delivers superior security products but I cannot recommend paying so much for a program that duplicates what is already possible from within Windows.By Thomas Salomon, head of AVAST Software ‘s German Software Development team There are also free alternatives should you want to use them such as CCleaner. You can perform most of the functions from within Windows and the performance benefit of cleaning the registry is still unproven in all but the worst cases.

So is it worth $50 a year? To experienced users, frankly, no. The actual physical performance benefits will be negligible at best if you maintain your system properly, but the psychological benefits could be important, depending on how you look at your computer. The main benefit of Avast Cleanup Premium is the psychological advantage: your computer is being looked after (without you having to do anything) and having its performance boosted by a well known company with an excellent reputation. What’s more, you can use PowerShell or other scripting tools to easily automate these tasks for you.

Avast Cleanup Premium will do all those things for you.

There is a definite benefit to cleaning up old files, cleaning up your hard disks, removing old shortcuts, cleaning out old apps from your browser and deleting junk. Otherwise, if you use Windows 10 and have half-decent computer hygiene habits, you may not see a boost at all. If you have not maintained your PC for years and have been steadily installing and uninstalling apps during that time, you may get an initial performance boost. The jury is still out on whether registry cleaners actually deliver any performance benefit or not.
