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Development caches
npm, cargo, gradle and friends. On a machine used for both coding and gaming this is routinely tens of gigabytes that no traditional cleaner knows about.
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Cleaning
The scan is free.
Including the paid part.
The Cleaner measures everything, including categories only Pro deletes, and shows real bytes from your disk. You see the number before deciding to pay.
What the disk holds
Per-game shader cache and game stores are the two largest slices on a gamer's machine, and the two no ordinary cleaner touches.
Illustrative segments. On your PC the scan measures the real bytes.
Cleaning
What ordinary cleaners never touch
Deleting temp files is a commodity. The value is in what takes curation.
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Game stores
Download cache, already-applied installers and update leftovers from game platforms, the kind of thing that fills an SSD without you noticing.
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Per-game shader cache
Compiled GPU shader cache, separated per game. It regenerates when needed, and a corrupted cache is a common cause of stutter nobody can explain.
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Database compaction
Application databases bloat over time. Maximize compacts them instead of deleting — you get the space back without losing the content.
The honesty rule for the number
- The gigabyte total sums only what was measured on disk. Categories with approximate estimates appear as an item count and are never added to the total.
- The scan measures the paid categories in full. The lock sits at deletion time, item by item, never on the measurement, so you see the number before deciding.
- Nothing is filtered silently: an action requiring Pro is refused up front, with a notice, never half-executed pretending success.
- Every limitation carries its counterfactual, so you never conclude "it freed nothing" without knowing you ran with a fraction of the categories.
The same rule applies to the rest of the product: whatever failed the test was removed, and the reason is published.
Beyond the Cleaner
Seven disk tools
The Cleaner deletes what is junk by rule. These are for when you want to look at the disk with your own hands.
Look before deleting
Disk analyzer, the whole tree by size, read-only, deleting nothing. Large files — what takes the most space, in order. Both are free.
Reclaim space
Duplicates — groups by size and only hashes the candidates, ignoring symlinks. Empty folders and a shredder for what needs to be gone for good.
Disk health
Repair runs Windows's own checks in scan-only mode, changing nothing on its own. Maintenance triggers TRIM per volume and keeps the history.
The honest limit
Shredding and deleting are final operations: the Cleaner does not go through the recycle bin. That is why they create a restore point first, warn first, and never run unless you tell them to.
See what is sitting on your disk
The full scan is free and measures the paid categories too. The number you see is from your disk, not ours.