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  2. CCleaner - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCleaner

    CCleaner (/ ˈ s iː ˌ k l iː n ər /; originally meaning "Crap Cleaner"), [6] developed by Piriform Software, is a utility used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer.

  3. Piriform Software - Wikipedia

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    Piriform Software Ltd. is a British software company based in London, owned since 2017 by Avast which itself became part of Gen Digital in 2022. The company develops cleaning and optimisation tools for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Android operating systems, including CCleaner, CCleaner Browser, Defraggler, Recuva and Speccy.

  4. Product activation - Wikipedia

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    A product key is required to proceed and use Windows 95. In one form, product activation refers to a method invented by Ric Richardson and patented (U.S. patent 5,490,216) by Uniloc where a software application hashes hardware serial numbers and an ID number specific to the product's license (a product key) to

  5. Gen Digital - Wikipedia

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    The natural language system was named "The Intelligent Assistant". Turner chose the name of Q&A for Symantec's flagship product, in large part because the name lent itself to use in a short, easily merchandised logo. Brett Walter designed the user interface of Q&A (Brett Walter, director of product management). Q&A was released in November 1985.

  6. Recuva - Wikipedia

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    www.ccleaner.com /recuva Recuva ( / r ɪ ˈ k ʌ v ə / ) [ 2 ] is an undeletion program for Windows , developed by Piriform Software . It is able to undelete files that have been marked as deleted ; the operating system marks the areas of the disk in which they were stored as free space. [ 3 ]

  7. Registry cleaner - Wikipedia

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    Registry cleaners seem to no longer be supported by Microsoft, despite originally having made and distributed their own registry cleaner under the name of RegClean. Currently, vendors of registry cleaners claim that they are useful to repair inconsistencies arising from manual changes to applications, especially COM -based programs.

  8. Speccy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speccy

    www.ccleaner.com /speccy Speccy , developed by Piriform Software , is a freeware utility software and runs under Microsoft Windows 11 , Windows 10 , Windows 8 , Windows 7 , Vista and XP for both IA-32 and x64 versions of these operating systems , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] which shows the user information about hardware and software of the computer.

  9. Talk:CCleaner - Wikipedia

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    Via Google News CCleaner has 600+ news articles that use its name. Via Alexa.com if you compare ccleaner.com, lavasoftusa.com, safer-networking.org which are the sites for CCleaner, Ad-aware, and Spybot respectively you will find that CCleaner.com is currently rating ABOVE the other two in reach, page rank, and page views.