System cleanup: Five good degunking tools

By Jack Wallen November 3, 2014, 11:50 AM PST

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System cleanup: Five good degunking tools

Introduction

All systems, be they desktops, laptops, smartphones, orrntablets need a little cleaning now and then. Sometimes the cleaning is just arnsimple riding various caches or deleting unwanted files. Other times, therncleaning is deeper and more involved. No matter what the situation, you needrnthe tools to be able to rid that system of what ails it.

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Clean Master

Shouldrnyou be using a rooted device, Clean Master will allow you to uninstall carrierrnbloatware. Clean Master also includes a widget so you can free up RAM with arnsingle tap. Rooted devices can move some apps to the SD card (through CleanrnMaster). Clean Master is a free app installed from the Google Play Store.

BleachBit

BleachBitrnalso cleans up temp files from apps like LibreOffice, Thunderbird,rnTransmission, and VLC, X11, as well as app thumbnail files and system files. BleachBitrncan be run safely as a standard user — or it can clean more thoroughly (butrnmore dangerously) as the root user. BleachBit is free and open source.

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