Avast Cleanup

Avast Cleanup is the program intended for cleaning, acceleration of work and recovery of capacity of computers and also elimination of different problems in operation of the PC.

2019: Automatic update of programs and automatic service

On January 30, 2019 the Avast company announced release of the latest version of Avast Cleanup — the flagman tool for optimization of the PC which in the provided version includes automatic update of programs and automatic service. These Avast Cleanup functions, according to the developer, guarantee that popular third-party applications will be timely updated, revealing critical errors and stopping applications, the exhausting resources which can reduce device capacity.

"Our report Avast PC Trends 2019 showed that average age of home PCs grows. The device is more senior, the more often users stakivatsya with performance concerns and security. Besides, even new computers are delivered with the preset programs, and when people install applications necessary for them, operation of devices can already slow down considerably at the beginning of their use. The functions provided by us are intended to help users with these problems". Ondrzhey Vlchek, president of division of consumer solutions Avast

According to the statement of Avast, automation of software updatings and routine maintenance allows to support the PC in good condition and also not to miss the appearing functions for applications.

Automatic update of programs

According to the developer, function updates the most popular programs, including VLC Media Player and Skype. According to the report of Avast PC Trends Report 2019, updating of these two applications is ignored most often — 94% of installations became outdated.

Function of automatic update regularly checks installed applications for existence of new versions and executes unostentatious installation of the last updates not to disturb the user. Such timely updating, according to the developer, reduces the probability of problems with security or errors. At will it is possible to switch off function and to update programs manually, noted in Avast.

Automatic service

In the provided version of Avast Cleanup includes automatic routine maintenance which is executed each seven days to guarantee that devices are in good condition. This function deletes the damaged labels, residual unnecessary files, cache elements browser, files cookie and magazines OS Windows and other applications freely and safely, claim in Avast.

2018

Avast Cleanup for the PC and Mac

On November 12, 2018 the Avast company released versions of solutions of Avast Cleanup for the PC and Mac for maintenance and optimization of performance. The updated Avast tools will help owners of the PC to delete not used software which hangs in memory and takes away resources. Users of Mac will be able to bring order to storage of photos to make a disk space and to accelerate system operation.

As noted in Avast, on the PC and notebooks it is possible to find programs which are not necessary to users. Such applications take the place, worsen overall performance, reduce reliability of a system and discharge the accumulator. The presented solution Avast Cleanup helps to win against "programs zombies", detects advertisement supplements, trial versions of programs, the toolbars and another unnecessary preset by software. It is also possible to reveal applications which were not started for a long time.

Avast Cleanup for the PC creates the list of all installed programs with score assigned to them. A source of these individual estimates — "black" and "white" lists, heuristic algorithms, the recommendatory Avast mechanism and also cloud user rating. Thus, the owner of the PC will be able to solve what to delete with software and what to leave. If any program raises doubts, it can be placed in a quarantine — the safe area where it will not consume resources. When the user is sure that this application is not required to him any more, it can be deleted.

There are situations when the solution is started rather often, it is undesirable to uninstall it, but at the same time the owner of the computer does not want that it loaded a system when it does not use it. The patented Avast "Sleep mode" function temporarily freezes all background activity of the application — service, the planned tasks and elements of automatic loading. At start by the user of such Avast Cleanup program automatically activates all necessary processes. It allows to save resources and to increase performance that is especially important if on the computer many applications are installed, the solution designer emphasized.

The solution Avast Cleanup for Mac offers the Photo Cleaner function (Cleaning of a photo). She detects the low-quality or repeating photos and offers recommendations about their removal for users. Photo Cleaner is able to recognize duplicates — almost identical or very similar pictures and also low-quality pictures — blurred, with the insufficient permission, too dark or excessively saturated. Having got rid of them, owners of Mac will be able to release a disk storage, claim in Avast.

System requirements: Windows 7 8 or 10; processor Pentium class IV or Athlon 64, 256 MB of RAM. Mac: macOS 10.9 (Maverick) or later version, at least 500 MB of an empty seat on a disk. Automatic update security systems requires connection to network Internet.

Tool kit

For January, 2018 Avast Cleanup offers the following tool kit:

• Sleep mode
  • The patented method of setup transfers all resource-intensive applications to sleep mode that the PC worked quicker.

• Shortcut Cleaner
  • Deletes old labels from a desktop and magazines OS Windows and other applications.

• Service by one click
  • Accomplishment of 6 critical tasks of cleaning and setup with one mouse click.

• Disk Cleaner
  • Safe removal of the files which remained after accomplishment of processes of Windows OS and more than 200 most widespread programs for the PC.

• Registry Cleaner
  • Removal of the hidden unnecessary data from the register of Windows OS and elimination of problems.

• Browser Cleaner
  • Removal of residual unnecessary files and cookie files from more than 25 browsers, including Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Yandex.Browser and IE.

• Setup panel and center of support
  • Fast overview of a status of the PC.

• Removal of useless resource-intensive software
  • Detects and deletes third-party trial versions, advertizing and the toolbars which are not necessary to the user.

Release of the version of Premium

The Avast company announced on January 10, 2018 release of the version of the product Avast Cleanup Premium for optimization of capacity of the PC. The solution allows to increase the speed of operation of the PC, to clean a disk space, to solve common problems and to personalize work at the computer.

According to developers, Avast Cleanup Premium provides higher performance, makes a disk space and provides support by means of a number of functions.

Cleaning of the PC in one click

This option allows users to analyze a system, without making efforts. Right after program installation it begins to scan labels, eliminating any broken links, cleans a cache and deletes cookie-files and unnecessary files from a disk.

Sleep mode

Patented Sleep mode of Avast Cleanup is a step forward in the field of the configured software. Many programs, for example, of iTunes, Skype or Adobe Reader, have a number of services, boot elements and scheduled tasks which remain active even when the program is not used. Stopping this work through Sleep mode, Avast gives a priority to the programs used at present that allows the device to work more smoothly and quickly.

Cleaning of a disk and browser

Windows and its programs make a huge number of residual data, generate log files in the background and store temporary files. The Disk Cleaner function deletes garbage more than from 200 applications and Windows functions, ensuring functioning during which nothing takes the valuable place. The Browser Cleaner function deletes residual unnecessary and temporary files which users are not able to delete. Functions are compatible to 25 browsers, including Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox.

Cleaning of software

The Cleaning of Software function is necessary for removal of the preset programs, trial versions and the toolbars which do not use.

Centers of the help and support

The center of the help Avast allows the user to cancel almost everything optimization, made through Avast Cleanup Premium. The center of support in real time notifies on all problems which can be corrected one click, specified in Avast.