It's like taking an item off a restaurant menu - doing so doesn't delete the dish from the kitchen! Note that deleting the entry doesn't uninstall the program. Or say you deleted the program folder manually without running the installer.Įither way, you can delete the entry in the installed programs list. Why would you do this? Say you uninstalled the program before, but it didn't quite uninstall itself correctly and it's still listed as an installed program. CCleaner lets you see a list of all your programs right away.Īnother reason CCleaner is better is that you can simply delete an entry in the Programs to Remove list. CCleaner can uninstall programs just like the Add/Remove Programs part of Windows' Control Panel.ĬCleaner is better, though, because once you've installed a lot of programs, the Add/Remove Programs applet takes a long time to start.
