A variety of utilities for cleaning a HDD can be found in various categories that assess the matter of hard disk cleanup in different ways. Searching the internet reveals utilities that specialize in helping you erase porn almost all of which feature additional cleaning capabilities. There is usually much is more that that software can do, there are many that also get rid of old data from free space, perform automated porn removal, detect the presence of illegal or unlicensed software, and show the distribution of data on your HDD.

Even though the end result of doing a computer cleanup works in our favour, we must also consider the potential problems before doing anything. We must concede that our key files might be erased in error when using cleaning software, or by accident when manually selecting files and folders for deletion. In any case the cleanup process for unneeded files using either method, takes your time, more so if it is done by hand but even using software for the task can consume time. Generally these risks are not significant and the clear improvements gained clearly override any of these minimal shortcomings.