Appcleaner How to use

Installing and uninstalling software is unavoidable when using OS X systems. You will find that the uninstall software is much more convenient than Windows, the Mac system to uninstall the software, just direct the application of the icon dragged to the waste basket. Although the uninstall process is so simple, but the software left in your directory with the owner of the configuration files, caching and other content will not be cleaned together, although these useless files do not slow down the system, but when it comes up, these garbage files are very expensive disk space. Think of your MacBook-air poor SSD disk, it's important to focus on disk capacity and regularly clean up junk files.

First, download the Appcleaner and install, the first run we can see the following main interface:

This application is simple and convenient, the user simply will need to delete the application software icon to drag into the window can be. At the same time, there are three tab tabs at the top, and click to display a list of currently installed software, a list of Dashboard plug-ins, and other items that can be cleaned up.

Below, we try to remove the effect of Xcode, usually we directly drag the Xcode icon to the wastebasket. This time we'll look at the effect of appcleaner removal. Click on the Applications tab to find the XCode application.

Then click Search to find out what other files are in the main directory under Xcode. Wait a moment, XCode will search out a list of files that need to be cleaned together, as shown in the figure:

Finally, the search to the file and the application click "Delete" can be deleted. Is it simple?

In addition, you can also clean out the widgets that are not used in dashboard, Appcleaner will list them and we can clean out the widgets you don't normally use.

In Appcleaner other list boxes that you can clean up, you will find that many "long-lost" apps are still in the system. For example, the small set in a long time ago installed speeddownload (a download software), unexpectedly after I deleted there is residue.

Whether it is not a personal "neat" mischief, in short, thank Appcleaner to help clear the system of many "rubbish", the heart also feel more comfortable.