A cleaner Windows for Adobe work. Room to finish the project.
Premiere and Photoshop fill drives mid-project. eclean previews the clutter, finds forgotten renders by size and date, and watches memory during exports.
Free · Windows 10 and 11
The problem.
The export is due and the C drive is nearly full. Preview files, old renders, and months of temp data have quietly eaten the space, and Windows will not tell you which of it matters.
Halfway through an edit, the drive fills. Premiere's preview files, old exports, a render folder from a project that shipped months ago. Deleting blind is how a deadline gets worse, so most people clear a little, hope it is enough, and carry the problem into the next project.
eclean removes the guessing. Cleanup is previewed by category, so you see what will be removed and how much space it frees before anything happens. The large file finder puts size and modified date next to every result, which makes a forgotten export easy to spot and easy to judge. Your media cache and scratch disk settings stay where Adobe put them, because eclean manages the Windows around your creative apps, not the apps themselves.
Project files hide their weight in predictable places. Renders from delivered work, exports made in three bitrates to test one, and source footage copied twice during a reorganization all look identical in Explorer. The large file finder sorts that story by size and modified date, which is usually all it takes to tell a master file from a leftover. Nothing is bundled into a single alarming number, and nothing is deleted without the preview saying what and how much.
Memory is the other half of a slow export. When Premiere crawls, the question is whether the project is heavy or the PC is spending memory somewhere else, and the live views answer it while the export runs. The tweaks listed further down help around the edges, keeping background apps from running uninvited and letting the scheduler favor the active window, each described in the app's own words before it runs.
Retired software rounds out the cleanup. Creative machines accumulate plugins, trial utilities, and apps from projects past, and standard uninstalls leave traces of most of them. Uninstaller lists desktop programs, Windows apps, and browser extensions together and looks for what remains after removal, so the tools a project needed once do not keep a seat on the drive it no longer earns.
What eclean does here.
Cleanup you can preview before it runs
Clutter is grouped by where it comes from, and you see what will be removed and how much space it frees before anything happens. The large file finder surfaces forgotten renders with size and modified date next to every result. Space watch, part of Pro, tells you which folder is filling a drive.
Pro covers 2 PCs. Family covers 5.
In Cleaner
Live views while the export runs
When an export crawls, live memory and storage views show what is being asked of the hardware right now, so you can tell whether the project is heavy or the PC is busy with something else.
In Your PC
Retired apps, actually gone
Removing software through the standard route often leaves files and registry entries behind. Uninstaller looks for what remains after removal, so a Creative Cloud app you no longer use is actually gone.
In Uninstaller
Free on Windows 10 and 11, no trial timer.
Download freeThe tweaks, by name. Each one explains itself before it runs.
Disable Background Apps
Prevents apps from running in the background when not actively in use. This reduces CPU and memory usage, extends battery life on laptops, and improves overall system responsiveness.
Prioritize Foreground Apps
Configures Windows process scheduling to give higher priority to the active window. This improves UI responsiveness, reduces input lag in games, and provides a smoother multitasking experience.
Disable Automatic Folder Discovery
Disables Windows Explorer's automatic folder type detection which can cause slowdowns on folders with many files. Uses a generic view for all folders.
Every tweak above changes Windows settings, and applied changes land in a history. See how Optimizer works
Proof, then limits.
What you can check
You see what cleaning will remove and how much space it frees before anything happens.
In CleanerThe large file finder shows size and modified date next to every result.
In Cleaner
Where eclean stops
eclean does not manage Adobe's media cache or scratch disk settings. Those belong in your Adobe apps.
It does not update or manage GPU drivers. It manages the Windows around your creative apps.
If eclean steps over a line here, tell us and we'll fix it.
What Pro adds here.
These are the additions the modules on this page gate. Pro covers up to 2 PCs, and Family covers up to 5.
Automatic cleanup clears what apps leave behind every week, even with eclean closed, and clears more when your system drive runs low while eclean is open or in the tray
In Cleaner
Space watch tells you when a drive is filling up and which folder grew, while eclean is open or in the tray
In Cleaner
Secure delete overwrites files in the file shredder before deleting them
In Cleaner
Still deciding? Fair questions, answered.
Is the free version actually useful?
Yes. The core of eclean, understanding your PC and keeping it tidy, is free without time limits or nagging. Pro adds the upkeep that runs on its own, like weekly cleanup.
Do I need eclean if Windows has Storage Sense?
Storage Sense and Disk Cleanup are a good floor, and eclean does not pretend otherwise. They clear temporary files on a schedule, but they do not review app leftovers, startup, or installed software, and they never explain what went. eclean covers that layer and shows its work, so the two are companions more than rivals.
Does it replace tools like CCleaner?
For the everyday maintenance those utilities are known for, yes. eclean covers cleaning, startup, and app management in one place, and the comparison pages walk through the differences feature by feature.