Path guards
CleanSpeed never follows symbolic links, junctions or reparse points out of the folder a rule targets. If a file changes between scan and cleanup, it’s skipped.
Safety comes first, by design
CleanSpeed is built to be hard to misuse. Here’s exactly what happens between pressing Scan and getting your space back.
Under the hood
The cleanup pipeline
Every cleanup runs the same six steps. None is skipped, and none deletes anything on the spot.
Detect
Signed rules describe known locations. Detection never changes anything.
Classify
Each item gets a risk level, evidence and an estimated size.
Preview
You see everything first. Only Safe items are preselected.
Quarantine
Paths and file IDs are re-checked, then items are moved — not destroyed.
Verify and log
Results are verified and written to a local, auditable log.
Roll back
Restore any operation from History while it’s in quarantine.
Risk levels
- Safe
Low risk with clear evidence, such as temporary files. Selected by default.
- Review
Your call — downloads, duplicates or cookies. Never selected automatically.
- Caution
May affect how an app or Windows behaves. Shown with extra explanation and never automatic.
- Info
Diagnostic information only. Nothing here can be deleted.
Never removed automatically
- Your documents, photos, videos and projects
- Browser passwords and autofill data
- Apps’ own user data
- Files needed for system restore, boot or updates
- Unknown system files
- Files that are locked or in use
- Files not yet synced to the cloud
- Anything that can’t be recovered, without your explicit confirmation
How quarantine works
Cleaned items are moved to a protected quarantine folder on the same device and kept for the period you choose in Settings. Until then, a single click restores them to their original location. If quarantine fails, the item is left untouched.
Free up space without the worry
Download CleanSpeed, run a scan and decide what goes. You can always undo.
- No ads
- No account
- Open, signed rules