Version 4.12 gained Ventura compatibility and 4.11 brought substantial update to the Menu Bar, which now offers additional information, such as your laptop’s battery, temperature, and health, your hard drive’s capacity and overall health, your free RAM capacity, and your CPU load and hardware temperature. This popular utility gathers a number of useful tools all in one package, including a file cleaner that will delete junk and unnecessary cache files, optimisation and maintenance tools, an application uninstaller (so that you delete all the files that the app scatters around your Mac) and a malware remover.

Plus, there’s a free version available to download if you’d like to try before you buy. It’s also available to buy as a one-time purchase if you don’t want to get into a subscription. At time of writing, it’s $34.95/ £29.95 for a one year subscription for one Mac.

You may also find files matching programs that are no longer installed these can also be removed.A heavy hitter in the clean-sweep stakes is CleanMyMac X by MacPaw. This will stop the program from telling macOS it needs to be launched. If you see a file name that matches a program you know continues to launch on startup, you can freely delete it. plist files that may be connected to a certain program or service. Select the Library folder that appears and again look for LaunchAgents and LaunchDeamons folders. Open Finder, click Go, and hold down the the Option key. They may also be separately stored within your computer's hidden files. Open your disk drive in Finder-it's usually named Macintosh HD by default-then open Library and look for folders named LaunchAgents and LaunchDeamons. They can even be used for nefarious purposes. These files are hidden in places you won't normally look and tell the computer to launch programs independently of regular startup items. If you still have certain programs opening when you boot up your Mac, it's likely due to launch daemons and agents hidden within your libraries.

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