AUGUST 2019 MACWORLD 91
CleanMyMac’s Extensions modules provides a central location for enabling and disabling
software extensions, like those for Safari or macOS.
HANDY MODULES
MacPaw set out to make its menu-bar
utility much better and has succeeded. A
quick click on the icon reveals handy
information such as how much space is left
on each of your drive partitions, your Mac’s
CPU load, how much RAM is available,
your computer’s operating temperature,
and other useful information. This is a nice
touch and the menu can be customized as
you see fit.
The modules are the key to
CleanMyMac and it’s handy to be able to
quickly enable and disable macOS
extensions with the Extensions module, or
hunt down extraneous files with the Large
& Old Files module, which lets you see
which files are devouring space and erase
them quickly. The Uninstaller module was
able to quickly locate and pick off
unnecessary applications during testing
and accomplished something I’d never
seen before in an application removal
utility: it removed multiple applications at
once, which is quite useful. The
Maintenance module handles tasks such
as clearing RAM, running maintenance
scripts, clearing the DNS cache, and