Piriform
Encyclopedia
Piriform is a privately owned software house based in the West End
of London
, UK
. It develops software for the Microsoft Windows
and Mac OS X
operating systems. Piriform's projects include CCleaner
, Recuva
, Defraggler
, and Speccy, with at least two more products under development for a future release.
The word Piriform means "shaped like a pear", or "pear-shaped".
West End of London
The West End of London is an area of central London, containing many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings, and entertainment . Use of the term began in the early 19th century to describe fashionable areas to the west of Charing Cross...
of London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. It develops software for the Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
and Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
operating systems. Piriform's projects include CCleaner
CCleaner
CCleaner , developed by Piriform is a Utility program used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer...
, Recuva
Recuva
Recuva is a freeware data recovery program, developed by Piriform, and runs under Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000. It is able to recover files that have been "permanently" deleted and marked by the operating system as free space...
, Defraggler
Defraggler
Defraggler, developed by Piriform, is a free donationware defragmentation utility, which notably allows users to defragment individual files on their computer system. Defraggler runs on Microsoft Windows; it has support for all versions since Windows XP...
, and Speccy, with at least two more products under development for a future release.
The word Piriform means "shaped like a pear", or "pear-shaped".