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# How to understand your eclean Score

Your eclean Score is a high-level signal that helps you understand whether your PC may need cleanup, optimization, or attention in another app area. It is meant to guide you toward the next action, not replace your own judgment.

| Treat the score as a guide for where to look next, not as a diagnostic verdict on your entire PC.

### How to use your eclean Score

1. **Open Home:** Go to the eclean Home dashboard.
2. **Review the score:** Look at the current score and any surrounding context shown on the dashboard.
3. **Check what changed recently:** Think about recent cleanup, Optimizer, Booster, or uninstall actions that may affect the score.
4. **Open the relevant feature:** Use the dashboard signals to move into Cleaner, Booster, Optimizer, or Your PC.
5. **Take one action at a time:** Run or review the recommended area, then return to Home afterward.

### What the score means

* A lower score does not always mean something is broken. It may mean eclean has found cleanup or optimization opportunities.
* A higher score does not guarantee that every Windows issue is solved.
* If a specific feature page shows a warning or failed action, prioritize that detail over the general score.

### Technical deep dive

#### How the dashboard score is calculated

The Home dashboard score is a weighted score from four areas:

| Area | Weight | What eclean uses |
| ---- |
| Optimizer | 30% | How many available Optimizer tweaks are currently enabled |
| Cleaner | 30% | How recently Cleaner history shows a successful cleanup |
| Booster | 30% | How many startup apps are currently disabled |
| Uninstaller | 10% | Currently treated as 100% in the dashboard score |

The formula is:

```text
score = optimizer_progress * 0.3
      + cleaner_progress * 0.3
      + booster_progress * 0.3
      + 100 * 0.1
```

eclean rounds the final result to the nearest whole number.

#### Optimizer progress

Optimizer progress is based on the enabled state of the available Optimizer tweaks:

```text
optimizer_progress = enabled_optimizations / total_optimizations * 100
```

If no Optimizer tweaks are available in the loaded summary, Optimizer progress is `0`.

#### Cleaner progress

Cleaner progress is based on the most recent Cleaner History entry.

If you have never cleaned, Cleaner progress is `0`. After a cleanup, the value decays over time:

| Time since last clean | Cleaner progress |
| ---- |
| Today | 100 |
| Yesterday | 95 |
| 2-7 days ago | Starts at 91 and drops by 4 points per day, down to 70 |
| 8-30 days ago | Starts below 70 and drops by 2 points per day, down to 30 |
| More than 30 days ago | Starts at 30 and drops by 5 points for each additional 10-day block, down to 5 |

The cleaner part of the score does not measure how much junk exists right now. It measures recency from Cleaner History.

#### Booster progress

Booster progress is based on startup apps:

```text
booster_progress = 100 - (enabled_startup_apps / total_startup_apps * 100)
```

If there are no startup apps in the summary, Booster progress is `100`.

This means fewer enabled startup apps increases the Booster portion of the score. It does not measure DNS settings, Performance Mode, or every Booster tool.

#### Uninstaller progress

The dashboard score currently gives the Uninstaller portion a fixed `100`. Because this area has a 10% weight, it contributes 10 points to the final dashboard score.

The dashboard still shows installed software summary information separately, but that count does not reduce the current score.

#### Score ranges shown in the app

eclean uses these ranges for the status label:

| Score | Status |
| ---- |
| 90-100 | Excellent |
| 75-89 | Good |
| 50-74 | Fair |
| 25-49 | Needs Attention |
| 0-24 | Critical |