Below, appears a description of each file/file types that are included on the default list of garbage files to delete on Clean Disk 2002.

• *.--- = Setup temporary files.
• *.$db = DBase temporary files.
• *.^ = Temporary files.
• *.~ = Temporary files.
• *.~?? = Temporary files made by Windows and not deleted afterwards.
• *.bak = General backup files, can be safely deleted provided you are certain they are no longer needed.
• *.chk = Either lost cluster data from CHKDSK or WordPerfect temporary files.
•  *.db$ = DBase temporary files.
• *.nu3 = Norton Utilities 3.x temporary files.
• *.nu4 = Norton Utilities 4.x temporary files.
• *.old = Backups of files which have been modifies by another program. Delete only if you are sure these files are no longer required.
• *.temp = Temporary files.
• *.tmp = Temporary files made by Windows and not deleted afterwards.
• *._detmp = Some type of temporary files.
• ~$ = Some type of temporary files.
• ~gl = Some type of temporary files.
• acad.err = Error log file.
• detlog.txt = Log file.
• ffastun.* = Temporary files created by Scandisk.
• ie4 error log.txt = Internet Explorer 4 error log file.
• iebak.dat = Internet Explorer temporary backup data.
• ndimage.dat = Norton Disk image data. Can be deleted safely.
• netlog.txt = Log file.
• scandisk.log = Scan disk log file.
• schedlog.txt = Log file.
• *.aet = Temporary AE Software Technologies files.
• system.1st = Windows diagnostic file.
• suhdlg.dat = Windows diagnostic file.
• modemdet.txt = Windows diagnostic file.
• bootlog.prv = Windows diagnostic file.
• *.ilc = Borland c++ temporary files.
• *.ild = Borland c++ temporary files.
• *.ilf = Borland c++ temporary files.
• *.ils = Borland c++ temporary files.
• *.tds = Borland c++ temporary files.
• MSCREATE.DIR = Folder on which files created by installations of Microsoft applications are stored.
• *.$$$ = MS-DOS temporary files.
• FILE_ID.DIZ = Mostly used by shareware authors to describe their applications.

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