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You should always exercise extreme caution when using Windows® cleanup and tuning programs like Ashampoo WinOptimizer Platinum Suite on computers with multiple copies and versions of Windows® installed (including Windows® 98, Me, 2000 and XP).

We urgently recommend that only experienced users who really understand what they are doing should use WinOptimizer Platinum Suite on systems running more than one operating system!

The Ashampoo WinOptimizer Platinum Suite modules affected by this issue will identify the presence of multiple Windows® versions and display warning messages before performing potentially dangerous operations. Even so, extreme caution is the best attitude!

Possible consequences

Failure to observe this warning can result in serious damage to your system configuration! The reason for this is that it is quite possible for different copies and versions of Windows® to have large numbers of objects with seemingly identical names and attributes. If you assume that these are unnecessary and delete them then one or more of your systems may stop working properly.

Boot managers

This does not apply if you are using a boot manager that physically hides the drives or partitions containing the other operating system(s) from view, of course, because then Ashampoo WinOptimizer Platinum Suite cannot search these drives. However, you should still be very careful if the visible drives contain any objects or settings belonging to the other operating systems.