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Right-clicking anywhere in the Details window displays additional functions in a pop-up menu. Click here for more information.

Highlighting Items:

Clicking on an entry highlights it. To select a consecutive block of items hold down SHIFT and click in the list. To select multiple items out of order hold down CTRL and click in the list.

Items found by search filters:
These are the results of the search using the Filters settings (e.g. *.tmp and *.bak). Deleting these items is almost always safe unless you have old programs (particularly DOS programs) that use the extensions defined in the Filters screen for important files -- or if you yourself use these extensions for important files. If you do, just select the Exceptions button and add these files or folders to exclude them from the scans.

Items in temporary folders:
These are the results of the search for items in the Windows® temporary folders. Since these files can be deleted by definition it is always OK to delete them, provided no programs using them are currently running. (This is one of the reasons why you should never have other programs running when using Ashampoo WinOptimizer Platinum Suite.)

Orphaned shortcuts and contents of the Recent Documents list in the Start menu:

For a number of reasons, Windows® and Windows® applications often "forget" to delete shortcuts when they are no longer needed. These lost shortcuts serve no useful purpose and can always be deleted because the objects they refer to no longer exist - even if you tried to use them you would just get an error message.

Drive Cleaner can find both orphaned Windows® shortcuts (*.lnk) and orphaned DOS shortcuts (*.pif). See Options for details.