Drive Cleaner seeks out and deletes redundant files on your computer drive, freeing up valuable space and streamlining your system.
The default settings are safe and will only find items that can be safely deleted. If you are not sure about setting the options just leave the standard settings as they are. This will produce good cleanup performance with maximum protection for your system. See Options and Security for details.
Important Tips and Notes:
Empty the Recycle Bin before deleting anything:
| · | When Drive Cleaner deletes items it moves them to the Recycle Bin so that you can recover them if necessary. If the Recycle Bin is empty before you start it's much easier to find the items you want to recover.
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Check the results the first time you use the program:
| · | Drive Cleaner identifies many redundant items on the basis of their file extensions (e.g. *.tmp, *.bak etc). Application programs should not use these extensions for files containing important information, but unfortunately some of them do. We have excluded the known problem candidates in the Exceptions screen, but if you or a less well-known program uses these extensions for important files they will be identified as redundant by Drive Cleaner. This applies in particular for old Windows® 3.1 and DOS programs written before the standards became established.
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| Because of this you should always click on Details in the Results screen before deleting anything the first couple of times you use the program. If you find important files there you can add them to the exceptions by right-clicking and selecting either Add Highlighted File(s) to Exceptions to exclude the individual files from future scans or Add Highlighted Folder(s) to Exceptions to exclude the entire folders containing the files.
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Exercise extreme caution on systems with multiple versions of Windows® installed:
| · | Deleting files identified as redundant can be very risky on "multiboot" systems with more than one instance of Windows® (the same or other versions) installed. If the other Windows® instances are not on hidden partitions Drive Cleaner will display a warning. Please take this seriously and only use the program on a multiboot system if you are absolutely sure that you know what you are doing! See the Multiple Versions of Windows® topic for more details on this issue.
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