Quick Introduction
Step 1: Configure System Cleaner Options
Select the
"Options" button on the left panel and browse trough the various
options available. All changes are saved so you only need to do this once.
Most of the default settings are appropriate for the average user so you
probably won't need to change anything.
On the Temporary Files page you can select candidate file patterns... It is in this page that you to specify exactly what kind of files to search for and where to search for them.
Both the Temporary Files and Duplicate
Files options contains a list of disk drive root paths that can be
checked or unchecked. This means that when a path is marked as checked,
then that directory folder and all folders in the hierarchy below it will
be scanned for files. You check or uncheck a path by clicking on the square
to the left of the item.
Step 2: Scanning disk for candidate files...
In this step there is not much for you but to watch. System Cleaner will automatically search the specified root paths (plus subfolders) for the selected file types.
To do this select the "Clean My Computer" button on the left panel and also select the utility you wish to use.
When done,
it will play a beep, and enable the "Clean
All" and "Clean Selected"
buttons and the delete options will also be displayed. You can interrupt
a search by pressing the "Stop"
button.
As candidate files are found, they will be presented in a list. On the
top of this list youÆll see some statistics about the found candidates
and total number of scanned files.
Step 3: Clean up files!
Now that the
candidates have been found, itÆs up to you to delete them! But System
Cleaner will help ease this task for you. All the candidates are presented
(with full path names) in an alphabetically sorted list. Simply select
one or more files in the list and hit one of the buttons above to Delete (permanently û no undo), Recycle
(move to the recycle bin, undo/restore is possible), Backup
and Delete or ZIP and Delete (this
last two options allow to restore the files at a later time using the
Restore Wizard).
If a file path is too long to fit in the æFull pathÆ column, either resize
the column by adjusting the width of the column header, or do a æslow
double-clickÆ on the file and youÆll be able to view the whole path. The
reason that the deletion process canÆt be automatic is that the candidate
search is not 100% secure. There may be files listed as candidates that
you wish to keep and absolutely not delete. It is up to your discretion.
Normally there will never be any problem though û just be sure to take
a look at the files before you delete them!