Webroot Window Washer 2010

The more you use your computer and surf the Internet, the more junk you accumulate. This is a concern because it does more than just gunk up and slow down your computer. Webroot Window Washer 6 is designed to clean your system of this accumulated junk. It will clean out your history list, Internet cache, media you've run in Windows Media Player, the history of programs you've run, searches you've done…and that's just the beginning. It will also clean up junk left behind by programs such as Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Flash player, through an associated plug-in.

It's quite simple to use. Click the Wash Now button, and you'll see a list of items it will wash. Click Start and it goes about its job, reporting on its results as it cleans. You may be quite surprised by the amount of junk in your system. For example, on mytest PC, it removed 160.6 MB of junk in the Internet Explorer cache, 451.8 MB of temporary Windows files, and 451.9 MB of junk left behind by Macromedia Flash Player.

Advanced users will be pleased to know that it's easy to configure it to clean the way you want, when you want it to clean. For example, you can choose to keep or kill cookies from specific domains, do its cleaning every time you close your browser or start Windows. You can even have it overwrite files it cleans so it will be very difficult for anyone examining your PC to reconstruct them. Is this program worth it? If you feel comfortable doing the cleaning yourself, and don't mind if you don't get your system completely clean, you can do without it. But if you're looking for a comprehensive 32 bit Windows cleaner, this one is a good way to go.

     

Webroot Window Washer scrubs hundreds of areas on your PC to remove unnecessary files to ensure your privacy and free up valuable disk space. Window Washer cleans all aspects of your browser activity, including Internet history, address bar, cache, cookies, and more. Firefox users now enjoy the same online privacy protection that users of Internet Explorer, AOL and Netscape already enjoy.

Permanent Bleaching
Bleach, an encryption feature, completely overwrites files with random characters to make them unrecoverable. This feature is so powerful it exceeds the tough standards of the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency.

Free Space Cleaner
Free space on your computer contains portions of old and previously deleted files and documents. Window Washer now cleans this area making the files you deleted earlier permanently unrecoverable.

One-click Shredder
Window Washer lets you simply and conveniently shred a folder and all of its contents, or just a single file, in one step. Just a simple right-click will permanently overwrites these files, making them unrecoverable.

Critical File Protection
Window Washer includes built-in safety features to help prevent you from accidentally removing important files. Alerts prompt you to confirm your request to delete special folders, like system folders, My Documents, My Photos, and others, so they remain safe from unintentional deletions.

Smart Cookie Saver
Window Washer deletes the cookies you don't want and lets you keep and save those you do. That way you maintain your preferred Internet settings and log-ins for all your favorite sites.

Flexible Washes
During a wash, Window Washer automatically cleans the latest versions of your favorite programs such as Microsoft Office, Google Search Toolbar, iTunes, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Acrobat and hundreds more, to keep these programs running smoothly.

Automatic Wash Cycles
You can set Window Washer to automatically clean your system at specified intervals, like at shut down or start up. For added security, we recommend setting Window Washer to wash when you close your Internet browser.

Total System Erase
Window Washer can be set to fully erase your hard drive, files, programs and operating system for easy re-formatting. Consider using this feature if you're donating or selling your PC and you don't want your files to be seen by strangers.