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Steven Avery:
Hi Folks,

A concern or warning ..

Cleanup Assistant
http://www.cleanupassistant.com/

Has one very negative review at CNet claiming the default settings were destructive. And little is positive on the net, although it was included in the normally reliable PC Utilities mag from UK. And while Softonic does not indicate anything terrible, Cleanup Assistant is found lacking.
http://cleanup-assistant.en.softonic.com/

An addition is:
http://iisoftware.net/index.php?clean.html
System Wiper

Which gets generally solid reviews, but the last version is 2004, showing Mozilla and not Firefox.  Unless that changes, probably of no real interest, despite also being in the new PC Utilities Mag. Design looked okay, though.

Shalom,
Steven

Steven Avery:
Hi Folks,

One more freeware cleaner, in Spanish, from April 2008.
Actually looks pretty nice.

http://argentesoftware.blogspot.com/
Argente - System Cleaner 1.0.1.4

Pics look ok, here.
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Argente-System-Cleaner-Screenshot-97869.html

There isn't much on the net about this company.  I generally prefer to see some presence on Snapfiles.  Secondly, FileForum, MajorGeeks, NoNags.  Or of course DC.  However with the language issue on the website that can be slower.

CNET has two products.
http://www.download.com/Argente%20Software/3260-20_4-6299749.html

Softpedia has six.
http://www.softpedia.com/progMoreBy/Publisher-Argente%20Software.html

And Automatize might be good for a simple scheduler.  I am looking for one that is stronger and nicer-to-use than the XP scheduler.  I realize the script language approach, like AutoHotKey, might be the solution par excellence.

Shalom,
Steven

Steven Avery:
Hi Folks,

Since we are discussing clean-up in preparation for partition, this is a good time to add to this thread.
(Later perhaps the information can be condensed in one new "Freeware Cleaners Roundup".)

Surprisingly, the next group of added cleaners are actually quite interesting and strong. 

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NEW CLEANUP ADDS

ClearProg (2004-2009, plugins began 2008) - Sven Hoffmann - Germany
http://www.clearprog.de/programme/clearprog/index_new.php?lang=en
Forum
http://www.clearprog.de/forum.php?lang=en

Disk Cleaner (2008) - open source
http://www.diskcleaner.nl/
Forums
http://www.diskcleaner.nl/forum/index.php

Sweepi  - Switzerland
http://www.yooapps.ch/?siteID=B4963080C439B66832787C57B5893A45

G-Lock Temp Cleaner (2003, forum active 2009)
http://www.glocksoft.com/temp_cleaner/
Forum
http://www.justlan.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=7d17545056f53985954fa9bd9adb9956

CleanCache 3.5 - (2006)
http://majorgeeks.com/download4122.html

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FIVE SPECIALTY CLEANUPS

PureRa -  Paul McLain & Fred de Vries (careful on desktop.ini - Wilders note 10/2008)
http://raproducts.org/purera.html

JavaRa -  Paul McLain & Fred de Vries
http://raproducts.org/javara.html

MRU Blaster - JavaCool
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/mrublaster.html

CleanAfterMe - Nirsoft
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/clean_after_me.html
CleanAfterMe - a new Nirsoft tool
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13448.0

Index.dat Suite -  Ur I.T. Mate Group   
http://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=Products&p=index.datsuite

And I wonder if there will be a .NET cleanup someday like the Java cleanup.  It may have to give
you an option to keep multiple NETs, but it would be quite kewl.

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Wilder's threads (directly and indirectly the source for most of the new info)

KCleaner : easy and automatic System Cleaner
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=217284
Notice that KCleaner was considered a good product until the bundled spyware issue
was not addressed properly.
http://www.kcsoftwares.com/index.php?kcleaner
KCleaner

The Best Disk Cleaner (mostly Sweepi discussion)
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=195425&page=3

This is a difficult category -- if you looked for a "Top 5" (excluding the 3 specialties) you would have to include CCleaner and ATF-Cleaner  (even though there may be no releases for a couple of years on ATF).  Trying to get the next three .. hard to say, there are a lot of nuances.  I hope we can get some reports on ClearProg.

Shalom,
Steven Avery

PhilB66:
Dotnet cleanup tool

Steven Avery:
Hi Folks,

Thanks Phil.  From the description I would be a bit uneasy about using it except when the Nets aren't functioning well, since it emphasizes the shared file problem.  Aaron Stebner recommends running the official uninstall first, hopefully that does not get into version clashes.

I see though that there are folders that seem to be version specific. 2.0 etc.  2.0 put one under the root C:\72ffefeea2bd5eb4d8cd95\ that I find a rather poor way of installing.   Anyway, a good tool to have handy, and maybe check into a bit more. 

Here are two more freeware cleaners.

Comodo System Cleaner
http://system-cleaner.comodo.com/index.html

This next is a demo project, you can see some interesting discussion between coders.

A Cleanup API for Windows By Marcel Lambert - (Open Source)
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/Cleanup_API.aspx

The download link isn't working so take the one from this mirror-style page.

A Cleanup API for Windows - "Download demo project - 177 Kb"
http://www.cscoding.com/article/19009/

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And Index.dat suite, which I added to the specialty section above.

Shalom,
Steven Avery

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