Topic: registry cleaner - Review: Webroot Window Washer 6.5 security software - Computeractive

Readers are reminded that the opinions expressed, and the results published in connection with reviews and/or laboratory test reports carried out on computing systems and/or related items are confined to, and representative of, only those goods supplied and should not be construed as a recommendation to purchase. It has a number of uses, from removing wayward bits of applications that remain after being uninstalled, to cleaning out cookies and history files, and even extends to securely overwriting the hard disk on an old PC. A second way to use the software is to clean up after programs that don’t uninstall themselves properly (this is more common than you might think, although it’s usually harmless). We ran the program on a PC we regularly use to review software and hardware, and it cleaned and removed over 4,000 items, recovering 1. This can be applied either to unused space on a disk or to whole disks, which is handy if you are selling or giving away your PC or even just throwing it out. The Window Washer manual suggests that a likely user might be a bachelor shopping for an engagement ring, who wants to cover his tracks, although we can’t imagine many bachelors need to go to this much trouble. More Info

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