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Saturday, 04 March 2006 |
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Even with today’s huge hard drives, it’s not hard to fill them up, and an excessive number of files on your computer can affect both your available drive space and the efficiency of Windows.
Along comes Fast Cleaner, an extremely easy-to-use program that identifies nonessential files and presents them to you for deletion, thereby freeing space and reducing the size of the file table. The latest release (4.7) also includes Clean Assistant, which clears your Internet cache, cookies, and history, as well as other files not identified by Fast Cleaner. (The ratings in this review relate only to Fast Cleaner, as it is the primary target of the review.) |
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Sunday, 25 September 2005 |
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Fast Cleaner frees up disk space by clearing your hard disk of useless files. It identifies and deletes zero-byte and temporary files, as well as other unnecessary files. The program also lets you customize which files it labels as "junk." (Shareware/Windows) |
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Sunday, 25 September 2005 |
Spring has sprung and you've upended your house in a cleaning frenzy. Furniture moved, rugs shaken out, and you even dusted your PC case and monitor. But have you paid any attention to its hard drive?
As you download, install, and use software, your hard drive invariably becomes littered with junk: temporary files, zero-byte files, log files, duplicate files, and other data that just takes up space and reduces performance.
For help finding and removing that space-wasting information, use a clean-up application. We'll look at how to use two utilities, Fast Cleaner and Check Identical Files, to sweep the cobwebs from your hard drive. |
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