At Bob Wang's suggestion, a new thread to tell everyine about a temp file, cookie, history files etc cleaner for Windows (works as well under XP as Vista, and also earlier Windows versions:
Somewhere I found ATF cleaner. Choose what to clean, and it's done very fast. It's publisher's webpage (atribune.org) appears to be off right now, but Majorgeeks still seems to have the download. Not sophisticated, but free.
Ccleaner
Rob Lindauer wrote in news:4aA1j.73925$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr12.news.prodigy.net:
I'll have to test ccleaner . I was under the impression before that it was NOT free, but now it appears to be.
Does ccleaner remove flash player user data? I did not see it mentioned on the website.
Don't think so - don't see it in Ccleaner's internal menu...
I've not seen any "cleaner" so far that clears the Flash shared data objects. Some developer-oriented information -
Rob:
I may be doing something wrong, but I can't get CCleaner 2.02 OR 2.03 (today's update) to delete my TEMP folder files. ATF-Cleaner 3 of 2007-02-13 DOES clean out the TEMP folder for my Vista Ultimate 64-bit system.
Bob
Ccleaner
I'd check Ccleaner's options - I believe it defaults to leaving alone temp directory contents that are less than 48 hrs old. -RL
Correctomundo. One has to reverse the default.
Exactly right! Both you and Rob fingered the problem. Have un-checked the 48hr default. Thanks,
Bob
Correctomundo. One has to reverse the default.
I have downloaded and installed ccleaner, and it *does* clear the macromedia flash stuff. It's now my vacuum of choice. Thanks for the recommendation.
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