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Get control of your PC with Norton Clean Sweep
By Eric Koshinsky
Proper and regular maintenance of your computer system is simply smart
computing. With regular use system folders get cluttered up, files get scattered
around and lost, and the registry gets full of unneeded information. Without
proper upkeep, simply using your computer normally and properly can end up
reducing its performance. Just like your car, your PC needs a regular tune up in
order to work at peak performance.
Norton Clean Sweep is a set of
tools help you do this regular maintenance quickly and easily. It lets you free
up disk space and manage applications on your computer from one simple to use
control panel. It is designed to allow you better and safer control over what
gets deleted and cleaned from your computer and when. Many people don't realize
that Windows doesn't do the best job of removing and deleting files and
applications. Often files are left on your machine and end up using valuable
disk space which impacts drive performance. Worse, often files are often left
in the system directories which leads to poor computer performance.
Norton Clean Sweep helps manage both items you manually and those that you
remove through Windows' Add/Remove Programs. By doing this you keep you machine
working more smoothly and at a much better level of performance.
Here is a partial list of some of the benefits Norton Clean Sweep provides:
Uninstall Cleaners:
* Uninstall Wizard -- Clean Sweep safely removes programs for the safest and
most complete removal.
Fast & Safe Cleanup—Searches your system finds and deletes specific file types
that are known to be safe to remove
Internet Cache and Cookie Cleanup—Quickly frees up valuable disk space by
removing files from your internet cache and Internet cookies. For example files
from websites you visited months ago but never visited again
System Cleaners:
Registry Sweep -- The Windows Registry is a database of configuration
information about your computer, programs, and user settings. Many uninstallers
do not remove their registry entries. This dramatically reduces performance.
The registry sweeper cleans and optimizes your registry
Duplicate File Finder -- Often applications create duplicate copies of files.
Often people do it too, quite by mistake. These waste disk space and can impact
performance. Norton Clean Sweep finds these and then lets you choose what to do
with them (keep, move, or delete).
Safe Cleanup -- This allows you to set certain file types that will be placed
into a special 'holding' area before being deleted. So if you are a web
developer you can tell it to 'hold' .html pages rather than directly deleting
them. This lets you review files one more time before actually deleting them.
You can tell clean sweep any number and kind of files to protect (.doc, .jpg,
.mp3, .xls) If you are in an office this is a great way to protect valuable
files from accidental deleting.
Overall Norton Clean sweep is a nice addition to the Norton Utilities suite of
applications. It is now an integrated part of Norton Utilities and/or Norton
System Works. If you are a heavy computer user or run a business, it is well
worth the investment.
About the Author
Eric Koshinsky created the layman's guide to antivirus and PC protection after helping too many people deal with preventable PC problems. Find out exactly how to protect your computer with Antivirus Software and other utilities
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