- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: December 05, 2007
- Total Downloads: 23,815
- Downloads last week: 140
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
If you're looking for a single-point method of cleaning up Internet history files, temporary files, cookies, and more, this nice freeware tool may suit your needs.
Advanced Privacy Cleaner provides a lot of functionality from a simple, elegant, easy-to-navigate, and clearly labeled interface. This free app lists six categories of items to clean: Windows Histories, Program Histories, Browser History, Cookies, Messengers, and Plugins. Windows Histories included Run Command, Find File, Start Menu, Recent File, Task Scheduler Log File, and other similar areas. Each category offered a similarly full listing of items to clear or leave intact. We liked that Advanced Privacy Cleaner had an option for backing up the Registry before cleaning and had flexible options for scheduling cleanings, cleaning on start-up, and shutting down or restarting your system after cleaning.
This freeware app performed very well in our tests, responding quickly and executing its commands in a very short period of time. It was easy to use, making it a great tool for novices and experienced users.
Publisher's description
From Retina-X Studios :Advanced Privacy Cleaner allows you to regain your computer's privacy with ease. This simple freeware tool cleans six different categories of tracks with a single click. The program deletes only the types of tracks you select, leaving others in tact. After your tracks are clear, your privacy will be more secure and your browser will run much faster.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.2 stars out of 11 votes
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33 out of 33 people found this review helpful
Version: Advanced Privacy Cleaner 1.1
Pros: This privacy cleaner will clean run command history, find computer history, find file history, start menu history, recent documents, task scheduler log file, MMC recent file list, user track history, and windows hibernation files.
Also will clean temp files, Open/Save recent dialog, Microsoft recent files, browser history, typed URLs, auto complete forms, cookies, index .dat files, and history of Yahoo, Google, and MSN messengers.
Cons: The flaw it has is it will not clean temporary internet files, unless the clear cookies file is checked.
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22 out of 22 people found this review helpful
Version: Advanced Privacy Cleaner 1.1
Pros: it cleans the lot!
Cons: you have to reset your browser extras (google yahoo themes etc)
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31 out of 31 people found this review helpful
Version: Advanced Privacy Cleaner 1.1
"plain easy to understand interface, does what it say's it does."
Pros: the GUI was easy to navigate and find which elements that i wanted to clean
Cons: the inclusion of many internet browsers was not complete and you could not disable the ones that were not installed on host system
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28 out of 28 people found this review helpful
Version: Advanced Privacy Cleaner 1.1
"A good freeware. Recommended."
Pros: It cleans up Limewire and many other applications in the plug-ins options.
It deletes only the ones you select. Highly recommended. Not many freeware cleans up Limeware and many others.
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24 out of 24 people found this review helpful
Version: Advanced Privacy Cleaner 1.1
Pros: now i can stay safe and private on my shared PC. very effective in comparison to many shareware erasers.
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