- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/NT
- Date added: January 20, 2009
- Total Downloads: 34,060
- Downloads last week: 54
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 40 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This little utility quickly cleans your system of expired cookies, but performs without any user input. Expired Cookies Cleaner removes files that would otherwise squat on your hard drive, eating space you could use for something else. On launch it displays an unassuming, bland pane that looks essentially like a default Windows message dialog box.
Once you click the Start button, the utility goes to work--fast. In our tests, Expired Cookies Cleaner found 160 expired cookies on our hard drive in less than five seconds. It reported that it removed 39 files and optimized 57 files, which leads to our main disappointment with this utility: the mystery of how it works. There are no options for user input or filtering, and Expired Cookies Cleaner doesn't explain how it determines what to remove and what to keep. You may end up deleting cookies you want to keep and keeping ones you want to ditch.
While we commend its quick execution, we would prefer having some say about how it performs its work. Otherwise, this free download is easy enough for any novice or expert user to try.
Publisher's description
From Astatix Software :Expired Cookies Cleaner is a freeware utility for removing unused cookies from your computer. It will clean cookie files that will be never used. Internet Explorer stores all cookies in different files and never deletes them even they have expired lifetime.
This tool helps you to save your disk space and speed up your computer by removing unused files. Use this utility several times a month to keep your file system clean from useless files. Version 1.02 added Windows Vista support, and improved command line support.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.02 adds Windows Vista support and improved command-line support.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 40 votes
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Version: Expired Cookies Cleaner 1.02
Pros: Does only one thing, but does it extremely well
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Version: Expired Cookies Cleaner 1.02
Pros: Does exactly what it should
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Expired Cookies Cleaner 1.02
"removed a 1000+ cookies off my machine!"
Pros: small fast and no google,yahoo etc toolbar pushs!
Cons: as other reviewers said you can't really tell what it's doing until it's done.
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Version: Expired Cookies Cleaner 1.02
"WEIRD? Ran it? NO Expired cookies found??? HUH?"
Pros: Keep you posted? Ran it 4 times, no cookies are expired?? go figure?
Cons: Better wait a week??
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Version: Expired Cookies Cleaner 1.02
"not sure it is doing the job"
Pros: it is so fast to do all that work
Cons: not sure it is doing all that it says it is doing
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