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MRU-Blaster for Windows

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Key Details of MRU-Blaster

  • Protect your privacy, and keep your PC free from clutter.
  • Last updated on 11/30/2009
  • There have been 2 updates
  • Virus scan status:

    Clean (it's extremely likely that this software program is clean)

Editors' Review

Download.com staff

MRU-Blaster is a freeware utility that does just one thing: it scans your PC for your most recently used (MRU) files as well as cookies, browser caches, and other temporary repositories of potentially compromising information, displays them, and deletes them to your specification.

MRU-Blaster is a fairly powerful and comprehensive utility that can find and delete more than 30,000 files held by everything from Corel presentations to Google's toolbar history. It functions from the simple gray dialog that characterizes so many similar utilities: no frills, all business, and maximum efficiency and usefulness. You can add to its functionality with plug-ins, too. MRU-Blaster claims compatibility with all Windows versions from 98 to XP, but we tested it in Vista and it worked just fine.

There are several good reasons to use a utility like MRU-Blaster to do a simple task that Windows seems to handle well enough. One is that having a dedicated utility sometimes makes it easier to remember to do a job. Another reason is convenience; MRU-Blaster empties all your far-flung caches from a single program. But the best reason might well be that it does well what Windows "seems" to take care of. You don't have to Google far to turn up lots of evidence of built-in Windows features that don't quite do what they promise. If you're counting on Windows to safeguard your online privacy, you may be putting yourself at risk, and needlessly, given that there are free utilities like MRU-Blaster to hold up your end.

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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
January 12, 2009
Latest update
November 30, 2009
Version
1.5
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
Windows 10, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows XP
Additional Requirements
98/ME/2000/XP
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
17,711
Downloads Last Week
1
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Developer's Description

By BrightFort
Protect your privacy, and keep your PC free from clutter.
MRU-Blaster is a program made to do one large task - detect and clean MRU (most recently used) lists on your computer. These MRU lists contain information such as the names and/or locations of the last files you have accessed. They are located all over your registry, and for almost any file type. By looking at these MRU lists, someone could determine what files you opened/saved/looked at, what their file names were. (And, in many cases, the lists are displayed in drop-down menus automatically.) With additional plug-ins that allow you to clean out your Temporary Internet Files and Cookies, MRU-Blaster enhances the protection of your privacy.