Webroot Window Washer
$14.99
Amazon.com Review
Webroot’s Window Washer wipes clean your Internet history and PC activity by eliminating cookies, cache, history files, auto complete forms, recently viewed items, and much more. It also helps you boost system performance by eliminating Internet clutter. During a standard run on our system, Window Washer cleaned out nearly 12,000 files and freed up over 75 MB of disk space. Of course, many of these files can be advantageous during browsing, such as cookie files that … More >>
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Webroot Window Washer
window washer is for lazy people that can’t open =internet options= and click the delete keys
Don’t be lazy & save $30.00
Rating: 2 / 5
I downloaded this program from Webroot. I already had Webroot Spy Sweeper, which is a very good program by itself. Window Washer was listed as the second best privacy software by TopTenReviews after the much more expensive Evidence Eliminator.
When I first ran Window Washer it seemed to do a very good job of erasing various extraneous information and freed up nearly 1 GB of space on my hard drive. But one annoying aspect was that it changed the look of my display fonts. After much searching and no response from Webroot, I found the solution. In Window Washer go to Options, then Program Settings, then UNCHECK “Automatically set Window Washer fonts to Microsoft Clear Type”.
There are some online discussion forums that claim that the Window Washer “Bleach” function doesn’t always work. I haven’t tried it so I don’t know about that.
Overall this program seems to do a good cleaning job and is fairly easy to use.
Update: Caution- when I used the “Clean free space” option, I could no longer connect with the Internet. Don’t know what that problem is.
Rating: 3 / 5
I have used window washer for over 10 years. Works good for cleaning up & bleaching unwanted files. Works better then others I have used.I am happy with it.
Rating: 5 / 5
I highly recommend this product. I searched the web and tried many trial versions and this one was the best. The reason you wouldn’t want to delete the files from the temp folders is because your computer could easily crash. This is pretty stable on my XP computer and is great for clearing the cache on a regular basis, you don’t have to worry about deleting the wrong files. If you have ever gotten controlled by pop ups this is your answer. Just disconnect from your online connection or network and clean your system with this. Then rush and get a pop up blocker tool bar! As far as clearing your hard drive free space I wouldn’t worry about that until you are ready to get rid of your old computer. This software also has updates and I’m sure will have upgrades to other features soon. Forgot to mention, if you burn cds or dvds this will help you clear your temp folders to free up space. I burned some dvds and wondered why my computer didn’t have enough space. I ran the Window Washer and all of a sudden I could burn dvds again. Hate to sound like I am promoting this so much but after running the trial version all month long I had to buy it!
Rating: 4 / 5
I purchased this software solely for the bleaching. While this program can bleach files on your hard drive, it does nothing to bleach free space. So, files deleted before this program was installed can still potentially be on your disk. Since the technology is there, I don’t see why this feature can’t be added.
Rating: 4 / 5