Window Washer Product Details

Features:

Window Washer Washes away all traces of your online and offline tracks to protect your privacy. Bleaching completely wipes wipes out data for total privacy protection. Custom wash cycles put you in control. Automatic cleaning saves you time from manually having to perform the washing of your files. Free plug-ins clean up over 150 popular programs. Window Washer improves your system performance.

New in release 6.0

• Cleans more areas of your PC than ever before - including hundreds of popular programs, like Adobe Acrobat and Real Media Player.
• Removes evidence of your deleted files by cleaning up hard disk free space.
• Now supports Mozilla and Firefox Internet browsers.
• Option to erase your hard drive to safely sell or donate your PC with the peace of mind that your privacy is protected.

New in release 5.5 - Includes a free copy of My Personal Favorites, an innovative tool for securing and organizing your favorite sites list, user names and passwords.

• Comprehensively cleans favorite browsers, including AOL 9.0, Netscape and Internet Explorer
• Shreds entire folders with convenient right click menu option
• Detects and scrubs clean 60 programs including the latest versions of Adobe and Photoshop.
• Scours more Windows operating system areas like Wordpad, Clipboard, and printer and network MRU (most recently used)
• Added options for increased application use and control: minimize the application window during a wash; new option to hide Washing in Progress window during the Autowash.

New in release 5.0 - Includes a free copy of My Personal Favorites, an innovative tool for securing and organizing your favorite sites list, user names and passwords.

• Shred files in one-click from the Windows right-click menu.
• Wash instant messaging files just like you clean your Internet history.
• Improved safety measures prevent accidental removal of critical system files.
• Automatic discovery and installation of plug-ins to clean popular programs like Adobe Acrobat, Windows Media Player, KaZaa and more.
• Customize the user interface to suit your comfort and experience level.
• Cleans hard-to-find data hideouts like slack space and streams.
• Washes and resets the contents of the Pagefile and Swapfile on warm or cold reboot.

Automatic cleaning — Schedule automatic cleaning cycles at specified intervals, during shut down or start-up.

File Shredding — With a file shredder built in to the Windows right-click menu, secure removal of a document is only a mouse click away. Shredding will permanently and securely overwrite a file rendering it unrecoverable with unerase utilities.

Customized User Interface — Select the interface that best matches your comfort and experience level. The beginner screen is intuitive and immediately allows for a safe wash experience. The advanced screen gives you additional options such as keeping cookies from a specific domain or skipping plug-ins during a wash.

Custom wash items — Simply click and assign your personal set of files, folders, or registry entries for cleaning.

Bleach for extra security — Completely overwrite files with random characters making them unrecoverable by undelete or unerase utilities — a security feature which exceeds the tough standards of the Department of Defense.

Cookie keeper — Save valuable cookies to maintain your preferred Internet settings and log-ins.

Boost performance — Remove unneeded files to recover hard disk space and speed up system performance.

Integrated, free plug-ins — Automatically discover and install free plug-ins for your favorite programs such as KaZaa, Real Player, Adobe Acrobat and more. Over 150 free, pre-configured custom wash plug-ins available.

Convenient and easy-to-use — One mouse click launches the "Wash Now" function, cleaning in the background.

File Protection — Built-in safety features prevent you from accidentally removing important files. When you attempt to wash files located in special folders (including system folders, My Documents, My Photos, etc.), Window Washer 5.0 will alert you to any potential danger and prompt you for a confirmation before proceeding with the wash.

System Requirements:

• Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP or NT4
• 100 Mhz processor
• 5 MB hard drive space
• 8 MB RAM

A complete list of features and side-by-side comparisons are available on the Privacy Software Review HomePage.

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