I've been using Window Washer 6 for some time to cleanup traces of activity on my PC. But I've been disappointed with several areas of it's performance, so wanted to ask if this CCleaner product is any better in the areas I'm concerned with....
First question I would have is, now that IE7 and FireFox 2.0 are both released, does this CCleaner work correctly with both of them?
Next question relates to cookie deletion/saving...in WW, you can have it save selected cookies, and delete all others, which is great. But it only allows you to do this with one browser...you either set it up to handle cleanup of IE, or handle cleanup of FireFox. It can't do both in one pass, or without resetting options and re-running the program. So can CCleaner also selectively keep certain cookies and delete all others, and can it do so for BOTH IE and FF at the same time?
The WW product is able to cleanup up traces of activity in a large number of other programs...things like Windows Media Player, various FTP programs, download managers, music and other media players, Acrobat Reader, etc. Can CCleaner delete any traces of activity from all these various kinds of programs as well?
And lastly, one of my biggest complaints with WW is that there is no way to run it in "stealth" mode, i.e., have it cleanup all traces of activity without popping up a window or making any other indication that it's currently doing such a cleanup. My ideal product would allow me to start a "wash", or cleanup, by using some hotkey combo, like Ctrl-Shift-Z, and perform the wash/cleanup without any further interaction from me, and without any indication onscreen that it's doing so. So in other words, if someone walked up to my desk while I was at the PC, I could quickly hit a couple of keystrokes, and all of those various cleanup activities would run to remove all traces that I wanted gone, without giving the person who walked up any indication that it was doing so. Unfortunately, WW allows neither of those things...there is no way to invoke it's function using keystrokes, and when it runs, it always does so by presenting the full application window onscreen, and making you click at least two buttons on it to initiate the cleanup. So can CCleaner run in some kind of "stealth" mode, with no indication that a cleanup is occurring? And can it be made to run a cleanup with just a hotkey-combo of some kind?
