Cleanup Assistant description
A powerful application that allows you to quickly clean your harddrive

Cleanup Assistant is a freeware hard drive maintainance and privacy protection program. Cleanup Assistant features 5 tools designed to help you clean up your computer both manually and automatically:

· Large Folder Finder
· Duplicate File Finder
· Drive Cleaner
· Privacy Protector (File shredder)
· Drive Wiper

Here are some key features of "Cleanup Assistant":

Large Folder Finder
Large Folder Locator (LFL) scans any given drive or folder and visually represents it in an windows explorer like treeview, sorted and colored per folder size.
· LFL is the perfect tool for quickly determining what is using up most disk space when manually cleaning up your drive(s).
· LFL is fast : it scans complete hard drives in no time.
· Instantly delete large files or folders

Duplicate File Finder
Scans one or more folders or drives for file duplicates.
Some of the possibilities:
· Compare office documents and filter out duplicates.
· Compare picture collections over multiple drives. Compare your local disks music collection with files on your iPod or any other MP3 player.

Drive Cleaner
Drive cleaner scans your drive(s) for unused files and deletes them, possibly freeing up large amounts of precious hard drive space:
· Internet Explorer: Temporary internet files, cookies, history, autocomplete data, login credentials, index.dat files.
· Mozilla Firefox: Temporary internet files, cookies, history, form data, stored login data.
· Opera: Temporary Internet files, cookies, history, visited links, stored login data.
· Apple Safari: Temporary Internet files, cookies, history, Form data, Stored login data.
· Microsoft Windows: Empties the recycle bin, unused temporary files, thumnails cache, ...
· Third Party Programs: Finds and deletes temporary files and logfiles from several third party applications (Second Life, Azureus, MSN, Apple Quicktime, Office, etc...)
· Deep Scan: Finds and deletes files of any gives type of extension on any given fixed drive (Logfiles, backup files, memory dumps,...).
· File Shredder: Possibility to automatically shred (destroy permanently) all files and folders found by Drive Cleaner.

Privacy Protector
Did you know that Windows does not physically remove your files, even when you empty your recycle bin ?
Did you know that your personal files can be recovered even when you formatted your hard drive ?
Using specialised software anyone can recover erased files from your computer, possibly getting acces to your sensitive personal files or bank account !
Privacy protector permanently removes your personal files or folders, without any possibility of recovery.

Drive Wiper
Did you know that Windows does not physically remove your files, even when you empty your recycle bin ?
Did you know that your personal files can be recovered even when you formatted your hard drive ?
Using specialised software anyone can recover erased files from your computer, possibly getting acces to your sensitive personal files or bank account !
Drive Wiper permanently removes your personal files or folders (secure format), without any possibility of recovery.