Advanced Privacy Cleaner

Advanced Privacy Cleaner is a comprehensive software utility designed to scan you computers for junk files and remove them to free up space, protect your privacy from other PC users, and ultimately improve your machine's performance. It includes advanced, yet approachable options that can be easily handled by all types of users.

After a fast and uneventful setup operation, you're greeted by a user-friendly interface made from a large window with a neatly organized structure, where you can select the types of objects to find and eliminate.

These include the Run, Search and Start menu history, recent documents list and registry open keys, task scheduler log files, Windows user traces and temporary files, Recycle Bin and Clipboard contents, MMC recent file list, recent items in the Open/Save dialogs, SWAP and hibernation files, along with help session history.

Other kinds of Advanced Privacy Cleaner items include the recent file list of various installed programs (e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel or Powerpoint, Windows Media Player, Wordpad), Internet Explorer, Firefox and Netscape history (e.g. typed URLs, visited links, autocomplete data), cookies, Yahoo Messenger, GTalk and MSN Messenger archives and cache, along with a wide range of plugins, like Acrobat Reader, Google Toolbar, WinRAR, Freecell, IE default download, IrfanView, Trillian, and Teleport Pro.

When it comes to general preferences, it's possible to exit the tool, log off the user, shut down or restart Windows on task completion, disable all warnings during cleanup, start cleaning right after system startup and before shutdown, as well as show a systray icon on exit.

It's equipped with a multitude of cleaning options which can be easily selected for the automatic operation. No error dialogs popped up in our tests and the app didn't hang or crash. CPU and RAM usage was minimal in Advanced Privacy Cleaner.