Privacy Guardian

G_M

I installed and ran this yesterday. It claims amongst other things:

Completely cleans all traces of online Internet activities on your computer including cache, cookies, index.dat and history

However after running it I looked in:

C:\Documents and Settings\myname\Local Settings\Temp

and found around 500 .tmp files

Surely this is not right? Or is the product rubbish?

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The Temp directory is not where internet things are stored. The are files created during normal PC/program use.

Having said that it claims to:

"Permanently deletes recycle bin contents, temporary files, document history, plus many more PC tracks"

busenbust

I'd use the free and excellent ccleaner instead

G_M

Privacy Guardian is free too: full version.

Whether it is 'excellent'.....

grahawk wrote: »

The Temp directory is not where internet things are stored. The are files created during normal PC/program use.

Having said that it claims to:

"Permanently deletes recycle bin contents, temporary files, document history, plus many more PC tracks"

Thanks. Well it certainly isn't deleting all temp files!

So what exactly are these 'files created during normal PC/program use'? Could/should I delete them? I just instinctively object to filling my pc with crud. Or rather it filling itself!

busenbust

^Problematic then

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G_M wrote: »

So what exactly are these 'files created during normal PC/program use'? Could/should I delete them? I just instinctively object to filling my pc with crud. Or rather it filling itself!

Yes no problem deleting them. You might find one or two won't delete "because they are in use". They will have been created by a program that is running. The clever programs delete their temporary files but lots don't.

I've just tried it and mine doesn't clear the temporary files. A few were removed.

aliEnRIK

Id be very wary of installing any product I wasnt sure of
The vast majority of those sorts of programs end up removing things they really shouldnt be