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Spring Cleaning

Spring Cleaning

Uninstaller & cleaning utility.

Version:  10.0.1

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2 months later, a different perspective.....

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Contributed by: sjnvt Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 06:38 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Recommend Product: NO

When I upgraded to SC 8 2 months ago, I was impressed with its versatility and, despite some reservations about how easy it would be to get into trouble with it, I thought it was going to be useful - hence my 'cautiously optimistic' post below.

Two frustrated months later, I have to withdraw my optimism. Yes, lots of amazing looking features crammed in there, but the two I've tried to use most: Uninstaller, and Orphan Prefs Remover have not proven to be useful at all!

Uninstaller misses obvious related files (even files with the app name in them), and flags others that couldn't possibly be related. And Orphan Prefs is no better - by the time you teach it which prefs it has incorrectly flagged, you could easily have done it all manually.

Too bad - there are tons of potentially useful features, but if they function as poorly as those two, they'd have to work a LOT better before this app is really worth using.   

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