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Spring Cleaning

Spring Cleaning

Uninstaller & cleaning utility.

Version:  10.0.1

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Don't bother

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Contributed by: grant_brookes Saturday, July 08 2006 @ 03:07 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 6-12 months

Recommend Product: NO

Spring Cleaning 6.0.1 came bundled with Norton SystemWorks 3.0. Now I realise why they give it away for free. I have tried and tried to use SC's Orphaned Pref finder and MacUninstaller.

Everyone talks about how slow it is, but you really can't underestimate how inaccurate it is either.

Wanting to uninstall Roxio DVD compression software, SC came up with its list of "related files" to delete. They included four font files, a PageMaker resource file, the installer for Windows Media Player (!), a user cache for Adobe Acrobat, and a Core Audio resource file. Period.

I give up. I will never use this utility again.

(Interestingly enough, though, despite the warnings all over the net about the propensity for Norton SystemWorks to eat your hard drive, it's worked a treat for me SO LONG AS I boot into Emergency Mode from the CD).   
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