Freeware Tools: Free Internet Window Washer 3.8

Free Internet Window Washer is a free and portable internet tracks eraser and privacy cleaner software. As you work on your computer and browse the Internet, you leave behind traces of your activity. The Windows built-in functions will not protect you, most of the tracks can not be erased with them. Therefore, anyone else can see what you have been doing on your computer. Furthermore, much of your activity information takes up valuable disk space, and recovering this space can be very beneficial. No installation is required to use this tool.

This is the portable edition of Free Internet Window Washer, an easy-to-use application which can automatically delete web browser and system traces, along with other unnecessary data found in some applications.

It enables users to clear history browsing (a feature which comes in handy when sharing the PC with multiple users) as well as to recover space on the HDD.

Since installation is not a prerequisite, you can drop the program files in any location on the disk and just click the executable to run.

It is also possible to save Free Internet Window Washer to a USB storage device or other similar removable unit, in order to run it on any machine without previous installers.

An important aspect to take into account is that the Windows registry does not get updated with new entries, and files are not left behind on the hard disk after removing the program.

The interface is made from a simple window with a plain layout, where you can get started by specifying the types of items to delete, from the "Wash Settings" area. They focus on Windows (e.g. recent documents, temporary files, menu order cache, MS Office), browsers (Internet Explorer,

Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Netscape) and various apps (e.g. 7-ZIP, ACDSee, WinRAR). It is possible to include custom items as well.

Before starting to clean files you can view the total entries and size for each selected area. Other options of Free Internet Window Washer let you view history and disable apps which automatically run at system startup.

As far as program settings are concerned, you can set Free Internet Window Washer to autorun at Windows boot, delete without confirmation, verify a user-defined password when running it, overwrite cleared files up to ten times, run scheduled tasks and clean at system startup, as well as assign a master key for hiding browser windows.

There's minimum CPU and RAM consumption during the utility's runtime. It is very responsive to commands and carries out a cleaning job rapidly and error-free. Apart from the outdated interface, Free Internet Window Washer should please all types of users looking for a fast and effective cleaning tool.