User's Manual

Clean up and Repair
60 TuneUp Utilities 2006
Category Description
Temporary files These are used by different programs to temporarily
store data and should normally be deleted by the
program when you are done working. These files can
be deleted in any case.
Temporary help
files
These files are used to display help files more
quickly.
It is important that you are careful when using DiskCleaner so that necessary
files are not deleted. The module finds a number of files that are probably not
needed, but the program can never determine with certainty whether a file is
needed or not. A .sav file can be an unneeded backup copy of a text document, or
a computer game save. And a zero-byte file could be a useless entry in the file
table or part of the copy protection for a program that won’t work when the file
is deleted.
How can you check which files the program deletes and which ones it doesn’t?
First, check whether you can exclude individual categories. To do this, simply
clear the check box in front of the desired category, for example Backups or Log
files.
You also have a second option. Click a category with your mouse. Details on the
selected category are then shown on the left side of the screen. Here, you can
select Backup with RescueCenter to be 100% safe. All deleted files are backed
up automatically by TuneUp RescueCenter in compressed form so that you can
restore them if need be.
When you click Show Details in the information area, TuneUp DiskCleaner
opens a new window that contains information on all of the files in the selected
category.
Don’t take any risks!
Exclude categories
Backup categories
with RescueCenter
Viewing all files that
have been found for
deletion individually