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Program history lists
Many programs create history lists, which may log which files you were last
working on, for example. These are stored in the registry as references. By
deleting or moving the files, these entries become invalid.
9.2. Cleaning up browser
As you surf the Internet, your browser saves various kinds of data on your computer.
You no longer need to go through the laborious task of deleting these traces of your surfing activity yourself
using your browser; now you can let TuneUp Browser Cleaner search for this data for you. Then, you just
need to select the data that you no longer need and TuneUp Browser Cleaner will delete it for you straight
away.
In the following chapter, you will find out how you can use the TuneUp Browser Cleaner module to quickly
clean up your Internet browser by deleting the cache, cookies and history in next to no time.
9.2.1. How to Clean Your Browser
Start the TuneUp Browser Cleaner module by going to the Clean Up category in the Start Center and
selecting Clean up browser from the Gain disk space and delete usage data area.
Alternatively, you can start the module by going to All functions in the Start Center and selecting the Clean
up browser entry under Usage data.
Under Browsers, select the Internet browser that you want to clean up. You can choose from Internet
Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari, as well as the plug-ins Adobe Flash Player and
Microsoft Silverlight.
TuneUp Browser Cleaner then determines the items that can be deleted for the selected browsers. Under
the name of a browser, there is a list of categories that you can clean up:
Type
Description
Cache
All pictures, text and animations that you view in your browser while surfing the
Internet are saved in the cache. If you visit a website again, the text and
images can be loaded from the cache more quickly than from the Internet.
However, it is advisable to empty your cache from time to time.
Cookies
Cookies contain information about websites that have been visited and are
saved by Internet browsers while you are surfing the Internet without asking
you first. A cookie may contain login data for a website or information about
the user’s surfing behavior.
Optimize databases
The Mozilla Firefox databases are optimized to gain disk space.
Download history
The download history contains a list of files that have been downloaded.
Website properties
Some website properties, such as font size, are saved in the browser.