Get control of your PC with Norton Clean Sweep - Auto Recovery

By: Eric Koshinsky

Proper and regular maintenance of your computer system is simply
smart computing. With regular use system folders get cluttered
up, files get scattered around and lost, and the registry gets
full of unneeded information. Without proper upkeep, simply
using your computer normally and properly can end up reducing
its performance. Just like your car, your PC needs a regular
tuneup in order to work at peak performance.

Norton Clean Sweep is a set of tools help you do this regular
maintenance quickly and easily. It lets you free up disk space
and manage applications on your computer from one simple to use
control panel. It is designed to allow you better and safer
control over what gets deleted and cleaned from your computer
and when. Many people don't realize that Windows doesn't do the
best job of removing and deleting files and applications. Often
files are left on your machine and end up using valuable disk
space which impacts drive performance. Worse, often files are
often left in the system directories which leads to poor
computer performance.

Norton
CleanSweep helps manage both items you manually and those
that you remove through Windows' Add/Remove Programs. By doing
this you keep you machine working more smoothly and at a much
better level of performance.

Here is a partial list of some of the benefits Norton CleanSweep
provides:

Uninstall Cleaners:

* Uninstall Wizard -- Clean Sweep safely removes programs for
the safest and most complete removal. Fast & Safe
Cleanup--Searches your system finds and deletes specific file
types that are known to be safe to remove Internet Cache and
Cookie Cleanup--Quickly frees up valuable disk space by removing
files from your internet cache and Internet cookies. For
example files from websites you visited months ago but never
visited again

System Cleaners: Registry Sweep -- The Windows Registry is a
database of configuration information about your computer,
programs, and user settings. Many uninstallers do not remove
their registry entries. This dramatically reduces performance.
The registry sweeper cleans and optimizes your registry

Duplicate File Finder -- Often applications create duplicate
copies of files. Often people do it too, quite by mistake.
These waste disk space and can impact performance. Norton Clean
Sweep finds these and then lets you choose what to do with them
(keep, move, or delete).

Safe Cleanup -- This allows you to set certain file types that
will be placed into a special 'holding' area before being
deleted. So if you are a web developer you can tell it to
'hold' .html pages rather than directly deleting them. This
lets you review files one more time before actually deleting
them. You can tell clean sweep any number and kind of files to
protect (.doc, .jpg, .mp3, .xls) If you are in an office this
is a great way to protect valuable files from accidental
deleting.

Overall Norton Clean sweep is a nice addition to the Norton
Utilites suite of applications. It is now an integrated part of
Norton Utilities and/or Norton System Works. If you are a heavy
computer user or run a business, it is well worth the
investment.

About the author:
Eric Koshinsky created the layman's guide to antivirus and PC
protection after helping too many people deal with simple PC
problems. Find out exactly how to protect your computer from
harmful internet attacks at http://www.antivirus-report.com.