Dustbuster 2.8.1 reviews/comments?

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I'm trying to find some people who used this product and get their opinions
on its performance. I used it on my week old fresh install of WinXP Pro and
it managed to free up more than a half gig of hard drive space and deleted
approx. 2500 useless files. My machine is still working fine, but the space
is a plus...any comments?
 
I'm trying to find some people who used this product and get their opinions
on its performance. I used it on my week old fresh install of WinXP Pro and
it managed to free up more than a half gig of hard drive space and deleted
approx. 2500 useless files. My machine is still working fine, but the space
is a plus...any comments?
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v2.8.2 is the latest which I've been using daily for months.

Like you, the first time I ran it on XP-SP2, it freed up ~500mb of
HDD space and initially that frightened the hell out of me - but the
system continues to operate perfectly. I now use it daily and it
typically deletes a bunch of Windows log files.

I have two criticisms of it:
1. it doesn't tell you what it's going to delete before doing so
2. there is no config option to decide what *not* to delete.
 
v2.8.2 is the latest which I've been using daily for months.

Like you, the first time I ran it on XP-SP2, it freed up ~500mb of
HDD space and initially that frightened the hell out of me - but the
system continues to operate perfectly. I now use it daily and it
typically deletes a bunch of Windows log files.

I have two criticisms of it:
1. it doesn't tell you what it's going to delete before doing so
2. there is no config option to decide what *not* to delete.
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Then you mite want to use Disk Cleaner - http://www.diskcleaner.nl/
 
Bill said:
I'm trying to find some people who used this product and get their opinions
on its performance. I used it on my week old fresh install of WinXP Pro and
it managed to free up more than a half gig of hard drive space and deleted
approx. 2500 useless files. My machine is still working fine, but the space
is a plus...any comments.
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I use it on every XP comp I work on Bill, if you work backwards from
the links provided, you will be able to see what is missing from a comp
& get a pretty good idea of what Dustbuster removes.

Slimming Down Windows XP
http://www.bold-fortune.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=229
http://www.bold-fortune.com/forums/index.php?showforum=13
 
I use it on every XP comp I work on Bill, if you work backwards from
the links provided, you will be able to see what is missing from a
comp & get a pretty good idea of what Dustbuster removes.
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Seems kinda dangerous to me. I have it downloaded but not installed because
of this reason. At least Ccleaner gives you the option to cut your own
throat.


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På Sun said:
I'm trying to find some people who used this product and get their
opinions
on its performance. I used it on my week old fresh install of WinXP Pro
and
it managed to free up more than a half gig of hard drive space and
deleted
approx. 2500 useless files. My machine is still working fine, but the
space
is a plus...any comments?
Click to expand...
I've been using it four times just after installing W2k.
The best performer as far as I've experienced.
However, after the setup I am using other alternatives in order to keep
some control on what I delete/repair.
 
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