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User’s Guide
Foreword
SlimCleaner Plus is the premium edition of SlimCleaner, a powerful, comprehensive utility that
combines the best IT tools. It’s designed assist computer users, technicians, and support
personnel with the task of cleaning and optimizing a computer’s operating system. SlimCleaner
Plus uses cloud technology to analyze the software configuration of a computer and make
recommendations based on collective research from IT professionals, technicians, and computer
users around the world. Optimized for Windows, SlimCleaner Plus can help greatly improve the
performance and security of Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8.
This user guide is designed to show how to use SlimCleaner Plus and to explain what each utility
in the SlimCleaner Plus suite of applications does and how they work. . Use the linked table of
contents to navigate to a specific section or proceed through the user guide sequentially. Its
layout emulates the progression of tools in SlimCleaner and is organized from top to bottom by
the utility tabs on the left hand side of the program.
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Contents SlimWare User Community – Rating Software ....................................................................................... 3
How Does SlimCleaner Plus Use Cloud Technology? ........................................................................ 3
Where do Ratings Come From? ......................................................................................................... 3
I have opinions, how can I participate? ............................................................................................... 4
Navigating SlimCleaner Plus .................................................................................................................. 5
Dashboard ............................................................................................................................................. 6
Scan Status ........................................................................................................................................ 6
One Click Scan .................................................................................................................................. 8
Scan Settings ..................................................................................................................................... 9
Cleaner ................................................................................................................................................ 11
Customizing the Cleaner .................................................................................................................. 11
Optimizer ............................................................................................................................................. 12
Startup ............................................................................................................................................. 12
Services ........................................................................................................................................... 13
Restore ............................................................................................................................................ 13
Updates ............................................................................................................................................... 14
Software ........................................................................................................................................... 14
Windows .......................................................................................................................................... 15
Browsers.............................................................................................................................................. 15
Disk Tools ............................................................................................................................................ 16
Summary .......................................................................................................................................... 16
Disk Analysis .................................................................................................................................... 16
Disk Wiper ........................................................................................................................................ 16
Shredder .......................................................................................................................................... 18
Defragger ......................................................................................................................................... 18
Duplicate File Finder ........................................................................................................................ 19
Windows Tools .................................................................................................................................... 21
Settings ............................................................................................................................................... 22
Updates ............................................................................................................................................... 25
Help ..................................................................................................................................................... 25
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SlimWare User Community – Rating Software
SlimCleaner Plus is powered by the people that use it. The recommendations that SlimCleaner Plus
provides are made possible by thousands of everyday computer users and technical experts that share
their experience and knowledge.
SlimCleaner Plus enables users to share this information online in the SlimWare community, a free
social network focused on helping everyday users clean and optimize their computer systems. It also
enables users to share information directly in the SlimCleaner Plus application. By using a special
rating tool, contributors provide additional information about new software and qualify it with personal
recommendations.
You can join our social community by registering with us online. Register for a free SlimWare Utilities
user account, and you can submit ratings and comments for software items directly within SlimCleaner
Plus. Your input is fed directly into our dynamic database where it is stored and made available for
others to see. Your participation gives you a say in how our programs work. To do this, all you have to
do is register. It’s quick, easy, and free. To start a new account, click here.
How Does SlimCleaner Plus Use Cloud Technology?
SlimCleaner Plus utilizes crowd-sourced, community feedback to provide the best recommendations for
optimizing your computer. Using feedback provided by real users means that SlimCleaner Plus can
provide only tried and tested system optimizations. SlimCleaner Plus then distributes this data via cloud
technology, allowing anyone with an installed version of SlimCleaner Plus to obtain the latest definitions
instantly.
Where do Ratings Come From?
SlimCleaner Plus uses the crowd-sourced data to codify each scanned item with a color, based on its
usefulness. This color rating is determined by the community and is based upon an aggregate of votes
that are submitted both in-app and online. Ratings are supplied by a wide demographic of users,
including both everyday PC owners with no advanced computing skills and technical experts.
How do I know the reviews SlimCleaner Plus provides are accurate?
To produce the most accurate ratings and optimization suggestions, we implement layers of checks. In
addition to our staff of tech experts, we employ a second tiered rating system in our community. It
enables users to up-vote the best ratings and down-vote the bad ones, thereby picking out the good
ratings and eliminating the bad.
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I have opinions, how can I participate?
The in-app rating system lets you to rate software items using a color-coded system that makes it easy
for others users to distinguish the GOOD from the BAD.
1. Whenever you see the color-coded rating widget, you can provide a rating, description and
reason for the software item listed next to it. The more software items that you rate, the more
precise SlimCleaner Plus becomes.
2. Rate the software based on its legitimacy as useful software (green), optional (yellow), or
unwanted / malicious (red). Or use the colors in between to set your perception of the
software’s necessity, either to your computer’s operation or its importance to your personal uses.
3. Once you’ve rated the software item, put it in a category that best describes its purpose and
then pick a general reason why you gave it the rating you did.
4. You can then optionally provide a detailed reason that explains why you gave it the rating you
provided. This will help others to judge whether or not the information you provided is relevant to
them.
5. Once you’ve completed the rating form, click Save to finish and return to SlimCleaner Plus.
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Navigating SlimCleaner Plus
SlimCleaner Plus features a fast and responsive user interface. You can easily
navigate the different pages of the program by way of the accordion menu on the
left-hand side of the window. Each item in the menu will take you to the utility it lists
when clicked. Some items will expand to reveal further modes of the utility you are
attempting to navigate to.
Dashboard – The Home Screen for the application.
Status – Gives a brief look at the system status.
Click Scan – Deep scan of the system for all possible optimizations.
Scan Settings – Configure the settings of the 1-click scan.
Cleaner – Advanced junk file cleaner and registry optimizer.
Optimizer – Optimize the operating system.
Startup – Manage the OS startup processes.
Services – Manage the OS background services.
Restore – Restore changes.
Software – Manage, rate and uninstall programs on your computer.
Updates
Software – Download and install available software updates.
Windows – Download and install available Windows updates.
Browsers – Manage and configure browsers.
Internet Explorer – Manage and configure Internet Explorer.
Mozilla Firefox – Manage and configure Mozilla Firefox.
Google Chrome – Manage and configure Google Chrome.
Disk Tools – Optimize hard disks and reclaim storage space.
Disk Analysis
Disk Wiper
Shredder
Defragger
Duplicate Finder
Windows Tools – Quickly access Windows native tools.
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Dashboard
The dashboard is the panel you see when you first launch SlimCleaner Plus. It is the central hub
from which you can monitor your system’s overall status and assess the health and security of
your machine. You can also make a few quick changes here and init ialize some of the powerful
utilities included in SlimCleaner Plus.
Scan Status
On the Status Dashboard, you will first notice the Scan Status and a set of gauges. The Scan
Status and gauges give you a brief glimpse of your computer's status, as determined by
SlimCleaner Plus, by using color-coded positions. Each position indicates the state of your PC on
a scale (red:improvements possible, green:good). The gauge readings and the corresponding
Scan Status are determined by SlimCleaner Plus’s proprietary technology which evaluates the
results as an aggregate from all 8 areas included in the One Click Scan.
1 Junk
unnecessary junk data that consumes disk space and may impede system performance
2 Privacy
data that may contain traces of activity history or personally identifiable information
3 Registry
invalid or obsolete registry entries.
4 Browsers
browsing data that may impede browser performance, and potentially unwanted addons that may
diminish performance and pose a threat to online privacy/security
5 Optimizer
potentially unnecessary startup processes, scheduled tasks and services that may impede computer
performance
6 Security
security settings that may not be configured properly for maximum system protection
7 Updates
available updates for Windows and other installed software that may patch security vulnerabilities, fix
bugs or add features
8 Software
unnecessary or potentially unwanted software that may consume resources or create vulnerabilities
Each of these areas scanned by SlimCleaner Plus’ One Click Scan may impact system performance,
security and overall health in various ways. The One Click Scan uses a combination of proprietary
technology and the power of crowd sourced assessments to provide the best recommendations for
users, enabling them to make safer, more informed decisions about PC maintenance.
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The evaluation of the aggregated results of these areas results in a gauge reading and
corresponding Scan Status. Here are the Scan Statuses that you may see in SlimCleaner Plus…
Status is Good – system status is good. no issues found.
Status is Medium – a few areas for improvement found
Status is Low – system may need cleaning or optimization
Status is Poor – system may need cleaning or optimization
Unknown – you need to run a scan to assess the system status
The Scan Status will reflect the Overall or Scan Results gauge Status. By default, the Scan
Status and gauge will be set to UNKNOWN at the first start of the program because One Click
Scan has not yet evaluated the health of the system.
You can immediately take action to analyze your computer by clicking the One Click Scan button. This
will start a scan which will make a full assessment of your system and provide you with a report of
available optimizations to improve your computer; or, you can continue exploring the interface.
(To configure scan settings, click the gear icon in the button.)
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QUICKLAUNCH
From the Dashboard you can quickly access several utilities in SlimCleaner Plus. Click/Tap on the
labeled tiles to navigate to their respective pages.
SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
Personalize system performance based on your needs by enabling a custom System Performance
Mode from the widget on the dashboard. You can enable Power Saver mode to preserve precious
battery life when on-the-go, or Turbo mode to maximize system performance. You can always revert to
the default, Windows power plan from this widget.
DISK OVERVIEW
Get a quick look at the status of your hard disks from the Disk Widget on the Dashboard. Click the
arrows in the widget to view the status for each drive installed in your computer. You can quickly
access the Disk Tools in SlimCleaner Plus by interacting with this widget.
One Click Scan
The One Click Scan is the most powerful utility in SlimCleaner Plus. The One Click Scan runs a deep
scan of your computer that incorporates all of the utilities within SlimCleaner Plus. It generates a report
that lists all of the optimizations that you can enact to enhance the performance, stability and security of
your computer.
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The scan includes junk files, system optimizations, software updates, browser add-ons, driver updates,
and windows updates. To begin the scan, click the One Click Scan button.
You can configure custom search parameters for each of these categories in the Scan Settings. You
can also disable scanning for a specific category outright by un-checking the box next to the listed entry.
To configure settings for a specific category, click the Settings link next to the scanning category you
wish to configure. To fully customize your scanning options, click the gear icon in the One Click Scan
button, or click Scan Settings under the Dashboard in the main program menu.
Scan Settings
You can configure the settings for the One Click Scan in this form. There are three modes for
configuring the scan settings: Easy Scan, Deep Scan, and Custom.
Easy Scan mode includes junk files only
Deep Scan mode includes junk files, and files that contain personal information.
Custom scan mode enables you to configure each category of the scanning procedure to your
preference. You can undo any custom settings you select by clicking the Defaults button to
restore to default scan settings.
With Custom scan mode enabled, click on each tab of the Scan Settings form to display the sub-
categories within each view and check/uncheck the options that you wish to enable/disable scanning
for.
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OTHERS TAB
In the Others tab, you can specify special categories you want to assess, including software updates,
system optimizations, and browser add-ons. These are user-selected entities and so SlimCleaner Plus
lets you customize the amount of information that you want cleaned.
The One Click Scan will display results based on the threshold that the user selects in this form. By
default, the program will search for a mid-range level of updates and optimizations. Increasing the
threshold will display the maximum number of available updates and optimizations, while decreasing it
will reduce the number of results. Select the scanning threshold based on your preference.
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Cleaner
The first utility in SlimCleaner Plus is the Cleaner. The Cleaner is an advanced junk file and registry
cleaner, designed to quickly and easily recover large amounts of disk space and also increase system
performance by cleaning up working space used by the operating system. It can be set to delete . . .
unused junk files
files containing personally identifiable information
obsolete registry items.
The main form of this utility looks much like the settings page for the One Click Scan. That is because
the One Click Scan includes the functionality of this utility. However, the Cleaner can be configured,
and run independently from the One Click Scan for more detailed customizations.
Customizing the Cleaner
Configuring scan settings for the cleaner is just like configuring scan settings for the One Click Scan.
Click on each tab, and review the options available, making any changes as per your preference.
1. When you are ready to begin the scan, click Analyze to scan and review the results; or, click
Auto Clean to automatically clean all items found by the Cleaner.
2. The Cleaner will display the results of the scan in a list organized by the same categories you
selected when reviewing the scanning options. You can view the individual files to be deleted in
a given category by double-clicking the list entry for the category you wish to expand.
3. If you find a file in the scan results you want to preserve, right-click the list entry and select
Ignore this file. SlimCleaner Plus will not include this file in future scans.
4. If you want to stop what to go back to adjust your scanning customizations, you can back out of
the list you are in, by clicking the Back button. Once you are at the results overview, You can
click the Back button again to clear the results and begin a new scan.
5. If you are ready to clean the items that the Cleaner utility has found, click the Clean button.
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Optimizer
The second utility in SlimCleaner Plus is the Optimizer. The Optimizer is an advanced system tweaking
utility that utilizes our cloud distributed, community rating system to implement changes to system
settings that may improve system speed and efficiency. The color-coded rating system simplifies the
decision making process and allows you to act with confidence when facilitating the optimizations that
this utility suggests. You can also use the rating widget to supply your own feedback to the community.
FILTERING RESULTS
You can filter the results of this utility by using the large, color-coded slider to filter list results by their
rating. To view items with a “Good” rating or less, select the dark-green position on the filter bar. To
view only unwanted/malicious items, select the red position on the filter bar.
Additionally, you can further filter the results of the Optimizer by using the Search bar to filter results
based on your search parameters. This is the easiest way to filter a specific item you are looking for.
Startup
The Startup Optimizer lists all of the programs and background processes that starts when your
computer boots. The Optimizer codifies each item with a color that corresponds to its rating, as
provided per SlimWare Community consensus.
Scroll through the list of startup items, reviewing each one before deciding if it is necessary for startup.
Check the box next to each item that you wish to remove from the computer’s startup. If you are
uncertain about an item, or need more information, click the More Info button to display more detailed
program information and community feedback.
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This will launch an info brief on that item, with a description, ratings and reviews made via the
SlimCloud community.
Once you have made your selections, click the Remove Selected button to remove the selected items
from startup.
You can restore any startup items you have removed from the Restore mode of the Optimizer.
Services
The Services Optimizer lists all of the services in Windows. You can disable services in this list by
checking the box next to your selections and then click the Remove Selected button.
Most services are installed to support some kind of system functionality, so be careful in your selections.
If you are uncertain, click the More Info button to learn more about the service you are considering. If
you make a mistake, you can restore any services you disable in the Restore mode of the Optimizer.
Restore
The restore tool lets you put back items that you removed from the Startup and Services mode of the
Optimizer.
To put something back, check the box next to the items you wish to restore and then click the Restore
Selected button.
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Software
Third in the SlimCleaner Plus toolbox is the Software Utility. The Software Utility makes it easy to
manage installed programs. This utility integrates the cloud distributed, community rating system in its
interface to provide recommendations for installed software packages. Users may request community
feedback for a given software item in order to make more educated decisions before uninstalling
software. For example, the community knowledge base may be consulted to determine if a suspicious
program is potentially malicious, bloatware, or simply an oem package.
The Software Utility displays all of the software installed on your computer, except for Windows updates.
You can use this tool to audit your system for unwanted software and uninstall any undesirables.
SlimCleaner Plus makes its recommendations whether to keep or remove software by referencing the
community rating for the given item. To view more information about a given software item, click the
More Info button.
To uninstall a software item in the results list, check the box next to the entry and click the Uninstall
Selected button to initialize the installer for the software items you are attempting to remove. Follow the
instructions in the software’s proprietary installer package to remove it from your system. SlimCleaner
Plus will initiate each installer for you.
Show Windows Updates
This button in the Software Utility toggles the display of all Windows updates installed on your computer.
Once enabled, this button changes to Hide Windows Updates, allowing you to toggle the display of
Windows updates to disabled for easier navigation of software installations.
You can uninstall and get more info on Windows updates the same way as you can with regular
software installations view the Uninstall Selected and More Info buttons respectively.
Updates
The fourth tool on the Dashboard is the Updates Utility. This tool can detect when updates are available
for your software by accessing SlimWare’s cloud database. The program checks the version of the
currently installed software against the latest version in our database and offers an update if one is
available.
Software
This mode of the Updates utility checks for updates for your installed programs. Each entry in the list
shows the currently installed version and a newer version available from the cloud database. If there is
an update available, click Update Now next to any given software entry to begin the downloading the
update for that application, right from inside SlimCleaner Plus.
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To receive more information on the software item in question, click the More Info button.
Windows
This mode of the Updates utility checks for certified Windows updates, updates published by Microsoft
that support system functions and tools, including security updates.
Browsers
The fifth tool in SlimCleaner Plus is the Browsers utility. This tool is useful for managing the internet
browsers installed on your computer and provides support for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox &
Google Chrome. You can use this utility to . . .
set the home page
set the default search provider
manage extensions, BHO’s, ActiveX objects, and other browser components.
To manage settings for your browser, click on the dashboard icon for your browser. You can change
the home page and the default search settings with the widgets at the top of the form.
Using the filter widget, you can manage toolbars, extensions, add-ons and plug-ins. Each tab allows
you to selectively Remove an item. This disables it until you re-enable it using the Restore tab.
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Disk Tools
The sixth item on the dashboard is a collection of utilities called the Disk Tools. This is a group of
utilities in SlimCleaner Plus that are designed to reclaim disk space and optimize your hard disks for
better performance and storage capacity.
Summary
This tool shows a brief summary of your computer’s hard disks. Here you can get a quick glimpse of
how much free space is left in your drives. To get a more detailed analysis of the selected hard disk,
select an individual drive and click Analyze.
Disk Analysis
This tool provides an in-depth analysis of disks that you select in the Summary. The analysis will
present you with disk usage information that details the largest files on the drive, allowing you to identify
what is consuming the most space on the disk and potentially reclaim the space by removing
unnecessary files. To analyze a hard disk, select one from the list and click Analyze.
Disk Wiper
This tool is designed for to completely and thoroughly remove all the data on a disk, while securing it
against recovery by overwriting it with bytes of data. The user may opt to overwrite the disk multiple
times for greater security against any possibility of recovering the old data.
1. To wipe data on a hard disk, select it from the list of available drives by checking the box next to
the entry.
2. Then, select from the drop-down menu the number of times you wish for the drive to be
overwritten.
3. Finally, select from the drop-down menu whether you wish to overwrite only free space, or the
entire drive.
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» WIPING FREE SPACE IN A DRIVE
Wiping free space will not compromise your data. It will force the disk wiper to only overwrite disk space
for which there is no data presently. This is a good option if you just want to make old data
unrecoverable.
» WIPING A DRIVE
For a more thorough cleaning, you can opt to overwrite an entire drive. To prevent damage to the
system, the Disk Wiper will not allow you to wipe the system drive (the partition of your hard drive that
holds the operating system), only the free space. It will let you wipe non-system drives, including
external hard-drives and portable media, such as flash drives.
4. When you have made your selections, click Wipe to begin the procedure.
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Shredder
The shredder tool gives users an ability to wipe disk space for select files and/or folders. This utility is
designed to thoroughly and securely wipe data that the user wishes to render unrecoverable. This is
very useful for sensitive documents and/or other personally identifiable information. This mode works
much like the Disk Wiper, but provides options for adding files and folders instead of performing
operations on whole disks.
1. To add files to the shred list, click the Add Files button. To add folders, click the Add Folders
button. If you want to remove a file or folder that you have mistakenly added, click it’s entry in
the list and then click Remove Selected.
2. Once you have selected the files and folders you wish to shred, click the drop-down menu and
select the number of times you wish to wipe the selected data.
3. Once you have made all of your selections, click the Shred button to begin the procedure.
Defragger
The Defragger is an advanced hard disk defragmentation utility designed to reorganize data clusters in
the most efficient way possible.
The Defragger improves disk performance by consolidating relative data clusters in proximity to one
another in order to decrease disk read and write times. This results in an overall improved hard disk.
To defrag your hard disk, click the drop-down menu and select the disk you wish to defrag. Once you
have selected the disk you wish to defrag, click Analyze Disk to perform a preliminary analysis of the
disk’s fragmentation.
Alternatively, you can begin defragging immediately by clicking Quick Optimize or Full Optimize. The
quick optimize defrags relative data clusters and groups them together for faster disk speeds, but the
full optimize will reorganize the data further to increase overall disk performance.
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Duplicate File Finder
The Duplicate File Finder enables the user to scan the computer for duplicate files for the purpose of
deleting potentially unnecessary copies in order to reclaim valuable disk space.
You can search for duplicate files by either drive or by folder(s). Select which scope to set the file finder
to by clicking on either the Drives or Folders radio button. The form below will reflect the options
available to you.
Searching by folders enables you to add specific folders to scan for duplicate files.
Searching by drives enables you to scan the entire drive for duplicate files.
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For this example, select the drive(s) you wish to scan and then click Next.
Scanning by drives may be further configured in the next form. There are 3 scanning modes . . .
Easy Scan is the slowest, but detects duplicates with the greatest accuracy. It assesses each file in
the computer by its unique makeup. This option finds true duplicates no matter how they’re labeled.
Moderate Scan is faster, but not as detailed as Easy Scan. It takes the way files are labeled into
consideration to help isolate duplicates more quickly.
Quick Scan is the fastest, but is the least detailed. It takes only the files’ labels and relative sizes into
consideration. It does not assess the internal makeup of a file.
After selecting a mode for file comparison, you can specify additional parameters to your search, such
as
Ignoring files in a certain size range (in megabytes)
Searching for all or only a certain set of file types
Excluding certain locations from the scan.
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By default, system files and program files are excluded from the scan to prevent deletion of system
critical files.
Once you have made all of your configurations to the search parameters, click Next to begin the scan.
Alternatively, you can click Back to cancel and start over.
Windows Tools
This is a handy toolbox for quickly accessing all of the most commonly used snap-ins and power user
interfaces in Windows.
Use the Windows Tools to quickly access built-in Windows management services, without having to
hunt for them on a computer, including the device manager, the event viewer or the task scheduler.
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Settings
To change settings for SlimCleaner Plus, click the Settings button in the top-right navigation panel. In
the settings menu, you may change options for several aspects of the program, including,
how junk files are detected
preservation of browser cookies
scheduling of automated cleaning.
In the Settings menu, you can also reset the default settings for SlimCleaner Plus and view program log
files. Whenever you make any changes, click the Save to finalize them.
General
The General Settings dialog allows you to change miscellaneous settings for SlimCleaner Plus. Here
you can:
enable/disable the feature that starts SlimCleaner Plus on Windows startup
specify whether or not to check for updates when the program starts
configure the alerts that SlimCleaner Plus is allowed to show you.
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Cleaner
The Cleaner Settings dialog allows you to configure how the junk cleaner scans for temporary files.
You may also disable the alert displayed before cleaning files, and manage the Ignores that you have
added from the cleaner results. The junk cleaner will ignore any file paths that are in the ignore list.
Cookies
The Cookies Settings dialog allows you to manage your saved cookies. The junk file cleaner will
remove all cookies by default, but you may opt to keep cookies for web sites that you visit often.
» Known Cookies will display cookies which SlimCleaner Plus detects, but have not been excluded.
» Excluded Cookies lists all the cookies you have told SlimCleaner Plus to keep. You can add a
custom domain to the exclusion list in this menu also.
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Registry
The Registry Settings dialog allows you to manage and restore registry backups and registry ignores.
BACKUPS - Whenever you run the junk cleaner, any and all deleted registry keys are backed up for
security. This gives you the option to restore them if needed. You can restore any of the deleted
registry keys by selecting a backup from the list and selecting Restore.
In the Registry Settings dialog, you can also delete old backups if you think they are unnecessary.
Please note, you should be certain before deleting backups. Deleted backups of registry ignores cannot
be recovered. To delete a backup, select it from the list, and click Delete.
IGNORES – Before you run the junk cleaner, you’ve given the option to ignore registry entries you
specify. Doing this, tells the junk cleaner to leave those entries alone. You can manage the items you
tell the junk cleaner to ignore in this dialog as well. By deleting an ignore command, you tell
SlimCleaner Plus to re-list the item when it scans for things to be cleaned. To delete a registry ignore,
select it from the list, and click Delete.
Schedule
The Schedule dialog lets you program SlimCleaner Plus to run a one-click-scan on a routine interval.
It also allows you to view logs of previous scans.
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Updates
SlimWare Utilities will provide updates to SlimCleaner Plus when they become available. The program
will check for these updates automatically when started, but you may check for program updates
manually by clicking the Update button in the top-right navigation panel.
Help
SlimWare Utilities provides premium support for SlimCleaner Plus. Subscription holders for
SlimCleaner Plus receive the highest level of support offered by SlimWare Utilities. To get help or
receive support for SlimCleaner Plus, click the Help button in the top-right navigation panel of the
program for a menu of help options.
The Help menu has a few shortcuts which will provide you with the type of help that you want to receive.
Online Help will direct you to the community forum where you may ask questions and receive
answers from other users and SlimWare Utilities’ support specialists.
Video Tutorials will direct you to the SlimWare Utilities YouTube page where you can view
instructional videos for the use of SlimCleaner Plus.
Manual will direct you to this manual which you are reading now.
Live Help will direct you to the portal for receiving Live support from SlimWare Utilities’ support
specialists. This is the fastest way to get help with SlimCleaner Plus but is reserved for
subscription holders only.