Using the Internet and surfing the web creates an amazing number and variety of temporary files and data objects on your computer. Almost all this data can be deleted safely. There are basically two reasons for deleting all the temporary and redundant data items created on your computer during Internet surfing sessions:

1: Wasted space

Depending on your browser and Windows® Internet Options settings, the temporary files created while you are online can take up a lot of space. Hundreds of megabytes of wasted hard disk capacity are quite common on machines using the default Windows® settings.

2: Compromised privacy

All these objects create a data trail as broad as a highway that gives anyone with access to your machine, and many websites, full information on everything you have done and everywhere you have been while you were online. If you don't like this idea it's probably high time that you started doing something about it!

What does Internet Cleaner do?

Internet Cleaner seeks out and allows you to delete all the temporary or security-compromising data types created on your machine while you are online. At the same time, it provides mechanisms for maintaining the convenience of these Windows® and web mechanisms.

Internet Explorer

If you mark the checkbox, all temporary data of the Intertet Explorer will be indicated.

Firefox

If you mark the checkbox, all temporary data of the Firefox-Browser will be indicated.

Opera

If you mark the checkbox, all temporary data of the Opera-Browser will be indicated.

Browser-Cache

It's always completely safe to delete all the items in the browser cache. The files here are simply temporary copies of the web pages you have visited recently. The worst thing that can happen is that you may have to wait a few seconds longer the next time you visit the web page, and since the web page has almost certainly changed in the meantime you'll probably have to wait for it to reload anyway.

Cookies

Deleting cookies is almost always safe. The only exceptions are the cookies created by trusted websites containing genuinely useful information that make browsing the sites easier or more fun. Examples of this include the personalized products lists displayed when you contact Amazon or stored user names and passwords so that you don't need to remember them to log on (although this feature is also a security risk if other users have access to your computer).

List of visited sites (History list)

Deleting the Visited Sites entries is also completely safe. This is just a list of websites that you have visited recently. In Microsoft® Internet Explorer the entries here are used for the autocomplete function and recent sites drop-down list in the browser's Address: field. You only need to keep it if you want to find recently-visited sites that you haven't added to your Favorites list yet. Deleting these entries prevents other users from seeing where you have been on the web.

Select "Scan" to search for Internet files you can delete.