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Infos zu Avast Cleanup (ehem. GrimeFighter): [i]We heard a lot of feedback about the product over the last several months and some of it was tough, but necessary to hear. We’ve taken all of that into consideration and tried to reflect that in the new product.

Details:

  • The cleaning engine no longer relies on Linux. It runs completely in Windows. It means we will avoid those issues with booting into Linux and other incompatibilities that users had before. It’s just a lot more comfortable for users without any need for booting/rebooting outside of Windows.
  • The engine picks up more issues than before and it does the cleaning significantly faster. What once took on average 1 hour + can now be done in minutes or even seconds.
  • There is much more upfront information about what we found. Even users who aren’t licensed can see details about the issues/junk we’ve detected. This was a common piece of feedback we received.
  • We added a few nice new tools. You are able to defrag the registry and also get a snapshot of system status. Cleanup also checks whenever you update or remove a program to see if there are any leftover unnecessary files (there often are). Cleanup shows you what has been left and allows you to customize what you want to remove.

All currently licensed GrimeFighter users are now licensed for Cleanup. Please give it a try and let us know what you think. We hope you will be very happy with the new version. :slight_smile: And finally, for those wondering what happened to the minion characters… Well, they’ve moved on to other projects that we can’t quite reveal at the moment. :wink:

The Avast Cleanup team[/i]

PS: Erfahrungsbericht mit Screenshots (Beta 1) von HDW: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=172692.0