Hard Drive Powerwash
Reviewed April, 2010
What’s It Do?

It's a Windows utility that enables its users to remove file clutter from their systems quickly and easily. The Premium version additionally includes Registry cleaning options, wizards for file erasing, drive analyzing, duplicate detecting, file seeking, etc.


Does it do what it promises?

Reviewer 1 - Mark Snyder: Yes. The main function of this program, the temporary file cleaner, does thoroughly remove all unnecessary and temporary files (what it calls "clutter") from all drives. The premium version's additional tools - a Registry cleaner, duplicate file finder, file search tool, file eraser, and a few analytical tools - all worked as promised. My only quibble is the statement on the program's Web Site that it breaks all limits there have ever been to programs of this kind. If I interpret this to mean that this program does more than any other programs of this kind, then this is simply an exaggeration, if not untrue.

Reviewer 2 - Name Withheld By Request: Hard Drive Powerwash Premium did remove some clutter, but my experience did not bear out the claim on the company's Web site that "your hard disk has never been cleaner before."

Reviewer 3 - Dana Bostick: Yes, it is a fairly simple program designed to do just one thing and that is to clean up excess clutter on one's hard drive. There are two versions of the software available for download: a free version that does all the basic functions of scanning for and removing excess clutter, and the Premium version that adds the ability to use additional wizards to scan for duplicate files, find file, a "Drive Analyzer" and a secure file shredder. I was not able to tell from any of the Web pages on the site which operating systems it supports.

Reviewer 4 - Peter Royle: Yes. Hard Drive Powerwash uses a two-step process to quickly go through the drives that one wants cleaned, and allows deletion of many kinds of unnecessary and temporary files. After an "Analysis", these can be viewed before they are deleted and sent to the Recycle Bin.


Was it easy to install?

Reviewer 1 - Mark Snyder: Yes. It is a surprisingly small 2.06MB file that downloaded almost instantly on a moderately fast broadband connection. There is a standard wizard to aid in installation that was smooth and event-free as was the registration, albeit the registration process is a bit unclear (see below). There is a minimum of configuration necessary and it does not, thankfully, place itself in my startup folder to automatically start, nor does it install running services. I was less than happy, however, that by default it installs a desktop icon without my permission. One needs also be aware that while it is only a 2.06MB download, it suggests that you will require 5.8MB of space on your hard drive. The EULA (End user License Agreement) was a fairly standard single license, i.e. use on only a single computer, which I do find penurious for shareware-especially today when most users have a desktop and laptop/netbook--and contained the standard disclaimers as to liability, i.e. none; nor was there any mention of a money-back guarantee. It was, however one of the shortest and most straightforward EULA I think I have ever seen.

Reviewer 2 - Name Withheld By Request: Yes. The 2 MB file downloaded and installed quickly and easily. I should note, however, that there is a 10-day trial period for the Premium version, and the clock apparently starts ticking the moment one downloads the file. I installed the program several weeks after I had downloaded it, and upon installing it I was informed that there were 0 days left in the trial period.

Reviewer 3: Dana Bostick: The installation was a normal Windows installation during which no problems occurred.

Reviewer 4 - Peter Royle: Yes, It is a standard Windows installation that allowed me to put the program and its shortcuts in the locations of my choice, although it did put an icon on my desktop automatically. As claimed on the Web site, both the download and the installation are small and rapid. The E.U.L.A. (End Users Licence Agreement) is one of the simplest and clearest I have seen. Although it does contain the usual disclaimer that it is not responsible for possible damage to your computer, it is far less legalistic than most that we are subjected to. The trial period of 10 days is shorter than usual and I would prefer the more standard 30 days. On the other hand, it is not a very complicated program, so 10 days is perhaps not too unreasonable. The licence of the Premium version is valid for use on a single computer.

Recently, an upgrade to the program was announced on the Web site. I was not able to install the newer version over the older one, so I had to uninstall it and install the upgrade as a new program. I noticed that I had lost all the statistics of the previous cleanups, and even had to reenter the licence key. Previous backups of the Registry were retained. The upgrade process certainly needs to be improved.

Stefan Siegert - Chief Developer Hard Drive Powerwash: Yes, it is true, the setup file is less than 2.5 MB. The reasons why our competitors' products are often larger: 1) Too many persons working on one and the same product use too many different development tools and seem not to be able to organize their project efficiently. 2) Too many parts of software nowadays includes sub-licensed parts which always requires more things to install and additional disk space. 3) Too many programs, especially so-called freeware hard disk cleaners include other services, promotion channels, 'recommended' 3rd party toolbars or anything else that extends download size and makes installation more complicated. So in fact I think that our product is not 'small', the other ones are simply overloaded.
Good points.

Reviewer 1 – Mark Snyder: There is much to like about this rather simple and easy to use program; most of which is self evident in its description. There are, however, a few items unique points worth noting:

dot Not often found on programs such as this is a very user-friendly scheduler that will allow one to set a regular schedule for automatic cleaning.

dot The cleaning results are nicely displayed and easily read in a results window and are further broken down behind tabs identifying the files found as Temp Files; Log Files; Other; Internet; Registry Keys.

dot After running an analysis, the user can inspect all results in the aforementioned categories and select only those files one feels comfortable deleting.

dot The list of file extensions cleaned by default are: *._tm / *.1st / *.bak / *.nav / *.log / *.$$$ / *.old / *.prv / *.??~ / *.gid / *.tmp / *.syd / *.~* / *.~mp / *~.* / *.bk! / *.bk$ / *.bk4 / *.bk5 / *.bk6 / *.bk7 / *.bk8 / *.bk9 / *.bkp / *.$a / *.$db / *.&&& / *.— / *._dd / *._mp / *.chk / *.xlk / *.db$ / *.diz / *.dmp / *.err / *.ftg / *.fts / *.ilk / *.ncb / *.pch / *.sik / *.temp / chklist.* / mscreate.dir / pspbrwse.jbf / Thumbs.db This list can be customized through filters; adding or deleting files.

dot The GUI (Graphic User Interface) is attractive, intuitive, and easily negotiated.
dot Use of resources, both CPU and memory, was negligible, allowing the use of this program on even the oldest machines.

dot Support is available by email with a suggested turn around time of 48 hours. I found this to be an accurate statement.

Again, each of the above tools worked well in my testing. After removing files using Hard Drive Powerwash, I ran CCleaner and I did a manual search for left over files or folders or Registry entries. Neither search found any further files. I also ran two additional Registry cleaners, Registry Mechanic and jv16 Powertools, and only Jv16—using its most aggressive setting--found any orphaned keys in the Registry possibly missed by the Registry cleaner in Hard Drive Powerwash. The other several tools contained in this program worked as promised.

Reviewer 2 – Name Withheld By Request: Hard Drive Powerwash makes it possible for the user to rid the computer of unnecessary temporary files and files stored in the computer's browser(s) and also clean the Registry using just a single program and, if desired, all at once. The user is able to select specific file extensions that should or should not be included in the program's analysis. Separate settings exist for the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers, so that the user can get rid of certain categories of files from one and not the other.

The Premium version (the one NNT tested) also offers four potentially useful "Wizards." The Drive Analyzer Wizard helps the user identify which files and folders are taking up the most space and, if one wishes, delete them. The File Seeker Wizard helps the user locate one or more files on the hard drive or on external drives. The Duplicate Finder Wizard identifies duplicate files; the user can then choose whether or not to delete the duplicates. The File Eraser enables the user to delete files more securely than is normally possible. Eight deletion methods are offered, and in each case an explanation describes the relative degree of speed and security.

Reviewer 3 - Dana Bostick: This is a very simple tool designed to do one thing, scan for unneeded files. It does that well and quickly. It is very flexible and can be used to scan for many types or as few as one file type. Any file that one chooses to delete is not actually "deleted", but is placed in the recycle bin. This gives the options to scan drives, delete whatever one feels unnecessary, and then monitor the system’s operation to see if the deletions are causing problems. If a problem does occur the file can be restored from the recycle bin.

The cleaning process itself is broken down into several parts:

dot Drive Cleaning (This is a scan for: .TMP, .BAK, .LOG files, to name just a few of the over 50 types it will scan for)
dot Internet cleaning (primarily Internet cache files and cookies)
dot Registry cleaning (these files are generally lists of "last opened" items like documents in Word or WordPad, Excel, and MS Paint.
dot Custom items (here one can create a list of paths to files to be included or specifically excluded from the scan)
dot Program Settings (this is primarily an area for coarse scheduling of scans to be done every X number of days.
dot Results (this screen shows the results of the scan you have performed. It is broken down into six different tabs that correspond with different file types such as temporary files, log files, images, Internet files and registry files. All the files displayed in each tab can be selected or deselected for deletion to the recycle bin.)
dot Statistics (this is a numeric listing of the date and time of any scan done as well as what type of scan was done and the results of that scan listing the potential space-saving that would occur if the files were deleted or how much space was regained in the file was, in fact, deleted.

Support is available via email and Premium users are promised an answer within 48 hours.

Reviewer 4 – Peter Royle: The opening screen of Hard Drive Powerwash says: This program allows you to clean temporary files on your computer that are saved always and whatever you do ... To search for such temporary files now, please click on ‘Analyze’. You can decide if some of these should not be deleted when the search is done. If you do not want to check the results before deleting, please click 'Run'."

This is an excellent feature. To do the "quick and dirty" method, one can just tell Hard Drive Powerwash to go ahead and do its work. On the other hand, once the analysis is completed, the user is presented with all the files that the program has selected, divided into categories. Deselected files will not be deleted in the next step.

As a safety feature, deleted files are sent to the Recycle bin. Although I would not normally want to look through the 4800 files that Power Wash had determined were junk files, I did check and those I wanted to keep were easily restored from the Recycle Bin.

There are three main washes offered: Drive Cleaning (all kinds of temporary and other normally useless files), Internet Cleaning (Firefox and IE caches, histories, cookies, etc.) and Registry Cleaning (a few of the relatively harmless bits of information added to the Registry). Hard Drive Powerwash can run all three sections in a single pass, or select any combination chosen by the user. The Registry feature is not comparable to a full Registry Cleaning program. A nice feature is the Custom Items module. In doing a reorganization of certain files, for example, moving all files of a particular type (movie files, doc files, gif files, or whatever) one can use Custom Cleaner as a safety feature. Instead of telling Windows to "move" all files from one location to another, they can be copied to their new location(s); then, once safely stored in their new location, the Custom Cleaner can be used to delete all the original copies no longer needed.

There is also a Duplicate File finder, nicely designed to allow the user to specify the kind of duplicates searching for from about a dozen different parameters.. One particularly nice parameter is a CRC check to ensure that the duplicates are exactly the same.

On the Web site, the developers offer support by email for the Premium Edition, which they say “should get an answer in 48 hours, most of the time much earlier.” On the occasion that I did send them a support request, the answer came back in less than 12 hours. Their response was courteous and personal, and dealt effectively with the issue that I had raised. They do not guarantee that they will be able to answer questions to those using the free version, but do say that they would try. I was very satisfied with this aspect of the program.


Weak points.

Reviewer 1 – Mark Snyder: No program is perfect and one in the early stages of development almost always has, by its very nature, areas that need improvement or are cause for concern, often with serious glitches. While there were no serious glitches, there were areas of concern and/or in need of improvement:

dot Deleting files by file extensions can be dangerous. By default, no filter is used and all of the aforementioned file types are analyzed and presented for deletion. This is a dangerous setting. I call into question especially .log, .dmp, and .nav files to name just three. The .log and .dmp files can be invaluable when repairing a computer, and there is no way to differentiate between .log files and a possible software-specific critical file with 100% accuracy. As for .nav files, Acrobat Portfolio layouts are stored in .nav files so deleting them would delete any such portfolios. Default settings should always represent the safest, not necessarily the most thorough, setting.

dot The right click for more information to find out more information on files presented for deletion did not work.

dot There was a small glitch in the registration process. While it took my registration key and registered the software, the pop-up window about registration continued to present itself. Furthermore, there was no place that I could find where the registration was listed so that it could be verified.

dot There is no save feature for settings other than the default setting. When using the filters to add or remove files to be found or make other such changes in the settings, they revert to the default settings each time the program is closed, thus necessitating resetting them each time the program is run. This is unnecessarily time consuming and very inconvenient.

dot The Registry cleaning might be a little aggressive for novices. Some of the Registry keys presented for deletion needed to be inspected carefully before deletion. A “minimal” and “deep” cleaning option would be a better choice.

dot I am strongly opposed to duplicate file cleaners for anyone other than experts. Even experts need to carefully examine each found duplicate before determining the appropriateness or safety of its removal. For the novice, this is a sure way to turn a PC into a big paperweight. It is too dangerous to be included in a program designed for beginners through intermediate users.

dot Help and support. There needs to be better documentation on the Web Site. Help files or an FAQ is also needed on the Web Site. Support is somewhat hidden and can only be found by locating the “Contact Us” at the bottom of the web page.

Again, the program performed flawlessly and I suspect with further development this can be a program easily recommended to all rather than to only the advanced user.

Reviewer 2 – Name Withheld By Request: Although Hard Drive Powerwash Premium offers an array of potentially useful services, I found their performance often quite disappointing. The interface never remembered the settings I had made for files to include or exclude or even which sections of the program to include. Each time I ran the program, for example, I had to tell it all over again not to delete Firefox's History files. I had to remove the Internet Explorer cookies it kept listing under "Save," and I had to change the number of days to keep Internet Explorer History from 42 to 7. The next time, the old settings would return. Also, all sections of Hard Drive Powerwash are included in a cleaning by default. To exclude one, it is necessary to go to that page and remove the check mark each time. I wrote to tech support to ask about the failure to remember settings and was told that they already have it on their list of things to fix in a future version.

When I clicked on "Read Existing Cookies" in Firefox to decide which to save, an error box popped up to inform me "C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\TestingPro\cookies.txt wurde nicht gefunden." No, my computer's language is not German, but the more important thing is that Hard Drive Powerwash was looking in the wrong place for Firefox's cookies. When Firefox version 3 came out almost two years ago (June 2008), the cookie location was changed from cookies.txt to cookies.sqlite.

Another weak point is that Hard Drive Powerwash works only with the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. It has no settings for other browsers such as Opera or Chrome.

Two of the four wizards that come with the Premium version of Hard Drive Powerwash were also disappointing. The Drive Analyzer is supposed to help the user identify files and folders that are taking up a lot of space, perhaps needlessly. I first asked the Drive Analyzer to identify the largest files in my hard drive, which has just the single C:\ partition. Eventually, I realized that this search would take a very long time. I wanted to abort the search, but there was no apparent way to do so other than by abruptly killing the process in Task Manager. I tried this Wizard again after installing an updated version of the program. It took over an hour to calculate the size of the folders on my C:\ drive, something my file manager (Directory Opus) can do much more quickly. Moreover, the information provided by Hard Drive Powerwash told me little about where my largest files were located. Nonetheless, I wanted to save the information it had amassed, but I could find no way to do so.

The File Seeker wizard was also disappointing. I asked File Seeker to find a .dll file that began Eu. At first, it seemed to take forever. After about ten minutes, I killed the process in Task Manager and tried again. This time, I saw that although I had specified just .dll files, "all extensions" was also checked by default. I unchecked that and tried again. The search took almost seven minutes and turned up two files. I tried this again after updating. The search this time took just under two minutes and found the same two files. By contrast, when I ran the same search in the freeware search engine Everything Search, it found five relevant files in approximately one second!

At times, clicking on the Wizards produced error messages. Several times, when I clicked on the Drive Analyzer Wizard, an error message box popped up, saying "A sharing violation occurred while accessing C:\Program Files\Hard Drive Powerwash\Drive Space Organizer\config.ini." Sometimes I got a similar error message when I tried to use the File Seeker Wizard. The Wizard nonetheless appeared, but there soon appeared a second error message, this one saying "The instruction at "0x004133bb" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read"."

I found Hard Drive Powerwash's Summaries rather unreliable. For example, after running an analysis and checking the Results section, I had the program delete the files it identified as unnecessary. I then took a look at the Summary section. To my astonishment, it claimed that the program had found almost two billion entries (1,883,845,452, to be exact) that could be deleted. And while the Results page indicated that there were 18 Registry entries that could be deleted (and I agreed to delete them), the Summary page reported that 640 Registry entries had been deleted.

I wanted to ask tech support about some of these issues, but I found to my surprise that the program's interface has no information about how to contact the company. I finally went to the company's Web site, and there I found a "contact" address, along with a statement that users of Hard Drive Powerwash Premium should get an answer in 48 hours or less. After getting no response for a week and a half, I resent my message and received a prompt response. Apparently a mail crash at their end resulted in my first message not being received.

I could also find no way to have the program check for updates, either automatically or by having the user initiate a check. Purely by accident, as I was reading through the "news" section of the Web site in preparing this report, I came upon mention of an updated version. I downloaded and installed this version, but it had many of the same problems as the earlier one.

Reviewer 3 – Dana Bostick: The program opens to a small screen (about ½ size) that is not resizable to a full screen view. On the small, 10-inch screen of my mini laptop, that was hard to read. I would like the option to see a program in full screen view for easier reading.

The option to clear browsing history and cookies was preselected. I think this is a mistake and that this election should be made optional. Suddenly finding your browser history gone and all of your login cookies missing would not be a good thing for some users. I know the reason it is done is to provide a more "secure" surfing environment, but many use this browser history and the setting of login cookies extensively to speed up their browsing experience. The help system called from within the program is HTML and “married” to Internet Explorer regardless of one’s default browser settings. There are many other browsers in use; I for one do not use IE if I can avoid it.

The “Help” files available within the program are rather sparse. They open as HTML pages in Internet Explorer and are available by clicking on the help dropdown menu or by pressing F1.

Reviewer 4 – Peter Royle: I did not find the File Finder module to be tremendously useful and I have other file finders that work extremely quickly and thoroughly. The process of defining the kind of files one is looking for as well as their location is somewhat cumbersome. This defeats the purpose of a file finder, because, most of the time, I don't actually know where to look, so I will simply want the program to default to all active drives.

In addition to the kinds of files that are scattered around by many applications, there are some that I would like Hard Drive Powerwash to list, so that I could tell it to look particularly at those popular applications. For example Windows Media Player is capable of creating many temporary files, MRU's (Most Recently Used {file names}), etc, as do MS Office, Adobe Reader and many others. Some I might wish to keep, and others not. A listing of those applications, with an option to have them included or ignored would be very useful.

Hard Drive Powerwash only supports IE and Firefox in the Internet Cleaning module. Although the majority of Web surfers use one or the other of these browsers, both Opera and Google Chrome have significant user bases, so they should also be included.

The Index tab in the Help file does not work. I tried putting in several keywords, then clicking on the Display button, but nothing appeared in the window that would normally list the links to the keyword. After a couple of failures, I tried some words that I could see in the part of the Help file that I had open, but that also failed to produce any results. Also, when I was using the program and ran into a difficulty, the error pop-up that would appear was not written in English and were not much help in sorting out the cause of the problem.

Since Hard Drive Powerwash has a secure delete file function to permanently delete files, it would be handy to have this feature appear in the right-click menu. Hard Drive Powerwash offers secure file deletions from quick and simple to the Gutman Method that will overwrite that file space with random bits and bytes up to 35 times. With such a feature, one wanting to completely destroy a particular file you could right-click on it in Windows Explorer, and choose the level of demolition desired to apply to that file.

Stefan Siegert – Chief Developer Hard Drive Powerwash: Thank you for these comments, I never saw such a good source on how to improve a product in the future.

Hard Drive Powerwash is based on 1-abc.net technology which means that it uses features from 3 (FREE edition) or 8 (PREMIUM edition) successful 1-abc.net products. Most of them are updated continuously so these new functions will be available in version 2.x anyway and some of them were already mentioned here. For example Firefox cleaning will be improved and Google Chrome cleaning will be supported as well since these features will be taken from the new 1-abc.net Surf Trail Washer 4.


Developer's Web site.

Reviewer 1 – Mark Snyder: I am going to assume that the Web Site is still under development, as the page did not render correctly in either Internet Explorer 7 or Opera. Additionally, it was simply messy looking with very little documentation, help, screenshots, or support information. While there is a statement promising that all of the snippets from anonymous users extolling the virtue of the program are true and to be believed, these out-of-context and anonymous remarks are always suspect and hurt rather than help the credibility of a program. A Web Site needs to be professional because it reflects on the software featured there.

Reviewer 2 – Name Withheld By Request: The Web site seems designed primarily for prospective customers of Hard Drive Powerwash rather than for current users. It provides basic information about the program's two versions and links for download and purchase, as well as contact information, some brief testimonials from satisfied users, and news. I found it somewhat strange that the news section begins with the oldest news, even if one clicks on "latest news." I had to scroll through all the news from 2008 and 2009 to get to the most recent items.

Reviewer 3 – Dana Bostick: The company's Web site is clean, simple and to the point.
It explains what the software is designed to do and goes into a little detail about each of the functions. There are links to download a trial in both the free and the premium version. There were quite a number of “accolades” from various computer publications and download sites, the majority of which I have never heard of. Getting an accolade from an unknown source is rather useless in my opinion and just adds to page clutter.

Reviewer 4 – Peter Royle: The Web site, like the program itself, it simple and to the point. The two versions of the program, the Free Power Wash and the Premium version, each have their own page, describing their particular features. There is a page for purchasing and obtaining the program, and a page of "News." Although Customer support is available in the "Contact" section, I would recommend that the developers add a "Support" section. In addition to access to email support -- the method that I always prefer -- there should be a copy of the Help file, and, perhaps, a small FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) section. The Home Page has panels down the right-hand side showing the "Awards and Opinions", but all other pages are free of these distractions. Navigation through the site is easy, and its overall design and presentation are visually pleasing.

Stefan Siegert – Chief Developer Hard Drive Powerwash: Yes, a FAQ section is a very good idea, and a contact form for support issues will also be available soon.


Other comments.

Reviewer 1 - Mark Snyder: As I stated previously, this is a young program in the early stages of development. At present, other than for an advanced user, it has little to offer over such free programs as CCleaner, which are, while not quite as thorough, much safer to use. I would hope the developer might reconsider some of the default settings as well as possibly eliminating the duplicate file finder to make this program one that can be recommended more broadly.

Reviewer 2 - Name Withheld By Request: Hard Drive Powerwash comes in a freeware version as well as the modestly priced "Premium" version that the Neat Net Tricks panel tested. The freeware version lacks the Registry Cleaner, the Statistics tabulation, and the four Wizards.

Reviewer 3 - Dana Bostick: Many installations of software leave behind a lot of temporary files used during installation and then fail to remove these files after the installation is done. All browsers use cache files of Web pages (locally stored copies) to speed up the browsing process. When visiting site these sites, the cache files are the first things pulled up for viewing while the browser checks to see if there have been any changes. These cache files can grow to be quite large in size if they're never cleared out. In my experience, with use of high-speed connections very widespread, the speed of page loading is not compromised perceptibly by deleting these cache files and one can gain back a lot of hard disk space by doing so. If still using a dial-up connection, it might be beneficial to maintain these cache files.

The main interface screen has a navigation menu down the left side listing the various tools available for use. It is preconfigured to include the normal C.:\Main drive in its scan and other drives or rewritable media may be added to scan as needed. There is also an extensive list of file types that it will be scanning for, 51 in all. This list is selectable by checkbox to either include or exclude any particular file type. The default is that all file types are checked. There also selectable checkboxes for searching all user profiles if you have more than one profile set up.

There seems to be a tendency of software developers to try to be "all things to all people". There are many applications are in the market that purport to be the "Swiss Army Knife" of computer maintenance software. Unfortunately, the result is often an all-in-one program that doesn't really do any one thing very well. Hard Drive Powerwash, on the other hand, is very specifically aimed at doing one thing well, removing unneeded files and regaining wasted space on your hard drive. Its flexibility to fine tune the search using checkboxes to select and deselect various items, makes it easy to use and does not put a heavy load on system resources. Using a program like this to remove clutter and then doing a basic drive defragmentation will go a long way towards speeding up one's system and maximizing available space on older hard drives. This program will help get a little more life out of a smaller hard drive when using a five- or six-year-old system.

In Windows Vista, the UAC (User Account Control) security feature must be disabled to use this application.

Reviewer 4 - Peter Royle: Hard Drive Powerwash offers a Free Edition to give anyone who is interested in the program an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with it and test it out. I do like Hard Drive Powerwash, but it faces some well-established and very popular competitive programs; some of these are also free. It needs some further development in order to be able to match the options available in the others. At present, it takes up few resources on my computer. Future versions need to maintain this characteristic. Perhaps if the Powerwash developers add a users forum to the support section of the Web site, they will build up a number of experienced users who could provide them with suggestions for future improvements. This is a program that is off to a good start and has great potential, as long as the developers are committed to it in the long term.


Will you continue to use it?

Reviewer 1 - Mark Snyder: Yes, but only for its filtering ability to allow for cleaning specific file extensions and types.

Reviewer 2 - Name Withheld By Request: No.

Reviewer 3 - Dana Bostick: Probably not. I don't need another program that duplicates what I already have installed and is working fine and with which I am familiar.

Reviewer 4 - Peter Royle: Yes. At present I do not have any other cleaner installed, and Hard Drive Powerwash is doing a good job.

OPERATING SYSTEMS USED IN THIS REVIEW
Windows Vista Home Premium XP Pro, XP Home
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