It does not come close to the options offered by CCleaner but is nevertheless a great software program worth reviewing. It has the usual Nirsoft look and feel around and comes with the usual set of features like portability and command line parameters.The program comes as a tiny 37 Kilobyte executable that can be run from anywhere. The programs and locations that can be cleaned up are sorted in categories (Windows Explorer, Windows – General, Windows – Advanced, Internet Explorer, Other Microsoft Applications, Mozilla Firefox, Opera). Each category contains several listings each with its own checkbox so that it is possible to clean a complete category or only selected items within.

Selecting an entry in the main window will display a short description and its path on the computer system with the additional option to open it right away.

The cleaning log will display every item that gets cleaned by the user which can be quite a lot depending in the settings. One interesting option for cautious users is the cleaning report view which will display exactly what Clean After Me will be doing if the user selects to clean the selected items.

A few advanced options are provided that can be used to zero files before deleting them to make it harder for anyone to recover them.

Clean After Me is an excellent software program which is a viable alternative for CCleaner.

The program’s main interface provides easy access to several check-boxes divided into categories like Windows Explorer, Firefox, Windows General and Windows Advanced. It is possible to check each category which would have the effect that every item under that category would be cleaned or to check individual items instead.

The software concentrates on traces that a user leaves on a system and provides cleanup routines to delete those traces in the Registry, in logs and temporary files on the host system.

After selecting the items that should be removed from the system the user can either clean the items directly by clicking on the button Clean Selected Items or create a report of the items that will be deleted first. This report appears in the status pane of the software.

Clean After Me is compatible to Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista.