CleanApp debunked...
Admittedly skeptical, I d/l'ed the CleanApp demo, OK'd all the options, and examined Excel, which, of my apps, is the one most likely to have planted files all over my SSD, and indeed, CleanApp found many items of seemingly indeterminate origin, such as
these.
My immediate take was that CleanApp actually is somehow capable of finding
files...hidden in places you wouldn't expect them to be
but I quickly discovered that the paths to many of them included "Excel," so Find Any File et.al. would have found them handily. (The paths that didn't include "Excel" were Microsoft/Office related and were subject to deletion only because Excel is the only Office app I'm running.)
And I was totally put off by the deceptive presentation.
But in keeping with my mission, I hit delete, emptied the trash, and ran a FAF search for "Excel," which returned
this.
As you can see, CleanApp did not completely delete Excel's associated files.
And likewise, it failed to find all the components of my other apps.
CONCLUSION: Assuming that my results are representative, which seems like a fair assumption, CleanApp DOES NOT DO THE APP REMOVAL JOB IT PURPORTS TO DO, AND IN THAT RESPECT IT'S AN UNMITIGATED FRAUD!And the ultimate irony is that after following Synium Software's
instructions for uninstalling the demo, Find Any File found
this and
this.
Talk about adding insult to injury!
Apparently, Synium's idea of committing suicide is jumping out of a basement window.
