User Guide
User’s Guide 43
Using PowerClean
 NOTE: For more information about the menu commands, click Help and 
click What do the PowerClean menu commands do? in the What do you 
want to know about PowerClean? section.
Using the tab panes
The tab panes below the group and file lists display information, either about 
the selected file or about the actions that you have performed during this 
PowerClean session. 
To remove the tab panes from the PowerClean dialog box window, clear the 
check next to Cleanup Tabs on the Options menu.
About color codes
The colored icon next to each file name in the PowerClean dialog box indicates 
the how important the file is to the operating system or to an installed 
application. 
Table 6-3. Information in the PowerClean tab panes 
Click this 
tab...
To see...
Advice Information about the selected default group of files, 
including suggestions about what you should or should 
not do.
If you select a custom group that you created yourself, 
the defining characteristics of the group are displayed, 
such as
Search for *.xls 
Search in C:\MyFiles
Search subfolders: TRUE
Report The list of files you have backed up and deleted in the 
current PowerClean session.
For a full list of Event Logs, click View Report on the 
File menu.
Viewer The contents of the selected file, if your computer has a 
viewer that can display files of this type. You can view 
most graphics and icon files, word processing and 
spreadsheet files, and other common file types. 
You can also view technical information about 
executable files.










