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can Quarterdeck cleansweep be installed on Win XP

Jul 17, 2012 12:23AM PDT

I have a copy of Quarterdeck's CleanSweep from win95. Can it be used on WinXP...It was an excellant program for uninstalling programs without leaving a lot of junk behind.

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Even if it can don't even think about it
Jul 17, 2012 10:13AM PDT

Quarterdeck should have stayed with what it did well. Memory management was one such thing but Cleansweep was bound and determined to kill my old Win95 rig by removing things it should not have removed such as pieces and parts of ITSELF!! Happy

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(NT) Thanks I really liked the program, in a way to bad
Jul 18, 2012 11:07PM PDT
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I believe Symantic may have bought it later
Jul 19, 2012 8:13AM PDT

You might look for version but I'm no fan of their products these days. As I recall, it was only effective for programs in it's database or for those for which it monitored installations in real time. It also needed to sit as memory resident and, thus, gobbled resources. As long as you stick with programs written according to Windows OS rules, you should have no need for programs like CleanSweep. BTW, my eyes widened when I saw your OP and the software title. That's not a nightmare I want to have again. Happy

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I'm going with no.
Jul 17, 2012 12:25AM PDT

Today's apps don't leave as much behind but once in awhile you encounter the few that insist that every byte and scrap must be found and dismissed. These folk often spend more time cleaning the PC than using it.

That's their choice but for now, this old app is best left off XP. Unless you are able to recover if it messes up the OS.
Bob

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Wow I remember that
Jul 17, 2012 5:55AM PDT

Quaterback's Cleansweep, blimey! Happy

I'm with Bob. If I remember rightly I wanted to install it on my XP system but it wasn't compatible.

But anyway, nowadays uninstallers are much better at uninstalling software. There may still be remnants but we can delete those.

Mark