During my time as a systems integrator I found myself manually cleaning out system refuge prior to every system delivery. This is an extremely tedious process that can really eat up a lot of time. With no shortage of things to do, I needed to get a little selfish and make an app to deal with this. Enter, the Windows Cleaner… A nifty little .NET application that is extensible for my fellow integrators. For this project I even created a little SDK that added a cleaner module project type to Microsoft Visual Studio.NET allowing developers to easily create new/custom cleaner modules. As a side note, if you are not aware of the VS.NET extensibility model, then you really need to look in to that. Ahhh… you have to love the little things in life… Why not just buy a commercial product?... Ummm... have you not been paying attention? I'm a GEEK and this is free!
BTW, if you want something like this for use at home, I recommend Windows Washer from Webroot.
Tags: side projects