I notice that the new Ad-Aware lists items called MRUs (if I recall
correctly). Exactly what are these and are they safe to remove?
Thanks

Re: Ad-Aware SE question by Shane

Shane
Sun Aug 15 23:17:39 CDT 2004

They're Most Recently Used lists. Mostly they are a privacy issue, being
records of the last few files you saved, looked at, opened etc. Yes, they
can be removed safely. But some you may not want to remove. The Streams
MRU's contain your folder view preferences, for example and if you delete
that you'll be back to the defaults after next reboot.

My preference for managing MRUs is MRUBlaster:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/mrublaster.html from the same much-respected
source as Spywareblaster. Configure it appropriately and use that to delete
MRU lists, then tell Ad-aware to ignore them.

Or, if you have no privacy concerns, don't worry about MRUs anyway.


Shane

"richard kelly" <rmk@wonderland.net> wrote in message
news:Okcfma0gEHA.596@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I notice that the new Ad-Aware lists items called MRUs (if I recall
> correctly). Exactly what are these and are they safe to remove?
> Thanks
>



Re: Ad-Aware SE question by Joan

Joan
Mon Aug 16 03:13:11 CDT 2004

Hope GHOST of WOGER hasn't sent you back to the weed yet <vbg>
Joan

Shane wrote:
> They're Most Recently Used lists. Mostly they are a privacy issue,
> snip>



Re: Ad-Aware SE question by Shane

Shane
Mon Aug 16 07:19:32 CDT 2004

<VBG> No, Joan, but he did help me decide I needed another pack of gum
handy!


Shane


"Joan Archer" <archer_joan@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
news:uVwOkj2gEHA.3916@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hope GHOST of WOGER hasn't sent you back to the weed yet <vbg>
> Joan
>
> Shane wrote:
> > They're Most Recently Used lists. Mostly they are a privacy issue,
> > snip>
>
>



Re: Ad-Aware SE question by Joan

Joan
Mon Aug 16 15:53:42 CDT 2004

<lol>
Joan

Shane wrote:
> <VBG> No, Joan, but he did help me decide I needed another pack of gum
> handy!