Keep Your Computer Operations Clean and Lean Cast Off 1.0 Review by Nancy Carroll Gravley Introduction Cast Off is a new preference folder cleansing utility designed to get rid of old, orphaned preferences that just clutter up your hard drive. Anyone who has ever downloaded trial software and later discarded it, or who updated older versions of software will have preferences from all those applications or utilities left in the system folder. This utility will almost instantly identify those orphaned preferences and offer you the chance to delete them, and it is extremely simple to use. This updated version was released May 30, 2000. This is such an easy utility to use that there are only 4 paragraphs of instructions.
Instructions are well written and very easy to follow.
The utility practically runs itself. Cast Off will run on any PowerPC Macintosh with Mac OS 7.6 or later. Cast Off uses two methods to determine what is orphaned. If the preference fails both tests then it is considered orphaned. Even after that though it will not remove anything without your direction to do so.