The Wild Character is for more experienced PC users. It offers greater flexiblity and power. On Windows the * commonly represents the Wild Character, but we were forced to use the ˙ character instead since Windows allows a * character in a registry folder name. In other words, if we used the * character then Active Privacy Guardian could not tell the difference between a normal * character and a wild * character. Therefore we chose a character that nobody uses, the ˙ character.

The Wild Character ˙ simply tells the program "You can replace anything with the ˙ character." Please see the examples below:

Example 1:
If you wanted to wash all folders that started with Adobe then you would enter C:\My Documents\Adobe˙

Example 2
If you wanted to wash all files that started with 2000 and ended in .mp3 then you would enter C:\My Documents\2000˙.mp3

Example 3:
Active Privacy Guardian is so powerful that you can even place the wild character anywhere within the full pathname such as C:\My Documents˙\Adobe˙ Home ˙4˙\my files˙
Now that's flexibilty that no other washer software offers. So what would that match? A lot! This is a match: C:\My Documents 2004\Adobe2 Home 14B\my files - back ups. Do you have a feel for it now?

So how do you enter the ˙ character within Custom Clean? It's quite simple. Just click on the Insert Wild Character button!

See the Features page for more features.