Cleaning Lady is a very small system extension that enhances Apple’s Finder™ application.
With Cleaning Lady installed, whenever you select ‘Clean up…’ from the Finder’s Special menu, you will be asked to confirm your selection (Are you sure you want to clean up “Desktop”).
The reason this was written is because I keep numerous aliases (with small icons) arranged in the lower portion of my desktop. This makes dragging and dropping easy to do and keeps my most used applications close at hand. The problem is, sometimes I have gone to clean up a particular window but much to my surprise, no windows in the Finder were selected, so I end up cleaning up the Desktop! I usually realize what I’ve done as soon as the first icon starts to zoom from it’s perfect spot to some not-so-perfect (but very orderly) spot elsewhere on the desktop!
With Cleaning Lady installed, this can still happen, but at least it warns me first and gives me the choice of backing out of a clean up. Maybe someone else wants this “added safety”…so Cleaning Lady has been uploaded!
Cleaning Lady was written in THINK C 5.0 using Resorcerer and ResEdit. You can contact the author via:
America Online: AFL Zobkiw
Internet: zobkiw@world.std.com
Cleaning Lady is free and no warranties of any kind are made regarding it’s usefulness. Use it at your own risk.
