Privacy Clean Up

Internet browsing is entertaining, educative and popular, but it can also create unexpected problems. Some files get downloaded while you are browsing. These files may have been sent by some websites to spy on your computer, which later upload your personal information, all without your knowledge or permission. This breaches your security and compromises your privacy.

The Privacy Clean Up tool scans your files and locates unnecessary ones so that complete privacy is maintained on your system.

The screen shows date & time of the Last Scan performed.

Select Items You Want To Scan

You can selectively scan for objects from the following list or, if you prefer, perform a complete scan.

• Visited Internet History - A link to each page visited during a predefined period leading up to the current day is stored under Internet history. This list can be cleared permanently.
• Cookies - While some cookies are relatively harmless, even useful, certain websites use these to keep track of your activities. You can scan and delete these also.
• Address Bar drop down URL list - These consist of all the pages in the drop down list of the address bar. It deletes all the URLs in the address bar of Internet Explorer.
• Auto Complete Data List - Scans for all the data stored while browsing via Internet Explorer. This deletes all the entries typed into the forms, which are recalled after a few letters of the word are typed.
• Temporary Files and Folders - These files and folders are used during application installs. It scans all temporary files and folders, which are saved by Windows in its temporary folder. These may be deleted.
• Find Files List - It scans for the list of items which you have recently accessed. This prevents others from viewing your personal files, like *.doc, *.bmp.
• Downloaded Program Files - Scans the folder, where Internet Explorer stores downloaded ActiveX and Java Applets from the Web. This option lets you remove the contents of this folder.
• Temporary Offline Files - It scans the folder where Internet Explorer stores the images and other information relevant to a particular webpage. This option erases the contents of this folder.
• Compress Index.dat on Startup - It compresses the file, Index.dat, which stores information about the websites visited and any saved cookies. This file is locked and can not be deleted.
• Firefox History and Typed URLs - A link to each page visited during a predefined period leading up to the current day is stored under Internet history. This list can be cleared permanently.
• Windows Recent Files List - It scans for the list of items which you have recently accessed. This prevents others from viewing your personal files.
• Find Computer List - It scans the list of computer names that you have most recently accessed over the network. This list can be erased.

Start Scan

You can go for a Complete File Scan which selects all the categories by default or you can select the problematic categories only from the following:

• Temporary Files
• Junk Files
• Other Junk Files
• Backup Files
• Lost Clusters

Select and click on Start Scan. The System Path and the file being scanned are displayed on top.

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