gHacks technology news » disk cleaner http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Clean After Me http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/15/clean-after-me/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/15/clean-after-me/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:55:20 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4993 Clean After Me is a new software by the well respected NirSoft developers. The application is as usual portable and can be executed right from its location. The main purpose of the software is to clean the system after it was used in order to protect the user’s privacy which is also the main difference to disk cleaners like Crap Cleaner or Disk Cleaner which remove temporary files as well and have to be installed on the system.

The program’s main interface provides easy access to several check-boxes divided into categories like Windows Explorer, Firefox, Windows General and Windows Advanced. It is possible to check each category which would have the effect that every item under that category would be cleaned or to check individual items instead.

The software concentrates on traces that a user leaves on a system and provides cleanup routines to delete those traces in the Registry, in logs and temporary files on the host system.

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After selecting the items that should be removed from the system the user can either clean the items directly by clicking on the button Clean Selected Items or create a report of the items that will be deleted first. This report appears in the status pane of the software.

Clean After Me is compatible to Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/15/clean-after-me/feed/ 4 Erase Personal Tracks with Disk Cleaner http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/13/erase-personal-tracks-with-disk-cleaner/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/13/erase-personal-tracks-with-disk-cleaner/#comments Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:36:06 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/13/erase-personal-tracks-with-disk-cleaner/ You are leaving traces on the computer you are working with unless you are using a live cd or software that runs from an usb stick. Traces are everywhere and it´s rather hard to clean every possible trace by hand. Disk Cleaner is a nice little freeware application that helps you in this task.

Once installed it scans your computer for items in temporary folders, browser cache and recent documents for instance. Almost thirty locations, each showing the number of files and the complete size of all those files. I think it´s interesting that the program lists all three browsers that I use (opera, firefox and ie) each with separate entries for disk cache, cookies, history and more.

Cleaning is easy as well. Mark the locations that you want cleaned and select clean afterwards. If a path is cleaned it will disappear from the disk cleaner listing and reappear again if new files are discovered. Nice little tool with great impact on security.

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