Detailed instructions for use are in the User's Guide.
Acronis PowerUtilities User's Guide
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CHAPTER 1. ACRONIS POWERUTILITIES ....................................................... 5 1.1 ABOUT ACRONIS POWERUTILITIES................................................. 5 1.2 ABOUT THE ACRONIS POWERUTILITIES USER'S GUIDE ................. 6 1.3 SOFTWARE USAGE CONDITIONS ..................................................... 7 1.4 TECHNICAL SUPPORT ...................................................................... 7 CHAPTER 2. INSTALLING AND STARTING TO WORK WITH ACRONIS POWERUTILITIES ................................................................................................ 8 2.1 ACRONIS POWERUTILITIES SYSTEM PACKAGE............................... 8 2.2 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS ................................ 8 2.3 INSTALLING ACRONIS POWERUTILITIES COMPONENTS ................. 8 2.4 RECOVERING ACRONIS POWERUTILITIES COMPONENTS................ 8 2.5 REMOVING ACRONIS POWERUTILITIES COMPONENTS ................... 9 2.6 ACRONIS POWERUTILITIES SUITE INTERFACE................................ 9 2.7 RUNNING A SUITE COMPONENT ...................................................... 9 CHAPTER 3. CLEANING USER ACTIVITY TRACES FROM A COMPUTER..... 10 3.1 SOFTWARE LOGICAL ORGANIZATION: SECTIONS ......................... 10
3.1.1 COMPLEX PC CLEAN-UP...........................................................................11 3.1.2 CLEANING SEPARATE SYSTEM COMPONENTS...........................................11
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EXECUTING PC CLEAN-UP MANUALLY ........................................ 12 CLEAN-UP SETTINGS ..................................................................... 12
3.3.1 CLEAN-UP SETTINGS.................................................................................12 3.3.2 CLEAN-UP SETTINGS EDITOR....................................................................12 3.3.3 SETTING PC COMPONENT CLEAN-UP WITH THE EDITOR...........................12
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SEPARATE COMPONENTS CLEAN-UP SETTINGS ............................ 14
3.4.1 CLEAN-UP SETTINGS OF COMPONENTS RELATED TO WORKING ON THE INTERNET .................................................................................................................14 3.4.2 SYSTEM COMPONENT CLEAN-UP SETTINGS..............................................16
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EXECUTING SCHEDULED PC CLEAN-UP........................................ 20 RENAMING CLEAN-UP VARIANTS ................................................. 22 DATA CLEAN-UP ALGORITHMS..................................................... 22 COMPLEX PC CLEAN-UP ............................................................... 23
3.5.1 INVOKING THE SCHEDULER.........................................................................21 3.5.2 SCHEDULER SETTINGS ..............................................................................21
3.8.1 ENTIRE PC CLEAN-UP...............................................................................23 3.8.2 SYSTEM CLEAN-UP ...................................................................................24 3.8.3 INTERNET CLEAN-UP ................................................................................24
3.9 A FAST CLEANUP OF SEPARATE SYSTEM COMPONENTS .............. 25 CHAPTER 4. MIGRATING DATA TO A NEW HARD DISK .............................. 26 4.1 PREPARING FOR MIGRATION ......................................................... 26 4.2 HARD DISK PARTITIONS AND FILE SYSTEMS................................ 26 4.3 INSTALLING A HARD DISK ON YOUR COMPUTER ......................... 27 4.4 BIOS SET-UP ................................................................................. 27 4.5 STARTING WORK WITH ACRONIS MIGRATEEASY ........................ 28 4.6 MIGRATION SCENARIOS ................................................................ 29
4.6.1 AUTO UPGRADE........................................................................................29 4.6.2 MANUAL UPGRADE ..................................................................................29
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AUTO UPGRADE ............................................................................ 30 SAFETY .......................................................................................... 34
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4.9 MANUAL UPGRADE ....................................................................... 35 CHAPTER 5. HARD DISK ERROR CORRECTION ........................................... 36 5.1 BEGINNING TO WORK WITH THE PROGRAM ACRONIS DISKEDITOR36 5.2 MAIN WINDOW OF THE PROGRAM ................................................ 37 5.3 WORKING IN MULT-IWINDOWS MODE.......................................... 38 5.4 EDIT HARD DISKS.......................................................................... 40 5.5 WRITE BLOCK TO A FILE AND READ FROM A FILE........................ 42 5.6 VIEW.............................................................................................. 43 5.7 SEARCH ......................................................................................... 44 5.8 WORKING WITH DIFFERENT ENCODINGS ...................................... 45 5.9 OTHER ACRONIS DISKEDITOR CAPABILITIES ............................... 46 CHAPTER 6. DISK DATA WIPING .................................................................. 47 6.1 CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION ON HARD DISKS: STORAGE AND ACCESS ....................................................................................................... 47
6.1.1 CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: DESTRUCTION..........................................47 6.1.2 DATA DELETION BY MEANS OF AN OPERATING SYSTEMS........................48 6.1.3 GUARANTEED DESTRUCTION OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: STANDARDS .................................................................................................................49
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WORKING WITH ACRONIS DRIVECLEANSER SOFTWARE.............. 50
6.2.1 RESULTS OF THE WIPING SCRIPT EXECUTION...........................................55
6.3 CREATING CUSTOM ALGORITHMS ................................................ 56 APPENDIX A. HARD DISK WIPING ALGORITHMS.......................................... 57 A.1 INFORMATION WIPING ALGORITHMS FUNCTIONING PRINCIPLES. 57 A.2 ALGORITHMS USED BY ACRONIS PRIVACYEXPERT AND DRIVECLEANSER ..................................................................................... 58
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Chapter 1. Acronis PowerUtilities
1.1 About Acronis PowerUtilities
Acronis PowerUtilities, the long-anticipated utilities suite from the technology leader Acronis, includes four of the most popular system utilities available in one box: · · · · Acronis PrivacyExpert, the powerful privacy utility computing and surfing history completely private. that keeps
Acronis MigrateEasy, the preeminent hard disk drive migration tool available today. Acronis DiskEditor, the technically advanced tool designed to edit your hard disk and its partition data manually. Acronis DriveCleanser, the proven solution to securely obliterate hard disks clean.
Compute and Surf Without a Trace! Acronis PrivacyExpert provides you with complete confidentiality while working with a stand-alone or networked personal computer (PC). The confidentiality that Acronis PrivacyExpert delivers allows you to clean-up trace data and Windows by removing any evidence of your work or Internet activities. Unlike other software Acronis PrivacyExpert also increases PC performance by cleaning out temporary files. Acronis PrivacyExpert is PC performance improvement as a result of hard disk cleanup from numerous temporary files. Upgrade Your Hard Disk Drive in Minutes! It's finally time  you've put it off as long as possible, but it's now time to upgrade to a new larger hard disk drive. And if you're like most, you're not excited. You think you're in for a large project spanning several days of tedious work. Luckily for you, there's Acronis MigrateEasy, the award-winning solution that migrates all your computer data and system files to a new hard disk drive in minutes, while keeping all operating systems and applications fully functional. Why take days upgrading, when you can use Acronis MigrateEasy and be finished in minutes? With Acronis MigrateEasy, you don't have to be a computer scientist to upgrade to a new hard disk drive. Simply make a few choices when prompted, and Acronis MigrateEasy will take care of everything
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automatically. It will even show you a preview of the migration can be completely assured of file and system transfer. Within minutes, your data, including applications and operating systems, will be safely on your new large hard disk drive and ready to go! Hard Disk Problem? Not Any More Quite often problems can arise with hard disk drives that cannot be solved without a technically advanced disk editor. Such problems include: back-up, copying, and/or recover important data areas of a hard drive; search and/or extraction of information that was removed by accident or lost due to different soft- and hardware failures or virus attack. Acronis DiskEditor, with booting up from a diskette, works even if your operating system does not. Securely Obliterate Your Hard Disks Getting rid of an old PC, upgrading to a new hard drive, returning a leased computer, or redeploying a PC within your company? It is truly imperative to completely destroy all data from the old hard disk. Your confidential data should not only be safeguarded according to the strict rules, but it should also be reliably and completely destroyed when needed. You think you have deleted all the financial, corporate, and personal files, and even formatted and deleted hard disk partitions  but are they really gone from the drive? The answer is NO! Acronis DriveCleanser guarantees the complete destruction of data on selected partitions and/or entire disks with extremely simple Windows XPstyle interface and straight-forward actions.
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About the Acronis PowerUtilities User's Guide
This Guide briefly describes the main features of Acronis PowerUtilities suite components, including the following chapters: · Chapter 2 «Installing and Starting to Work with Acronis PowerUtilities» - installing, recovering and removing various suite components; Chapter 3 «Cleaning User Activity Traces From a Computer» working with Acronis PrivacyExpert: setting up and executing variants of complex PC and system cleanup; Chapter 4 «Migrating Data to a New Hard Disk» - working with Acronis MigrateEasy: preparing a hard disk for installation and automatic migration of the complete data set, including operating system, applications, documents, etc.; Chapter 5 «Hard Disk Error Correction» - working with Acronis DiskEditor: low-level access to hard disk sectors, searching disk for
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data, operating with sector byte blocks, browsing and editing the Master Boot Record and boot sectors, File Allocation Table; · Chapter 6 «Disk Data Wiping» - working with Acronis DriveCleanser: guaranteed wiping of confidential data on an obsolete or unused disk, data wiping algorithms; Appendix A. «Hard Disk Wiping Algorithms» - the necessity of strict hard disk data wiping algorithms and the detailed description of algorithms integrated into Acronis PrivacyExpert and Acronis DriveCleanser.
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Software Usage Conditions
The conditions of Acronis PowerUtilities software usage are described in the «License agreement», included in this package. The supplied registration card is the confirmation of your legal purchase and usage of Acronis PowerUtilities software. Each registration card has its own unique registration number. Based on current legislation the «License agreement» is considered a contract between a user and a software manufacturer. This contract has the legal effect and its violation may entail a court examination. Illegal use and distribution of software will be prosecuted.
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Technical Support
Users of legally purchased and registered copies of Acronis Pow ...
