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Table of Contents END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT ..................................................................................................3 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................... 6 What is Acronis Privacy Expert Suite? .................................................................................................6 Why is it necessary to keep PC work confidential? ..............................................................................6 Standards of guaranteed destruction of confidential information..........................................................7 What's new in Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 7.0? .................................................................................7 What Acronis Privacy Expert Suite enables you to clean up ................................................................8 On the contents of the guide, or how to find the necessary information ...............................................8 System requirements ...........................................................................................................................9 Software use conditions .......................................................................................................................9 Technical support.................................................................................................................................9 CHAPTER 1. 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 CHAPTER 2. 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.3.1 2.3.2 2.3.3 INSTALLING ACRONIS PRIVACY EXPERT SUITE........................................... 11 What's included ........................................................................................................ 11 Installing the system ................................................................................................. 11 Recovering Acronis Privacy Expert Suite................................................................. 11 Removing the software............................................................................................. 11 WORKING WITH ACRONIS PRIVACY EXPERT SUITE .................................... 12 Getting started .......................................................................................................... 12 The main window...................................................................................................... 12 Logical software organization: sections.................................................................... 13 Complex PC clean-up .........................................................................................................13 Cleaning separate system components ..............................................................................13 Additional cleanup tools ......................................................................................................14 2.4 2.4.1 2.4.2 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite global settings ............................................................ 14 General preferences ...........................................................................................................14 Scheduled tasks..................................................................................................................15 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.8.1 2.8.2 Executing PC clean-up manually.............................................................................. 15 Using File Shredder .................................................................................................. 15 Folders/files clean-up through the context menu ..................................................... 16 Clean-up settings...................................................................................................... 17 Clean-up settings editor ......................................................................................................17 Setting PC component clean-up with the editor ..................................................................17 2.9 Separate components clean-up settings .................................................................. 18 2.10 System component clean-up settings ................................................................... 19 2.10.1 2.10.2 2.10.3 «Data destruction method» setting......................................................................................19 «Files» setting.....................................................................................................................19 «Computers» setting ...........................................................................................................21 2.11 2.11.1 2.11.2 Clean-up settings of components related to working on the Internet.................... 22 «Internet Browsers» setting ................................................................................................22 «Address» setting ...............................................................................................................22 2.12 2.13 2.13.1 2.13.2 Spyware clean-up preferences ............................................................................. 23 Executing scheduled PC clean-up ........................................................................ 23 Invoking the scheduler ........................................................................................................24 Scheduled tasks preferences..............................................................................................24 2.14 2.15 2.16 CHAPTER 3. 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 CHAPTER 4. 4.1 Paging file.............................................................................................................. 25 Renaming clean-up variants ................................................................................. 25 Using the Log ........................................................................................................ 26 COMPLEX PC CLEAN-UP ................................................................................... 27 Entire PC clean-up.................................................................................................... 27 System clean-up ....................................................................................................... 28 Internet clean-up....................................................................................................... 28 Complete spyware clean-up ..................................................................................... 28 SEPARATE PC COMPONENTS CLEAN-UP ...................................................... 29 System components ................................................................................................. 29 Acronis Privacy Expert Suite 4 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3 4.1.4 4.1.5 4.1.6 4.1.7 4.1.8 4.1.9 4.1.10 Recycle Bin ........................................................................................................................ 29 Temporary Files ................................................................................................................. 30 Hard Disk Free Space ........................................................................................................ 30 Custom Folders/Files ......................................................................................................... 31 Registry Backups ............................................................................................................... 31 Find Computers List ........................................................................................................... 32 Find Files List ..................................................................................................................... 33 Recently Used Documents List .......................................................................................... 33 Windows Run List............................................................................................................... 34 Opened/Saved Files History............................................................................................... 34 4.2 4.2.1 4.2.2 4.2.3 4.2.4 4.2.5 4.2.6 4.2.7 4.2.8 4.2.9 Internet components................................................................................................. 35 Internet Cache.................................................................................................................... 35 Cookies .............................................................................................................................. 36 Downloaded components ................................................................................................... 38 Last Visited Pages.............................................................................................................. 39 Typed URLs ....................................................................................................................... 40 Passwords.......................................................................................................................... 41 Forms autocomplete clean-up ...................................................................................... ...