The process starts by deleting your data files and uninstalling all the programs you’ve used or added and don’t want to be part of the machine when it’s reused by someone else.įor your data files, that means deleting things from My Documents and wherever else you kept data files.Ī good start for programs is to take a walk through Add/Remove Programs, or Programs and Features in Control Panel, or the Settings App, and just start uninstalling.įor extra security, you might want to use Revo Uninstaller instead. Delete and uninstall data and programs.Īlternately: erase everything, including Windows.Even if you're using something else to clear away your PC traces right now, download it, give your system a scan and see what it can find.While you can’t securely delete everything, you can get close. PrivaZer is an amazingly thorough and detailed privacy tool. Or you can have the data securely wiped using multiple passes, using one of seven industry-standard algorithms - it's your call. And even apparently obvious sections, like "Cookies", are packed with information, listing regular and Flash cookies, DOM storage and more for multiple browsers.Īnd once you've finished browsing, all discovered traces can be overwritten with a click. JumpList scans detail the applications you've run and the files you've opened. The "MFT" and "free space" sections are similarly thorough, revealing the names of deleted files. Curious about your Registry issues, for instance? Click Registry > Traces and you'll see the program has run a low-level scan of your Registry keys: on our system this successfully identified a host of programs we'd uninstalled long ago. There's a huge amount of information here. PrivaZer is a surprisingly powerful privacy tool which can reveal the many traces of activities left on your PC, before helping to clear them up.Īfter running a thorough scan of our system drive (potentially a lengthy process, taking 1:57 even on our relatively unpopulated 240GB SSD), the program produced a detailed report of areas which required cleaning: everything from cookies, browser and instant messaging history, to the MFT, drive free space, our Registry and even RAM.
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