Erase Your History

This utility cleans your browser history, cache, cookies, temporary internet files, recent document history of applications, and more...

Usage

• Check mark the options you want
• Click 'Start'.

Given below is a short description of each option.

Windows
 

• Empty the Windows XP Prefetch folder
  Prefetch is a new and very useful technique in Windows XP. However, after using XP some time, the prefetch directory can get full of junk and obsolete links in the Prefetch catalog, which can slow down your computer noticeably. You can safely remove these files and regain system performance; any files that are needed will be created again.

• Delete Empty Folders in Windows Temp Folder
  Many programs that you use may create folders in the Windows TEMP folder. Through this, you can delete empty folders among them.

• Erase Outlook Express's deleted mails.
  Mails deleted from the Outlook Express will be stored in your hard disk, even though they are not shown by the program. Check this box to delete those mails.

• Erase Folder streams in the Windows Registry
  Each time you open a File Folder, Windows makes an entry in the System Registry.
  Check this box to delete those entries.
  Note:- deleting this may alter the layout of your folders.
   
• Empty Clipboard (paste data)
  Windows clipboard contains the latest item you have copied or cut from a document.
  Check this box to clear the clipboard.
   

• Delete open/save dialog history
  
  Whenever you open or save a file using any applications, information related to that file will be stored in the registry. Check this box to erase this history.

  
  

   

Start Menu

• Delete start menu order history
  This option clears the order in which entries are stored in your start menu. All the entries will be sorted in alphabetical order.
   
• Delete the list of recently opened network drives in windows
  
   
• Remove Old Start Menu click
  
   
• Remove old Start Menu click History
  The start menu remembers the dates and times you use programs, in an encrypted database. This option decrypts that database, and finds invalid entries from it.

• Erase Start/Find Computer history
  Check this box to cause the history stored in Find Computer dialog to be erased. This feature requires rebooting your system
   

• Erase Start > Find Files history
  
  Windows stores the search queries you provided for finding files so that they can be re-used.

  
  Check this box to cause the history stored in Find Files dialog to be erased. This feature requires rebooting your system
   

• Erase Start/Run history
  Check this box to cause the history stored in the Run dialog of the Start menu to be erased each time you log on.
  Note that this clears only the standard Explorer Run history. It does not clear the Run history for third-party applications nor does it clear the auto-filling of the Run history from your URL history.

• Delete recently opened Document history
  
  Whenever a file is opened, a shortcut link to the location of the file is created to facilitate easy access henceforth. These links can be accessed from Documents section of the Start menu.
  Check this box to cause this history stored to be erased.
   

Internet Explorer

• Delete IE favorites menu order history
  This option clears the order in which entries are stored in your IE favorites menu. All the entries will be sorted in alphabetical order.
   
• Delete locked URL cache file (index files)
  Index.dat files keep a list of websites you have visited, cookies received and files downloaded. If you have never cleaned the index.dat files, your online life story since you installed your Windows is offered to everybody like an open book. This file cannot be deleted manually, even if you find them, because Windows guards/locks it.
  Check this box to delete these files. This feature requires rebooting your system.
   
• Delete all Auto-complete data of Internet Explorer
  
  The AutoComplete feature saves previous entries you've typed for Web addresses, forms, and passwords. Then, when you type information in one of these fields, AutoComplete suggests possible matches. These matches can include folder and program names you type in the Address bar, and search queries, stock quotes, or information for just about any other field you fill in on a Web page like your credit card number.

  

  
  Check this box to clear these data.
   

• Clear IE typed URLs
  The address bar of IE stores the addresses / URLs you have typed.

  
  
  
  This option deletes that history.
   

• Clear IE browser history
  
  The history of your browsing sessions are stored in your hard disk. It also contains the links to the websites you've visited.

  
  This option deletes that history information.

• Delete IE Cache
  The Temporary Internet Files folder is the location on your hard disk where Web pages and files (such as graphics) are stored as you surf the net. This speeds up the display of pages you frequently visit or have already seen, because Internet Explorer can open them from your hard disk instead of from the Web. However, with time, the number and size of these files will grow, slowing down your system.
  Check this box to clear these internet files.

• Delete IE cookies

  Some Web sites store information in a small text file, called a "cookie," on your hard disk. Cookies contain information about you and your preferences. Or it might only contain a record of which pages within the site you visited, to help the site customize the view for you the next time you visit.
  
  Only the information that you provide, or the choices you make while visiting a Web site, can be stored in a cookie. Allowing a Web site to create a cookie does not give that or any other site access to the rest of your computer, and only the site that created the cookie can read it. Internet Explorer is set up to allow the creation of cookies by default.
  
  Since some cookies are useful, you may want to keep them. Click 'Manage Cookies' to select the cookies you need to keep. All the unmarked ones will be deleted.

  
   

Plug-ins

Privacy plug-ins are used to erase the recent document history of third-party applications.

Almost all applications like WinZip, Windows Media Player, Paint, Acdsee, etc keep a list of recently opened documents (pictures, movies, etc).

Provided are a list of plug-ins we have created to delete such information for a number of popular programs. Select the plug-ins of you like and our program will delete the history information of that applications for you.