Using Tracks Eraser Pro

Eraser Settings

There are 5 tabs on Eraser Settings screen:  Browsers, Outlook, Windows, Applications , and Custom Items.

Browsers 

Choose which browsers items to be erased, Tracks Eraser Pro can erase the history tracks of Internet Explorer, Netscape, AOL, MSN, Opera, and Mozilla, other browsers are supported by using available plugins.

• Address Bar History The websites you have visited are shown, you can click Options to select which one you want to keep
  

• Cookies Web sites send small text files to your browser to keep track of your on-line sessions. They are particularly useful when you want a website to auto-sign you into a registration process. However web sites also use cookies to track you through the site. With Tracks Eraser , you can select which cookies you want to erase and which one you want to keep.
  

• Cache (Temporary Internet Files) Browser saves web pages, and images from visited websites to your hard drive whether you click on them or not, so that you don't have to wait for the image to download again. But this means that many megabytes of data of all types get saved to your hard drive. Anyone who can use your computer can tell from these files what you have seen while surfing.
  

• Internet History  Which keeps an index of the visited web pages
  

• Autocomplete Memory Which stores a record of almost everything that you typed into any web site form. Form data can be things such as all the keywords you have ever typed into a search engine or personal information such as your name and address
  
  If you log in as a limited user account on Windows 2000 or Windows XP, please click the Option button on the right of this item and check the "Using Internet Options to erase Autocomplete histpory" 
  

• IE Plugins The Browser Plug-Ins use to provide some functions that the browser can not provide, for example, some  chat room and games may use plug-ins to accomplish special functions
  

• Index.dat Stores information about what web sites you have visited and what cookies have been saved. The index.dat files are always locked by system and can not be deleted. Tracks Eraser Pro overwrite these index.dat files with blank characters, others can see nothing useful form these files after erasing.
  

• Netscape Settings Tracks Eraser supports all versions of Netscape. It can auto-detect the Netscape version higher than 6.0. For Netscape version lower than 6.0 , if you changed the default directory setting, you should click on the Netscape Directory button to select the directory you installed Netscape to.
  

• Other Browsers Tracks Eraser Pro also supports other browsers including all versions of MSN browser, Opera, AOL, Mozilla. 

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Outlook 

You can select which mailbox and newsgroup of Outlook Express you want to erase. 

Windows  

Choose which Windows items to be erased

• Recent Document lists the last 15 document files that you have accessed, allowing any of these documents to be reopened simply by clicking on the name of the document.
  

• Start Menu Search History Windows saves the files, text or computers you have ever searched.  
  

• Start Menu Start History Windows stores all the programs you have ever run in the start menu run text box or just on the start menu (Windows XP).
  

• Windows Temp Folder Windows and most other applications saves their temp files to this folder, it will take a large amount of disk space if you don't clean it regularly.
  

• Open/Save Dialog Box History Windows records the filenames that you opened and saved in the system registry.
  

• Clear Clipboard Windows Clipboard saves the info you copied.
  

• Clean Hard Disk Free Space Clean the free space of hard disk. even you can not see them, the deleted files( not deleted by Tracks Eraser Pro with Secure Erasing enabling) are still on your hard disk, others can recover them using some recovery software. Tracks Eraser Pro  overwrites the free space so that the deleted can not be recovered.
  
  Notes: This function only work when you click the Erase Now button, it will not clean free space on Schedule mode even you check this item.

Application 

Select, download, and import the free plugins for Tracks Eraser Pro. with plugins, you can erase the tracks of many popular applications/programs, Some 100 or more plugins are now available for downloading, For example, Office, Widows Mediaplayer, RealOne, Acrobat, Winzip, and ICQ, etc.

• Refresh After you copy a plugin file from the plugin folder of Track Eraser Pro, click this to show it on the plugin list
  

• Delete Deletes the plugin, this will delete the plugin file, if you want to use it again, please download and import again.
  

• Plugin Info Shows the plugin information, such as what the plugin will erase or update.
  

• Import Plugin Imports the plugin after downloading, clicking this will show a dialog box to let you find the plugin file you have downloaded, clicking OK will import the plugin to the Application Plugin List 
  

• Download Plugin Clicking this will launch your browser and link to the plugin download page of our website, where you can choose the plugin(s) you want or need to download.
  Click here to download Plugin Page 
  
  It's recommended that you often check this plugins page, because we are adding plugins for all kinds of applications/programs nearly every week.
  
  If you have an application we do not yet support, please tell us at support@acesoft.net, we will try to support it soon.
  
  In addition, we provide a free Tracks Eraser Plugin Maker to allow you to make the plugin yourself. You will need to be an advanced user with a high degree of knowledge about the program from which you want to erase tracks.
  
  
  If you make a plugin and want to share it with others, please email your plugin to us
  We will list it on our website and allow others download it for use."
  
   

Custom Items 

Custom Items allows you to add, edit or customize an  Item  that  you can use to erase files, folder sor registry entries.

• Refresh Click this if you have copied the Custom Item file into the Custom Item Folder 
  

• Add Adds the Custom Item
  

• Edit Click the Custom Item on Custom Items List and click this button to edit the Custom Item, the process for editing is the same as adding. 
  

• Delete Delete the Custom Item, this will delete the Custom Item file.
  

• Info Shows the information about Custom Item

IMPORTANT: You must be an advanced user and know MUCH about what you are going to erase. If you erase the files or registry entries which are required by other programs or by Windows, those programs or Windows may be damaged.

Options  

General

• Load Tracks Eraser When Windows Startup  Checking this will let Tracks Eraser load automatically every time when Windows startup, after it starts, you can see a Tracks Eraser icon on the system tray, click the icon will show the Tracks Eraser screen. 
  

• Run In Stealth Mode If this is checked, Tracks Eraser will operate in an invisible mode, this will not show an icon on the system tray . In Stealth Mode, it can run Auto-erasing in the background quietly. You can press ALT+A to show/hide Tracks Eraser. you can change the hotkey.
  

• Enable Boss Key If this is checked, you can press ALT+SPACE to hide/unhide the browsers, you can hide the browser windows when your boss (or anyone else you don't want to see your screen) comes in. you can change the hotkey to you want. you can click the Options button to select which programs you want to hide when pressing the bosskey.

Advanced

• Remove Unread Email Count from the Windows XP Login Screen Enabling this will hide the unread email count on the Windows XP Login Screen.
  

• Don't display Last User Name From the Login Screen If you log in Windows with an user account, when you log in next time, Windows will display the last user name you log in, checking this disable this feature of windows
  

• Clear Windows Paging File at Shutdown Checking this will clear the Windows paging file (Pagefile.sys) during the shutdown process, so that no unsecured data is contained in the paging file when the shutdown process is complete.

Schedule

You can schedule your erasing by the events like

• Windows Startup  Check this will run erasing every times Windows startup
  

• Windows Shutdown If this is checked, once it detects that the Windows is shutting down, it will run erasing.  
  

• IE Shutdown If this is checked, once it detects that the Internet Explorer shuts down, it will run erasing

ou can also schedule your erasing by the Interval you set, you can select to run erasing every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 8 hours, daily, weekly or monthly. 

Security

• Enable Secure Erasing Checking this will enable Tracks Eraser Pro to erase the tracks by overwriting the file(s) a specified number of times (you choose) with blank characters , which can prevent others from recovering or undeleting  your files using recovery/undelete tools.
  

• Overwrite Files Set the number of times that the file is to be overwritten.
  

• Log Options Select how to Clear Log file.

Note: The more times you set to overwrite the file, the more time it will take to erase the tracks. Usually, the default 3 times is enough.

Tracks Eraser Pro implements the Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DOD 5220.22-M, which gives you confidence that once deleted with Tracks Eraser Pro, your file data is gone forever and can not be recovered. 

Homepage Protection

• Prevent Home Page From Being Changed By Website Checking this feature will enable Tracks Eraser to monitor your homepage settings. If another web site attempts to change your homepage, it will prompt you first to agree/disagree to the change.
  

• Reset Homepage You can use this to reset the homepage to what you want.
  

• Reset Window You can use this to reset the IE Window Title to what you want. 
  

Notes: Some malicious websites change your default browser homepage, or set your browser to automatically open their website on reboot. You can use this feature to avoid this from happening.

Log

With Log Manager , you can view, save or clear the log file.