Tracks Eraser User's Manual



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Contents

Introduction
Quick Start

What's New

Using Tracks Eraser 
Major Different Between Tracks Eraser and Tracks Eraser Pro
How To Order Tracks Eraser
Frequently Asked Questions
Contact Us


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Introduction

Your computer is spying on you now! It stores all the evidence into your hard disk. Anyone using your computer can see where you have been on Internet, what images and movies you have seen, and even anything you have done on your computer could be seen by others. The Windows built-in functions will not protect you, most of the tracks can not be erased with them.

Tracks Eraser is designed to protect you by cleaning up all the unwanted history data on your computer. With simply one click, Tracks Eraser  allows you to erase the cache, cookies, history, typed URLs, autocomplete memory, index.dat from your browsers, and Window's temp folder, run history, search history, open/save history, recent documents, etc. 

Please read the following information carefully before using this software. It contains details of  the product. We  hope you enjoy all the features we've made in Tracks Eraser.

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Quick Start


After installing Tracks Eraser or click on the Tracks Eraser's icon on the desktop, It will display a starting screen, if you have purchased, please click on the Register button and enter your registration code into the Registration Code text box, if no , please just cilck Try More to start a trial.

Task List  Displays the Erasing item you select and their status.

Detail List  Shows the details of erasing , including the file name and registry value

Erase Now Start to erase

Test Mode  If you want to see what will be erase before really erase them, you can click this button and check the Datail List to see if it is what you want.

Settings Select what item you want to erase,enable Boss Key, setup your Homepage Protection options, etc. 

Important Note: It is strongly recommended that you shutdown all the programs that you want to erase, because some tracks can not be erased when these program are running .

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What's New 

  • Tracks Eraser 3.12

    Added an Option for erasing Windows XP start menu recent run history
    Added support for clearing Clipboard
    Minor bugs fixed
  • Tracks Eraser 3.11

    Added support for Opera 7
    Added support for AOL 8
    Minor bugs fixed

  • Tracks Eraser 3.1

    Added support for Netscape 6.23, Netscape 7
    Added support for Opera 6.x
    Fixed a bug with keeping cookies

  • Tracks Eraser 3.05

    Added the support to AOL 7.0
    Enhanced the Home Page Protection feature, now it can fix most of the problems this kind
    Help File modified
    Added support to Office XP
    Logo and Icon changed
    Small bugs fixed

     
  • Tracks Eraser 3.03

    Added  Bosskey feature,you can hide/show your browser windows with the hotkey ALT+SPACE
    Added the progress bar to show the erasing processing
    optimized the speed of erasing cache and temp
    Removed the Tracks Viewer, because it may also be seen by others. (if you like this feature, you can download a @winspy from http://www.acesoft.net/winspy/  for free)

  • Tracks Eraser 3.02

     Added the Tracks Viewer feature
     Updated the Installation 
     Fixed 2 small bugs

     

  • Tracks Eraser 3.01

           Added support to AOL
           Added support to QuickTime
           Added support to  Winzip
           Added support to  Acrobat Reader
          

  • Tracks Eraser 3.0

           Added support to MSN
           Added support to Netscape
           Added support to  Opera
           More Stable

  • Tracks Eraser 2.0

    Added "Test Mode" features
    Hide icon on system tray option 
    Some bugs are fixed

  • Tracks Eraser 1.2

    Windows XP Support
    Added "Options" features in the settings of URls,Cookies and Plug-Ins
    Added Support MediaPlay Playlist
    Added support RealPlayer Playlist

  • Tracks Eraser 1.02

    Support Windows 2000,Windows NT
    Support Erase the IE Plug-Ins
    Added "Log" Features
    Added  MS Office Recent Documents Feature
    Fixed some bugs in this version. Now it is more stable.

  • Tracks Eraser 1.0

    Tracks Eraser 1.0 Released!



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Using Tracks Eraser

Erase Setting

There are 4 tabs on Eraser Settings screen:  Browsers, Windows, Applications , and Custom Items.


Browsers 

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

  • Location Bar History The website you typed, 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 Web site 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, images from visited Web sites into your hard drive whether you click on them or not, so that next time when you visit you won't have to re-download the image. But this means that many megabytes of data of all types get saved to you hard drive. Anyone who can use your computer can tell where you have been browsing on the web
  • 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
  • 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 Which 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 overwrite these index.dat files with random data, others can see nothing useful form these files after erasing.
  • Netscape Settings Tracks Eraser supports all versions of Netscape, for Netscape 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.

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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 the programs you have ever run in the start menu run text box
  • Windows Temp Folder Windows and most of the 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

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Application 

The Applications that Tracks Eraser support are:

  • MS Office( Eraser the Recent files of Office 97, Office 2000 and Office XP)
  • Media Player ( Erase the Playlist )
  • Real Player ( Erase the Playlist )
  • Quick Time ( Erase the Playlist )
  • Acrobat (Erase the Recent Files)
     

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Homepage Protection

  • Prevent Home Page From Being Changed By Website Check this will enable Tracks Eraser to monitor the change of Home page setting, if a home page change be detected, it will let you choose to agree or not.
  • Reset Homepage You can use this to reset the homepage to what you want.
  • Reset Window Title You can use this to reset the IE Window Title to what you want. 

Homepage Protection can fix most of the problems that a website  changed to you home page, including

  • Home page and Windows Title changed by website
  • Home Page Locked
  • Registry Editor Locked
  • Opening a browser and visit certain website when system restart 

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How To Order Tracks Eraser

The registration of Tracks Eraser is handled by an independent company named REGNOW. They provide you fast & secure way to buy Tracks Eraser. There are many payment options, including Credit Card, Wire Transfer, Check, Fax and Phone.

The registration  costs for Tracks Eraser Pro is $29.95 and $19.95 for Tracks Eraser.
You will get lifetime upgrading and technical support.

Click Here To Proceed Purchasing Tracks Eraser Pro($29.95) 

Click Here To Proceed Purchasing Tracks Eraser ($19.95)

You can also order by phone

(877) 353-7297 (toll free, USA, Canada)
(425) 392-2294 (regular, international)

Please 

As soon as RegNow receives your order, REGNOW  will immediately send you  an  e-mail which verifies that the order has been submitted. After REGNOW receives confirmation of payment, REGNOW will send you a second  email with payment verification and a Registration Code  .  Simply enter the Registration Code into the the program to complete the Registration process. If you do not receive a Registration Code, please contact registratiion@acesoft.net

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Frequently Asked Questions

1.   What does Tracks Eraser  exactly do ?
2.   What operating system and browsers does Tracks Eraser  support?
3.   What does Tracks Eraser do when I click Test Now ?
4.   What are the major different between Tracks Eraser and Tracks Eraser Pro ?
5.   How to order Tracks Eraser ?
6.   What is the Application Plug-in ?
7.   How to make a Plug-in?
8.   What is the Custom Item ? How to add a Custom Item?
9.   How can I uninstall Tracks Eraser ?
10. What is Boss Key ?
11. What is Stealth Mode ?
12. What is Securely Erasing ?
13. Why the index.dat file still exist after I erase them ?
14. Why the Mediaplayer  playlist are still there after I choose to erase them ?
15. How does the Homepage Protection work ?

If you have any questions that not answered in this FAQ, please feel free to contact us at support@acesoft.net


1.What does Tracks Eraser do ?

Tracks Eraser is designed to protect you by cleaning up all the unwanted history data on your computer. With only one click, Tracks Eraser allows you to erase the cache, cookies, history, typed URLs, autocomplete memory, index.dat of your browser, and Window's temp folder, run history, search history, open/save history, recent documents, etc. 

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2.What Operating System And Browsers Does Tracks Eraser Support?

The supported Operating System include

  •  Windows 95
  •  Windows 98
  •  Windows ME
  •  Windows 2000
  •  Windows XP

The supported Browsers type include

  • Internet Explorer 
  • Netscape 
  • AOL
  • MSN
  • Opera

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3.What does Tracks Eraser do when I click Test Now ?

Test Now offers a safe way to check the items you are going to erase , after you have selected the erasing items, you can firstly click the Test Now to have a test, check the Detail List to see what will be erased. This just tests all the items you selected and do not really erase them.

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4.What are the major different between Tracks Eraser and Tracks Eraser Pro ?

Tracks Eraser Pro keeps all the great features of Tracks Eraser but adds more control and features

FeaturesTracks EraserTracks Eraser Pro
Browsers  History Data ErasingYesYes
Windows History Data ErasingYesYes
Test ModeYesYes
Applications SupportSupport popular applications includes Office, MediaPlayer, Realplayer, QuickTimes, Acrobat, WinzipSupport all the applications that Tracks Eraser supported and use plug-in to support up to nearly unlimited applications
Plug-ins SupportNoYes
Custom Item SupportNoYes
Boss KeyYesYes
Stealth ModeNoYes
Securely ErasingNoYes
SchedulingNoYes
Log OptionsNoYes
Homepage Protection YesYes
Price (Single User License)$19.95$29.95

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5.   How to order Tracks Eraser ? 

The registration of Tracks Eraser is handled by an independent company named REGNOW. They provide you fast & secure way to buy Tracks Eraser. There are many payment options, including Credit Card, Wire Transfer, Check, and Cash.

The registration  costs for Tracks Eraser Pro is $29.95 and $19.95 for TracksEraser.
You will get lifetime upgrading and technical support.

Click Here To Proceed Purchasing Tracks Eraser Pro($29.95) 

Click Here To Proceed Purchasing Tracks Eraser ($19.95)

As soon as RegNow receives your order, REGNOW  will immediately send you  an  e-mail which verifies that the order has been submitted. After REGNOW receives confirmation of payment, REGNOW will send you a second  email with payment verification and a Registration Code  .  Simply enter the Registration Code into the the program to complete the Registration process. If you do not receive a Registration Code, please contact registratiion@acesoft.net

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6.   How can I uninstall Tracks Eraser ?

There are two ways to uninstall Tracks Eraser.

1) Click Start ->Programs->Tracks Eraser->Uninstall Tracks Eraser 
2) Click Start ->Settings->Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs->Tracks Eraser

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7.  What is Boss Key ?

Boss Key lets you to hide/show the browser windows immediately by pressing the Hotkey ALT+SPACE. It's very useful when you are surfing some website , and then someone ( your boss or everyone you don't want to see your screen) walks in, you just press the ALT and SPACE keys, the browser windows will all disappear, and when they go, you can press ALT+SPACE again, these screen will show again.

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8. Why the index.dat file still exist after I erase them ?

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 when Windows is running and can not be deleted. Tracks Eraser overwrites these index.dat files with random data, others can see nothing useful form these files after erasing these files, so don't worry about it.

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9. Why the Mediaplayer  playlist are still there after I choose to erase them ?

This maybe you keep Mediaplayer running when you erasing it, because Mediaplayer will save the playlist again when it shutdowns.

Important Note: It is strongly recommended that you shutdown all the programs that you want to erase, because some tracks can not be erased when these program are running .

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10. What is Homepage Protection?

Some website may modify your IE homepage setting to their URL, and you can not change it back. Tracks Eraser features a Homepage Protection engine to keep monitoring the change of your homepage when you surfing, if your homepage is changed, it will ask you to confirm. 

It can also modify the homepage and window title of Internet Explorer.

Homepage Protection can fix most of the problems that a website  changed to you home page, including

  • Home page and Windows Title changed by website
  • Home Page Locked
  • Registry Editor Locked
  • Opening a browser and visit certain website when system restart 

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Contact Us

comments@acesoft.net
Send us your comments! We'd love to hear from you!

registration@acesoft.net
If you do not get your registration code in a timely mannerí¡or if you've lost it, please let us know. Please include your name, address, email address, and order confirmation number (if you have it). We will be happy to help you.

support@acesoft.net
Please read the FAQ and write if you have Additional questions or problems.

sales@acesoft.net
Currently Tracks Eraser is only distributed on the Internet. If you are interested in exchanging links with us, or would like to help us with physical distribution, promotion in software compilations, or business cooperation, kindly let us know! We are open to various levels of cooperation.

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