When you are using Windows, you leave certain tracks behind. Typed URLs, run history, find history, document history, cookies and so forth to mention a few.
You can leave valuable security information behind on a computer for malicious users to abuse. These are also trackable information on the pages you visited on the Internet.
The "Cover Your Tracks" system tool helps you cover (clean!) your tracks.
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You can clean the Windows Run History, i.e. the list of typed
program to run can be erased. Next, you can erase records of Find History
on your computer. Finally, you can delete the list of recently used documents
in the Document History in your Start Menu.
Start Menu Re-Sort. Starting with Windows 2000, the order of Start Menu entries could be modified. If you want to reset this menu ordering, click the "Re-sort your Start Menu" button. Tidy recently accessed items. Starting with Windows 2000, items that were seldomly used in the Start Menu vanish. If you want to unhide these, click this button. |
IE: Manage CookiesYou can manage your Internet Explorer cookies by clicking on the "IE Cookies" button. This brings up a new window with a listing of the cookies that belong to you. The listing has four columns: the site location (server name) of the cookie, the number of days since the cookie was updated, the full path to the cookie file and the contents of the cookie. You can sort the cookies by clicking on the "Days Ago Modified" column to find the oldest or newest cookies.Use the Find button to find and select cookies with a specified sub-string in the server name. Typing in "www" will find all the servers that contain the word "www" in them. Click AutoSelect if you want DiskState to guess for offensive cookies to remove. The Toggle button inverts your cookie selection. Useful if you want to select all the cookies you have got, or just keep the opposite cookies selected by the Find button. The Remove button deletes the selected cookies from your system. NOTE: This will delete the cookie from your system regardless if Zip Safety is enabled. If you would like to Export the list of cookies with location, days since it was accessed and contents, click the Export button. You can view the contents of the selected cookie by clicking the View button. Note: There is a context menu available if you click right mouse
button.
Clicking on "IE URLs" cleans the URLs you typed in Internet Explorer.
You can clean the history of visited web sites. In this case, the IE Persistent Cache option deserves an explanation. Internet Explorer have a security bug which records all URL activity in hidden undeletable history files. By unchecking this IE Persistent Cache option, these files become deletable upon next reboot. That is, if you enable this option, the next time you click "Clean History" in Internet Explorer, the hidden URL activity logging is also cleared. By clicking "IE History" in DiskState, it will prompt to erase these hidden files without enabling this option. |
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You can remove all the cookies found, clean all the URLs typed
in and visited as well as clean the history and cache. DiskState will prompt you with a confirmation window. If it finds a valid profile, it will be shown in this window.
If you have several user profiles installed, DiskState will use the current active profile or prompt you with the available profiles it can find.
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| You can remove all the Opera cookies found, clean all the URLs typed in and visited as well as clean the history and cache. You will have to confirm the deletions after clicking on any of the three buttons. |