What Type of History Does Your Computer Keep?

Windows is the most common applications used to provide dialogs for opening or saving operations. The "Common Dialog control" provides the standard dialog boxes for certain operations like saving and opening files, select fonts and colors and setting print options. The "ComDlg32 control" that is used in several applications, saves its set of information in the history apart from the other 'Windows history'.

Both your browser and Windows keep tracks of your Internet and computer activity in order to provide a more user-friendly and pleasant computer and surfing experience. However these history tracks can compromise your privacy and provide a way for others to view what you have been searching or downloading. You can erase history tracks by using special software.

Using "Clear All History" you can erase browser history, erase search history, erase AutoComplete forms, address bar history, delete Temporary Internet Files (cache), stored passwords, Supports Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape. "Clear All History" also empties Windows Temporary Folders, clears clipboard, Recycle Bin content and recent documents history, clear Windows Run History, search history, Start Menu open programs history and more.

To protect your privacy, additionally these are what" Tracks Eraser Pro" are able to do ;

• Delete Address bar history of IE, Netscape, AOL , Opera

• Delete Cookies of IE , Netscape, AOL, Opera

• Delete Internet cache (temporary Internet files)

• Delete Internet history files

• Delete Internet search history

• Delete history of auto complete

• Delete IE plug-ins (selectable)

• Delete index.dat file

• Delete history of start menu run box

• Delete history of start menu search box

• Delete windows temp files

• Delete history of open/save dialog box

• Empty recycle bin

Other than that, Tracks Eraser Pro's other great features includes Secure Erasing overwrites the files a specified times with blank character, gives you the confidence that once erased by Tracks Eraser Pro, the files will be gone and no one can recover or un-delete them, Free up valuable hard-drive space it can free up a lot of disk space used by the cache and temp files and clean Free Space Clean the free space of hard disk by overwriting every bytes of the free space with blank characters. This makes the deleted files unrecoverable forever.

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