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The File Shredder provides the same capabilities for individual files and folders.

Finally, the System Clean-up wizard ensures elimination of all of the traces of your computer

activities When working on a PC, you leave thousands of bytes of evidence showing your actions. You

may not even be aware of these traces. This could include user names and passwords, as well as

other personal information that could be used to steal your identity if it fell into the wrong hands.

This utility wipes them all completely away from the disk drive.

The data destruction methods are described in detail in Hard Disk Wiping methods (p. 218) of this

guide.

In this section

Acronis DriveCleanser ............................................................................ 203

File shredder .......................................................................................... 210

System Clean-up .................................................................................... 212

Hard Disk Wiping methods .................................................................... 218

8.8.1 Acronis DriveCleanser

Many operating systems do not provide users with secure data destruction tools, so deleted files can

be recovered easily by using simple applications. Even a complete disk reformat cannot guarantee

permanent confidential data destruction.

Acronis DriveCleanser solves this problem with guaranteed and permanent data destruction on

selected hard disks and partitions. You can select from a number of data destruction algorithms

depending on the importance of your confidential information.

Be aware that, depending on the total size of selected partitions and the selected data destruction algorithm,

the data destruction may take many hours.

Working with Acronis DriveCleanser

With Acronis DriveCleanser you can perform the following:

 Clean up the selected hard disks or partitions using preset algorithms.

 Create and execute custom user algorithms of hard disk clean-up.

Acronis DriveCleanser is based on a wizard that scripts all hard disk operations, so no data

destruction is performed until you click Proceed in the wizard's Summary window. At any moment,

you can return to the previous steps to select other disks, partitions or data destruction algorithms.

To permanently destroy data on your disk:

 Click the Tools and utilities tab, and then click Acronis DriveCleanser.

 Follow the Acronis DriveCleanser wizard steps.