User's Manual

18. Security and Privacy Tools

Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition includes tools for secure destruction of data on an

entire hard disk drive, individual partitions, as well as for erasing individual files and eliminating user

system activity traces.

These tools ensure the security of your confidential information, as well as maintain your privacy

when you work with a PC, because they clean-up the evidence showing your actions (records in

various system files) that you don't even know about. This could include usernames and passwords.

If you need to:

• securely destroy files or folders you select, run File Shredder.

• clean up Windows components (folders, files, registry sections, etc.) related to general system

tasks which are capable of retaining user PC activity evidence, run System Clean-up.

18.1. Using File Shredder

The File Shredder enables quick, permanent destruction of selected of files and folders.

To destroy permanently certain files/folders, select Tools & Utilities → File Shredder in the main

program menu. This starts File Shredder Wizard, which will guide you through the steps required for

permanently destroying the selected files and folders.

1. First select the files and/or folders you wish to destroy.

2. To destroy permanently the selected files using the default data destruction method (Fast),

select the Destroy the selected files and folders irreversibly check box in the next window and

click Proceed, otherwise click Options to select the desired data destruction method.

3. By default the program will use the Fast method (see Hard Disk Wiping Methods (p. 146)). You

can also choose one of the other preset data destruction methods from the drop-down list.