R-Wipe & Clean is a complete solution to wipe useless files and keep your computer privacy. Irretrievably deletes private records of your on- and off-line activities, such as temporary internet files, history, cookies, autocomplete forms and passwords, swap files, recently opened documents list, Explorer MRUs, temporary files, etc. and free up your disk space. The utility wipes files and unused disk space using either fast or secure erase algorithms. All files and folders may be combined in wipe lists to erase them in a single procedure. Supports both the FAT and NTFS file systems. All separate wiping and cleaning tasks can be combined in one or more erasing procedures launched immediately or at predefined times or events as a background task.
New R-Wipe & Clean 4.0 includes Popup Blocker and supports Internet Explorer, NETSCAPE, AOL, MSN, Opera, Mozilla, and Firefox browsers as well as Google and MSN toolbars.
A free fully functional 15-day trial version is available for evaluation purpose.
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System requirements |
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An Intel-compatible platform running Windows 98/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP. |
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Internet Explorer. |
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The administrative privileges under WinNT/2000 are required during installation to install R-Wipe & Clean's Windows Explorer shell extensions. |
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R-Wipe & Clean 4.0 features |
Total computer cleaning |
You can:
- Verify and select information before irretrievable wiping.
- Verify and select information before irretrievable wiping.
- Wipe and delete temporary Internet files.
- Wipe and delete cookies - small files that web sites store on your computers for identification purposes. Your favorite cookies may be safely kept.
- Clean autocomplete forms - logins, user names, passwords and other personal information entered at web sites and keywords entered at search engines.
- Clean history: lists of visited web sites.
- Clean list of recently opened documents.
- Clean Windows clipboard content.
- Wipe and delete temporary files created by Windows and other programs.
- Clean MRUs: lists of recently started programs, mapped network drives, attached peripheral devices, search results, etc.
- Clean MFUs: lists of most frequently used programs, start menu links and icons, Control Panel items, Favorite Web pages, and Internet Explorer buttons.
- Wipe .dat files (even locked) to remove any leftovers after incorrect Windows shutdowns.
- Wipe and delete offline content.
- Clean activity traces from Microsoft Office, standard Windows, and numerous popular third-party applications. Installed applications are detected automatically.
- Wipe Windows swap files.
- Wipe and delete invalid Desktop shortcuts: the shortcuts that are on your Desktop but not linked to any existing objects.
R-Wipe & Clean wipes all files to ensure their total unrecoverable elimination.
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Scheduler |
- You may combine all cleaning and wiping tasks in different erasing procedures launched manually or at scheduled times or events (user logon / logoff, system start up / shutdown, closing any or all browsers, etc.)
- A cleaning and wiping task may be started from a command line.
- When schedule is set, erasing procedure starts automatically as a background task.
- Scheduler can turn your computer off when the erasing procedure is completed.
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File wiping |
- FAT and NTFS file systems support.
- Wipes files using several selectable fast or strong erase algorithms, including DOD-approved. Files can be wiped directly from Windows Explorer.
- Predefined wipe lists: lists of files and folders that are wiped through a single task. Files and folders can be added to a current wipe list directly from Windows Explorer.
- Wipes file's alternate data streams.
- Wipes cluster tips: free parts of file clusters.
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Disk wiping |
- FAT and NTFS file systems support.
- Wipes unused disk space using several selectable fast or strong erase algorithms, including DOD-approved.
- Wipes unused space on a single disk directly from the R-Wipe & Clean tab in the disk Properties.
- Wipes unused space of several disks through one single wipe task.
- Wipe records of small files stored directly in the NTFS Master File Table.
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Additional useful features |
- The Boss Key - emergency web-browser closing.
- Ultimate Popup blocker.
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