Acronis privacyexpert 2003 Manual De Usuario

 

 

Windows usually keeps temporary files in a special folder. For example, 
C:\Windows\Temp or D:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Local 
Settings\Temp folder. 

In this case, temporary files folder means a folder specified in the 

temp 

environment

 

variable. It is set by the Windows 

set 

command. You can 

check 

temp 

value by typing 

set 

temp in the command line. As a result, 

under Windows XP you will get a string like D:\Documents and 
Settings\<user name>\Local Settings\Temp. 

Temporary files can usually be determined by their extensions. For example, 
they can be as follows: 

• 

*.bak, *.old

 – back-up copies, 

• 

*.gid

 – a temporary file, created when opening Windows help, 

• 

*.chk

 – files, created while disk is checked for lost clusters, 

• 

*.tmp, *.$*, *.~*, *.---, ~*.*

 – other temporary files, 

created by a variety of programs. 

Please note the above list is far from complete. 

 

Besides  temporary files clean-up

Acronis PrivacyExpert offers to clean your user 

folders and files (described further), deleting all temporary files from folders on any 
connected disks according to the provided «Files» value. 

 

Setting the temporary files clean-up, you can provide *.* «Files» value to destroy 
all files from the temporary files folder. 

Disk free space clean-up allows you to destroy all data possibly stored in 
the hard disk drive’s free space sectors. 

Disk free space almost always contains information and data under the 
control of Windows.  

Windows does not actually remove anything when deleting a file: its name 
is simply replaced with unusable characters for Windows in the File Allocation 
Table, (FAT). The file becomes invisible only for a user, and the cluster 
chain with file data is considered free, but the information does not 
disappear from the hard disk sectors. It is actually very simple to recover 
deleted Windows files. There are numerous programs for doing this under 
either DOS and Windows. 

Formatting or deleting a partition also does not destroy information from the 
hard disk sectors. It can be read directly from them if needed. 

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