Acronis privacy expert suite 8.0 User Manual

Working with Acronis Privacy Expert Suite

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ƒ  fast PC clean-up with limited security in mind, select any methods that 

overwrite in a single pass, two passes or three passes 

If you haven't set the common data destruction method yourself, Acronis 
Privacy Expert Suite will default to the most popular and generally accepted one: 
U.S. Standard, DoD 5220.22-M algorithm (See detailed information in 
Appendix A«Hard Disk Wiping methods»). 

The scheduled clean-up (see section 0 «Scheduling tasks») might lead to errors 
if data to be deleted is used by other programs.  

You can set up Acronis Privacy Expert Suite for such situations by selecting from 
the following variants: 
ƒ  Ignore 
ƒ  Retry 
ƒ  Cancel 
ƒ  Ask user 

Acronis Privacy Expert Suite provides an easy way to delete files quickly and 
clean up folders through the Windows Explorer context menu. 

To enable these options and to add the context menu commands, mark the 
Enable Explorer Enhancements check-box. 

The context menu also allows you to clean up the Windows Recycle Bin securely. 
For that matter, clean-up preferences can not only include the data destruction 
method, but also the destruction method wildcard. Scheduling tasks 

Each PC clean-up variant of Acronis Privacy Expert Suite can be executed either 
manually or automatically as scheduled.  

Having set PC clean-up as a daily procedure to be performed, for example, at 
the end of a workday before powering off the PC, you can be sure that all 
evidence of your PC and Internet activity will be removed each day. 

Acronis Privacy Expert Suite features a built-in scheduler. 

To set up the clean-up schedule, click the Schedule task sidebar button in the 
Acronis Privacy Expert Suite main window.  

Having invoked the Scheduler, you will need to select a clean-up variant to 
perform at the selected time.