HDCleaner

Working on a computer on a regular basis results in a wide range of personal data bring stored within your browsers and software. It is recommended that you frequently get rid of this data, to ensure your privacy is protected, and one of the tools you can turn to is HDCleaner.

The dashboard of HDCleaner displays the current status of your computer, comprising of the number of issues that impact the performance and health of your device, its security or its bootup and shutdown processes.

You also get a brief overview of your PC's system information, including the OS version, installed RAM and processor type. If you are interested in more data, you can generate an extensive list of details in a separate window.

When you are ready to start protecting your private information, you can select exactly the bit you wish to remove, such as Internet data or junk files. There are several cleaning levels, with the simple and the default ones being suitable for the standard user.

Experts might need a more thorough analysis, so they can look for plugins, registry, browsers and system problems, then manually explore and mark the files that should be wiped.

HDCleaner also makes it possible for you to permanently erase your documents to ensure they can no longer be restored, as well as wipe all the contents of a partition or even an entire hard disk.

Alternatively, you can wipe the free space on your PC - while this method does not actually delete files, it overwrites the free bytes so data can no longer be recovered.

HDCleaner is an all-in-one solution that can not only erase sensitive traces found in your software, but can also shred user-selected files, detect duplicates, find space hogs, defragment disks or removing unnecessary files.