PrivacyMaster

Depending on where, and why you use a computer, you might not want to leave any traces. Windows, as well as most browsers track your every move, so you can later on return to visited locations. In this regard, PrivacyMaster comes with the means to help you clean history items from several Windows features and browsers.

With only a little time spent setting up the application, you get to check out the set of features before you realize. With the main window up, your effort narrows down to selecting the areas you want to clean, with two tabs for web browser security, as well as Windows features, while the third tab showing all results.

Unfortunately, supported web browsers only include Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox, leaving out any other popular browser you might be using instead. For these, you can choose to clear downloads history, typed URLs and visited URLs history, forms auto complete, cookies, temporary files, and passwords auto complete forms.

When it comes to Windows features, you get the possibility to erase temporary files, run history from the Start Menu or Run utility, recent document listings from the Start Menu, file history from Start Menu and explorer, as well as the Recycle Bin. Dedicated controls allow you to select all options at the press of a button.

Items are not removed upon selection, and you need to access the Erase tab once you’re done selecting. Here you can review elements to remove, structured in categories, but you can’t remove them from the list. Hitting the “Erase” button finishes the task in a few seconds, displaying a log of events in the end.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that PrivacyMaster comes with good intentions, but the poor support for web browsers has a considerable impact on overall practicality. Windows features to clean aren’t abundant either, which is mostly a shame, considering the whole operation doesn’t take more than a few seconds.