How does the Win7 system clean up the traces of use?

During the use of the computer, it is inevitable that there will be traces of use. In the current situation where personal privacy is becoming more and more important, it is necessary to regularly clean up the use of the computer, so that others can not view your usage records. Fully protect your privacy information. So how do Win7 systems clean up the use of computer files?

Steps

First, clear from the taskbar

When the user uses Win7 to run the program for various operations, it will be displayed in the task bar at the bottom of the desktop. The corresponding program icon, right click on this icon will pop up a menu, in this menu will display the file records recently opened with this application, the user can clearly understand which files were recently opened using this application.

Users can perform various operations on the file list in this menu. If you want to delete a record, just right click on the corresponding record and select “Delete from the list in the pop-up submenu. ; option, you can delete this record. As shown in the figure, this is a record of opening a file with a Word program, and the user can conveniently perform corresponding operations on the records therein. After

Second, delete

Win7 from the menu bar at run time, the user will display the most recently used programs on the Start menu, the user clicks on the Start menu, it will See the icons of the various applications to get a clear idea of ​​which programs have been used recently. On the right side of some program icons there will be a black arrow indicating that the program has recently opened some files, and the user can click on the black arrow to find out which files have been recently opened. As shown in the figure, on the right side of the PS software, the recently opened file is displayed in detail, and if you want to delete one of the records, just right click on the corresponding file name and click in the pop-up menu. “Delete the ” item from the list to complete the deletion of the record.

Third, from & ldquo; Recent Items & rdquo; deleted

In addition to the above two deletes the corresponding entry in the record of the application and, in the Start menu as well A "Recently Used Project" button is slightly different from the above two methods. In this "Recently Used Project", it shows the records of all the files recently opened on the computer.

As shown in the figure, click on the arrow to the right of the "Recently Used Project" button, and a menu with various file records will be displayed, which shows the various files recently opened by the computer. If some records don't want others to know, just put the mouse on the corresponding record, right click on “delete”, then the deletion of the record will be completed. Even if other people search for this computer, it will not Found this record.

Fourth, the system & ldquo; hide & rdquo; record cleaning

three cleaning using the method described above recording is done at a common interface operation, and In Win7, there is also a folder that is "hidden" by the system "hidden", this folder also records the history of the file used, but this folder is hidden deeper. The average user will not find it. The method to open is to enter its relevant path (%APPDATA%\\Microsoft\\win\\Recent\\AutomaticDestinations) in the address bar of the win7 explorer, and then press the Enter key to enter this folder. However, in this folder, each application has a different encoding. If you only look at the name, you can't distinguish it. If you want to know what program, you can select the corresponding file and right click to open the property. The ” window to view the details, then you can delete the corresponding records here.

The above method to clean up traces of use Win7 is introduced, temporary files or cache files for some programs, you need to delete the corresponding file directory, of course, you can use third-party tools to clean up.