The “Behind the Scenes” Blog of Pointstone Software

With File Associations Manager, included with System Cleaner 5.5 and newer versions, you can how control your computer’s file associations. Choose which files are associated with which program. Quick, easy and whenever you want.

Many programs modify file extensions, but most never ask you permission to do so. With the File Associations Manager you can choose which files are associated with which program. Quick, easy and whenever you want.

Also, with the Snapshots option you can see exactly what values have changed and revert to previous states with a single mouse click.

Have you ever wondered what folders take most space on your disks? System Cleaner 5.5 now comes with a new utility to help you with just that. Disk Space Explorer shows a graphical view of the folders size along with extra information like file types and file owners.

Manage your browser extensions effectively with the new Internet Explorer Extensions Manager, included with System Cleaner 5.5 and newer versions.

Have you ever seen a new button appear on Internet Explorer that you never wanted or asked for? Or perhaps a new toolbar that was installed by a third-party program and that you don’t have any idea on how to remove it?

With Internet Explorer Extensions Manager you can now take full control of that is loaded when you open Internet Explorer by Enable, Disable and Delete the objects placed on the following locations: Browser Helper Objects, Toolbars, Button Extensions, Menu Extensions and Search Bars.

By popular request we’ve added a new feature to Total Privacy 5.2 to manage the Internet Explorer’s AutoComplete Forms data. You can also select which data to keep to selectively remove only the data that is not needed.

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With the release of Total Privacy 5.2 we’ve made several modifications to the main interface. We hope you like the new colors and styling.

To see more screenshots of the new interface click here. To discuss anything related with Total Privacy (including feature requests and comments) please visit the forums.

Deleting files alone may not protect your privacy from those who are determined to uncover your personal and sensitive information and are prepared to employ more advanced file recovery methods.

To prevent this we are now including Pointstone Shredder with System Cleaner (starting from version 5.5) and Total Privacy (starting with version 5.1). Pointstone Shredder integrates with Windows® Explorer and offers the most advanced shredding methods available today to ensure that even if the underlying file system does not physically remove all remnants of your files, their contents are effectively inaccessible. You can choose to shred your files from 10 of the most sophisticated data destruction algorithms in existence to be certain that your confidential files, data and information are totally beyond recovery.

To start using Pointstone Shredder, simply right-click a file or folder and select “Pointstone Shredder”.

You will then see a message asking to confirm the file(s) deletion with Pointstone Shredder.

If you wish to modify the shredding method or any of the program’s settings click the Options button.

Confirming the file deletion with Pointstone Shredder will then display the shredding progress window that shows the current and overall file progress as well as a detailed log of the files securely deleted.