R-Wipe & Clean 8.9

If you want to protect your privacy, you can use two R-Tools Technology-developed applications. You can use R-Crypto to encrypt your private, sensitive data and keep it safe from prying eyes (we’ve reviewed R-Crypto here). And you can use R-Wipe & Clean, a tool that removes all the traces you leave behind while using your computer.

Here are the bits you can expect R-Wipe & Clean to remove: temporary internet files, browsing history, cookies, autocomplete forms, passwords, the list of documents you recently opened, temporary files, and so on. You can also expect R-Wipe & Clean to remove unnecessary data stored by more than 300 third party applications.

To my mind, using R-Wipe & Clean is great from two points of view. It is great from a privacy point of view, because you get rid of the data that could tell someone what sites you visited, what applications you used, and so on. It is also great from a disk usage point of view as you get rid of data that is not really necessary.

Speaking of getting rid of data, you can use R-Wipe & Clean to permanently delete data (file wiping and disk wiping functionality). The application provides several erase algorithms that ensure a file deleted with R-Wipe & Clean will not be brought back to life with a data recovery tool. The application also provides several erase algorithms that you can use to wipe clean a whole disk or partition.

You can use a fully-functional trial version of R-Wipe & Clean free of charge for 15 days.

Pros

• Easy to use
• Removes useless file
• File and disk wiping
• Scheduler
• Trial version is fully functional
• Works with Windows 7

Cons

• Free to use only during the 15-day trial period

About R-Tools Technology Inc
R-Tools Technology Inc is a company that develops data recovery tools, drive imaging and backup tools, data security and privacy utilities. As R-Tools explained, the mission is to “give our customers around the world the system tools to bring about a visible and substantial increase in viability, production, and ease of use at the lowest possible cost.”

Additional information on R-Tools and its applications are available on the official site here.

R-Wipe & Clean has been reviewed by George Norman on 25 Jun 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated R-Wipe & Clean 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent