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Completely Delete Emails Using ParetoLogic Privacy Controls
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Email Clutter
Desktop email clients are a convenient and feature rich method of downloading and sending emails from your computer. Regardless of the email client you use the Deleted Items folder will inevitably become filled with obsolete or unnecessary emails. Even deleting these emails will not necessarily dispose of all evidence and traces within your system folders or within the registry. Every email you receive or write can be found in various locations on your PC. Leaving these traces on your system makes it easy for hackers and computer users to restore the emails in question.
Clearing Email Clutter And Protecting Your Online Privacy
In order to help protect your personal information and ensure that you get the most from your computer with the best possible system performance. ParetoLogic Privacy Controls can fully delete emails from your computer if you run Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora, PocoMail, or IncrediMail. As well as deleting email users can also remove a range of other settings including nicknames and contact details. In order to completely remove any of these settings it is advisable to use ParetoLogic Privacy Controls rather than resorting to manual deletion.
1 - Opening ParetoLogic Privacy Controls
Open the ParetoLogic Privacy Controls application and click the “Options” link.
2 – Choosing The Email Option
Deselect all categories except the email checkbox. Click on the arrow to bring up a dropdown box with a list of email clients.
3 – Selecting Email Client
Next to the email client you use click the arrow to bring up another checkbox. This checkbox provides details of the different settings and email folders that can be cleared using ParetoLogic Privacy Controls.
These options are as follows:
Email Clients And Options
Outlook 2003
Nicknames. This will delete all nicknames found in Outlook 2003. Nicknames are used to replace email addresses in sender's address and recipient's address.
Outlook Bar Shortcuts. Any custom shortcuts that you have created can be deleted with this option.
Rules Wizard Rules. Rules are used to determine the action that Outlook performs with each email. ParetoLogic Privacy Controls can delete all of these rules.
Customized Toolbar Settings. Delete the customized toolbars that you have created or installed on your computer.
Customized System Folder Views. This option deletes the views.dat file, which is created when users customize folder views.
Macros And VBA Programs. Visual Basic programs and macros can be deleted using ParetoLogic Privacy Controls along with all traces.
Signatures, customized stationery, user-defined or downloaded templates, customized dictionary additions, and add-ins and references can also be deleted from Outlook using ParetoLogic Privacy Controls.
Outlook Express
Outlook Express stores information regarding the latest user to be logged onto the software. Removing this is strongly recommended because it contains personal information about you or another user.
Deleted Mails are still stored on your system, even when you have removed them from the Deleted Items folder. In order to remove these using ParetoLogic Privacy Controls you should select the Deleted Mail option.
Sent Mails and Outbox Mails are also retained but can be easily and conveniently deleted using the options of the same names.
Thunderbird users can delete or clear saved passwords, sent and trash mail, unsent mail, drafts, and downloaded news. As well as sent and trash emails, Eudora users can also delete their email address history, cache data, temp data, nicknames, logs, and email attachments. PocoMail users can also clear their draft folder, deleted items, sent items, and delete attachments, email address history, and cache data. IncrediMail users can clear out their sent items folder, drafts folder, outbox folder, and deleted items as well as clearing out the history of email addresses used.
4 – Scan & Erase
Once you've selected the options that apply to you and the email client you use, click the Scan & Erase link and then select Start on the resulting page to begin the scanning process.
5 – Erasing Selected Files And Objects
Once scanning has completed you will be given a summary of the scan results including the number of files or objects found. Each item can be clicked in the left hand menu in order to view more specific details pertaining to that item. Once you are happy that you have selected all the items you wish to remove click the Erase button so that ParetoLogic Privacy Controls can delete all of the highlighted options. Confirm your decision on the next popup display by clicking Yes.
Once completed click Finish and you will be returned to the main ParetoLogic Privacy Controls screen.
Using ParetoLogic Privacy Controls To Clean Your Email Folders
By regularly clearing out your email client application it is possible to improve the overall performance of your system and speed up the downloading and sending of emails and attachments. The ParetoLogic Privacy Controls scan engine searches for emails, attachments, and left over traces on your system and completely removes them. This is also beneficial when attempting to protect your online privacy because it prevents hackers, spyware, and viruses from gaining access to personal information.