Anonymizer Digital Shredder Main Help Page

Overview

Anonymizer Digital Shredder is a comprehensive program that virtually removes or shreds unwanted cookies, cached files, history and other temporary files from your computer. Anonymizer Digital Shredder uses military-grade secure file deletion to ensure your protection from the presence of files that are downloaded to your computer.

Upon launching Anonymizer Digital Shredder, the first screen you see is Beginner Mode.

Beginner Mode

What does the Shred button do?

Clicking on "SHRED" in beginner mode cleans everything that is checked in the advanced mode. If you have not changed any preferences it shreds (removes) everything but the Cookie Index files. It does this for both Internet Explorer and Netscape.

Clicking on the "SHRED" button will shred, clean, or delete the items you have selected in all of the Options screens in Advanced Mode.

Advanced Mode

Unlike Beginner Mode, Advanced Mode gives you the ability to specify which files and information get cleared. There are separate options available for Netscape and Internet Explorer. The information includes

Cookies
Cookie Index Files (not for Netscape)
History of recently visited Web sites
Temporary Internet Files
URLs Saved in the Address Bar

There are advanced capabilities for managing cookies. Change Cookie Directory gives you the ability to change the directory used to store your cookies.