Way to clear sensitive information from your computer
August 5th, 2010
As we Know, during processing, operating system transfers some data and programs from RAM to hard disk and reloads again when required.Operating system spends a lot of time in Paging process, instead of executing the application software. But the problem is that while working you use different software programs on computer and page file may contain your confidential information or stored in non encrypted format. To reduce this risk, you can set your computer to clear out page file automatically each time you shutdown your computer.
follow steps given below to set your system clear page file automatically-
- Logged into your computer with administrative rights.
- First click on start button to open control panel
- Click here on “Administrative Tools“ option.Go to “Local Security Settings” ,on lift side of this panel click on “Local Policies“.
- Click on “Security Options” then double click on “Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefile” option.
- Now small dialog box will appear with options, “Enabled or Disabled” the page file.
- Select the “Enabled” to set clear page file each time you shutdown computer.
- Press Apply button to save settings and then click on Ok to finish.
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