WinRAR - how to clean and erase privacy tracks.

This will clean the WinRARs recently used archive list.

Manual clean instructions

    1. Delete all the values except (’Default’) in the registry key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinRAR\ArcHistory\

    2. Delete all the values except (’Default’) in the registry key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinRAR\DialogEditHistory\ArcName

    3. Delete all the values except (’Default’) in the registry key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinRAR\DialogEditHistory\ExtrPath

    4. Delete all the values except (’Default’) in the registry key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinRAR\DialogEditHistory\FindArcNames

    5. Delete all the values except (’Default’) in the registry key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinRAR\DialogEditHistory\FindNames

    6. Delete all the values except (’Default’) in the registry key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinRAR\DialogEditHistory\FindText

    7. Delete all the values except (’Default’) in the registry key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinRAR\DialogEditHistory\ViewerSearch

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Compatability notice

The instructions above are automatically generated on a Windows Vista machine. Some locations may vary between different platforms. For example on Vista the user directory is generally found under ‘c:\users\{username}’ while on previous Windows versions where user directories usually reside under ‘c:\documents and settings\{username}’.