Recommend a Secure Delete apps for Windows 7, if Free, better
We have Windows 7 and are doing some clean up. We found some files that we want deleted but want to delete by Secure Delete. We have Ccleaner and has an option for this feature but it for entire Disks.
We need an apps that can secure delete a specific file(s).
Please advice
We need an apps that can secure delete a specific file(s).
Please advice
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I'm not on my pc... does those apps can do secure delete to specific files?
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I use http://eraser.heidi.ie/
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Thanx. Based on your expierence whish tool presented here is the more secure? or do they all use the same security scheme?
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We've never used these types of apps; it's a first for us. So we're kind of cautious of how to proceed.
Three last question:
1. Do these apps also secure-delete or over write unused disk space?
2. If so, wow save is it?
3. On the 4 apps recommended (cipher, SDelete, Active@ERASER, Eraser), which 2 apps
would be easy to use and also have a good secure scheme?
Three last question:
1. Do these apps also secure-delete or over write unused disk space?
2. If so, wow save is it?
3. On the 4 apps recommended (cipher, SDelete, Active@ERASER, Eraser), which 2 apps
would be easy to use and also have a good secure scheme?
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Thank you very much!
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Thanx
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usage: sdelete [-p passes] [-s] [-q] <file or directory>
sdelete [-p passes] [-z|-c] [drive letter]
-c Zero free space (good for virtual disk optimization)
-p passes Specifies number of overwrite passes (default is 1)
-q Don't print errors (Quiet)
-s Recurse subdirectories
-z Clean free space
example: sdelete -p 16 test.txt