You can learn about algorithms used to shred files here. To assure unintentional or accidental shredding I recommend this to be set on which is the default.Īlgorithms - Choose the shredding algorithm. Entries are "Secure Delete Files" which will shred files you have right clicked on, "Remember to be deleted latter" which puts files or folders into shredding queue and "Call FIle Shredder" which launches the application itself.Ĭonfirmations - This group of options tells the program if it should display confirmation window of certain operations. Warning: this option can not be undone, make sure you haven't picked non intended files accidentally.Įnable Shell Integration - Checking this option will make new entries when you right click on file on folder in Windows Explorer. Shred Free Disk Space - After you picked the files ready to be shredded click on this button to execute permanent removal of files.
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This option will enforce shredding of everything you have deleted once using the regular delete command, whether it was yesterday or months ago. Those files now can not be shredded by picking them since they are already deleted. For instance, this option is very useful if you haven't shred your unwanted files regularly but instead you used regular windows delete command and now you want your previously deleted files unretrievable. Shred Free Disk Space - This option will shred unused or free disk space across the whole disk volume. No changes to files and folders on hard drive will occur. This option does the same as Remove Selected but it will clean the complete queue. Remove All - Click to remove all file(s) or folder(s) from the shredding queue. Don't confuse this option with Shred Files Now, this option only removes files that are intended for shredding from the queue and no changes are made to the actual files or folders on hard drive. Remove Selected - Click to remove a file(s) or folder(s) from the shredding queue. The whole folder structure is added including files and subfolders. You can add as manu folders as you want but you have to add them one by one. Note that adding the files into shredding queue does not delete them and you can remove the files from queue latterĪdd Folder(s) - Click to add folders ready to be shredded. After installation is completed a program group is created under Start - Programs - File Shredder, and an icon is placed on desktop.Īdd File(s) - Click to add files ready to be shredded. The default folder File Shredder will be installed to is C:\Program Files\File Shredder. Save file_shredder_setup.exe on hard disk and double click on it to launch installation. If you haven't already, click here to download latest version of File Shredder. There is no minimum hardware requirement for File Shredder to run properly, however on faster computers shredding will be executed faster. It is free for both personal and commercial use.įile Shredder works on WIndows NT, WIndows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista, Windows 7,8 and Windows 10. This application is completely and absolutely portable.File Shredder is released under GNU/GPL General Public License. This distribution also includes our other security app called Picsel Security for complete peace of mind. So go ahead and get complete security in knowing that your files will be completely and absolutely shredded and cleaned from your system or hard drive. Just remember that the higher this value is and the larger your files are, the longer it will take your system to completely shred it out of existence. It also has a paranoia setting to increase the number of times random data is written over your file's data space. This application takes your files and overwrites them with random data at least 35 times by default, before being deleted, to make sure they never see the light of day. Now you have the opportunity to erase and clean your files from your hard drive, usb memory card, or any other memory device without being able to bring them back to life ever again.
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Runs on All Windows systems - 32bit / 64bitĭo you have the need to destroy and shred your most secretive, sensitive, or private files without a trace?