8 Tools to Delete Files Permanently in Windows 10

8 Tools to Delete Files Permanently in Windows 10

If you want to securely delete or erase files or folder in Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 I will show you how.

There are a number of different software that you can use to delete data and make it impossible to recover that data.

Links to software on how to securely delete files in Windows 10 Trash (Recycle Bin) in Windows

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[wallybe]

The time and effort you put into your Tutorials would be enough, for a break, let alone the rest of your busy time, really appreciate your videos, Hope you enjoy your time off Very well deserved .

[syrai]

Two years later and im still watching this for my laptop, i love this so much and i hope you had a wonderful holiday vacation, have a nice day!

[drutgat]

Hi Brian. Many thanks for this, and I hope that you had a good holiday. I have a question, but first a bit of background.

I have been using the free edition of CCleaner for about a year. I tend to do marathon computer sessions (anywhere from 2 - 10 hours at a time), and find that running CCleaner can really help if I am doing something like surfing the web a lot, or watching a lot of videos. Specifically, running CCleaner can solve any problems I have been having with basic video editing running slowly because my computer cache has 'filled up'.

My question, in view of you saying in this video that it puts a lot of wear and tear on the HD to run these programmes regularly, is how can I clear out my cache regularly without running something like CCleaner? Is there another way of doing this, because it is definitely necessary for me.

[marcus]

Have a great holiday Brian, thanks for the great content!

[Beachbond]

Brian have a very safe and wonderful vacation, thanks for sharing your expertise & look forward to your return \m/

[nikro]

Hey! i have ccleaner. when i check overwrite option how do i delete files? Should i do that with ccleaner for overwrite to work? or just normal deleting will work?

[IGRACH]

How about cmd tool *sdelete* from Sysinternals. It has options for deleteing files and zeroing free space. Also it uses DOD 5220.22-M.

[prcorner]

Brian
Receive a brother hug from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷.
Your videos are amazing. Thanks for this amazing work. All videos are an excellent resource of tricks & solutions

Once again THANKS A MILLION!

[marvellousmars]

How do you further delete files on a PC? After putting files into Recycling Bin and doing a disk clean up, very little space had been freed. Files are stored on the computer even after deletion via disk clean up. So how can you access your computer and delete them again, thus freeing up more space?

[avejst]

Thanks for sharing 😀👍
Happy holidays to you 🇬🇧

[WayneHermanproject]

My AMD AM3+ - 4100's voltages are running lower than spec's (1.4v); so is +12; +-5 is okay. CPU voltages almost go as low as 1.0v. The 12v is always 11.452v. Is my PSU ok? Motherboard? Or CPU?

[slurpyeel]

Please help me, I downloaded a file and it's an exe file and it shows up in my programs and wont delete, even thought I already tried to delete it.

[danison]

Hi! Could you make a tutorial on how to dualboot Windows 7 and Lubuntu/Xubuntu? My older notebook is becoming slow so I need a new lightweight OS while still keeping Windows 7. :)

[WayneHermanproject]

I noticed what disabling 'EnablePrefetch' does. I'm always referring the 'Task Manager'. Looks like very little relitively slow RAM is being read/written to. IT DID MAKE A REMARKABLE PRRFORMANCE BOOST. Especially in browsing with Microsoft Edge at least. Browsing is now spead up by 10x. And the BIOS was set to IDE too. Switched that to AHCI. But before exiting the desktop to go into setup, I did have to set the computer to boot in 'Safe Mode'. The Crucial MX500 SSD was partitioned to GPT. When in the BIOS the first go arround I changed IDE to AHCI. When the system rebooted, I got a BSOD (Green). Didn't happen when I reboted in SM. Then at the desktop disable Safe boot. Thanks' for the heads-up on the file-shreadder stuff.

[EliteAIMelodies]

Have a great vacation, sir! Thanks for all!

[Fr_Fr]

Thanks for all the file shredders (data explorers i guess..) You deserve a subscribe! :D

[Ograws]

Good video Bri, enjoy your holiday :)

[tny]

I don't understand why multiple passes are needed to erase the files. I use AOMEI partition to completely wipe out some unallocated space which used to be my Linux dual boot. I have set 1 pass and I have set it to turn all data to zeroes. Isn't this enough to permanently remove all the data in the partition? Also what do I gain by having the wiped space be assigned random numbers instead of zeroes? What's the difference? In both cases its unreadable information.

[onnisilander]

Hey i know this is an old video, but i hope u respond, i have a bidstacks file on my appdata locallow folder and it keeps re appearing, i dont know what that is or how to permanetly delete it

[tny]

Another problem I have is that, in my C drive I have deleted manually (recycle bin) all the files I didn't want. So now I can't (don't know how to) find them. What I want to do, is to take all free space in my C drive and wipe it, and leave the used space untouched. Is there a way to do just that? Or will I have to bring back the deleted files and folders and delete them using one of the methods above?