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WipeFile v2.3 Updated
webfork on 26 May 2013 Change history
- 920KB (uncompressed)
- Suggested by AlephX
WipeFile is a secure file and folder deletion utility, overwriting data to prevent later recovery. Although most users will only require a standard 1-pass wipe, the program supports 14 different wipe methods, including high-security military standards. Higher security settings involve overwriting the data multiple times, which are are dramatically slower.
For full drive wiping, the developer makes available an also portable WipeDisk program.
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| System Requirements: | Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
| Writes settings to: | Application Folder |
| Dependencies: | Win 95/98 requires MSVBVM60.DLL and MSCOMCTL.OCX to run. The former should be available by default on WinME, 2K and XP. |
| Unicode support: | No |
| License: | Freeware |
| How to extract: | Download the RAR package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WipeFile.exe. |
| What's new? | The changelog for this application is available in the German version of this page only: http://www.gaijin.at/dlwipefile.php#changelog |
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Blank And Secure v3.67
Checker on 18 Feb 2013 Change history
- 65KB (uncompressed)
- Suggested by guinness
Blank And Secure is a basic tool for permanently deleting files from your hard drive by overwriting them, making it impossible for most recovery tools to return deleted files to a readable format. Includes drag-and-drop capability and free space overwrite for if you accidentally just delete a sensitive file without overwriting.
Languages: Spanish, Italian, French, Arabic and more.
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| System Requirements: | Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | Freeware |
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shodan816
on 2012-03-09 12:46
webfork, Yes, shell integration requires a registry write. However, such apps can still be made to be truly portable by temporarily writing to the registry upon execution and deleting the entry upon closing. Portable Process Explorer by John Hallas is a perfect example. There are more.
outskirter
on 2012-03-18 20:11
The lack of shell support has a simple workaround: Simply copy the Blank and Secure shortcut to the SendTo menu. On my Windows 7 system, the location is:
freakazoid
on 2013-02-21 18:16
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I've removed this from my TPFC favorites as I've found that Blank and Secure is a little unstable when deleting a ton of files, at least on my Win8 system. I've had to restart my computer numerous times because of hangups. |
BleachBit v0.9.5
webfork on 13 Feb 2013 Change history
- 7MB (uncompressed)
- Suggested by guinness
BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and safeguards your privacy. You can erase cache, Internet history, cookies (including the much-maligned "evercookie"), DOM storage, unused localizations, and temporary files of 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more. Additional applications can be added with the community authored winapp2.ini cleaner list in the Preferences - General tab (requires restart).
Includes wipe function to protect privacy, includes support for 52 languages, and available for Linux.
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| System Requirements: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Wine |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Dependencies: | Administrator rights |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| License: | GPL |
| How to extract: | Download the ZIP package labelled 'portable' and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch bleachbit.exe. |
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YShayahu53
on 2011-01-02 14:37
Download is not working:
Andrew Ziem
on 2011-01-05 19:29
Faust, Daniel Feenberg is (according to LinkedIn) currently an IT Director at the National Bureau of Economic Research, so Wikipedia's label of "economist" appears to be a mistake. Also reference the 2006 NIST Special Publication.... so which computer scientists claim any data can be recovered after one pass? Also, I thought it was generous to write that each cleaner probably finds things the other doesn't and that CCleaner is older and more mature. CCleaner is not a bad tool and certainly does many things well.
webfork
on 2012-03-16 01:56
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Used this to clean up more than 6 gigs of information off a reasonably old Win 7 x64 machine recently. I don't know that it had a major impact on speed, but certainly like that extra 6 gigs. Love this program. |
WipeDisk v1.2 Updated
webfork on 13 May 2013 Change history
- 887KB (uncompressed)
- Suggested by Gaijin
WipeDisk is a tool for secure wiping of hard disks (both logical and physical), USB memory sticks, and floppy disks to prevent file recovery. Although the "Low 1x" setting should be sufficient for most security needs, it supports 14 wiping methods for very high security, including US Navy, Airforce, DoD, and NATO standards.
The developer also makes a program for individual files WipeFile.
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| System Requirements: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| License: | Freeware |
| How to extract: | Download the RAR package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WipeDisk.exe. |
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guillermo
on 2010-02-26 22:42
Great tool. Used it to wipe a usb drive that had a iso image of chromeOS in another partition and worked like a charm.
Michael0001
on 2010-09-23 02:08
can you specify the wipe string...you know just in case some one uses a low level disk editor to read the disk...just a little message for those folks?
Dave
on 2010-11-16 20:57
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Can it be run from a bootable USB Flash Drive |
DPWipe v1.1
webfork on 11 Jul 2012 Change history
- 387KB (uncompressed)
- Suggested by AlephX
DPWipe is a tiny drag-and-drop secure wipe program for files and folders. It supports normal delete (not secure), single overwrite, DoD wipe (US Department of Defense 5220.22 compliant wiping), and Gutmann's method (extremely slow 35-pass wiping).
Higher security wipe are much more time-consuming. All but the most security-minded users should only need single overwrite.
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| System Requirements: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
| Writes settings to: | None |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| Unicode support: | No |
| License: | Freeware |
| How to extract: | Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice. Delete $PLUGINSDIR. Launch DPWIPER.exe. |
| What's new? | More secure wipe added, some improvements. Optional progress bar. |
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brian
on 2009-02-16 10:26
wtf.. this crap ain't "PORTABLE" these "PORTABLE" freewares needs to be monitored/regulated
morg
on 2009-02-24 15:16
brian: can you be more specific? Did extract it with the UniExtract etc?
morg
on 2009-02-24 15:16
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"did you" even :) |
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