File Shredder

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When you delete a file in Windows, it will probably be moved to the Recycle Bin. Anybody can get a file back out of the Recycle Bin. For this reason, many users empty the Recycle Bin regularly, or delete their files without moving them to the Recycle Bin.

But you should know that Windows does not really destroy a file when it deletes it, its entire contents are still located on the hard drive. Windows simply marks the file as "deleted" in the file system, and the disk space occupied by the file can be used to store other data. But as long as nothing is saved in the area occupied by the deleted file, this "lost" file can be found and recovered easily through inexpensive and easily available data recovery utilities. These tools makes your data unsafe as any unauthorized person can recover the deleted data and use it.

File Shredder lets you solve this problem and keeps the Privacy and Security of your system intact.

File Shredder deletes the data in such a manner so that no tool can recover it.

It uses outmost safety method American DoD 5220.22-M developed by US Department of Defense to securely remove the data.

How to use

·	To start the tool, click 'File Shredder' from Glary Utilities main window

·	Click the 'Add File(s)' button to find and insert the files from your hard drive. You can add folders by clicking the 'Add Folder' button.

·	After adding the files and folders to the delete-list, click 'Erase Now' to permanently delete them.

You can specify the number of times the files marked to delete are over-written with junk data before deletion. The range of passes is from 1 to 10. By default, this is set to 3.The security of the deletion can be increased further by increasing the number of repetitions, but the time required will also increase.