Windows only: Free application Eraser Portable puts previously mentioned Eraser—the popular open-source secure file deletion tool—on your thumb drive for secure file deletion on the go. Like the ...

When you delete a file, you're not really removing the information. Two free programs--Eraser and SDelete--take very different approaches to secure file deletion. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

Did you know that when you delete a file on your computer it isn’t really deleted? Your computer marks the space the file uses on the hard disk as available, but the file is still there. The good news ...

Mac OS X only: Free, open source application Permanent Eraser securely erases files on your Mac. As of OS 10.3, Macs have had the "Secure Empty Trash" option in the Finder menu, which provides a ...

Moving a file to the trash on your PC or Mac gets rid of it for good, right? Not so fast. These files can be seen by others later, and they could be slowing down your machine. Tap or click for my ...

Moving a file to the trash on your PC or Mac gets rid of it for good, right? Not so fast. These files can be seen by others later, and they could be slowing down your machine. Tap or click here for my ...

Apple's "Secure Empty Trash" option will perform a seven-pass random erase on the files in the Trash, but you may wish to change this up a bit. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been ...

DeleteOnClick is a simple and easy-to-use application for Windows. It helps you erase files and folders securely and permanently. Now, you may think about whether such an application is really needed ...

If computer files were physical objects, we probably wouldn’t let so much clutter build up in our system folders. At first glance, a file is no more than a single line item in Explorer, making it all ...

Moving a file to the trash on your PC or Mac gets rid of it for good, right? Not so fast. These files can be seen by others later, and they could be slowing down your machine. Tap or click for my ...