To Protect Your Privacy Exactly

Posted October 9th, 2008 by John Lewis

As we know that files could be restored from Recycle Bin after being deleted. Of course, we could empty Recycle Bin absolutely, but please believe me that even if we had emptied Recycle Bin, the deleted files still could be retrieved by some professional tools. Actually, the “delete” operation in Windows only removes bits of information from files so they appear deleted in OS. Windows does not physically remove deleted files from your hard disk. And there are many tools available which can let others easily recover your sensitive files even after you format your hard disk.

So in order to protect our privacy, we must make these sensitive files disappeared or removed totally. We call this operation to shred files. In this way, the content of files will be overwritten physically so that is unavailable to recover the information of these files with tools. We must use some tools to do this work. Now take Advanced PC Tweaker as a example, I will show you an easy and safe method of shredding files. This optimization tool provides File Shredder function in its Advanced Toolkits unit.

Step 1. Open the program and click the Advanced Toolkits tab, and then click the File Shredder button.