The file shredder available in Glary Utilities , WinUtilities or Puran Utilities are actually more effective than many specialized File shredding prorgrams. But they can not create context menu entry .
1-abc.net File Washer has this advantage that it integrates into the context menu. And overall an efficient shredder and it also keeps history of wiped files for reviewing later.

Filemenu Tools also offers shredding but not so effective most of the times.

Some decent File shredder ( Freeware ) :

Moo0 File Shredder - http://www.moo0.com/?top=http://www.moo0.com/software/FileShredder/

DP Shredder - http://www.paehl.de/cms/dp_shredder

DP WIPE - http://www.paehl.de/cms/dpwipe

EraserDrop Portable - http://portableapps.com/apps/security/eraserdrop-portable

BitKiller - http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitkiller/

I would like to highlight Kryptelite which is basically a file encryption software ( free version of kryptel ) but it has integrated file shredder with manual shred option and I found it very fast shredder with very good response . It can shred large files without hassle while sometime other programs might have crashed during shredding large sized files.

Jahid  –  9 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+119)

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Glary DOES integrate into the context menu - I'm looking at it right now, I don't know about the others.

Glary DOES integrate into the context menu - I'm looking at it right now, I don't know about the others.
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George  –  9 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+30)

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Installed and registered without problems (* DEVELOPER READ THIS!) on a Win 8.1.3 Pro 64 system. A clean install.

A German company with all legal information.

We had had several tools from this company.
Upon start a small, not resizable window opens, you select your files/folder, choose among 11 deleting options and go. This is done without problems. A nice text must be mentioned:
http://i.imgur.com/Dj6hfVQ.png

Does what it claims, a small tool, a clean install and a message to those, who want to undelete the file. If you don't have a washing machine, you can take this. One of the deleting methods will surely work for your privacy issues...

Uninstalled via reboot. Don't need this one.


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http://i.imgur.com/ijZoaib.png
Registration done with double checked email. This method has been ruled by a German court some weeks ago as unwanted SPAM and is since now forbidden in Germany. I wrote about.

Karl  –  9 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+109)

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When a company that creates a file erasing program is still under the delusion that the Gutmann
Method is still the best I most certainly will not bother even trying it.
Maybe it is worth their while reading the following article:-
http://www.dban.org/node/40

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What are people erasing that is so important that overwriting it 35 times is not good enough? If you sell a machine that has such top secret files take the HD and put a 1/2" hole through the drive with a hammer drill. Problem solved. No recovery possible. If it is just your list of top kitten names for the next batch,..... well,....no one really cares.

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Actually this sounds quite plausible. Sure there will be a .45 caliber hole in each of the platters. But what if the data in question is somewhere else on the platters? I suspect there are machines out there specially made to reassemble platter pieces into readable platters.

If I really wanted to destroy the data on a drive:

1) Take off drive covers, etc. until bare platters are exposed.
2) Take 10-15 minutes turning platters cherry red with a propane torch (stay upwind, outdoors).
3) Cool and disassemble the drive on a flat hard surface (asphalt playground comes to mind).
4) Take another 10-15 minutes with a hand sledge hammer turning the drive into dust.
5) Sweep up all remains and dispose of equally in 10 very separate garbage cans.

I believe it would take a time machine to retrieve the data.

Actually this sounds quite plausible. Sure there will be a .45 caliber hole in each of the platters. But what if the data in question is somewhere else on the platters? I suspect there are machines out there specially made to reassemble platter pieces into readable platters. If I really wanted to destroy the data on a drive: 1) Take off drive covers, etc. until bare platters are exposed. 2) Take 10-15 minutes turning platters cherry red with a propane torch (stay upwind, outdoors). 3) Cool and disassemble the drive on a flat hard surface (asphalt playground comes to mind). 4) Take another 10-15 minutes with a hand sledge hammer turning the drive into dust. 5) Sweep up all remains and dispose of equally in 10 very separate garbage cans. I believe it would take a time machine to retrieve the data.
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