I have a desktop PC which runs on Windows XP Professional. I have few important files which are very confidential and I don’t want those files to fall into wrong hands. I want to delete those files beyond recovery. Is there any application for shredding unwanted files beyond recovery?

The application to take control of your confidential and sensitive information is REMO Shredder, which is an ultimate File eraser software, which can easily, securely and permanently erase private data from your PC.

With Remo Shredder, you can erase files from your hard drive without the fear that they could be recovered. In this application you need to just select the data you wish to shred, select the shredding option, and the data is gone forever.

There are quite a few undelete software tools available today for retrieval of deleted files under Windows OS. These tools are taking advantage of the shortcomings of the Windows “delete” command that we all use regularly to delete files. Actually, the “delete” operation in Windows only removes bits of information from files so they appear deleted in Operating System. It is easy to retrieve those files using the aforementioned specialized file recovery software.

In order to remove, or shred files permanently from your system you have to make use of a powerful File eraser software like Remo Shredder, that is capable of rewriting the files with random series of binary data, multiple number of times. This process is often called shredding. That way, the actual content of the file will be overwritten, and the possibilities to recover such a shredded file are very remote.

This application will perform multiple data overwriting on your files before deleting them from the system so that your sensitive and confidential information will be totally shredded and disappear completely.

Simple and easy steps to shred your confidential data using Remo Shredder

Follow the simple steps explained below which guide you in using the software successfully, and erase files efficiently.

Step 1: Launch the Remo Shredder main application either from the desktop or from the programs list in the Start menu. As soon as the application is launched, it starts loading the drives in the left tree pane. The main window of Remo Shredder, is as shown in Figure a.

Figure a: Application Main Window

Step 2: Once the drives gets loaded in the left pane of the main window, select the drive that contains the file(s)/folder(s) having sensitive data that have to be shredded.

After selecting the files to be shredded, double click on them to add them into the ’shredding zone’ or drag and drop them into the shredding zone. The application adds the selected file(s) into the shredding zone, as shown in Figure b.

Figure b: Selected data in Shredding zone

Step 3: REMO Shredder provides nine different shredding methods that you can choose from. To select shredding methods, select Shredding Options either from the toolbar or from the Tools menu and select the Shredding methods option. This would drop down the shredding methods that can be used to shred the data beyond recovery as shown in Figure c

Figure c: Shredding Methods

Step 4: Once you select the shredding method and the data you wish to permanently erase, click on the Shred file(s) and folder(s) button listed in the tool bar, to shred the file(s) / folder(s) listed in shredding zone. The files in the shredding zone will be overwritten by different patterns depending on the shredding method selected. Once the process is completed, a message pops up intimating the same.

The data once erased using Remo Shredder cannot be recovered using any data recovery software.

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