You can drag and drop files and folders to the on-demand eraser, use the convenient Explorer shell extension or use the integrated scheduler to program overwriting of unused disk space or, for example, browser cache files to happen regularly, at night, during your lunch break, at weekends or whenever you like.

The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove the magnetic remnants from the hard disk making it impossible to recover the data.

Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defense and overwriting with pseudo-random data. You can also define your own overwriting methods.

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• Path to clipboard: Copies the path of selected folder or file to the clipboard.
• DOS Prompt: Selecting DOS Prompt (Command Prompt in WinNT) opens a DOS window in the selected folder.
• Shred File(s): Overwrites and then deletes the selected file(s). WARNING: Shredded files cannot be recovered.
• Duplicate File(s): Creates a copy of the selected file(s) in the same folder. The duplicate files will maintain the properties of the original.
• Copy folder list to file: Creates a text file containing the names and, optionally, the details of all files in the selected folder and, optionally sub-folders.

• Print folder list: Prints a list of the names and, optionally, the details of all files in the selected folder and, optionally sub-folders.

• Rename Files - The Rename Files extension allows you to quickly and easily rename multiple files in multiple folders.

• Encrypt File - The Encrypt/Decrypt extension allows you to easily encrypt and then decrypt any file using a modified version of the powerful Blowfish encryption algorithm.

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