Shred Contents Of Recycle Bin?

dansilva · 05-12-2005, 03:38 PM

right click on Recycle Bin gives you this option 'Shred Contents Of Recycle Bin (wash with bleach)'. What does this means?

tweaker · 05-12-2005, 03:54 PM

Sounds like you got window washer or some similar software installed, the bleach method completely overwrites deleted data with random characters making them unrecoverable by undelete or unerase utilities, in other words a security feature..

dansilva · 05-12-2005, 04:06 PM

yes i have widows washer installed. so if i washed with bleach i wont be able to recover any files that were deleted off the recycle bin. is it completely safe to carry out such operation since i dont want to recover any of the files that were deleted off recyle bin? will this create any space for hard drive?

tweaker · 05-12-2005, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by dansilva

so if i washed with bleach i wont be able to recover any files that were deleted off the recycle bin.

Correct.

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is it completely safe to carry out such operation since i dont want to recover any of the files that were deleted off recyle bin?

Yes it should be safe.

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will this create any space for hard drive?

You won't get any additional space by using the bleach method if that's what you mean, you'll free up the same amount of space as if you were to delete the data without using bleach.

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tweaker Diamond Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Sweden Age: 31 Posts: 2,959	Sounds like you got window washer or some similar software installed, the bleach method completely overwrites deleted data with random characters making them unrecoverable by undelete or unerase utilities, in other words a security feature.. __________________ Posting and you - CF edition www.tweaker.se FOLDING FOR THE GOOD OF MANKIND :F@H Team 44358 Last edited by tweaker; 05-12-2005 at 04:04 PM.

05-12-2005, 04:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
dansilva Gold Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: London UK Posts: 442	yes i have widows washer installed. so if i washed with bleach i wont be able to recover any files that were deleted off the recycle bin. is it completely safe to carry out such operation since i dont want to recover any of the files that were deleted off recyle bin? will this create any space for hard drive? __________________ DAN 3:16

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