Hello,
I need to take my computer to a computer repair shop for an upgrade, and I want to erase all sensitive information on it, such as cookies, internet history, some office documents, and other things. I created a few CDs with the documents that I need ( inluding my personal photos and emails ) and now I want to erase the other files without formating the drive.
Anyone can please recommend a good tool that erases them without the chance of being recouvered? I don't any young student playing around the machine and undelete files and photots ( you know, some of them are very private and personal )

You can delete all the files either through IE and Firefox, or manually. Then run Eraser, there's an option to erase unused disk space, which will make things that you have erased unrecoverable.

Eraser
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php

A great app is ccleaner

Info/Homepage
http://www.ccleaner.com/

Download
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

Instead of the file hippo one...

http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds.aspx

third one.

Just a note, CCleaner could do up to 7 pass cleaning.

spybot s&d could do any number of passes that you want.

I believe windows also has a built in function that'll overwrite all free space on the disk with 3 passes.

safest is still to nuke the HDD with DBAN.

Thank you for your helpful suggestions. CCleaner seems like a good program, I will try it. Also I found Privacy Guard : http://wwww.amicutilities.com/privacy-guard/ which seems a nice product.. I will also try the other and consider buying one of them..

You want to delete the internet? please don't

Otherwise, use CCleaner it's a great program as said above.

don't worry you could always download another one or pop into PC World and buy a new internet

CCleaner FTW!

Track Eraser Pro is really good, erases everything that is useless on a computer, but unlike CCleaner it asks you if you wish to delete certain things such as pages in .html and etc.

http://www.diskcleaner.nl/

Try the plain & simple Diskcleaner, i have been using it from 2003...its simple & powerful & Free.

(http://www.diskcleaner.nl/download.php)

Also the setup is just ~400KB :-)

... you said 'without the chance of being recovered'...

you may want to try freeware Eraser, Secure Delete or File Shredder.

CCleaner

I use CCleaner too!

ccleaner all the way

CCleaner now supports the 35 pass Gutman erasing method.

CCleaner

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Which is useless with modern hard disks. It's amazing how many people still build it into programs.

one more vote for ccleaner

I use CCleaner and Wise Disk Cleaner 3

i use ace utilities. for me its simply the best, and very simple to use.

+1 for CCleaner.

I use this and it is best ...

SmitfraudFix

1+ for ccleaner :thumbs:

CCleaner is a great tool!

The last option is Gutmann, which does 35 passes.

To the OP... what a program like CCleaner does is deletes the files, and then writes over the space they used with 1s and 0s for the number of times that you specified.

CCleaner.

gutmann is useless and a huge waste of time. even the author that created the method admits it. 7 passes is plenty

+1 CCleaner