Need a suggestions of a good tool to delete cookies and internet .....

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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 )

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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

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A great app is ccleaner

Info/Homepage

http://www.ccleaner.com/

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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.

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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..

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Need a suggestions of a good tool to delete cookies and internet

You want to delete the internet? please don't :cry:

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

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