PrivaZer VS SDelete

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PrivaZer mentions (4)

• Any newer more recent programs like Bleachbit?

  I've been using privazer fro a long time, pretty fast and safe. There's a freeversion, and a donor version/ https://privazer.com/en/. Source: 12 months ago

• My old laptop is getting slow these days any ways to get it going for another 2 years

  Use this app called PrivaZer For a simple software solution to make your laptop run a bit smoother. It's similar to CCleaner but safer, clears up a lot of bloat and temporaries. You're still gonna have to upgrade your laptop as others have suggested in the comments but this is a simple and quick fix. Source: almost 2 years ago

• My personal list of helpful windows commands apps, & websites

  My main cleaners are: Advanced System Care, and Privazer. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Google vs Microsoft

  You can do a few things about this 1. Use /r/TronScript/, PrivateZilla on a clean windows install. 2. Setup a regular cleaning of your machine (nightly at 1am, for example) from Privazer 3. Always run a VPN secured internet connection 4. Any onboard webcams and mics, physically break them and use external physically removable devices 5. Set up a PiHole to block all telemetry using predefined lists and unblock... Source: almost 3 years ago

SDelete mentions (25)

• Keep your files safe. What can happen if you throw away a defective hard drive?

  What lessons can we take away from my story? They are, in fact, quite simple and obvious: merely deleting files and quick formatting is usually not enough when disposing of or selling hard drives. For more assurance, it’s better to perform a full format (in modern operating systems, of course). And for the truly paranoid, there’s the good old console utility SDelete from the Sysinternals suite or a tool named... - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Hyper V VM full disk, won’t boot

  I assume you were using a dynamically expanding disk - if so just note it won't dynamically contract just by deleting files. To shrink the drive you will likely need to run sdelete -z on the drive inside the VM to clear the free space, then edit and compact the VHDX. You will need to be able to boot the VM to run sdelete though so you'll need to temporarily move other files off the drive, or move the VM files to... Source: 11 months ago

• Does formatting a drive remove bitlocker encryption from formatted data?

  You can always download sdelete https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sdelete and do an overwrite pass just to be safe. It'll take a while but you can do other things while it's running. Source: 11 months ago

• Bitwarden backups

  My understanding is that it doesn't completely solve it. I don't have time to dig up an authoritative source for this claim — hopefully this superuser comment will suffice. I believe that you can achieve something close to a secure erase by filling up your SSD to 100% capacity with data before deleting; the utility sdelete supposedly does this when using the -c option. Source: about 1 year ago

• Wiping HDD in windows. Which program to use?

  Check out sdelete from the MS sysinternals utilities suite: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sdelete. Source: about 1 year ago