Shredder8

The poor reviews are really unreasonable. I'm an IT guy and this works great for a free utility. If you want more functionality, buck up and purchase it.

Quick and straight forward to use without the over kill menus. Also liked having choice on which method of overwrite to use.

You do it all! Shredding existing files and wiping free space too. Which is the only way to shred deleted files. It took me 29 hours to do my Lenovo CPU. That's mot unusual. It would be nice to have a scanner to verify data destruction. Nice job! Can't complain about the price. I would pay to have a scanner. Windows RT simply doesn't support any freeware.

After opening the app and selecting a file or folder, if it doesn't crash when I select the shredding method, it crashes when I select shred. Waste of space.

Bottom line: Delete items in recycle bin? NOPE no link for that. You have to individually select files. GARBAGE! Want to wipe the free space...okay...get ready to sit back for 3 days on a simple 3 wipe pass algorithm...in fact, it has NEVER made it through the wipe sequence even once. This app is USELESS! We so need a port of CCleaner or File Shredder to RT (amongst many other TRUE security apps). If it doesn't come soon I'm selling this RT as a paper weight. It's just an NSA wet dream of the perfect OS to monitor you with!

really effective way to completely delete file with deferent type of delete but the interface is really ugly and the delete process is to slow when it in pass 3 delete method and the interface is not touch friendly the icon are to small if you a windows 8 user the are a lot solution that will work with desktop mod but if you are windows rt user this app is for you

I was trying to delete some sensitive data files in my AppData, which is normally hidden. I've configured desktop windows explorer so I could browse into those subdirectories and I could delete them, but still the shredder cannot browse to that folder (appdata is not listed when selecting files or folders) so I cannot shred them from there. If I try to move the files to another spot that could be accessed then I risk further exposure or traces of the file I try to shred. This is not sufficient for security.

Works great, you whiners that gave this low rating are obvious morons that don't know how to use a computer. Nothing wrong with this software, does exactly what it says it does.