The last version of CCleaner can Wipe Free Disk space.

-What about adding a Shredder that
will allow users to Securely Delete (i.e. Erase)
Files/Folders and the Recycle Bin via Right-click (i.e. Shell Integration)?

The Simple Pass-1, DoD-3, DoD-7, and Gutmann methods,
like in the Wipe Free Disk space, can be used.

It already wipes the contents of the Recycle Bin so if you use a normal delete to the Recycle Bin in Windows and have CCleaner already configured to use secure deletion it will work that way when you run CCleaner. Also any user added Include files or folders available in Options->Include will also be securely deleted.

Try create two .reg files with this content (bold). For create .reg files just open notepad, copy the content and save with .reg extension. Then just double-click the first file (you must be administrator) and enjoy. For remove, you use the second file.

CCleanerShredder.reg:
(This added an entry in the context menu of files and folders for secure deletion with CCleaner. You must configure secure deletion in the CCleaner's settings.)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\CCleanerShredder]
@="CCleaner Shredder"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\CCleanerShredder\command]
@="ccleaner.exe /delete \"%1\""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\CCleanerShredder]
@="CCleaner Shredder"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\CCleanerShredder\command]
@="ccleaner.exe /delete \"%1\""

CCleanerShredder(remove).reg:
(This removes the context menu entry.)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\CCleanerShredder]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\CCleanerShredder]

Wow!!!
Great Post!
THANK You!!!

I wish I could see a Percentage Progress Bar
to know How Much it remains, What has already Erased etc.

It would be easier/faster to add a Shredder - Shell Integration instead of having to:
a. Send items to the Recycle Bin
and then,
b. Wipe the Recycle Bin contents

It wouldn't hurt adding a Shredder through Right-click?

You may be right!!!!

but I think CCleaner must provide this feature with integration of check marks..

I could not understand why some members suggest different softwares or making registry entries etc., although
we are here to talk only and only about CCLEANER and Only to improve CCLEANER.

not to promote other freeware and not for manually modify system settings, registry etc.

100 % ACK

I guess that we all agree that CCleaner needs
a Shredder which can destroy items
through Right-Click (i.e. Shell Integration).

Let's see -IF- and -WHEN- Developers will hear us...

Will this add a right click file delete option via ccleaner?? I really could use this feature!!! I used to use a small app called Secure File Shredder 3.2 before but I'd like to keep my system as streamlined as possible now. Not to mention it stopped being supported a few years ago.

On the other hand if Recycle bin items ARE shredded I could live with deleted to the recycle bin where I had been setting up a folder specifically where I would put things I wanted shredded.

You are 100% WRONG
There is NOT unanimous agreement.

I am totally and fundamentally opposed to any such integration.

Normally XP behaves tolerably well,
but a right click is horrendously different and always variable, depending on what I click and how often.
If I select a 200 MByte *.exe file and right click,
Windows realises it is so feeble and slow compared to Linux that it cannot act soon enough if I delete the file,
so it locks me out of the system whilst it copies the file into a restore point just in case,
and perhaps a minute or so later I regain control and can choose "properties" because ALL I wanted was the version number.

There have been occasions when the context menu is open, and I need to choose a different item in the menu.
Then there can be further delays as it shifts and shuffles,
and I have known it to wait for my ENTER before it shows its last shuffle selection,
And what I intended as "Create Shortcut" becomes "Delete".

Heads will roll if my daughter does a right click to play a tune and instead all her purchased iTune folders are shredded.

A thousand times, NO THANKS

Alan

forgive me if im wrong i have not had the time to properly read. but isnt he/she asking for a shell extension????

I personall would love it if ccleaner offered a secure over pass of files via right click.

yes of course this can all be done via the recycle bin so i wont moan as i love ccleaner

hey alan. forgive me if im wrong again. lol seems to be a thing tonight. are u saying adding a right click is difficult?????


if so its not at all. its just a case of handling the arguments. example



which is a few lines of code.

but im very drunk and likely wrong to what u mean lol. sisters birthday

You are forgiven ! !

I have added a shell extension myself which enables me to instantly use a file comparator on a pair of selected files.
I am not concerned about how it is done, just about the dangers if the wrong thing happens.

If I select a file and right click and use the keyboard to move down the list to "Create Shortcut" and then "Enter",
it has been known for the display to be slow and to still be showing "Create Shortcut" after the O.S. has moved on to "Delete", so my "Enter" is not applied to my chosen option of "Create Shortcut", but a rather undesirable "Delete".
On occasions when not using the keyboard but the mouse, it has sometimes twitched just as I did the right click, and the right click was not applied to what I was hovering over, but the next one up/down.

An accidental delete is not a nice thing, but it does first pause to ask if I want it in the recycle bin.

In my opinion an accidental WIPE or SHRED is a major disaster that should be prevented.
If WIPE or SHRED is implemented then it should have strong password protection to ensure it is no accident.
I will refuse to live with anything that enables a simple "Click and Go" to SHRED chunks of my computer.

Alan

-1
Im not in favor of the idea. I realize there are people who would like this option. But I could never fully understand the need to wipe a file that I am discarding. If I send a file to the recycle bin, then it has no value or its otherwise not important enough to keep.

On that note. For those intersted in shredding files and wiping free space, I am currious how (or what you use) to protect good files?

There's already a number of free utilities that offer right click secure deletion.

Personally I'm neutral on such a feature and could care less if it were included or not. I can easily understand why people would want it included since CC already has secure deletion routines build in, and it could make having other software installed for the task no longer needed.

I must confess many times when I've used Eraser I find myself thinking why can't CCleaner do this.

A Right-Click option to Erase Files/Folders could be -Optional-
(like the One of Wipe Free Space) so that users can/canNot Activate it.
Therefore, there is No Need to worry!

Exactly, this is what I've been thinking for months...

If you agree to include an Optional Right-Click Eraser,
please, make sure that it can erase Shortcuts!!!
That's important!

Most Secure Delete programs canNOT Erase Shortcuts!!!
-The Eraser Tools of -BOTH- ACE and TuneUp Utilities canNot erase Shortcuts!
-R-Wipe&Clean can erase Shortcuts!

Hmmm - I've never had a problem with Eraser removing shortcuts.

Two points with reference to the original post:

Personally, I would still choose to use a dedicated wiper (e.g. Eraser) from my context menu. I like tools that specialise.

However, I also think having an optional context menu (right-click) erase for ccleaner is a very good idea. Most software that offers context menu functionality does so optionally ... I think that's almost invariably the best approach (no sense in alienating users like Alan_B who aren't interested in such functionality by forcing it upon them). And such a feature certainly fits in with the role of ccleaner.

+1 to an optional erase context menu.