i need to wipe the free space  or slack space whatever its called on my hard drives - i travel a good bit on my job and sometime have to have "detailed" information on the computer.  i am looking for a program that can wipe the free space as well as drag and drop old files for wipe.  what do i need????

Sysinternals Freeware - SDelete
SDelete works on Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 and Win2K. ... Download SDelete (x86- 20KB) Download SDelete Plus Source (x86- 54KB) Back to Top. Home.
www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/sdelete.shtml

scrubs indivvidual files, folders or slack space on an entire drive

It's not a GUI, (at least the older version I run)

SDelete - Secure Delete v1.2
Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Mark Russinovich
Systems Internals - www.sysinternals.com

usage: sdelete [-p passes] [-s] [-q] <file or directory>
      sdelete [-p passes] -z [drive letter]
  -p passes  Specifies number of overwrite passes (default is 1)
  -s         Recurse subdirectories
  -q         Don't print errors (Quiet)
  -z         Clean free space

Quoted: Sysinternals Freeware - SDelete SDelete works on Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 and Win2K. ... Download SDelete (x86- 20KB) Download SDelete Plus Source (x86- 54KB) Back to Top. Home. www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/sdelete.shtml scrubs indivvidual files, folders or slack space on an entire drive It's not a GUI, (at least the older version I run) SDelete - Secure Delete v1.2 Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Mark Russinovich Systems Internals - www.sysinternals.com usage: sdelete [-p passes] [-s] [-q] <file or directory>       sdelete [-p passes] -z [drive letter]   -p passes  Specifies number of overwrite passes (default is 1)   -s         Recurse subdirectories   -q         Don't print errors (Quiet)   -z         Clean free space

i really appreciate the info, i am in the process of my monthly computer cleanup - defrag - deleting old s#@t, etc   --  so i will soon partake of the knowledge above

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