tcleaner

Thanks for all the advice. How do I turn on secure shredding in CCleaner - is it a default setting? Unless secure shredding was a default setting, then I guess unfortunately I should assume my "deleted" files on the stolen laptop will be easily recoverable by the thieves.

I have been using CCleaner on a laptop that was recently stolen. How hard is to recover files on that laptop that I have deleted and then run CCleaner? Is there a more permanent way (short of the impractical solution of constantly reformatting the harddrive) to delete files to protect myself in the future?