wipe free space

Can someone tell me about this option? Is this the same thing that proprietary "complete delete" software does? Thanks for any help on this. Gar

This has been asked and answered a bunch but here is one of the answers

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=26901&st=0&p=161925&hl=wipe%20freespace&fromsearch=1entry161925

it's pretty useless and not recommended by most of the helpers here (myself included) unless you are about to sell the computer/harddrive

Thanks, Nergal. Tried a search first but didn't come up with anything. Appreciate the response. Do you know if this is the same thing done by "complete delete" kinds of proprietary software? Gar

Thanks, Nergal. Tried a search first but didn't come up with anything. Appreciate the response. Do you know if this is the same thing done by "complete delete" kinds of proprietary software? Gar

Not sure what you mean by "complete delete" but I suspect the answer is yes, it is the same. It overwrites all the free space on your disk so that any files you've deleted with Windows own delete feature (as opposed to a third party secure deletion software) are unrecoverable.

See the CCleaner docs for more info:

http://docs.piriform.com/ccleaner/using-ccleaner/wiping-free-disk-space