You know you should shred physical documents containing sensitive information to protect yourself against data and identity theft. The same is true for data on your PC and other digital devices. Although you have deleted personal or business files, they may not be completely deleted from your computer, even after emptying the recycle bin.

Remnant information left on an old portable hard drive can leave behind critical contact information, photos and more. Hackers and other predators know how and where to locate this type of information on your PC and digital devices.

With the new Digital Shredder Premium, you will get the highest level of data erasure technology and unparalleled security for your personal files.

Safely, easily and permanently erase the confidential files, emails, and documents from your hard drive and digital devices.

• Protect your identity - shred all financial data.
• Shred deleted email content from Outlook and Outlook Express.
• Shred Windows Recycle Bin contents.
• Shred credit card and financial information.
• Remove all traces of Web activities and Instant Messenger chat history.
• Scan for and shred free hard drive space.
• Scan for "recoverable" items and tag the files to shred.
• Schedule times to perform shredding tasks.
• Password protection stops others from using Digital Shredder Premium to erase your personal data.
• Shred data from PCs, external hard drives, USB Flash Drives, SD Cards and more.

Keep Your Confidential Data and Sensitive Information Private
When you shred your documents with Digital Shredder Premium, you can be confident that the files you choose to shred are completely and permanently deleted from your PC or other digital devices. Give yourself peace of mind knowing that no one can access your private and personal files once they have been shredded with Digital Shredder Premium.

• Triple Overwrite - Data Shredding - capabilities meet and exceed the US Department of Defense standards and cannot be recovered with any other software program.
• Password Protection - prevents unauthorized users from shredding information on your computer.
• Multiple Device Compatibility - works with hard drives, USB thumb drives, SD Memory Cards and more.
• IM Chat History Protection - completely removes all traces of outdated MSN Internet Messenger chat history.
• Inaccessible Web Activity Traces - permanently remove traces of Web activities - history, cookies, Internet cache and more.
• Identity Protection - shred personal and business financial documents to protect yourself against identity theft and financial attacks.
• Office and Email Protection - remove Office documents, calendars, address books and email content from Outlook Express and Outlook.
• Dump the Windows Recycle Bin - permanently delete all, or parts, of your Windows Recycle Bin.
• Drive Space Optimizer - scan for and shred open/free hard drive space.
• Auto Shred Cycle Support - set up schedule times to perform shredding tasks.

Flexible Shredding Capabilities - you choose how much or how little you wish to shred and permanently remove from your PC or other devices.

Minimum System Requirements

• Microsoft® Windows Vista™, Windows XP, or Windows 2000 Operating System
• Intel® Pentium® (or equivalent) 166MHz processor
• 32MB of RAM (256MB recommended)
• 800 x 600, 16-bit color Graphics Card
• 10MB of Available Disk Space
• CD/DVD ROM drive
• Internet connection required for product activation and updates

Why is my free hard drive space gone after using the “Shred Free Disk Space” tool?
When you use the "Shred Free Disk Space" tool or clean your free space in the system cleaner, Digital File Shredder Premium creates temporary files on your hard drive as a way to prevent previously deleted data from being recovered.

If this process was canceled or ended prematurely, the temporary files created by Digital File Shredder Premium may still reside on your hard drive(s).

To check for this error please do the following:

Open Windows Explorer or My Computer--> browse to the drive(s) you performed this action on.

Digital File Shredder Premium will have created a folder named "1", or "2", "3", etc for subsequent tries (e.g. C:\1).

Delete these folders to reclaim your hard drive space. (highlight all the sequentially numbered folders, and hold the shift key while pressing the delete key)

Deleting these folders may take a long time as there will be many temp. files in these folders. How does Digital Shredder Premium overwrite data? Digital Shredder Premium creates a temporary directory with the name "1" on the root of the hard drive that is used to shred free space. This directory is filled systematically 100's of thousands of files of varying sizes and specific patterns until all the free space on the hard drive is exhausted. These files will have name such as:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_ABCDE.._34.yzy

These files will automatically be deleted/shredded upon completion. If for whatever reason the operating system crashed, or another unexpected issue occurred before the free space files are deleted, it is possible to have a hard drive completely filled. These files should only exist long enough to complete the free space shredding process and then automatically removed.

Should the file deletion step get interrupted for whatever reason, Digital File Shredder Premium, on restart should automatically detect this condition and proceed to delete the free space files, thereby reclaiming your usable hard drive space.

NOTE:

It is best to minimize potential interference from other utility software programs such as Anti-Virus Software and Disk Utilities. Should you experience a problem with reclaiming free space, please check that no other programs are running that could potentially be causing a conflict. Why doesn’t the drag and drop function work in Windows Vista?

The drag and drop feature is a limitation in Vista. This is a known issue that is currently being evaluated.