Confirmation of any ZDelete command

When enabled, a confirmation screen appears before any ZDelete command is engaged.

As the file removal functions of ZDelete are permanent, it is recommended that you keep this option enabled to make sure that you are aware of deleting actions as they are executed.

See ZDeleting Progress

After ZDeleting has begun, each file appears by name, so that you may monitor progress of the utility.

In Windows, a standard animated dialog box appears and displays a progress bar.

In both Windows and DOS console, the [ESC] key will cancel ZDeleting for files that have not yet been destroyed.

It is recommended that you keep this option enabled to have the ability to cancel any ZDelete command. Without this feature, there is no way to stop the ZDelete process, other than by turning off the computer.

Note: If you are using ZDelete to destroy a single small file or a set of small files, there might not be enough time for the progress dialog to appear on a screen. The command will be executed whether or not this screen appears.

ZDelete Can on the Desktop

ZDelete Can on your Desktop is a container icon where you can drop files and folders to destroy them permanently.

Logging last commands

ZDelete.log is a text file that is created by enabling this option. It will be located in the folder where you installed software.

When enabled, ZDelete.log saves a record of recent commands, command durations, error messages and other pertinent data.

ZDelete.log will not record names of destroyed file. It will record the number of files processed, and names of files that could not be processed due to errors.

This log file can be helpful to confirm the approximate time that ZDelete Auto-Cleaner is run automatically or to help correct problems with automatic configuration.

Close Internet Explorer when Auto-Cleaner starts

Enable this option if you want to automatically close all instances of Internet Explorer when Auto-Cleaner is started.

Enabling this option will eliminate access problems when cleaning Internet History or Temporary Internet Files. In some instances, popup windows (advertising) appear automatically, causing confusion in the folder when both creating and removing functions are happening at the same time.

Security Level - number of passes

When ZDelete destroys data, it overwrites with random data one time by default (one pass). You can specify the number of passes here.

Base overwriting level includes a triple pass (once with zeros, once with 0xFFFF, and a third time with random character) as US Department of Defence recommends in clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M.

By increasing the number of passes, the length of time for ZDelete process will be increased as well.