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I'm curious about the effectiveness of its disk wiping features and whether it meets industry standards for data security. Any tips or recommendations for optimal settings? </div></blockquote> I know many R-Wipe & Clean users, but I think none of them use R-Wipe & Clean to clean up free disk space.<br> Compared to other Windows cleaners, the main advantage of the R-Wipe & Clean is its ability to detect and remove all kinds of traces both in the system itself and in browsers and third-party applications, even in games.<br> Even some former CCleaner developers told me that some traces being removed by CCleaner were originally being removed in R-Wipe & Clean.<br> Also R-Wipe & Clean has a touch interface, very convenient on tablets and Surface.<br> <br> I haven't used laptops with HDD for many years.<br> I don’t see the point in cleaning free space on an SSD, since I've never been able to recover the contents of accidentally deleted files on such disks.<br> Sometimes I clean MFT to remove stored names of deleted files.<br> I think this works perfectly.<br> Only, unlike other utilities specifically designed for cleaning disks, for some reason the R-Wipe & Clean creates temporary files on the disk being cleaned.<br> <br> In the menu on the <span style="font-weight: bold">Settings</span> tab, you can view <span style="font-weight: bold">Free Drive Space</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold">Files Wiping</span>.<br> I use <span style="font-weight: bold">Zeroes</span> or <span style="font-weight: bold">Pseudo-random</span> cleaning algorithms.<br> I think more complex algorithms are not needed for SSDs.</div> </div> </div> <div class="back2top"> <a href="#top" class="top" title="Top"> <i class="icon fa-chevron-circle-up fa-fw icon-gray" aria-hidden="true"></i> <span class="sr-only">Top</span> </a> </div> </div> </div> <hr class="divider" /> <div class="action-bar bar-bottom"> <a href="./../posting.php?mode=reply&f=15&t=12350&sid=68adac2c0d8671ddd7b822143c6b152a" class="button" title="Post a reply"> <span>Post Reply</span> <i class="icon fa-reply fa-fw" aria-hidden="true"></i> </a> <div 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