File Eater

File Eater is a lightweight software application specialized in deleting files and folders from your computer using a secure cleaning algorithm. This means that your sensitive information cannot be retrieved with the aid of recovery tools.

Since this is a portable program, it is important to mention that it doesn’t leave any traces in the Windows Registry.

You can copy it on any USB flash drive or other devices, and take it with you whenever you need to shred files on the fly, without having to go through installation steps.

The user interface reveals a clean feature lineup from where most of the actions can be triggered with minimal effort. It embeds a help manual but there’s a slight chance that you need to consult it, as the main window is highly intuitive.

The tool lets you add a single file to the list or upload the content of an entire folder. On the downside, there’s no support for drag-and-drop operations. What’s more, you can view information about each file, such as name, path, type, and status, and process multiple items at the same time with the aid of batch processing.

Tests revealed that the deletion process is accomplished very quickly and without putting a lot of stress on your CPU and memory. At the end of the task, the tool reveals the number of deleted items.

File Eater proves to be a handy app and its overall simplicity makes it ideal especially when you want to delete some files on fly without having to tweak the entire process in detail. However, it would have been useful to see support for multiple deletion algorithms that you could choose from.