No File Recovery

No File Recovery is a Windows freebie that can wipe free disk space to make sure that no other software solution manages to recover deleted files.

Although this application wasn't quite designed to be used by rookies, everything's pretty easy to use and basic computer skills should be enough to figure out the purpose of each option.

The GUI shows both the total disk space and free space and requires users to pick a drive to be cleaned. There are no other configuration settings and the adjacent buttons give you the option to instantly start the process or access the help section for more information on the built-in features.

You're strongly recommended to avoid working on the computer while the cleaning task is still in progress, but a “Stop” button is however available all the time to suspend the operation.

As you can see, No File Recovery is quite a basic piece of software, but truth is, is really does its job. Recovery solutions aren't able anymore to restore the deleted files, so all previously-removed items are completely unrecoverable.

What's more, the application works very well on all Windows versions and it doesn't ask for administrator privileges when launched on Windows 7 machines.

To sum up all of these, No File Recovery is one of the apps that serve their purposes and a very encouraging thing is that it does it with minimum user input. Everything is highly intuitive, so with a little help, rookies could give it a try too.