I want to give my machine to charity, but I will
need to completely wipe the hard drive.
What is the best free programme for doing this?
Thanks.

most/not all hard drive makers offer free utility to check hdd and also rewrite the drive to zeros .
Like Maxtors maxblast

Thanks caperjack.

Got CCLeaner? Check Tools....

Yes, I do have.
Thanks for your post.

been using ccleaner for years now never notice that in there

You might be able to help me out here caperjack.
Every time I use CC Cleaner I lose my automatic logins
to sites.
Is there a way to avoid this?

logins are saved as cookies ,so uncheck cookies when running ccleaner ,

Very many thanks caperjack.

Or you may prefer to allow CCleaner to remove most cookies by leaving that Cookies box checked. Then go Options, Cookies, and select the cookies you wish to not have deleted [the ones with your log-ins, for eg].

brain fart on my part ,forgot that part ,and i even have mine setup in there ,thanks gerbil

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