How to actually delete "compress old files"?

Question

When I scanned my drive through disc cleap up it said I had 9gb worth of compress old files and I know disc clean up only compresses them and not deletes it so do not tell me that. I'm just asking if there is a way/software that can actually remove these files?

Thanks

Answer 1

Files needing mere deleting can be done (on XP) by right click & select that (plus confirmation) to 'delete' but if you need to erradicate (eliminate  all traces) of the file, they must be overwritten.  A handy freeware item for this is 'Eraser'.  Get that from 'snapfiles.com/freeware'; look in File management heading.

Best if overwritten 3X to 7X for secure deleting.

Answer 2

ccleaner is easy to use and works great for me

http://www.download.com/CCleaner/3000-21...

oh sorry then maybe you should use a file shredding program like Stompsoft's file shredder to delete old compress files or visit this download link for fileshredder. File shredders delete files permanently.

http://www.fileshredder.org/