Add Secure Delete to the Windows 10, 8, and 7 Context Menu uses SDelete and registry files to add Secure Delete to the right-click Context Menu, as explained in our tutorial.

To accomplish this, we're going to use SDelete from Microsoft Sysinternals and Mark Russinovich. SDelete will delete a selected file and overwrite the blank space three times, making a recovery difficult, if not impossible.

If you're not comfortable with the registry, , make a backup before proceeding.



Download and extract the files.

Open File Explorer (or Windows Explorer) and copy either sdelete.exe or sdelete64.exe to the C:\Windows\System32 folder. If you're not sure, copy sdelete.exe because it works for both 32-Bit and 64-Bit computers.

You will need to have administrator permission and click Continue when prompted.

Double-click Add Secure Delete to Context Menu.reg (sdelete.exe) or Add Secure Delete64 to Context Menu.reg (sdelete64.exe).

Right-click on any file to verify Secure Delete is now available.

To uninstall, make more than three passes, or get more detailed information, see our tutorial here.

This tweak is included as part of MajorGeeks Registry Tweaks.

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