Eraser is a PC cleaner for Windows. But if you want to protect your privacy and improve your computer performance, you can try an all-around PC cleaner.
Eraser is a free and open-source safe file-erasing utility for the Windows operating system. It can wipe both files and volumes. This tool can securely erase data by overwriting it, rendering it unrecoverable. And it complies with several data destruction requirements, including British HMG IS5, American DoD 5220.22-M, and the Gutmann technique, which employs a 35-pass overwrite.
Since everyone has secrets on the computer and we may have kept some of this information on our computers for easy access, when it comes time to erase the data from your disk, things become a little more tricky. And keeping your privacy is not as straightforward as it may have appeared at first.
Thus, it will be more secure to use the tools like Eraser to clear all sensitive data from your computer. Here, we’ll show how to erase a PC with Eraser.
Step 1. After you installed Eraser, run the app.
Step 2. Click the “▼” beside Erase Schedule and select “New Task”.
Step 3. In the new window, click “Add Data”.
Step 4. Then in the pop window, you can select the target type like files, files in folder, etc. Under the type, you can select erasing method according to your needs.
When you finish all settings, you can click OK to execute the task. Then the target files/folder/drive/disk will be cleaned.
Now, Eraser is supported under Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7/8/10, and Windows Server 2012-2022. So, if you want to wipe your PC which is supported by this tool, it’s a nice option.
As a data wiper, Eraser is enough for common tasks. However, if you want to also clean junk files or the system cache files, this tool is not suitable. Therefore, to help you clean daily junk files on a Windows computer, here we recommend AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard.
It is a free disk and partition manager for Windows 11/10/8/8.1/7/XP users. You can use the “Wipe Hard Drive” function to erase HDD data and the “PC Cleaner” to clean junk files on your PC. Moreover, this tool has more practical features, such as resizing/moving/creating/merging/wiping/deleting/format partition, cloning MBR data disk, converting file systems between NTFS and FAT32 without formatting drive…
Here, we’ll show how to wipe a single partition or a disk and clean junk data files to improve PC performance.
Step 1. Install and open AOMEI Partition Assistant and right-click on the hard disk drive you want to wipe, and select the "Wipe Hard Drive" option.
Note: If you're using an SSD, please go to the "SSD Secure Erase" function.
Step 2. Tick "Fill sectors with Zero" and click "OK". And you can upgrade to the Professional edition to choose the 3 other options.
Step 3. After all the above operations about wiping the hard drive, click "Apply" in the top toolbar to commit them to your physical disk.
Tip: To erase a PC, you can check: Clear personal data from the PC.
Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant, click the "Wipe" main tab and select "Wipe Partition" option. (You can also right-click the partition you want to wipe and select the "Wipe Partition" option.)
Step 2. Select the partition you want to wipe and click "OK" to continue.
In this stage, you can also select a wiping method to wipe the selected partitionaccording to your requirements and click "OK". (By default, the wiping method is Fill in 0.)
Step 3. You can preview the shrink operation by viewing the "Pending Operations". To commit the "Pending Operations", please click "Apply" and "Proceed".
To clear junk files and outdated files on the PC, you can use “PC Cleaner”.
Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard, and then click "Free up" > "PC Cleaner".
Step 2. In the pop-up window, click "Start Scan" to scan for junk files.
Step 3. Wait until the scanning process completes.
Step 4. After the scan is completed, all kinds of available junk files will be listed. Then, tick the options you want to clean, then click "Clean All" to begin the cleaning process.
Step 5. When you see a correct symbol displayed in the interface, you can click "Back" to exit the Window.
Tip: If you want to dig out hidden large files in your computer and clear them, you can try the “Delete Large Files” feature.
Using Eraser as a PC cleaner you can only wipe data from the computer, but with AOMEI Partition Assistant, you can also clean junk files and caches from your computer and keep your PC in a nice status. Besides the features we’ve mentioned, you can also clone the system disk, convert a disk to MBR/GPT without deleting partition, move folders and installed programs, etc.
What’s more, this tool also has the Server Edition for Windows Server 2025/2022/2019/2016/2012(R2)/2008(R2)2003 computers.