Tiny Shredder is a small file utility that will completely erase the contents of sensitive files and folders that you specify. Normal file deletion only removes a file's directory entry, but leaves the data contained in the file on your disk drive. Tiny Shredder completely overwrites the contents of a file and then deletes it. Files and folders selected for shredding can not be recovered using an undelete program. The purpose of Tiny Shredder is to completely remove sensitive files and their contents from you disk drive. Once a file has been shredded it can not be recovered using sophisticated file restoration utilities.