Command-line tool

SDelete

winget/Microsoft.Sysinternals.SDelete

Checked 25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC · Listing refreshed from Homebrew, winget, npm, Scoop and cargo; npm packages checked against OSV.dev

Securely delete file/directory from disk, or clean the free space on a volume/physical disk. sysinternals

At a glance

Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

winget install --id Microsoft.Sysinternals.SDelete -e

Delete files with 3 [p]asses

sdelete -p 3 path\to\file1 path\to\file2 ...

Delete folders and its [s]ubdirectories with 1 pass (default)

sdelete -s path\to\directory1 path\to\directory2 ...

Clean the free space of volume D: with 3 [p]asses

sdelete -p 3 D:

Browse

• Microsoft tools

Related command-line tools

• scrub
  Writes patterns on magnetic media to thwart data recovery
• MoveFile
  MoveFile (Windows package; no description in the winget index) sysinternals
• dua-cli
  View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast cleaner requirescmd ssd harddisk harddrive disk fast…
• Strings
  Find printable strings in an object file or binary. sysinternals
• Sigcheck
  Sigcheck (Windows package; no description in the winget index) requirescmd sysinternals detectfilearchitecture…
• croc
  Securely send things from one computer to another go cli file-sharing file-transfer data peer-to-peer transfer…
• BGInfo
  BGInfo (Windows package; no description in the winget index) sysinternals
• Desktops
  Desktops (Windows package; no description in the winget index) sysinternals

Listing text is written by the maker; AptLynx lists tools and does not vouch for them. Find another tool · Browse by topic · For agents