I've heard that the Windows Recycle Bin does not permanently remove files. How do I find and de

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I've heard that the Windows Recycle Bin does not permanently remove files. How do I find and delete them?default browser

You have to perform a "secure delete" to remove information permanently. This is the only real way to erase information off of magnetic media. This works by encrypting the data and deleting it many times over until its nothing more than unreadable code. Shredding is another technique but not nearly as effective. Also. The US Dept of Defense endorse "secure delete" as the only way to permanently remove data. Check out this link. A third party deletion software will cost you about $25 but make sure its endorsed with the US DoD santization procedures. I installed Evidence Eraser on many computers at a patent company. Its the industry leader Here is a link

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I've heard that the Windows Recycle Bin does not permanently remove files. How do I find and delete them?microsoft word download internet explorer

This is not a computer hardware question. Ask in the software section.
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Try searching for the files and deleting by yourself.Either go to control panel or left click on start.
Actually, it's possible and very easy to recover.When you delete a file "Permanently", the hard drive only erase the index to the file, making the file "corrupted". There is a free recovery utility called Undelete Plus, and it can find some of the deleted files. But i cannot guarantee that the file will be perfect, because the deleted file have a different condition depending on how long it has been on the hard drive, how it was deleted and etc. If you wish to delete your files unrecoverable, wipe the empty disk space. Don't ask me how, because no one has done it successfully without corrupting other files, but i do know how to recover files :D
click start and go to my control panel--click on add or remove-----look for the name of the file there and click remove-----

that clears it off the computer-----not in recycle
right click recycle bin

select properties

select not to have files deleted to be sent to R.B.

also recover 13% of hard drive R.B. is using by sliding to 0%

also stop delete confirmation notice from displaying on same page
When you delete a file in windows, it goes to the recycle bin, unless you have that turned off. When you empty the recycle bin the following occurs:

The OS goes to the file allocation table or the NTFS file table and removes the entry for the file. The first letter of the file name is removed from the file. The file is not overwritten until the space is required for a new file. This frees the drive space to be written to and marks the space as availabe. It does not prevent that file from being recovered if you have the correct tools to perform the recovery with.

To trully remove the file from your drive entirely:

1. Open a Command Shell, DOS window, whatever you want to call it.

You can do this by clicking on start then click on run then type in command.com and press enter.

2. Type in cipher /w:C:\directory\where\thefile\was

3. Then press "enter" and let it do it's thing.

You can do this for entire drives too but it will take several hours on a 250G drive.

What does this do?

It wipes all of the free space in the directory by first writing 0s then writing 1s, then writing a random Hex number over all the blocks of free space in the selected directory. This will totally and permanently remove any and all traces of the deleted file(s) in the selected directory.