Whether you're clearing space off of your hard drive or want to remove some embarrassing pictures from your recent workplace get-together, it pays to know how to permanently delete images from your ...

When you delete an item on your Windows computer, it gets saved in the Recycle Bin so that you can fetch it whenever you want. A lot of Windows users do not like this feature and want their files to ...

We have many files and folders on our PC. Some people delete unnecessary files and folders regularly, and others when the disk space is low. Whenever it may be, we see some files and folders that are ...

Files deleted from your PC are still recoverable, at least in the short term. To ensure that files are permanently deleted, you can use SDelete. This command-line utility securely erases data, making ...

Moving a file to the trash on your PC or Mac gets rid of it for good, right? Not so fast. These files can be seen by others later, and they could be slowing down your machine. Tap or click for my ...

How to find and delete unwanted files on your PC is a chore everyone thinks is going to take hours, when in fact it takes just a minute or two. Just don’t use Windows 10’s File Explorer! The Windows ...

A reader asked me how he might safely donate a computer to a local refurbishing group. "Our son-in-law takes the hard drive out and destroys it with a hammer," he said. "Is that the best way?" Unless ...

This article was taken from the October 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...