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Deleting Files

There are dozens of reasons why you might have a need to permanently erase data. In business, you might be storing personal client financial records. Once these records become obsolete are you to simply delete them? Mere deletion of files in no way removes that file from your computer’s hard drive. All that deletion accomplishes [...]

It’s great that older computers are being donated to operations like Goodwill and the Salvation Army. In fact used computers are sent all around the world to assist third world nations in educating their people. But depending on where your old computer ends up it is entirely possible that the files stored on your old [...]

Anyone who has ever used a large legal pad to make notes is aware that after you remove the top sheet of paper in tracing of everything you wrote still remains on the second sheet. If you had sensitive information on that second sheet and someone wanted to read it not too much effort would [...]

You know how you like to run your finances. Your bills come in every month, you take that paperwork and run it through a paper shredder. This ensures that no one can piece together your personal information and use it to steal your identity. Generally speaking, using a confetti shredder to tear your records into [...]

It is amazing how many people think that when they delete a file, it is safely removed from their computer forever. This is completely untrue. When you delete a file on your computer or even empty your Windows recycle bin all that you’re actually doing is the labeling the space on your hard drive where [...]