Saturday, 26 December 2009

How To Erase Photos From Your Hard Drive

By Trevor Johnson

These step by step instructions will quickly and easily teach you how to erase photos from your hard drive. This is a simple procedure and you'll be able to do this with no trouble at in in no time flat.

You do need to know where the photos want to delete are. Most commonly, if you use the windows operating system, these are in a folder called "my documents". To find this folder, click on the green start the bottom left of the screen and then click on the documents. This will open up a new menu in which my document is an option. Once you have my documents open, the photos you want to remove should be visible.

Air few are at the spot where photos are that you want to delete, click on one of them once in a should turn blue. This is referred to as highlighting, and from here you will want to right click which pulled up another menu. Delete as an option on the screen and you'll want to left click one time sending it to the recycle bin.

Now, you need to exit out of this screen by closing it with the red box in the uppermost right. You should be back on the main screen called her desktop, and look for the rubbish can icon. Right click and select empty recycle bin option. This removes the photos from your hard drive permanently.

You can also use these steps to remove the downloaded photos from e-mails and IMs as well as removable media such as USB memory sticks and external hard drives. You should remove any unwanted pictures as soon as you get them because this helps keep your computer from being too cluttered making of operate less smoothly.

This how to erase photos guide should be able to help you remove photos from your computer and anytime. Although if you want to make ultra sure that no-one can ever get your photos back, you should investigate a secure erase program.

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