How do I permanently delete files from my computer?
Use the File Shredder feature of Glary Utilities: http://www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html This will write random data to the file so that even if the file is undeleted, the contents will just be junk. The original contents cannot be recovered. This is what the program says: When you delete a file in Windows, it will probably be moved to the Recycle Bin. Anybody can get a file back out of the Recycle Bin. For this reason, many users empty the Recycle Bin regularly, or delete their files without moving them to the Recycle Bin. But you should know that Windows does not really destroy a file when it deletes it, its entire contents are still located on the hard drive. Windows simply marks the file as “deleted” in the file system, and the disk space occupied by the file can be used to store other data. But as long as nothing is saved in the area occupied by the deleted file, this “lost” file can be found and recovered easily th
