How To Erase Photos From Your Computer

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5 January 2010

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the This guide can quickly explain to you how to erase photos from your electronics. It is a relatively simple process, and you will become a master at it in no time at all.

The first thing you need to do is find out where the photos are that you want to delete. If you use the operating system windows, most of the time they will be in a folder called “my documents”. To find this quickly, click on the green start menu at the bottom left corner of your screen, then on the documents and finally choose my document from the menu there. They photos that you want to remove should be here.

Once you have found the photos you want to delete, click once with your mouse on the photo and it should change colors. This is called highlighting, an allows you to be able to right click, pulling up another menu. Select delete from this new menu, and it will be removed from the folder.

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.

This guide can also be used to remove photos from e-mail and IMs where you have downloaded pictures, USB memory sticks and other forms of removable media that attaches to your computer. Removing unwanted photos can help keep your hard drive clutter furry and help give you more hard disk space.

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.