Where can I find and how to really remove all sensitive security information that I want to get rid of?

I use a couple of computers with XP and Windows 7.  Using the Internet Explorer browser.  I don't want to download another program to clean or to make it safer.  Security programs are touted on the web saying items that are supposedly deleted are always truly accessible.  Where one looks for them and how to get rid of them?

Examples:

1. credit card is in a file on your desktop.  Send to trash and then go and delete it.  Is it zapped for good?

2 can secure information sitting somewhere in Internet Explorer?  A purchase online.  All what?

3 remove a file from the yahoo mail bin.  Is it gone forever?

On and so forth!  I'm sure I have just come from a few areas of danger.  Where are you looking at and how do you zap it?

Thank you.

Thank you.  But I don't want to erase my hard drive.

I did not indicate that you clean your hard drive.  Ah...  I see where, if they did not bother to go beyond the cover/title, might think that...

I gave you options (pointing out you would have to use some third-party utilities and I even reported a utility built into Windows 7) allowed to erase safely files/folders - and encryption of a hard drive not necessarily require wiping your hard drive either.

You can read the web page of the utility of Windows 7 that I linked to...  Often somethings title can be misleading: it is the content of the actual article you want to read.

Quoting the article:

The command is simply cipher /w x:\folder where you would substitute x:\folder for the location desired, wiped, for example your drive D:\ or in your C:\Users\Mike Halsey\Music folder.

So, as you can see, you could erase safely on a folder on your system - no need to clean the entire disk.

Perhaps, by doing your research for you, I came across something that will make things clearer, even the title is less extreme:

How to use Cipher.exe to overwrite deleted in Windows
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/315672

This is an article over which shows the person who wrote the other article was not only bad to come with descriptive titles, but to make the hypothesis of the tool had simply added the command/w command-line option, was also wrong on how long this particular function of the utility could rely.

It is many more items that I found for you based on the information that I gave you already (Google works wonders) and maybe one of them will better explain the use of the CIPHER command to erase data securely...

I hope that you now understand the suggestion of ENCRYPTION and can be used to do what you want to do (although I'm not positive that it would work better than many small tools third available like eraser to erase the eraser.heidi.ie or portable PortableApps.comversion.)

I would add that Richard g. Harper was not completely far-fetched.  Many places clears their readers like this or with even more damage than that.  I work in a place where the player must actually be melted to slag or he is still considered a security risk.  Some use things like this , or like this...  Although I have taken your question as you were simply eager to erase files on your drive hard work, not the entire disk and all data that it contained so that no one could get it back AFTER you have been made.

Good luck to you!

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