Reader Steve Carter would like his deleted files to be really, really gone. He writes: How do you delete a file completely and forever? I thought the original still remains on the hard drive until it ...

Many people don’t bother to delete old files on their PC and so they keep accumulating, only to give you a headache afterwards in terms of storage problems. It’s always good practice to delete old ...

With camera quality improving exponentially and the number of apps we use in our day-to-day lives increasing, it can be challenging to keep storage space available on our mobile phones. While there ...

Most people assume that deleting files and emptying the Recycle Bin permanently removes them—but that’s not true. Those “deleted” files still sit on your drive and can be restored with recovery tools.

If you didn't know, when you delete a file or empty your trash can, it isn't actually wiped from your hard drive. To make sure that a deleted file stays deleted, you must securely wipe your hard drive ...

You need to know how to delete downloaded files on an Android device before your phone’s performance starts to suffer, or you literally have no place to put ...

If you want to delete files older than X days automatically in Windows 11 and Windows 10, here is how you can do that. It is possible to delete all the files older than a specific number of days from ...

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer, covering mobile and PC guides that help you understand your devices. She has five years' experience in the Tech, E-commerce, and Food niches. Particularly, the ...

Your Chromebook has quickly become your everyday computer. Using it for just about everything, including web browsing, word processing, gaming, and social media, we bet there’s going to come a time ...

If your Mac is a few years old then you may well find that it’s not as quick on its feet as it used to be – it may take a long time to start up properly, or to open and launch apps, or you may find ...

In this post, we will show you how to delete one, multiple, or all Google Drive files at once and also how to delete files permanently in Google Drive. Google Drive is one of the most used cloud ...