How To Erase Photos From Your PC Easily

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.

To remove them from your computer, you'll need to first locate the photos. If you use a windows operating system they will be in a folder titled "my documents" most of the time. The simplest way to locate this is to click on the green start at the bottom left corner of the screen, selecting documents from the menu that pops up, and then my documents. Once that is opened up, you should see the photos that you want to remove from your computer.

Ones you have my documents of open, click once on the photo that you want to delete. It will change into a different color, known in computer lingo as highlighting. From there you'll want to right click and select delete from the menu that pops up at this point. It removes a photo from that folder and places into the recycle bin.

Click on the red X in the upper right corner, and you should be back at the screen you see one for computer powers up. Look for the trash can on the screen, and right click that to pull up the menu so that you can select empty recycle bin. This step permanently removes them from your hard drive.

These steps can be used to remove pictures from any e-mail or IMs where you have downloaded a photo, removable media such as USB memory sticks and even from external hard drives. This is important to save space on your hard drive, and to keep your computer from being too cluttered so you can find what you want.

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. - 31989

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