On an external drive, the delete key is more of a suggestion than a final verdict. Files that appear to vanish from a USB stick, portable SSD, or backup hard drive often linger in the background, ...

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what disappears from view often lingers in the background, recoverable with the right ...

There are plenty of things that you can do to boost your Windows computer's performance. You can enable fast startup, reduce the number of background-running ...

We have many files and folders on our PC. Some people delete unnecessary files and folders regularly, and others when the disk space is low. Whenever it may be, we see some files and folders that are ...

Sometimes you just know you want to delete a file that theres simply no reason for it to first temporarily be placed in the Recycle Bin. Sometimes you just know it would be silly to clog up your ...

When files are deleted off computers, the file really isn't gone, it's more like, "out of sight, out of mind." But sometimes, you or your customers need more than that; you need to wipe those files ...

Permanently deleting files is something that a lot of people aren't aware of. Actually, most people think that once a file is deleted, it is gone forever. This is not the case. Hard drives write to ...

If you’re looking to free up storage on your iPhone, or you simply want to trash bad photos or videos, here’s how to permanently delete these files from your iPhone. After you tap the garbage can icon ...

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 ...

This article was taken from the October 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...