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Deleting emails from hard drive
OK, I have looked over previous posts and still am unsure how to permanently
delete specific emails from hard drive w/o wiping hard drive clean or writing over ALL emails over and over. The iolo company's "System Mechanic" software tech says that you CAN pick and choose which emails that were 'deleted' in OUTLOOK to truly permanently delete, but that you needed to learn from Microsoft how to find the registry [?] on the hard drive for emails - then the "incenerator" option of the software is used to delete 'forever' the email in question w/o deleting all of the others. They could not help me w the specific steps to 'find' these deleted emails on Windows XP OUTLOOK 2003 - does this make sense and/or can you help? -- cotaka |
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Deleting emails from hard drive
"cotaka" wrote in message ... OK, I have looked over previous posts and still am unsure how to permanently delete specific emails from hard drive w/o wiping hard drive clean or writing over ALL emails over and over. The iolo company's "System Mechanic" software tech says that you CAN pick and choose which emails that were 'deleted' in OUTLOOK to truly permanently delete, but that you needed to learn from Microsoft how to find the registry [?] on the hard drive for emails - then the "incenerator" option of the software is used to delete 'forever' the email in question w/o deleting all of the others. They could not help me w the specific steps to 'find' these deleted emails on Windows XP OUTLOOK 2003 - does this make sense and/or can you help? -- cotaka Hmmm. You seem a bit paranoid! If you shift-delete emails, then compact the pst file it is QUITE difficult to undelete them. Certainly a casual snooper wouldn't know how. What you need to work out is this. If someone stole your HDD and took it to a specialist data recovery company, they would be able to re-create a great deal of deleted data even if you'd re-formatted the HDD. So, are you being paranoid? |
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