Hi no1slevin

If by "deleting files permanantly", you mean rendering them "unrecoverable",
you need a file shredder and/or multi pass over-writer. Google for file
shredders and see what you get.

Mike M's answer is basically correct, although this method will only remove
the location of the files from your HDD's file catalogue. There are file
recovery applications out there that can be used to try, with varying
degrees of success, to recover deleted files. Shredding overwrites those
parts of the HDD with random data thus rendering them effectivly
unrecoverable.

Sorry to poke my nose in and "correct" your answer Mike :-)

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"no1slevin" u23393@uwe wrote in message news:623f3bf638df9@uwe...
how do you permanently delete files from your computer?