Once you delete a file in Windows operating system, the index of the file is removed so that you will not be able to access the file contents. But if you use the recovery tools the files can be recovered if file is not overwritten by other files.
Sysinternals has released a tool named SDelete with which you can use to overwrite the contents of the files that you have deleted. In turn SDelete overwrite the contents of free space on your disk drive. You can download SDelete from Sysinternal.
SDelete is command line utility. You can use SDelete to remove deleted file contents from C drive using following command:
SDelete -z C
How to create Disk Partition without formatting the HDD
Windows 7 has made it easy to create disk partition without formatting a hard disk. Also you don't have to delete or move your data to do so. To create a partition you should have enough free space to create a new partition and your disk fragmentation should be very less.
To partition a drive open a computer management tool. To open computer management window type "compmgmt.msc" in Run window and hit enter. On Computer Management window Select "Disk Management" option, which will display different disk and drives present on your computer.
From the displayed disk drives choose from which drive you want to create new partition. Choose such a drive that should have maximum free space available. Now select the drive and right click will show below options
Choose "Shrink Volume", which will calculate the space available for new drive and will display dialog shown below. Now as shown below specify the space that you want to allocate for new drive, it should be less that the Size of available shrink space.
Click Shrink and your new partition will be created in some time.
To partition a drive open a computer management tool. To open computer management window type "compmgmt.msc" in Run window and hit enter. On Computer Management window Select "Disk Management" option, which will display different disk and drives present on your computer.
From the displayed disk drives choose from which drive you want to create new partition. Choose such a drive that should have maximum free space available. Now select the drive and right click will show below options
Choose "Shrink Volume", which will calculate the space available for new drive and will display dialog shown below. Now as shown below specify the space that you want to allocate for new drive, it should be less that the Size of available shrink space.
Click Shrink and your new partition will be created in some time.
How to start Automatic Windows Update in Windows 7 and 2008 R2
Windows updates keep your computer updated with all latest updates ( defect fixes and features ) available for windows as well as some of the other software. You can enable the automatic windows update so that you don't have to keep track of those.
Follow below steps to enable automatic windows update:
Open Control Panel from Start Menu. On Control Panel window select "System and Security" as shown above. On "System and Security" window click "Turn automatic update on or off" link.
On the Update setting window Select "Install updates automatically" also choose a install update time such that your computer should be up and running with internet connection at that time. So that windows can download and install updates. Click OK and you are done.
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