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A shortcut is a small file guiding you to the original. Often used to gather programs of folders on the desktop for quick use whit out filling the folder with large data. You can see it's a shortcut by a small white box with a blue arrow on the icon. You can not "remove" the shortcut other than deleting it. By placing the original file it self in the location of the shortcut you might brake a program.
Most document creation program use hidden data to format the document. This data you can see when you click on the P shaped icon on the toolbar. This hidden data is used when you send a document to someone else or to a printer. There are programs that also saves data on revisions of the document. This is usually controlled through the Preferences settings. Preferences settings can be changed at will without major changes to existing documents.
Yes, Surely it will remove everything on hard drive. Formatting a hard drive means to remove everything on hard drive. If you are formatting only a specific drive like C:\ or D:\ then the data in only that drive will be removed.
You need a system floppy containing the FDISK.EXE program. Run the program after booting the computer to the floppy, then remove all of the partition data. This should have removed ALL (even hidden) data from the hard drive. You must however remember to re-partition the disk and format it before trying to install your new operating system.
Yes. All data on the hard drive will be destroyed, including the Windows Registry.
Connect to one your computers and make full format.
back up the data and do OSRI this would be the best way
you would have to remove the harddrive which is actually very easy You CANNOT just transfer the hard drive. The ps3 will format the new hard drive therefore erasing all data on the drive.
Go to the Control Panel and search for Folder options. Then open View tab. Clear the check boxes for hidden folders. Leave the check box on hidden system files unless you absolutely need it.
Assuming you only have 1 CD drive, you will need copy the data to your hard disk (or possibly a flash drive), remove the original disk from the CD drive, put the blank in, and burn the data that you copied to your hard disk.
There are many free data erase tools available on the internet for free - Like boot and nuke or Eraser..Just do a Google search.
Unencrypted readable data is data that is not hidden and is available for others to read. Encrypted data is data that is not hidden or put into a code for only certain people to decipher it. It is as clear as this text. This is often also called plaintext.