"cotaka" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> 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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