Mike wrote:   
    MP> A friend of mine that is running WinXP has asked me if there is a way to   
    MP> permanently delete a file from his system.  He knows he can use Shift-Del   
    MP> to make it look deleted, but he is asking how to completely remove files   
    MP> from the system so that they can never be recovered (bank info, etc.).   
      
   	Johny come lately here, sorry. I have set up some friends with a  D:\   
   partition for their "classified" information. When the time comes it is   
   formatted in toto. Gone-Nada-Zilch left. That small partition is only 10 Gs on   
   their 500 to 1000 Gs HD and has served well since.   
      
   	Granted, some labs can read data a few layers down, run a special programme   
   to zero it all, at repetition.   
      
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