These step by step instructions will quickly and easily teach you how to erase photos from your hard drive. This is a simple procedure and you'll be able to do this with no trouble at in in no time flat.

You do need to know where the photos want to delete are. Most commonly, if you use the windows operating system, these are in a folder called "my documents". To find this folder, click on the green start the bottom left of the screen and then click on the documents. This will open up a new menu in which my document is an option. Once you have my documents open, the photos you want to remove should be visible.

Once you have found the photos you want to delete, click once with your mouse on the photo and it should change colors. This is called highlighting, an allows you to be able to right click, pulling up another menu. Select delete from this new menu, and it will be removed from the folder.

Now, you need to exit out of this screen by closing it with the red box in the uppermost right. You should be back on the main screen called her desktop, and look for the rubbish can icon. Right click and select empty recycle bin option. This removes the photos from your hard drive permanently.

This guide can also be used to remove photos from e-mail and IMs where you have downloaded pictures, USB memory sticks and other forms of removable media that attaches to your computer. Removing unwanted photos can help keep your hard drive clutter furry and help give you more hard disk space.

This how to erase photos guide should be able to help you remove photos from your computer and anytime. Although if you want to make ultra sure that no-one can ever get your photos back, you should investigate a secure erase program.