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South Suburban Computer Club Meeting – How to Permanently Wipe Your Computer's Data without Removing MS Windows

The Chicago Computer Society South Suburban Computer Club Windows SIG meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 7:00 PM at Prairie State Community College, Room 1318/1320, 202 South Halsted Street, Chicago Heights, Illinois. 


Jerry Sass, long time CCS member and Regional Director CCS West Suburban Computer Club, will be our featured presenter with an interesting topic. Many of us would like to pass on their old functional computer with a windows operating system to a deserving recipient. Before you do this you’ll want to remove your files and personal data. There are many ways to delete these, but deleted files aren't actually gone; they're just hidden waiting to be overwritten. Hackers or computer repair technicians can recover that data. If you reformat the hard drive you’ll loose the operating system. Jerry will show us how to permanently erase files from your computer and still maintain the windows operating system. You will find his presentation using free programs like Revo Unistaller, CCleaner and Eraser both informative and useful. It will be an eye opener regarding the status of deleted files.


All meetings start with an “Open Forum” where attendees can get answers to their computer-related questions prior to the featured topic presentation.   

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The Chicago Computer Society is a non-profit educational personal computer users’ group. Meetings are free and open to both members and non-members. For further information visit the Chicago Computer Society Web Site www.ccs.org

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