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Cleaning Your Computer

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This procedure is designed to safely make deleted files impossible to recover. The procedure tested successfully both Windows 2000 or Windows XP computer systems.

This is not a remedy for viruses or spyware. If you think your computer is infected, AntiSpyware software is available from Microsoft, Lavasoft and others and AntiVirus software is available from McAffe and others.

  1. Practice the program of SLAA to get and stay sober, because there is no point to cleaning a disk of unwanted files merely to download similar files sortly afterward.
  2. With your Internet Explorer open to this page, select "File" and then "Print" to get a hard copy of these instructions.
  3. Select the "Internet Options" menu option under the tools "Tools" main menu.
  4. Select "Delete Cookies", then select "Delete Files", and then select Clear History.
  5. Delete all files stored on your each of your hard disks that you want to be unrecoverable.
  6. Right click on the desktop icon "Recycle Bin" and select "Empty Recycle Bin".
  7. Open a "Command Prompt" window from the "Start" menu under "Programs" and then "Accessories".
  8. Type "echo %windir%" and press the "Enter" key. The next line printed is your Windows Install Directory.
  9. Download the zeroing program to your Windows Install Directory identified in the previous step, selecting "Close" rather than "Open" when the download is complete. If the computer does not give you permission to download to that directory you can download it to a different directory, but you will need to learn how to run the zeroing program from the alternate location.
  10. Make sure that the size of the download is approximately 52 Kbytes.
  11. Exit all running programs including your Internet browser but NOT including the "Command Prompt", which you still need.
  12. Change your "Command Prompt" working drive to one of the drives that previously contained files that you want to be unrecoverable. You can do this by typing the drive's letter followed by a colon and pressing the "Enter" key.
  13. Run the zeroing program by typing "zero.unused.space temp.zeroes" and then pressing the "Enter" key.
  14. Wait a long time while the program writes zeroes to the file named "temp.zeroes" until all your unused space the drive you chose is completely filled, at which time the program automatically deletes the file "temp.zeroes" and terminates itself.
  15. Repeat the previous three steps for as many drives as previously contained unclean files.
  16. You can now close the "Command Prompt" window.

Assuming you deleted all the unclean files when so instructed, you followed the other directions effectively and the program ran without any error, it is now completely impossible to recover unclean files on your computer.

NEITHER THE SOUTH FLORIDA INTERGROUP NOR SLAA'S FELLOWSHIP WIDE SERVICES MAKE ANY WARRANTEE WHATSOEVER ABOUT THE ABOVE PROCEDURE OR DOWNLOAD. THIS PROCEDURE HAS WORKED WITHOUT ANY REPORTED INCIDENTS THUS FAR.