When I delete unwanted progs from my H/Drive are they deleted 100%?

Answer 1

Doubful. Even if the program uninstalls cleanly (which is not always the case), there are almost always some registry entries left behind. These are usually harmless, and can be cleaned up with a registry cleaning utility. I use CCleaner, EasyCleaner, and RegScrubXP (all freely downloadable).

Even after doing all this, there is still no guarantee that absolutely every trace of the program is gone. The only surefire way to do that is wipe out your hard drive and reinstall the operating system.

Answer 2

No, The data will remain on the hard drive until written over by another program and can be recovered if you have the correct software. The file name may be removed and the space made available for more programs. If you want to have a good chance of removing those programs, you can click on Tool at top of screen and Internet Options. Then delete temporary cookies and files. Then use Disk clean-up and Defragmenter.

Answer 3

And even when you secure delete a file,writing data over the program there will still can still be a lot of garbage in your registry,many people don't think of this but the more programs you add and then delete the slower your system runs.
Especially games are notorious for clogging your system.
There are still preferences Left by the program you deleted in your registry.
Get a registry cleaning program for this and some of them even defrag your registry which can make a big difference.

Answer 4

Quick answer No.

Most programs leave bits and pieces of themselves, for example save files or configurations. Those can easily be erased by searching for the file itself and deleting any files.

Spyware programs on the other hand usually leave files in various places on your harddrive making it very difficult to delete everything with some research.

One thing to remember also is that everthing done on your computer is usually added to your registry, consider it a log for you computer. So, and program or spyware will have a registry entry and can be removed manually; however, its usually easier to use a program like register doctor.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

No. the reason is beacause while they do appear deleted, they are only marked as files that can be deleted should the you run out of space on your computer.
That being said, what happens when you mark these files for deletion, they are 'thrown' to the last part of the HDD, of you should ever fill your hard drive, then the files will be deleted as marked, that is why we have recovery programs as well as programs to write all zeros to the HDD, making sure that everything is indeed deleted.

Answer 6

There will often be traces left either because of an interaction with another program or some files that were created after the installation.

Normally the uninstall will only revert what the install does, so newer files are not necessarily deleted.

Answer 7

NO they are simply kept aside as free memory which can be used(overwritten) when needed...though the user is given the impression that the data is deleted ...deleted files can be recovered by using special programs....if u want to dispose of data permanently use some shredder programs which overwrites ur data multiple times with garbage

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Not really. They remain there. That is also true for your personal information. However there are a number of products which allow you to clean your hard drive (such as Drive Scrubber).

Answer 10

Some programs do and some programs don't. Some have files in other places that will remain there for ever.