How to Permanently Delete Files from Hard Drive Windows 10

When you press the Delete key to remove files from Windows 10 computer, it does not disappear from your hard drive at once. It goes to the recycle bin. Even you empty the recycle bin, it still exist on somewhere of your hard disk and you can use the data recovery software to restore it if needed. Whether you are going to delete the sensitive financial files, business documents, or privacy photos, confidential contact data and so on, you are bound to make them private and do not want others to get on hand through recovering. Therefore, how can we delete data from hard drive permanently and securely? Here you will get the answer. 

Software to Permanently Delete Files/Data from Hard drive 

According to the information above, the easiest and fastest way is to find the software to permanently delete files/data from hard drive. iSunshare File Deletion Genius offers users this feature to remove files from Windows 10/8/7 computers completely , which cannot be recovered any more. 

This software supports you to delete all kinds of files: Word document, Excel sheet, Text file, images and videos etc. Here we will take Windows 10 computer as an example and show you the steps to completely delete files/data from hard drive. 

Step1: Install and run File Deletion Genius 

Download File Deletion Genius from iSunshare website and complete the installation process. Double click to open the software. 

Step 2:  Import the files to delete forever. 

You can click the Add button to select the files from the drive. Of course, you can delete all files of one drive. You just need to find and check the files, then click the OK button. Or you can directly drag and drop it into the program. For the free trial users, they can only add 10 files to delete. 

Step 3: Choose Slow Mode and click the Delete button. 

The Slow Mode is chosen by most people because it can erase the data more completely. 

Step 4: Get the warning box and click OK to continue. 

Here, it is better for you to further check whether the files are those you want to delete permanently. If you delete the files with this confirmation, you cannot recover it with any way. 

After that, you will not find those files on your Windows 10 computer.  And your entire secret will go with the deletion.  For those who delete all files on the whole partition, they can also format the partition to protect files from recovery. 

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How to Recover WiFi Passwords Saved on Windows 10 PC /Laptop/ Computer in Minutes

Now we are living in an intelligent century and the computer helps us relieve the heavy burden. When we search online, it will help us to save the website accounts as well as passwords automatically. And when you connect the Windows 10 PC/laptop/computer to wireless network, it will automatically save it on your computer. If we forgot the WiFi password saved on Windows 10 computers, how to recover it? This tutorial will help you walk through the simplest way to recover WiFi passwords saved on Windows 10 PC/laptop/computer in minutes.

About WiFi Password Recovery Tool for Windows 10

iSunshare WiFi Password Genius is developed to simplify the recovery of WiFi passwords saved on Windows computer, which can help everyone to find and view the wifi password in no time. It gives users the opportunity to retrieve any kind of wifi passwords from computer/laptop with a simple click. Safe and time-saving!  Even the people who know little about computer can handle this WiFi password recovery tool.

How to Recover WiFi Password on Windows 10

Step-1: Get WiFi Password Genius on your computer.

You can download and install WiFi Password Genius on your computer from iSunshare official website. This software is in a small size and it just takes you a few minutes to download it.

Step-2: Install WiFi Password Genius.

After ending the download process, you can install the program instantly. Follow the wizard to install the program on the location you like.

Step-3: Start the program and get all WiFi passwords.

When you start the program, it will detect all the saved WiFi passwords immediately. You can get the whole password if you purchase the full version. If you want to do a test of the software, you can connect a new network and click the Refresh button to get its password.

Step-4: Save your passwords on a text file

Some people want to keep the password on a text file so that they can find it directly on the computer. You can click the Save button on the software interface to export the wifi account details to a text file and keep it on anywhere you want.

That’s all. Isn’t it easy to find and view your WiFi passwords saved on Windows 10 PC/laptop/ computer? You can free download the software to have a test now!

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How to Add Gmail Account to Microsoft Outlook

For convenience, you need to add Gmail account to Microsoft Outlook so that you can get and send the emails in Outlook client. But how can we add Gmail account to Microsoft Outlook via IMAP/POP? How to set the Gmail incoming and outgoing server for Outlook? In this article, you will learn the full steps to configure Gmail account to Microsoft Outlook 2019/2018/2013/2010.

Part 1: Enable Gmail IMAP/POP3 Settings on the Online Account

Part 2: Automatically Add Gmail Account to MS Outlook

Part 3: Manually Set up Gmail Account in MS Outlook

External Tips: How to recover Gmail IMAP/POP account password from Outlook

Part 1: Enable Gmail IMAP/POP3 Settings on the Online Account

Step 1: Login your Gmail account online and click the gear icon and choose Settings.

Step 2: In the Settings window, select Forwarding and POP/IMAP setting. After that, you need to select Enable IMAP as well as enable the POP.

Step 3: Drag down the settings window and click Save Changes button to apply this IMAP setting.

Step 4: Next, open your chrome browser and navigate to https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps, turn on Allow less secure apps option.

Part 2: Automatically Add Gmail Account to MS Outlook

You can simply add your Gmail account and password to Outlook. It will automatically detect other settings for you.  Here I will take Microsoft Outlook 2010 as an example.

Step 1: Run Microsoft Outlook and click File on the top left corner, then choose Add Account.

Step 2: Choose E-mail Account service and click the Next button. Then, input your name, email address and password. To continue, click Next .

Step 3: After that, Outlook will complete the setup of your account. When it is finished, you will get the bellowed window, click Finish at the end.  Now, you can send and receive Gmail messages directly in MS Outlook.

Part 3: Manually Set up Gmail Account in MS Outlook

Step 1: Open Outlook and choose File. Then you can select Add Account.

Step 2: In the Add New Account Window, select E-mail Account and click Next. Then, choose Manually configure server settings or additional server types. Click Next to go ahead.

Step 3: Choose Internet E-mail and click Next.

Step 4: Complete the Internet E-mail settings with the following details.

User Information:

Your Name:  The name you set up for the Gmail account.

Email Address: Your Gmail address.

Server Information:

For the IMAP account settings:

Account Type: IMAP

Incoming mail server: imap.gmail.com

Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com

For the POP account settings:

Account Type: POP3

Incoming mail server: pop.gmail.com

Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com

Logon Information:

User Name:  Your full Gmail address

Password: your Gmail password

And it is better for you to choose the Remember password option.

Step 5: Click More Settings and choose the Outgoing Server tab. Then Choose My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.

Step 6: Click the Advanced tab and fulfill the incoming server and outgoing server settings of Gmail.

Incoming server (IMAP): 993

Use the following type of encrypted connection: SSL

Outgoing server (SMTP): 465

Use the following type of encrypted connection: SSL

Incoming server (POP3): 995

Choose This server requires an encrypted connection(SSL)

Outgoing server (SMTP): 465

Use the following type of encrypted connection: SSL

Step 7: Click OK to save the settings and you will be led to the account setting interface. Click Next to build the connection between Gmail and MS Outlook. You will get this successful news in the end.

External Tips: How to recover Gmail IMAP/POP account password from Outlook

Yes, Microsoft Outlook will help to remember your password with the mask. If you forgot what exactly the password is but you can login the account in Microsoft Outlook, how can you recover the Gmail IMAP/POP account password?

With iSunshare Outlook Email Password Genius, everything will turn to be easy. This Outlook email password recovery software will help you to recover the password without damage to your email messages.

1.  .      Launch Outlook Email Password Genius. If you do not install this software, download and install it now from here.
2.      You will get all saved email account as well as its details, such as user name and password, in the software interface.
3.      You can save the details to a text file. Of course, for the free trial user, they can only see the first three characters of the password. But the full version users can get the whole.

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How to Unlock A Read Only Word Document without Password

“I got a Word 2010 document with the editing protection. I want to modify the content and make it myself but it is impossible to do it in read only version. How can I get rid of read only in Word?”

Have been requested to answer a question on a forum, I doubt there must be someone who also wants to do the same thing as the user. Here, you can get two useful methods to unlock a read only Word document without passwordand edit it in your way.

• Method 1: Open the read only Word document with WordPad
• Method 2: Remove edit protection from Word document with a click

Method 1: Open the read only Word document with WordPad

As is known to all, you can add the modify password to protect the Word document when you save the content. Also, you can enable the editing restriction with a password to lock the editing permission. No matter which way you do, you can open the read-only Word document with WordPad and edit the content.

Step 1: Open the locked Word document with WordPad.

Right-click the Word document with editing protection and click Open with. After that, it will show you several choices; choose WordPad as your option.

Step 2: Edit the content in WordPad.

When the restricted Word document is opened in WordPad, it is unlocked automatically. You can add, delete and change the layout as you like. 

Step 3: Save the content.

Go to File > Save and choose the first option. Then your read only Word document is unlocked. You can reopen the Word document with Microsoft Word and edit it directly.

Method 2: Remove edit protection from Word document with a click

If the first method fails to work for you locked Word the document, you can use iSunshare Word Unprotect Genius to remove the edit protection from Word document with just a few clicks.

Step 1: Install iSunshare Word Unprotect Genius on your computer.

It is free for you to download the software from iSunshare official webpage. You just need a few minutes to install it on your computer following the guides.  Moreover, it is in a small size.

Step 2: Run the computer and add the locked read only Word document.

After you start the software, you can quickly know what to do next. Click the Add button and select your Word document with the editing protection to open.

Step 3: Remove editing protection from Word document

You just need to click the Remove password button and the software will create another copy of the content without password for you instantly. You can do anything on that unprotected Word document.

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How to Make A PowerPoint not Read Only with or without Password

Many people get used to attaching restrict password to the PowerPoint presentation so that the content cannot be edited by everyone. If you want to control the content of the restricted read-only PowerPoint, or want to print it, you can make a PowerPoint not read-only with or without password following the below tutorials.

• Part 1: Make a PowerPoint not Read Only with Password
• Part 2: Remove PowerPoint Read-Only Password with Third-party tool

Part 1: Make a PowerPoint not Read Only with Password

If you have the read-only password to edit the PowerPoint presentation, you can easily remove the editing password and make the PowerPoint not read-only.

Step 1:  Open the PowerPoint presentation and enter the restrict password.

Step 2:  In the presentation content editing interface, you can edit the text, layout, shape and more. Next, click File > Access on the top left panel.  When you save the presentation, you do not need to change the File name. Then, on the right bottom corner, you will find that Tools button. Click it and enter the General Options settings.

Step 3: In the General Options interface, you will find the Password to modify filed. After that, you need to delete the previous password and let it blank. When you finish this setting, click OK to save the change.

Step 4: Next, click the Save button and Yes button to replace the original PowerPoint presentation with this missing password one.  After that, you make the read-only PowerPoint not read-only anymore. You can open and edit the content at any time with no need to enter the password.

Part 2: Remove PowerPoint Read-Only Password with Third-party tool

If you forget the restrict editing password and want to edit the PowerPoint document, what to do? Only open the read-only version and do nothing on the content? No, you can remove PowerPoint read-only password with a third-party tool.

iSunshare PowerPoint Unprotect Genius is rightly the PowerPoint read-only password remover that enables users to remove the restrict editing password in minutes. You can remove the restriction of PowerPoint without knowing the previous password. Let’s learn how it works now.

Step 1: Download and install iSunshare PowerPoint Unprotect Genius on your computer.

Step 2: Run the software and import the restricted PowerPoint document by clicking the Add button.

Step 3: Click the Start button to remove the editing-password. In the end, you will get the unprotected PowerPoint document in the same location of your source PowerPoint document. And you can directly open it to edit, copy and print the content.

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[Free] How to Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic without Losing Data

Are you going to convert dynamic disk to basic disk but find Windows do not support you to directly convert dynamic to basic for the disk. Maybe you have such questions:  Unable to convert dynamic disk to basic? Or I can’t convert dynamic disk to basic?  The answer here is: you can do it! Here you will learn two ways to convert dynamic disk to basic without losing data.  You can use these ways on Windows 10/8.1/Server computers.

• Part 1: Back up all your disk partition data to the external hard drive.
• Part 2:  2 Free Ways to convert dynamic disk to basic in Windows computer
• Part 3:  Create volumes on the disk and restore the backup data.

Part 1: Back up all your disk partition data to the external hard drive.

If you want to change the dynamic disk back to basic, the disk should not contain any volume or data so that you need to back all volumes data up before you convert the disk from dynamic to basic. How to create the back of the whole disk with all volumes data orderly? Here, you can use iSunshareCloneGo to back up the volumes one by one to the external hard drive.

The most important part here is to back up the C drive which is also the system partition. You need to connect an external hard drive with the computer in advance. We will take the C drive as an example for you to back up the partition data:

1. Download and install iSunshare CloneGo on your computer.
2. Launch CloneGo and choose Backup on the left panel.
3. Choose C drive to back up.
4. Select a backup path to the backup file. Here the destination should be on the external hard drive. You can also rename the backup file.
5. Click the Start button to begin the backup process. As for the backup time, it depends on how much space you used in the partition to back up.
6. After the process ends, you will get an icg.file on the external hard drive. 

Part 2:  2 Free Ways to convert dynamic disk to basic in Windows computer

Here we will introduce two ways for you to convert dynamic disk to basic if you have backed up all the volumes data. You can make good use of either one to finish the dynamic disk to basic conversion.

Way 1: Convert the dynamic disk to basic using Disk Management

Step 1: Access Computer Management and choose Disk Management.

Step 2: Right-click the volumes on the dynamic disk and click the Delete Volume option.

Step 3: Make confirmation of the Delete operation.

Step 4: After all the volumes on the dynamic disk are deleted, you can right-click the disk and click Convert to Basic Disk.

Way 2: Change a dynamic disk to basic using command line

Step 1: Run command prompt as the administrator.

Step 2: Type diskpart and press Enter key.

Step 3: Type list disk and press Enter key.  Then you will get all the disks connected with the computer.  And you need to identify the dynamic disk number you want to convert to basic.

Step 3: Type select disk <disknumber> and press Enter key. If your disk number is 1, the command line here is “select disk 1”.

Step 4: Type detail disk <disknumber> and press Enter key.

Step 5: Type select volume=<volume number> and type delete volume and press Enter.

Step 6: Type select disk <disknumber> and press Enter.

Step 7: Type convert basic and press Enter. It will help you to convert the selected disk to basic immediately.

Part 3:  Create volumes on the disk and restore the backup data.

When you successfully convert the dynamic disk to basic, you need to add new volumes to the disk as you deleted all volumes before converting. You can easily do it in Disk Management.

As for how to restore the data to the newly created volume, you can use CloneGo again to restore the backup icg file to the destination volume: click Restore; set the newly created volume as the restoration destination; add the backup icg file for the original volume; click Start and confirm the Format operation.

Tips: Find the dynamic disk converter to convert dynamic disk to basic

If you think all the steps above waste too much time, you can find the dynamic disk converter to do it within simple clicks. But most of the dynamic disk converter needs you to pay for it. Of course, those tools will take care of your disk data and will not format it after the format is changed.

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The Volume Shadow Copy Service is not Working, What to Do?

Volume Shadow Copy Service, or Shadow copy, VSS, plays an important role in the backups and system restores of computer volumes or files. This post shows you specific methods to solve the issue that the Volume ShadowCopy Service is not working in two cases.

Case 1: Volume Shadow Copy not Working when Backing up Windows

When you get the error messages 0x80042302, 0x807800A1, or 0x800423F4 during the Windows backup process, the most useful way for you to get this issue solved is to check and enable the Volume Shadow Copy Service. Here, we summary two ways to set Volume Shadow Copy Service to Automatic.

Way 1:  Enter Windows service via searching

Step-1: Type “service” in Windows search toolbar and click Service.

Step-2: Find Volume Shadow Copy service and click the Start button.

Step-3: Right-click Volume Shadow Copy service and click Properties

Step-4: Change the Startup type to Automatic, and then click Apply and OK. 

Way 2: Enter service via msc

Step-1: Press Win + R keys on the keyboard.

Step-2: Enter services.msc  and press Enter key to open Service Windows.

Step-3: Find Volume Shadow Copy and choose Properties after you right click it.

Step-4: Set the Startup type to Automatic and click the Start button.

Step-5: Click Apply, and then OK button to run Volume Shadow Copy service.

Cases 2: Volume Shadow Copy Service is not Working when Restoring System

It is annoying when you get such message during the system restore “There was an unexpected error in the property page: the Volume Shadow Copy Service used by System Restore is not working…” What should we do to fix this Windows VSS error?

Solutions to this issue:

Way 1: You can enable Volume Copy following the above steps.

Way 2: Change the system restore settings.

Step-1:  Search Edit group policy in Windows search toolbar and click to enter Local Group Policy Editor.

Step-2: Access Computer Configuration\Administrative Template\System\System Restore

Step-3: Set Turn off System Restore policy to Not configured.

The Alternative Option to Backup and Restore Windows System

If you get errors in the Volume Shadow Copy Service and want to back up the Windows system, you can choose iSunshare CloneGo to create a backup of Windows system. It is super easy for you to backup all system configurations and settings. You can restore it any time you want.

Step-1: Launch CloneGo and click Backup.

Step-2: Choose the system partition as the backup target.

Step-3: Choose the destination to keep the system backup compressed file.

Step-4: Click Start and you will get the backup file sooner.

It is free to download the Windows system backup software. You can have a try now!

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