Windows 10: How to clear the Windows USB

About a year ago I built my own computer and installed the full personal windows 10 on it, it cost me $75 and literally just came with a key and a USB I have now installed it obviously and copied all the files on the USB to a different larger one for future reference. The windows USB is 13gb and the files only use up about half of it so I was wondering how I could go about actually erasing all the files on it. Any suggestions will help (I've already tried formatting it)

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Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk

 

Clear Pagefile on Shutdown


I've been looking into clearing the pagefile, and I found the following steps at a somewhat dated webpage:

1. In the registry editor, navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
2. Set ClearPageFileAtShutdown to the REG_DWORD value of 1.
3. Restart Windows.

I'm just wondering whether those steps are still valid, and, if so, does clearing the pagefile work as advertised?

 

edge clear history

We appreciate your patience. Have you tried clearing your temporary files and restart your computer? If not, we suggest the troubleshooting steps below:

• Press Windows key + R.
• Type %temp%.
• Hit Enter.
• Press Ctrl A, to highlight everything.
• Hit Delete.

Let us know the result.