selling my laptop and need to clean it up, how?
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selling my laptop and need to clean it up, how?
just selling my laptop, there is nothing on there that I want so ideally want to remove all my files including pictures etc that I don't want?
For the net I have done the obvious and deleted temporary internet files, cleared cookies and internet history, do I need to do anything else to wipe out any record of sites I have visited (selling to family friend so I don't want them to see certain sites visited )
TIA
James
For the net I have done the obvious and deleted temporary internet files, cleared cookies and internet history, do I need to do anything else to wipe out any record of sites I have visited (selling to family friend so I don't want them to see certain sites visited )
TIA
James
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Remove your Favorites too. If this is NT/2000/XP, you may be better off deleting the entire user profile and creating a new user. Or better still, reformat the HDD and reinstall.
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Remove your Favorites too. If this is NT/2000/XP, you may be better off deleting the entire user profile and creating a new user. Or better still, reformat the HDD and reinstall.
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I think you can just boot off the XP CD-ROM and it'll enter setup; and one of the options near the start will allow you to format the HDD partition.
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You would be far better off using a copy of FDisk to reformat as it allows you to do an "unconditional" format, which basically sets all the bits to 0 (or something similar). A standard Windows format can be undone with even basic tools like the command "unformat"! Unconditonal formats need specialist software to overcome.
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