Iād say itās more like a few USB keys you plugged into a toaster the way itās crashing lately.
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How would a person go about clearing a laptop clean. As in wipe everything, absolutely everything off of it. Itās a kind of work laptop and I might be passing it on so want to wipe all files and emails and contact lists etc from it. Is there button like on the iPhones to completely reset the thing.
Thereās deleting things and then thereās really deleting things. If you are talking about a proper deletion of all files youād need to run something like dban on it.
If you arenāt overly concerned that someone someday with the right knowledge and gear could recover the files, then reinstalling Windows and deleting the windows.old folder would probably be enough.
If you have windows 10 I think it comes with a factory reset option.
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Thanks buddy. I just want to clear it up and hand on like new. Iāve no need to totally cleanse it. Iāve windows 10 alright that might do it for me.
Thereās a few emails to and from the farmers journal and irelands own that I wouldnāt like spread around the office.
Is there an admin account on it separate to the account you normally use?
Ah here. Iām a roaster. I got this from another colleague. He forgot to log out of his emails and forgot to wipe files etc.
Some potentially embarrassing stuff in there for him. ā¦ only a select few were printed and locked away in my office ā¦
The hard drive then went in it. It was duly fixed and I ended up with wiped laptopā¦
I need to wipe it clean next week. Iāll look for a restore factory settings ??
Iāll look for you tomorrow. Itās something like System > Restore