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permantly deleting crap from computer in order to resell

paul666 · 2006-08-03 20:39:00

I run windows xp and my computer is about a year old i want to sell it to a friend because i'm buying a laptop, but i was wondering u no all the crap ive downloaded eg. internet history, music, videos, and whatever. If i was to delete all the accounts which are currently on it would that delete all my stuff on it or do i…

03-08-2006 8:39pm

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paul666

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I run windows xp and my computer is about a year old i want to sell it to a friend because i'm buying a laptop, but i was wondering u no all the crap ive downloaded eg. internet history, music, videos, and whatever. If i was to delete all the accounts which are currently on it would that delete all my stuff on it or do i have to do something else to make it look like a new computer again

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#2 03-08-2006 8:40pm

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Are you going to leave Windows XP on there?

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#3 03-08-2006 8:49pm

paul666

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yes, all i want to do is just to permantly delete all the crap that we downloaded with the last year my sister had an account on my computer and so did my brother too, but i am the computer administrator.

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#4 03-08-2006 8:50pm

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Ok then Eraser is the tool you need. Its free.

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#5 03-08-2006 9:27pm

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Wipe the drive and reload the OS..

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