Laptop Cleanup

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Gordon

I have an old Winbook XL3 laptop computer with Windows XP
Professional installed on it. I want to hand this old computer
off to a friend to be used in some genealogy work.

What do I need to clean up in terms of Outlook Express mail
files, home Wi Fi personal information, etc. before giving it to
this other person? I am not apprehensive that this person would
misuse any such information but some of it is private, and should
be cleaned off this computer before giving it to someone else.

This laptop has a Linksys Wireless-G Notebook plug-in Wi Fi card
and is set up to connect with my home Wi Fi system. What settings
and files should I eradicate here?

Gordon
 
Gordon said:
I have an old Winbook XL3 laptop computer with Windows XP
Professional installed on it. I want to hand this old computer
off to a friend to be used in some genealogy work.

What do I need to clean up in terms of Outlook Express mail
files, home Wi Fi personal information, etc. before giving it to
this other person? I am not apprehensive that this person would
misuse any such information but some of it is private, and should
be cleaned off this computer before giving it to someone else.

This laptop has a Linksys Wireless-G Notebook plug-in Wi Fi card
and is set up to connect with my home Wi Fi system. What settings
and files should I eradicate here?

Gordon
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You should do a clean install of Windows with whatever installation
media came with the laptop. Then give it to your friend with whatever
hardware (and driver disks) and software (and install disks) you want.


Malke
 
Hello,

You may want to use Eraser to delete important files to a level that it is
almost unrecoverable.

Formatted drives can have their data recovered if the new installation of XP
does not overwrite the sector where the data is located.

http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
(the site is down at the time of this post but the sourceforge link below
works)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/

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