anyone know how to clean up a computer of personal stuff? i need to send mine into work. laymans terms, please
how to clean up files, etc… that may contain personal info, so that i am sending them a 'clean' computer that only has company info on it! i am not the most computer savvy person, so i need this explained to me in step by step directions as if you were explaining it to a 2nd grader. thanks!
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First delete or shred anything thats yours and then go to internet connections in control panel and delete all cookies, internet files and history, this is all on same page just click on general tab under internet connections and options. Go into add/remove programs if you installed any programs that you want off. And restart and look and see. They can always do a system recovery but should not, any files are not truely gone unless you erase your hard drive but this will delete everything for good.
There's a great program called ccleaner. (crap cleaner) It will do it for you. Pictures and stuff like that you have to delete manually but this thing will clean up explorer history files.
They best way is to FORMAT the hard drive, but if you do that you will lose EVERYTHING in the hard drive