OT: delete everything on windows to the way i bought it?

[J.O.]

i have a netbook and have no need for it, so i have to sell it as i am past the return date. i want to get everything off that i have downloaded (AIM, itunes, firefox, etc.) and all passwords, as well as my personal info i put in when i first started windows. advice?

 

[Bosox3]

Re: delete everything on windows to the way i bought it?

DO you have the OS disk or system restore disks? I would say reformat it.

 

[J.O.]

Re: delete everything on windows to the way i bought it?

DO you have the OS disk or system restore disks? I would say reformat it.

it's a netbook, so no disc drive on it.

 

[Bosox3]

Re: delete everything on windows to the way i bought it?

DO you have the OS disk or system restore disks? I would say reformat it.

it's a netbook, so no disc drive on it.

oh yea..my bad.

Theres program out there like Eraser...ect....depending on how much you want to erase..

what do you have as an OS on it?

 

[J.O.]

Re: delete everything on windows to the way i bought it?

DO you have the OS disk or system restore disks? I would say reformat it.

it's a netbook, so no disc drive on it.

oh yea..my bad.

Theres program out there like Eraser...ect....depending on how much you want to erase..

what do you have as an OS on it?

XP

 

[wolfmanalfredo]

Re: delete everything on windows to the way i bought it?

Just hit start, go to user control panel, and add/delete programs. Delete everything you want off, but be careful not to delete any sytem programs.

 

[wolfmanalfredo]

Re: delete everything on windows to the way i bought it?

EDIT: DP

 

[ru4scuba]

Re: delete everything on windows to the way i bought it?

Why do you use this forum as your personal tech support center? Start posting all your tech help questions in the general forum. This crap is getting annoying.

 

[jlvjr16]

Re: delete everything on windows to the way i bought it?

Why do you use this forum as your personal tech support center? Start posting all your tech help questions in the general forum. This crap is getting annoying.

I'll second that. You should try the Computer Tech Forum before starting a thread here IMO. Example, I bought a blackberry and did not know how to download pics and music. So, I went to the blackberry forum and my questions were answered. I am listening to El Sujeto and Omega con su Mambo Violento.

 

[J.O.]

i post all my blackberry and mac ?s on apple's forum and blackberry's forum. no idea of a reputable windows forum though

 

[nyc3]

i post all my blackberry and mac ?s on apple's forum and blackberry's forum. no idea of a reputable windows forum though

Google.com

 

[DaleMurphyCollector]

Re: delete everything on windows to the way i bought it?

Just hit start, go to user control panel, and add/delete programs. Delete everything you want off, but be careful not to delete any sytem programs.

Do not do this!!! This is the wrong answer and will NOT take care of information in the registry. Your best bet is to buy a hard disk cleaner (they are like $20) and it will walk you through deleting anything that shouldn't be on the drive before you sell (ie. personal info, ****, credit cards, etc.).

 

[ru4scuba]

i post all my blackberry and mac ?s on apple's forum and blackberry's forum. no idea of a reputable windows forum though

Liar. You ask about Macs here, and I recall AOL and Gmail questions from you as well in the past month.

 

[wolfmanalfredo]

Re: delete everything on windows to the way i bought it?

Just hit start, go to user control panel, and add/delete programs. Delete everything you want off, but be careful not to delete any sytem programs.

Do not do this!!! This is the wrong answer and will NOT take care of information in the registry. Your best bet is to buy a hard disk cleaner (they are like $20) and it will walk you through deleting anything that shouldn't be on the drive before you sell (ie. personal info, ****, credit cards, etc.).

Do either my way or Murphy's way. When I manually clean up my computer, this is always one of the things I do and I have never had problems because I know what I'm doing.

How is this the wrong way though? He wants to rid his computer of some programs he installed himself, this is the way I would do it. I'm not suggesting in anyway to go in and blindly mess with registry stuff. I even cautioned in the post above to steer clear of programs & files you are unfamilliar with.

 

[DaleMurphyCollector]

Re: delete everything on windows to the way i bought it?

Just hit start, go to user control panel, and add/delete programs. Delete everything you want off, but be careful not to delete any sytem programs.

Do not do this!!! This is the wrong answer and will NOT take care of information in the registry. Your best bet is to buy a hard disk cleaner (they are like $20) and it will walk you through deleting anything that shouldn't be on the drive before you sell (ie. personal info, ****, credit cards, etc.).

Do either my way or Murphy's way. When I manually clean up my computer, this is always one of the things I do and I have never had problems because I know what I'm doing.

How is this the wrong way though? He wants to rid his computer of some programs he installed himself, this is the way I would do it. I'm not suggesting in anyway to go in and blindly mess with registry stuff. I even cautioned in the post above to steer clear of programs & files you are unfamilliar with.

Because if you are selling your computer to someone, the last thing you want is personal info stored on it. Simply deleting programs does nothing to get rid of personal info whatsoever. There are plenty of scammers out there who buy old computers simply to get lucky and pull personal info off it from unsuspecting sellers.

 

[J.O.]

my Credit Card was put online to buy a case for it a few weeks ago

 

[wolfmanalfredo]

Re: delete everything on windows to the way i bought it?

Just hit start, go to user control panel, and add/delete programs. Delete everything you want off, but be careful not to delete any sytem programs.

Do not do this!!! This is the wrong answer and will NOT take care of information in the registry. Your best bet is to buy a hard disk cleaner (they are like $20) and it will walk you through deleting anything that shouldn't be on the drive before you sell (ie. personal info, ****, credit cards, etc.).

Do either my way or Murphy's way. When I manually clean up my computer, this is always one of the things I do and I have never had problems because I know what I'm doing.

How is this the wrong way though? He wants to rid his computer of some programs he installed himself, this is the way I would do it. I'm not suggesting in anyway to go in and blindly mess with registry stuff. I even cautioned in the post above to steer clear of programs & files you are unfamilliar with.

Because if you are selling your computer to someone, the last thing you want is personal info stored on it. Simply deleting programs does nothing to get rid of personal info whatsoever. There are plenty of scammers out there who buy old computers simply to get lucky and pull personal info off it from unsuspecting sellers.

Well I must have misread the thread post as I didn't realize he was trying to sell or get rid of personal info. I skimmed through it and just saw that he was trying to get rid of programs he had installed.