How to clean computer before leaving?

[cbx]

I have a good friend who is moving out of state,. and is leaving his
office computer behind in this office, and wants to clear out all
the histories, cookies and any other traces of where he has been
and what he has been visiting or whatever. I seem to remember
something about History/MRU cleaner? Is that built-in?

Anyway, can you advise what we can do to clean out these
"tracks" for him? I'm not too creative with Google so any help
would be appreciated. He's running XP Pro.

(He's a lawyer, so guess he's being extra cautious.... he he..)

Thanks

 

[Bruce Chambers]

cbx wrote:
> I have a good friend who is moving out of state,. and is leaving his
> office computer behind in this office, and wants to clear out all
> the histories, cookies and any other traces of where he has been
> and what he has been visiting or whatever. I seem to remember
> something about History/MRU cleaner? Is that built-in?
>
> Anyway, can you advise what we can do to clean out these
> "tracks" for him? I'm not too creative with Google so any help
> would be appreciated. He's running XP Pro.
>
> (He's a lawyer, so guess he's being extra cautious.... he he..)
>
> Thanks


To protect his personal information and data from any future users
of average skills, he should, at the very least, format the hard drive.
He can do this using the original Installation CD. Simply boot from
the WinXP installation CD. He'll be offered the opportunity to delete,
create, and format partitions as part of the installation process. (He
may need to re-arrange the order of boot devices in the PC's BIOS to
boot from the CD.)

If he wishes to do a more thorough job of protecting his personal
data, WipeDrive
(http://www.whitecanyon.com/wipedrive-erase-hard-drive.php) meets U.S.
DoD standards for securely cleaning surplus unclassified hard drives,
and could be used before formatting and reinstalling the OS and
applications.



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