These are the steps you should take before passing off your PC to someone else or disposing of it entirely. Secure PC disposal is a big deal. Companies want to ensure no data escapes from their ...

Clean your computers of all your data. Clean your computers of all your data. If you’re selling your Windows computer or passing it on to someone else, you’re going to want to first wipe everything.

My wife needs a new computer. She is, however, married to XP and doesn't want anything to do with Vista or 7. No need to try and convince me of the merits of the other OSes, she wants what she wants ...

Secure Erase and HP Disk Sanitizer are tools used to remove data from a hard drive or solid-state drive permanently. The deleted information cannot be recovered. Use Secure Erase or HP Disk Sanitizer ...

The "Reset this PC" feature with the "Remove everything" and "Delete files from all drives" options provides a basic level of ...

Microsoft says Windows customers might find that some of their files are not deleted after resetting their Windows devices with the "Remove everything" option. This is caused by a newly acknowledged ...

Your wife, frankly, is the kind of moron that's holding this industry back. What's she planning on doing in four years when XP is officially obsoleted by Microsoft? Or how about eight years from now?