How Can I Securely Delete Everything Except the Operating System?
☑️ Before giving away a machine or returning a loaner, it's important to remove your personal information from it. That may be both harder and easier than you think.☑️ Deleting everything but Windows
While you can’t securely delete everything, you can get close.
- Delete and uninstall data and programs.
- Remove users.
- Run a disk-cleaning utility.
- Delete some system files.
- Wipe free space.
Alternately, reinstall Windows from scratch, erasing all data as part of the process.
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0:00 Delete Everything Except the Operating System?
0:25 You can't...
0:52 Delete and uninstall as much as you can
1:45 Remove all the users but one
2:50 Turn off some system files
3:45 What still might be missed
4:15 Nuke it instead
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