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[Forums User Meat Wizard]

as long as you delete all the bad things(yes than means all the good games)clean up the pc and defrag it you will be fine.
go get one of those child  web site moniter/guard things.

real as long as thay dont find an old copy of your xxx or gore massacre 5.

I know, right. Gore Massacre 4 is art. The series went downhill from there, I'd be ashamed to be caught with a copy myself.

[ChairmanPoo]

I can tell you from experience that if you don't already have your undeleter downloaded that the act of downloading it will almost certainly overwrite whatever you were trying to undelete.

You'd be surprised at the ammount of stuff that can pop up from an undeleter blind run. I found documents I deleted *months* ago.

It was kind of sobering. One should be careful about the kind of documents and/or stuff you keep in a computer, particularily one that you give away or routinedly carry out of home. Porn's the least concern here; what if someone malicious gains access to your email and bank account passwords?

[New Guy]

You might just want to do the not-so-lawful thing that almost everyone with an internet connection does.

Manually deleting everything is next to impossible. And even if you did, the thing would still be bloated with unnecessary files.

Unless of course you already put that into consideration and had a plan to get rid of it from the start.

[Scelly9]

I can tell you from experience that if you don't already have your undeleter downloaded that the act of downloading it will almost certainly overwrite whatever you were trying to undelete.

You'd be surprised at the ammount of stuff that can pop up from an undeleter blind run. I found documents I deleted *months* ago.

It was kind of sobering. One should be careful about the kind of documents and/or stuff you keep in a computer, particularily one that you give away or routinedly carry out of home. Porn's the least concern here; what if someone malicious gains access to your email and bank account passwords?

Hey, did you know that if you go to one of the smaller computer stores they actually junk your hard drive instead of recycling it? I scrounged enough parts to build two PCs from a dumpster, and lo and behold, none of the data was erased. So, the moral is, if you want to throw your computer away, run a data scrubber.

[kaijyuu]

You might just want to do the not-so-lawful thing that almost everyone with an internet connection does.

I'd go with this. I legally purchased Vista some time ago, but for some reason it wouldn't properly install on my new computer. So I just ripped it off.


Or you could just install some flavor of Linux.

[Tellemurius]

Best way to wipe out a system without resorting to giant amounts of effort and time

1. create new admin account
2. delete old account including data
3. delete any files that don't look like windows folders in c drive
4. delete all programs you don't know
5. done

[miauw62]

Best way to wipe out a system without resorting to giant amounts of effort and time

1. create new admin account
2. delete old account including data
3. delete any files that don't look like windows folders in c drive
4. delete all programs you don't know
5. done

We are talking undeleter software here bro.

[New Guy]

You might just want to do the not-so-lawful thing that almost everyone with an internet connection does.

I'd go with this. I legally purchased Vista some time ago, but for some reason it wouldn't properly install on my new computer. So I just ripped it off.


Or you could just install some flavor of Linux.

Linux is good, yeah. But only if some of the games he bought are compatible with it.

[ChairmanPoo]

Wine allows to run plenty of things quite smoothly.

[GlyphGryph]

Wine is a nightmare, personally. At least for games.

It doesn't have access to hardware acceleration stuff that games need to work.

[ChairmanPoo]

... yes it does? At least I do. You have to install some hodgepodge thing via winetricks, but it's either automatic or via a simple command, dont remember which.

[Tellemurius]

Best way to wipe out a system without resorting to giant amounts of effort and time

1. create new admin account
2. delete old account including data
3. delete any files that don't look like windows folders in c drive
4. delete all programs you don't know
5. done

We are talking undeleter software here bro.

You expect kids to be able to use data recovery programs?

[miauw62]

Never underestimate the ability of someone who has no idea what they're doing to do exactly what you don't want them to do.

[Tellemurius]

Never underestimate the ability of someone who has no idea what they're doing to do exactly what you don't want them to do.

i did that for 8 months with old people and stupid people over the internet and phone :/
Very few people know data recovery programs and if you really want to make sure the kiddies can't recover anything bad run hard drive tests that fill in zeros for the free space.

[Eagleon]

You expect kids to be able to use data recovery programs?

Ok, this is just bugging me. http://kickassundelete.sourceforge.net/ Yes, kids can figure out how to press two buttons. Yes, they will read about it if they're on the internet for long enough, it's not exactly an uncommon thing. 'Wipe your hard drive' in quotes turns up just under two million hits on Google. And

i did that for 8 months with old people and stupid people over the internet and phone :/

Old/stupid people != kids. I hope you never have to look after kids thinking this, because they will find your guns, weed, porn, fake passport collection, tied-up and gagged senator, and Christmas presents in under an hour the moment you go off to visit the grocery store.