Help: gave away pc without running ccleaner

sofie_d_

New Member
Hi,

Yesterday I "sold" my pc online (gave it away for free), and I thought I erased all private information. If I now read the internet it seems that deleting all of the below is not enough but it was needed to delete my user and run a software like ccleaner? Please advise!

What I did:
- deleted all personal data (myDocuments)
- put off system recovery
- deleted everything from the bin
- deleted all temp folders
- deleted all browser data
- uninstalled the browser itself
- uninstalled skype and messenger (it was an old pc)
- ran the system cleanup command

Thanks!
 

johnb35

Administrator
Staff member
What you should have done was wipe the hard drive and reinstall the OS so that way everything was fresh and all your data was gone. Really can't do anything about it now though, unless you still have it in your possession?
 

Laquer Head

Well-Known Member
Chance are you are fine. If you are really worried about say, banking info.. just change your password. Same for email etc..
 

beers

Moderator
Staff member
They might be able to recover that using a utility like Recuva.

The chance is pretty small, but if you had stored passwords and crap I'd probably change them as a precautionary measure.
 

Laquer Head

Well-Known Member
I really wouldn't worry much then.. if you changed passwords just to be sure..It's doubtful the new owner is gonna care about anything other then getting online and doing emails..
 
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