On 20/12/2012 11:53, tony sayer wrote:
Prior to that, I had tried to give older machines away to charity, but no-one
wanted them - they all wanted up-to-date machines with recent Windows licenses.
So they went in the crusher, too.


Correct me if I'm wrong but these days isn't all the data held one
central servers and the like, and not individual desktop PC's?...

Even if that is the design and intent, you cannot preclude some files,
caches, etc. containing sensitive information. And the registry...

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Rod