Q. like you know when you search something
and then it becomes the history
how do you erase all of it?
im selling my HP laptop to my friend.
i want the money for a Apple Mac Laptop.
like an easier way that wont take that long
and then it becomes the history
how do you erase all of it?
im selling my HP laptop to my friend.
i want the money for a Apple Mac Laptop.
like an easier way that wont take that long
A. Ccleaner, deleting history, documents, etc., and reformatting only remove the references to your data -- they don't remove it altogether, and the data can be recovered by someone interested enough in doing so. To completely wipe the data so it is unrecoverable, you need a specialist disk wiping tool such as the freeware DiskWipe. Make sure you have recovery media (restore CD that came with the laptop) and all program installation CDs, etc., as well as serial numbers for your registered software and Windows before you start, as you will need to reinstall everything from scratch.
http://www.diskwipe.org/
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What is stored on a hardrive?
Q. Is internet history stored? Is there a way of finding out what someone has looked at even if they have deleted temp file/history etc....?
Thanks
Thanks
A. Yes.
By looking at your name, I'm guessing what you want to know what your son/husband has been looking at...?
Lol, fair enough.
Everything you do on a Windows PC is recorded, every file you delete, every document you save, absolutly everything.
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-1054/retrieve-deleted-history.htm - the same question has been asked here.
There a various data recovery programs that you can use, here's a little list:
Recovering deleted files
http://www.aumha.org/a/recover.php
Drive Discovery 2.34 (free for 30 days)
http://www.download.com/Drive-Discovery/â¦
Analyze drives & media for deleted / lost files. Analyze to see what files and data can be recovered, see inside deleted files and view deleted images. Recover deleted files--or securely delete them so they can not be recovered.
Recuva - File Recovery (free)
http://www.recuva.com/
Freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!
Restoration (free)
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fiâ¦
Recover deleted files--or delete them for good--with this small program.
Restoration is a free program that can scan your hard drive, floppy diskette or USB thumb drive and find files that have been deleted (Windows doesn't actually destroy files that you delete: it just marks the space they occupy as being available). It can then recover any recently deleted files it finds with a single mouse click.
Microsoft's OS's are built with so many holes it's unbelievable, but also very very handy. On a Mac, if that's what your using, it's as simple as a little rummage around 'time machine'.
So another little lesson, is that if you have ever had anything important stored on your computer, and you come to sell that computer. Keep your hard drive becuase data recovery is being made extremely easy.
People say it's not possible, people say it's illegal, the truth is, the FBI or whatever (I'm English) won't be investigating you for using legitimate software on your own Hard Drive. Also, if you don't want to do this every time, there are a lot of PC monitoring suites available for free:
- e-Surveiller
- SpyBuddy
- CyberSpy
... are some of the most effective. Once again, these aren't illegal.
:)
Have fun.
By looking at your name, I'm guessing what you want to know what your son/husband has been looking at...?
Lol, fair enough.
Everything you do on a Windows PC is recorded, every file you delete, every document you save, absolutly everything.
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-1054/retrieve-deleted-history.htm - the same question has been asked here.
There a various data recovery programs that you can use, here's a little list:
Recovering deleted files
http://www.aumha.org/a/recover.php
Drive Discovery 2.34 (free for 30 days)
http://www.download.com/Drive-Discovery/â¦
Analyze drives & media for deleted / lost files. Analyze to see what files and data can be recovered, see inside deleted files and view deleted images. Recover deleted files--or securely delete them so they can not be recovered.
Recuva - File Recovery (free)
http://www.recuva.com/
Freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!
Restoration (free)
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fiâ¦
Recover deleted files--or delete them for good--with this small program.
Restoration is a free program that can scan your hard drive, floppy diskette or USB thumb drive and find files that have been deleted (Windows doesn't actually destroy files that you delete: it just marks the space they occupy as being available). It can then recover any recently deleted files it finds with a single mouse click.
Microsoft's OS's are built with so many holes it's unbelievable, but also very very handy. On a Mac, if that's what your using, it's as simple as a little rummage around 'time machine'.
So another little lesson, is that if you have ever had anything important stored on your computer, and you come to sell that computer. Keep your hard drive becuase data recovery is being made extremely easy.
People say it's not possible, people say it's illegal, the truth is, the FBI or whatever (I'm English) won't be investigating you for using legitimate software on your own Hard Drive. Also, if you don't want to do this every time, there are a lot of PC monitoring suites available for free:
- e-Surveiller
- SpyBuddy
- CyberSpy
... are some of the most effective. Once again, these aren't illegal.
:)
Have fun.
I need help about a computer problems?
Q. So it froze then i went to reboot it from a disc but it won't let me so did from factory not disc after that something went wrong now it won't let me chose any of the options so i turn it off then iturn it on started up like normal but when it gets to the part were it say windows starting up after that it goes to blackish -blue screen you dont see nothing it stay there until you turn computer off
A. BSOD, the Blue Screen Of Death, the curse of all Windows users...
Very few BSOD are caused by an actual hardware problem or failure, in fact almost 99.9% of all Windows BSOD are due to system corruption caused by an infection with a virus, worm, trojan, exploit or other malware.
The problem with Windows users is that they are locked inside that nice and polished Microsoft box and refuse to see anything else outside of it.
Windows is the most susceptible to infections and attacks, being in fact the less safe operating system. No matter what you do, Windows will, sooner rather than later, be infected and/or corrupted.
You, or others, are gonna jump up and say: "But I do have proper system protection, antivirus and such!"
WRONG! New viruses and other malware will almost always find a way around that. As long as you continue to use Windows, YOU ARE NEVER 100% SAFE.
LINUX is the only 100% safe operating system, even Mac OS X can be corrupted, granted not as easy as Windows.
What most Windows computer users fail to understand is this:
Besides corrupting your Windows operating system files, the first thing a virus or other malware does, is to either disable or otherwise corrupt your antivirus or any other system protection software program. That is why most of the times you cannot safely, effectively and completely detect and remove a virus infection in a Windows environment. Sometimes the infection is so bad that even your bootsector and master boot record (MBR) gets corrupted, and the computer won't even boot up into Windows anymore.
Most people panick, and either pay a lot of money to some idiot at the Best Buy Geek Squad to remove the infection and repair their Windows system, or they just wipe off everything (losing important personal data), and re-install Windows or do a factory restore.
WRONG AGAIN: You should always try this first:
For a proper scan and removal of any virus, worm, trojan and any other malware, the best way is to use a System Rescue CD, like BitDefender or Kaspersky. Those are both bootable CDs, that run scans in a safe Linux environment, not corrupted by anything.
Go to a different, healthy, non-infected PC or laptop and download both the BitDefender and the Kaspersky Anti-virus Recovery CDs (free downloads).
Download links for both:
http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/
http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk
Burn both downloaded iso files to CD with an iso burner software. If you do not have an iso burning software installed, I recommend getting the CDBurnerXP (free software) from here:
http://cdburnerxp.se/
Or just use this little utility to write the .ISO to a CD:
http://www.hiren.info/download/freeware-tools/BurnCDCC.zip
Just download, unzip and run the BURNCDCC.EXE, no installation is necessary.
Once you burned the recovery CDs, return to the infected computer and put the BitDefender Anti-virus Recovery CD in your CD/DVD drive and boot from CD (set your boot up options in BIOS to CD boot as first option if it does not boot from CD at first)
After your infected computer boots into the Recovery CD Linux environment, first update the virus definition database from the Internet server, than perform a complete scan of your desktop computer or laptop (all hard drives and/or partitions). Remove (delete) any infections found, and shut down your desktop computer or laptop.
Remove the BitDefender Anti-virus Recovery CD and insert the Kaspersky Anti-virus Recovery CD.
Repeat the same procedure as for BitDefender above.
After scanning with those 2 Anti-virus Recovery CDs, your system should be virus free, and will function properly again.
You might also need to do a master boot record (MBR) repair on your system, if your MBR also got corrupted.
Download the Windows 7 or Vista System Recovery Discs (according to what you got), $9.75 here:
http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/windows-7-system-repair-discs/
Burn the ISO to a CD, boot from it and repair your MBR.
Or, with a little computer knowledge, you can create your own System Recovery Disc from an existing installation of Windows, read here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Create-a-system-repair-disc
Good luck.
Source(s):
Happy and worry free Linux user (the guys that usually create the viruses - lol). Also Windows fixer for other less fortunate people.
Very few BSOD are caused by an actual hardware problem or failure, in fact almost 99.9% of all Windows BSOD are due to system corruption caused by an infection with a virus, worm, trojan, exploit or other malware.
The problem with Windows users is that they are locked inside that nice and polished Microsoft box and refuse to see anything else outside of it.
Windows is the most susceptible to infections and attacks, being in fact the less safe operating system. No matter what you do, Windows will, sooner rather than later, be infected and/or corrupted.
You, or others, are gonna jump up and say: "But I do have proper system protection, antivirus and such!"
WRONG! New viruses and other malware will almost always find a way around that. As long as you continue to use Windows, YOU ARE NEVER 100% SAFE.
LINUX is the only 100% safe operating system, even Mac OS X can be corrupted, granted not as easy as Windows.
What most Windows computer users fail to understand is this:
Besides corrupting your Windows operating system files, the first thing a virus or other malware does, is to either disable or otherwise corrupt your antivirus or any other system protection software program. That is why most of the times you cannot safely, effectively and completely detect and remove a virus infection in a Windows environment. Sometimes the infection is so bad that even your bootsector and master boot record (MBR) gets corrupted, and the computer won't even boot up into Windows anymore.
Most people panick, and either pay a lot of money to some idiot at the Best Buy Geek Squad to remove the infection and repair their Windows system, or they just wipe off everything (losing important personal data), and re-install Windows or do a factory restore.
WRONG AGAIN: You should always try this first:
For a proper scan and removal of any virus, worm, trojan and any other malware, the best way is to use a System Rescue CD, like BitDefender or Kaspersky. Those are both bootable CDs, that run scans in a safe Linux environment, not corrupted by anything.
Go to a different, healthy, non-infected PC or laptop and download both the BitDefender and the Kaspersky Anti-virus Recovery CDs (free downloads).
Download links for both:
http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/
http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk
Burn both downloaded iso files to CD with an iso burner software. If you do not have an iso burning software installed, I recommend getting the CDBurnerXP (free software) from here:
http://cdburnerxp.se/
Or just use this little utility to write the .ISO to a CD:
http://www.hiren.info/download/freeware-tools/BurnCDCC.zip
Just download, unzip and run the BURNCDCC.EXE, no installation is necessary.
Once you burned the recovery CDs, return to the infected computer and put the BitDefender Anti-virus Recovery CD in your CD/DVD drive and boot from CD (set your boot up options in BIOS to CD boot as first option if it does not boot from CD at first)
After your infected computer boots into the Recovery CD Linux environment, first update the virus definition database from the Internet server, than perform a complete scan of your desktop computer or laptop (all hard drives and/or partitions). Remove (delete) any infections found, and shut down your desktop computer or laptop.
Remove the BitDefender Anti-virus Recovery CD and insert the Kaspersky Anti-virus Recovery CD.
Repeat the same procedure as for BitDefender above.
After scanning with those 2 Anti-virus Recovery CDs, your system should be virus free, and will function properly again.
You might also need to do a master boot record (MBR) repair on your system, if your MBR also got corrupted.
Download the Windows 7 or Vista System Recovery Discs (according to what you got), $9.75 here:
http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/windows-7-system-repair-discs/
Burn the ISO to a CD, boot from it and repair your MBR.
Or, with a little computer knowledge, you can create your own System Recovery Disc from an existing installation of Windows, read here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Create-a-system-repair-disc
Good luck.
Source(s):
Happy and worry free Linux user (the guys that usually create the viruses - lol). Also Windows fixer for other less fortunate people.
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