How to "clean" my laptop I want to give...

I have a new laptop and want to give my old laptop to my friend.  No cost to myself, how should I go about this, and how 'test' that all of my "files", etc. have been deleted.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  I started to transfer files using a flash drive.  My laptop current use Vista an old xp.

After that you have copied all the files on the flash drive and have checked that you can read from the flash drive, format the hard drive and reinstall Windows XP.  Two ways to do:

1. start the computer from an XP installation disc supplied with your computer.

or:

2. access to a recovery partition which is integrated to your hard drive.  For a Dell computer, press CTRL + F11 right after that the computer turns on.  For HP, press F12.

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