Remove personal information from the register before giving the computer to a friend?

Is there a way to do this without reformatting the hard drive? Or is wipe the drive clean the only safe option?

Here you go:

  1. Create a generic admin, for example "user" account
  2. Log in under this account.
  3. Delete your existing account.
  4. Make the C:\Users related profile records are also deleted.

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