Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
locally and nationally there has been a call for businesses to donate old laptops to schools
Very happy to do this and we have 3 lying about
one is probably 15 years and still fires up but not sure if it is that good
however we have 2 about 8 years a small Macbook and an HP windows machine
However for the life of me I cannot seem to clean them up!!!
there is nothing that would offend the vicar, but I do worry about financial details that I would not like people in my village to be aware of.
Even more I would not like some ten year old to get their hands on my bank account.
The Mac run s through an erase programme for nearly an hour then pops up a message that it cannot complete
The HP Windows machine does a full windows reload after warning me that I will lose all and then promptly reloads everything, I guess this isa some HP add on as it always start before the windows
I am reluctant to take them to a computer centre due to the fact we have used internet banking on them and it may well, still be accessible , particularly the Mac and its reliance on the cloud
any help?
Very happy to do this and we have 3 lying about
one is probably 15 years and still fires up but not sure if it is that good
however we have 2 about 8 years a small Macbook and an HP windows machine
However for the life of me I cannot seem to clean them up!!!
there is nothing that would offend the vicar, but I do worry about financial details that I would not like people in my village to be aware of.
Even more I would not like some ten year old to get their hands on my bank account.
The Mac run s through an erase programme for nearly an hour then pops up a message that it cannot complete
The HP Windows machine does a full windows reload after warning me that I will lose all and then promptly reloads everything, I guess this isa some HP add on as it always start before the windows
I am reluctant to take them to a computer centre due to the fact we have used internet banking on them and it may well, still be accessible , particularly the Mac and its reliance on the cloud
any help?