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Exfarmer

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Bury St Edmunds
It's the batteries that are borked and many of these machines won't run an MS office suite today.

If you want to wipe a machine, do it with a bootable utility, you can't do this within windows.
One of the machines I had was an HP pavilion. I used the boot utility, but it seemed to have an verriding programme in there from HP which gave an automatic protection to the machine, so even though it rebooted all the information was protected.
I wonder if the manufacturers are deliberately doing tricks like this , so that machines are junked or stored in lofts , rather than passed on.
I certainly will never have another HP machine, it was a continual pain in the **** , with pop ups and downloads of junk all thr time
 
One of the machines I had was an HP pavilion. I used the boot utility, but it seemed to have an verriding programme in there from HP which gave an automatic protection to the machine, so even though it rebooted all the information was protected.
I wonder if the manufacturers are deliberately doing tricks like this , so that machines are junked or stored in lofts , rather than passed on.
I certainly will never have another HP machine, it was a continual pain in the **** , with pop ups and downloads of junk all thr time

You need to use a non-windows utility like kill disk that loads as an ISO. You boot the machine using this utility on a USB drive and it allows you to wipe the drive.
 

Bloders

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Location
Ruabon
One of the machines I had was an HP pavilion. I used the boot utility, but it seemed to have an verriding programme in there from HP which gave an automatic protection to the machine, so even though it rebooted all the information was protected.
I wonder if the manufacturers are deliberately doing tricks like this , so that machines are junked or stored in lofts , rather than passed on.
I certainly will never have another HP machine, it was a continual pain in the **** , with pop ups and downloads of junk all thr time
it frustrates me how much crap is installed on new machines.
whenver i get a new machine, the first thing i do is un-install loads of programs off them.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 78 42.9%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 63 34.6%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.5%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 5 2.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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