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Laptop repair and browsing history...
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Right my friend, yes truly is a friend ;-) has a poorly laptop that will not boot up, he wants to get it fixed but is worried about them seeing his browsing history, he has not downloaded anything. It’s normal naughty stuff, nothing bad but he is quite embarrassed about that sort of thing.
So would they be able to see his browsing history when fixing it? It may need a new hard drive or just XP reloading not sure.
So would they be able to see his browsing history when fixing it? It may need a new hard drive or just XP reloading not sure.
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If it's a faulty hard drive then probably not, if it just needs windows reinstalled then probably not (unless they really make the effort to do so)
If the current install can be repaired then yes they can but only if they are able to login to the system (ie they would need his password)
that said, unless their is anything he needs to be worried about on the laptop don't worry about it, believe me when I say people that repair computers will have seen it all before.
If it's a faulty hard drive then probably not, if it just needs windows reinstalled then probably not (unless they really make the effort to do so)
If the current install can be repaired then yes they can but only if they are able to login to the system (ie they would need his password)
that said, unless their is anything he needs to be worried about on the laptop don't worry about it, believe me when I say people that repair computers will have seen it all before.
Get a new laptop and be good. Alternatively. If the hard drive is ok it should be possible to take it out ( quite easy) and fit it in a hard drive interface and delete the embarrasing files via another computer but only if the owner of the other computer doesn't mind anybody having access to his browsing history....