Windows 10: Help deleting personal data from a laptop

Hi! I have the laptop from the company I work for and I have sometimes used it as if personal, in particular: checking my personal email, social media accounts, download personal documents, etc. Nothing too serious to "hide" but still personal stuff.

I will not continue to work here for long and I would like to erase from the SSD all the traces of my personal activity (documents and internet cookies, history, etc).

Since I know just deleting a file or browsing activity actually doesn't remove it from the drive I wanted to use the CCleaner Wipe Clean Space tool, but since I do not have admin privileges , it has not been possible to do it. (I have to use the portable version)

The system is running Windows 10 and the account I use is a domain-account, not a local account.

Is there anyway to ensure (or at least, maximize chances of) the overwriting of my personal deleted data from the empty space of the disk?

I've read that it could be possible by downloading some big files and deleting them, so that the files might overwrite my delete files from the SSD. But I don't find this option too practical since the disk is mostly empty.

Thank you very much in advance.

Disclaimer for those who might be concerned : I am only doing this for the deletion of my personal data from this laptop, all the data relevant for the company won't be affected in anyway, since the company's files are on the company's servers, not in my local machine.

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Deleting personal data on w10

Hi Guys

My friend wants to give away her oldish laptop to Daily Mail to help scvhool children, and asked me how to delete personal data.

I told him that I use the startt/settings/update & security/recovery but he reckons that does not comepletely CLEAR ALL.

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Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region


I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

1. Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
2. Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.
3. Select add someone else on this PC.
4. Enter a user name and hit next.
5. Click on Finish.
6. Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.

 

Cannot access my User Account on local machine but can access Admin account. Need help finding password but NOT reset it as it will delete saved data.

Hi,



I understand your concern and will assist you to resolve this issue.

If you reset the local account password it will not delete the Saved data.

I suggest you to back up the saved data and files from the admin account and try to reset the password and check if it helps.

Follow the steps below to reset the password.

• 
  Press Windows + R.
  
• 
  Type netplwiz and press enter.
  
• 
  Select the user account.
  
• 
  Click on Reset Password.
  

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help.