[PLUG] WipeInfo Equivalent

[Larry Brigman]

On 12/20/06, m0gely <m0gely at telestream.com> wrote:
> Richard C. Steffens wrote:
>
> > This may be the most important point for me to make to them: that there
> > are likely to be bits and pieces floating around. They are not very
> > sophisticated folks, but I think they'll understand that it would take
> > someone with sophistication to be able to find anything useful after the
> > files and folders have been wiped.
>
> I don't know the sophistication of OS/Software config of these machines,
> but you could have had this done in 2 or 3 hours if you had just wiped
> them, started over, reinstalled and restored personal files.  Sometimes
> the time to ask all these questions and research the issues takes many
> times longer than starting over.  If it's an issue that comes up often,
> or you really do want to learn about this specific thing than it's
> different I suppose.
>

I can attest to the fact that I would not want a XP machine that
someone else has used for several years as my new machine without
re-installing the OS.  The registery get so large with un-needed items
that it really cannot be fixed without a re-install.  It slows the
machine down terribly.