laptop History

[johnmyers]

Hi all

 

Can anyone help, ive bought my teenage son a new laptop and his old one will be given to my daughter to use for school and homework.

 

Can anyone tell me how to check whats on it? ive checked the history but its been cleared and ive also checked the recycle bin but thats been cleared as well. I dont really want to buy a programme/disc so can anyone tell me in simple terms what he has been looking at.

 

Im not snooping, I was once a teenager to but i dont want anything to pop up or appear when my daughter uses it.

 

Many Thanks

[Jelly Bean]

Hello and welcome.Sounds like snooping to me,I would do the exact same.

Have you tried system restore?

[Starbuck]

Why not make absolutely sure of things and just reformat/reinstall the OS.

Then your daughter would have a nice clean fresh system to work with.

 

Not being funny when i say this.... but teenagers don't have a clue when it comes to Pc's.

They think they know it all..... hahaha.

I wouldn't use a system after a teenager has had it.

Edited June 10, 2012 by Starbuck

[Jelly Bean]

Starbuck I agree I would run recovery or a fresh full install.

[johnmyers]

Thanks guys

 

Showing my age and that im a complete computer thicko but how do you do a fresh full install?

 

Cheers

 

John

[KenB]

Hi John and welcome to ExTS

 

Does the machine have a Recovery Disk that came with it?

It is a CD.

 

What is the make and model number of the laptop?

 

Some come with a recovery partition on the hard drive that is accessed using one of the "F" keys.

[johnmyers]

Hi KenB

 

No I dont have a cd for it, its quite old now but a good one.

 

Its a Fujitsu Siemens "AMILO". Not sure of the model no. but here are the numbers of the back:

 

M3438G

Reg - P71EN0

Ser - YSNS007490

LKN - GBR - 177200-004

 

Hope this helps.

 

John

[KenB]

Hi John

 

From what I can find - that machine came with recovery disks and a drivers disk.

If this is the case it is unlikely to have a recovery partition too.

 

If you don't have the recovery disks you could buy them here:

http://www.gennersales.co.uk/recovery/fujitsuamilovista.htm

This link shows Vista - but if you contacted them I am sure they could give you a price for XP.

 

If you don't want to go down this route:

 

You could make sure that the machine is "clean" by doing the following:

 

1. Start > Search > All Files and Folders

type in ------ .jpg ------( i.e. full stop followed by jpg )

This will find all photographs that are stored on the machine.

 

2. Start > Control Panel > Internet Options > Delete

Delete .......History / Cookies / Temp Files / Downloaded History

 

3. Start > My Computer > C: > Documents & Settings

Look here for saved documents.

 

4. Use the search option for .doc ( fullstop doc )

This will find Word Documents saved

 

I am not on XP at the moment so if any of the above proves to be a problem get back to me :)

[johnmyers]

Cheers KenB

 

The laptop is fairly old, the discs probably went walkabout years ago or they are in a safe place, that safe thay I cant remember where it is.

 

I will give your advice ago and ive also emailed Genner sales for info re: XP.

 

Cheers

 

John

[KenB]

Hi John

 

Let us know how you get on :)

 

EDIT:

If the machine was used for email then you may wish to delete saved emails.

I can explain if necessary.

[johnmyers]

so far so good, nothing as yet

[KenB]

That's good to hear John - hopefully you have deleted / removed anything that you felt necessary and your daughter now has a "new" machine that she can use :)