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If you thought that Microsoft’s “Reset your PC” option was a great way of wiping an installation and its associated files, think again, as the company has now admitted via its official documentation site that doing so may still result in leftover data.
As initially detailed in an extensive post by Rudy Ooms, author of Call4Cloud, the manual/remote wipe functionality in certain versions of Windows is actually stupid enough to leave data on the machine. More specifically, user data is not removed from the Windows.old folder, a brilliant bug that could potentially allow sketchy buyers to skim sensitive information from second-hand systems.
As noted in Microsoft’s list of known issues for Windows 11, the platforms that are affected include Windows 11, version 21H2; Windows 10...
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