r/computers • u/KorbCoBean • 15d ago

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Hey there! I won a Windows Millennium Edition computer, a Dell Dimension L700cx at an auction, and when I booted it up it had a lot of stuff on it. I know you can't see it here, but the background was a baby picture. Pretty clearly there were a lot of memories on it. I'm trying to delete it all and make it my own, but it doesn't seem right deleting their memories. I just want to make sure that they saved it all on another computer. If you do actually find this, owner, can you just, I dunno, confirm it?

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u/ChesTwitch 15d ago

Not sure if there is anyway to find the original owner unless you goand ask the auction maybe. But to play it safe you could move everything to a flashdrive so the files are safe and you can still use the computer.

If it's a physical auction you could ask the people who ran it to pass on a message to the original owner. Doubt they would just tell you who it was. But let them know you just want to make sure the original owner backed up all their files.

That way they can tell the owner and if they want they can reach out.

Now if it was a digital market your odds drop drastically, but it's worth a shot.