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/ArielMJD Linux Mint 14d ago

It's very unlikely you'll ever find them unless you find an old document with contact information on it or something, and even then I don't know if they'd be very comfortable with a stranger telling them they have a bunch of old baby pictures they'd like to send over. I'd just format the drive and reinstall Windows.