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Windows FaCT PC - Dealing with Your Old PC | ||
| Why You Need To Do This | ||
| Your old computer contains files that belong to you and configuration settings that are specific to your machine. You need to preserve and remove your data from your old computer, and you need to make provisions for your old computer and your new one to have separate identities. This applies even if you will continue to use your old computer yourself. | ||
| 1. Make a Final Backup | ||
| Since you may be passing your old computer on to someone else in your department, you should back it up before you give it away, to save all your files for yourself. When doing this, be sure you are using a backup method that can be used to restore files to your new PC. ADSM is one good way of making your old files available on your new computer. | ||
| 2. Remove Passwords and Personal Information | ||
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The easiest way to protect your privacy and software licenses when giving away
an old computer may simply be to wipe your old computer clean. If you reformat
the hard drive, you do not need to worry about anybody else getting your personal
files or anything else. Just make sure to locate and pass along your original
operating system CDs to its new owner. Even if they plan on installing a newer
version of the operating system, these often contain essential driver files for
equipment installed in this computer.
If you reformat your hard drive, you can skip the remaining steps here. If you are not planning to reformat the hard drive, be sure to check the computer over for personal information. Look in browser bookmark files, anything called "My (anything)", and so on. Then continue with the following steps. |
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| 3. Remove Your IP Address | ||
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If you have a permanent one. What's this? Your old computer may have been configured with a network address, a set
of four numbers that start either 128.248 or 131.193. Each computer in the whole
world that's on the Internet must have its own unique IP address. It is especially
important that each computer in your department has its own address. If you try
to configure your new computer with the same IP address as your old one, and somebody
connects your old computer to the network, both your old and your new computers
will malfunction! That is because there would be two computers attempting
to use the same identity.
To remove your IP address from your old computer or to change it to the IP address of the new person who will be using it:
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| 4. Change Your ADSM Password and Node Name | ||
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To guarantee that nobody else can gain access to your backup files in ADSM, change
your ADSM password, either from within the ADSM program or using the ACCC
Web Password Utility. (This link opens in a new window.) You need to do
this because some previous ADSM install procedures stored your ADSM password on
your PC.
Then, to prevent any remaining confusion, you should remove your node name from the ADSM configuration on your old machine. To do that, use the TSM Client Wizard as described in the TSM Client Install page. Instead of creating a new client options file, you will be modifying an existing one. If you don't know the ADSM node name of the person who is getting your old computer, put nobody.adsm1 in instead. |
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| 5. Give Your Computer Away | ||
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It served you well, and now it is safe for it to serve somebody else well.
For assistance with this procedure, contact the Client Service Office at consult@uic.edu or by telephone at 312-413-0003. Revised November 7, 2000 |
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| 2008-11-18 CSO |
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