Precautions to take before sending your PC or Laptop for repair

  • 27 July 2017
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April 4th, 2017  By Anand Khanse

 
A point of time does come, when you may be required to send your Windows PC or laptop to a computer technician or a repair shop. before you simply hand over your computer to him, there are a few precautions you need to take. A forum member recently asked What to do before sending computer for repair and that is what prompted me to write a detailed post about it.
 
Well, what should you be doing before sending your computer for repair? Are there any precautions you need to take before sending your Windows PC or laptop for repairs? We have already taken a look at the precautions you need to take before you dispose off your old Computers, now let’s take a look at this scenario.
 
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Very true, Jasper...but it is astonishing that many who will check their cars and remove items before they take them to the garage for a service or repair, are quite happy to just handover they computers without a thought...and there have been some notable cases of persons who did that and where later arrested for nefarious behaviour of various kinds revealed by what was on their computer hard disk.
 
It seems that many are 'IT blind' and I am not sure as to why that is. :S

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