Selling laptop online

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    durkinjt Regular member

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    Need a little advice, never sold a computer online. What is the best way to go about my existing password and things of that nature, any help on what to change would be appreciated.
     
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    do a fresh install of windows after you delete & format the hard drive. recovery disk or recovery partition?
     
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    Thanks D, so should I send it with no OS?
     
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    depends on if it comes with a recovery disk or recovery partition.
     
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    Thanks D, Recovery disk.
     
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    then sell it with no os installed but with the recovery disk.
     
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    Thanks again D, the thing is that the OS on the machine now is from my own Win 8.1 disk.
     
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    then you might have a problem selling it with no os installed & no disk nor recovery partition.
     
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    Thanks again D, I have Win.10 installed with automatic sign in.
     
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