If you decide to throw away, get rid of, gift, donate, sell or dispose of your old computer, laptop or any device, you need to follow a few guidelines for keeping your identity and your data safe. In ...

Use Call2Recycle’s locator tool to find a battery recycling center near you. You can dispose of undamaged laptop batteries at a recycling center for free. Putting old laptop batteries in the trash ...

Eventually, everyone replaces computer equipment. No matter how the equipment is disposed of – giving or selling it to another user, recycling parts, or sending it to the electronic junk yard – any ...

Upgrading to a new machine is exciting, but what should you do with your old Windows 10 laptop? With Windows 10 support ending next month, many users are upgrading to Windows 11 and facing this exact ...

These are the steps you should take before passing off your PC to someone else or disposing of it entirely. Secure PC disposal is a big deal. Companies want to ensure no data escapes from their ...

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Macworld reader Phil wisely asks how to erase securely the data on old Macs and external drives before sending them off to electronics recycling centers. He asks about hard disk drives (HDDs), ...

An important and often overlooked part of the information life cycle involves proper destruction. When information is no longer needed, or has reached the end of its retention period, you must ...