Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 30

= November 30 =

Removing a VPN setup on Windows 7 Pro
I'm trying to "sanitize" a Windows 7 Professional notebook, prior to donation to a charity. It has a corporate VPN setup on it, but I can't find a way to delete it. I cannot do a complete format and reinstall that would have resulted in a "clean" setup on this pc due to licencing issues, so I need a way to delete the VPN setup specifically. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:15, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Some googling gave me a few promising-looking links, including this and this - the key point seems to be that you need to delete the appropriate Network Adapter, and you probably have to be logged in with Admin rights. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 14:38, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Are you sure you can't do a factory reset? I think on most PCs you don't even need the Windows license key for that. If you really can't, you might want to ask the charity what they expect from donated computers. It's possible they might just wipe them all themselves and do fresh Windows installs, due to concerns about private data left on donated systems. --71.119.131.184 (talk) 21:29, 30 November 2015 (UTC)