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Selling Your Laptop? A Reset Is Not Enough on Its Own

Remove everything leaves your files recoverable unless you tick one more box. And the step after the reset is the one everybody forgets.

Missing from Settings, missing from Device Manager and missing from the machine are three different faults with three different answers.

Your phone already knows which app is doing it. The screen that says so is two taps away and almost nobody opens it.

Two tests settle whether the fault is your phone or the network, and Google gives both. Everything else waits until you know.

Google says to put it down and let it cool before anything else. The list of things that heat a phone is shorter than you think.

Sixteen devices on this PC could wake it and six are armed to. One command lists yours, and one more turns them off.

Your keyboard works in Windows and does nothing in Recovery. Microsoft has documented that exact fault, and there are three ways round it.

Dead and dark is a different fault from dead and warm. That one question decides everything you do next.

The port collects pocket lint until the plug cannot seat. It is the commonest cause and it costs nothing to check.

Microsoft investigated and says the update is not the cause. It is a driver that came with your RGB lighting.