{"id":7285,"date":"2021-11-14T08:20:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T08:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=7285"},"modified":"2021-11-14T08:20:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T08:20:09","slug":"resetting-win-10-pc-to-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=7285","title":{"rendered":"Resetting Win 10 PC to sell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to buy a newer computer and realised that I have a couple on hand that I&#8217;m not using, so I thought I&#8217;d sell them on TradeMe to 1\/ Get rid of them as they are cluttering up the place &amp; 2\/ Get a bit of cash so that I can put that towards a newer laptop. I&#8217;m looking at upgrading from my  Microsoft Surface Book 1 i7 16Gig Ram to a  Microsoft Surface Book 2 i7 16 Gig Ram, so just a newer model. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m used to the layout and its foibles but my one is starting to get a bit temperamental, so I thought I&#8217;d splash out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I needed to do a factory reset to get them back to a point where others can use them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a vid of the process, I&#8217;d actually followed another and at the end put my own account onto the laptop, which is not what I&#8217;d planned to do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How To Prepare A Windows 10 Computer For Sale With Full Erase\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QP-R3tDybV8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I was doing 2 of them I could set them up to delete and reinstall from laptop rather than over wifi. They rtook a couple of hours to clean and reset. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I then went on the hunt for the specs of the PC&#8217;s so that I could make sure I was being clear on what was being sold. The issue is with the keyboards that I bought. With Surface Books the RAM is in the screen part &amp; the GPU is in the keyboard.  The top spec keyboard is 1705 model and I also had a 1704 model on the more tired book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I found the stats in the &#8220;System Information&#8221; drilling down the Components &amp; Display it shows a NVIDIA GeForce GPU but it&#8217;s the mid-range one, not the top end one.  So the i7 8gb RAM only has a 1Gb GPU, not the 2Gb that the i7 16 Gb has. So my replacement keyboard for my main Laptop was not up to the spec of my original Book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Setting up Local Administrator<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>After setting up with a user account I found <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.minitool.com\/news\/restore-deleted-administrator-account-win10.html\" target=\"_blank\">How Can You Restore Administrator Account In Windows 10<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and followed the 3rd way <strong>enable Local Security Setting<\/strong> and that worked fine. When I rebooted I was given the option of using my account with password or the administrator account. I used the Admin account <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deleting my login account<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found a wiki article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Delete-User-Accounts-in-Windows-10\"><strong><em>How to Delete User Accounts in Windows 10<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and followed that to delete my other account so it only has the local admin account on it now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is how I&#8217;d received the PC&#8217;s when I got them so that there is no setup by new user, they can just open and use. They can put their own security in later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So overall the process was pretty straightforward.  I just need to get all the info on the PC&#8217;s from Screenshots for putting up on TradeMe then I can advertise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll get the prices I bought them for but they met my need at the time <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>11\/17\/2020 <\/td><td>$864.00<\/td><td>nz laptops<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>11\/26\/2020 08:19<\/td><td>$527.04<\/td><td>microit.co.nz<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Battery Usage<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 2 batteries in a  Microsoft Surface Book , Battery 1 (smaller) in the Tablet, &amp; Battery 2 in the Keyboard. You can even generate a report on the state of the batteries to a HTML file that you can open in your browser. <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/how-to\/how-to-check-your-laptops-battery-health-in-windows-10\" target=\"_blank\">How to Check Your Laptop&#8217;s Battery Health in Windows 10<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by using powershell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-788x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7287 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-768x998.jpg 768w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-1182x1536.jpg 1182w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-50x65.jpg 50w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-38x50.jpg 38w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-100x130.jpg 100w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-77x100.jpg 77w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-493x640.jpg 493w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-640x831.jpg 640w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-591x768.jpg 591w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-1024x1330.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-831x1080.jpg 831w, https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-scaled.jpg 1232w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 788px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 788\/1024;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">End comment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p> One up on TradeMe and we&#8217;ll see if that sells. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday 15 November 2021 . Both PC&#8217;s up on Trade me about 3 times now but no takers. Either price too high or not useful for Win 11 upgrade, so not selling at the moment. Its not costing me much to advertise so I&#8217;ll persevere for the time being. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to buy a newer computer and realised that I have a couple on hand that I&#8217;m not using, so I thought I&#8217;d sell them on TradeMe to 1\/ Get rid of them as they are cluttering up the place &amp; 2\/ Get a bit of cash so that I can put that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,444,435],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-hardware","category-maintenance"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-788x1024-1-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-13-13_47_17-Battery-report-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-788x1024-1-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Max Drake","author_link":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}