Remove Yourself from Your Work Machine Before You Leave

Leo Notenboom
Tech Ramblings
Published in
5 min readJan 13, 2020

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Although there’s no way to remove all traces of yourself from a machine, there certainly are ways to remove as much as you can.

The scenario is this: you’re ending a long and successful relationship with your employer (or maybe a not-so-long or not-so-successful one).

While there, you were allowed to use your work computer to check your personal email, use an instant messaging client, check in on Facebook, and even surf the web for non-work related things.

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Leo Notenboom
Tech Ramblings

Former software engineer at Microsoft for 18 years, now sharing my passions, answering questions & helping folks with technology. askleo.com (since 2003)