I have a new computor and wonder whats the best way to pass on the old one. It was going slow so maybe noone will want it. I dont have a car so can't go to a dump. Its still got the hard drive inside which I would like to disable before passing it on. Would any charity be interested>
They most certainly would! There are also organisations which recondition old computers and send them to the third world. This is a good thing, and you should do it, IMO.
Wiped my Mac desktop clean and gave it to a children's home. They were delighted. The kids all download music from it. And they sent me a lovely box of chocolates and a card as a thank you. Bless them.
I took the hard drive out of my ancient computer and put it into a caddy thus making a cheapo external hard drive. I formatted it and gave it to my daughter to store all her photographs on.
(I too got a box of chocolates!)
What do people store on their computers????? I can understand a business computer having sensitive info on it but why are so many people hysterical about the content of their old HDD? There are several free programs to give it a clean wipe if you want to, no need to take a hammer to a perfectly good hard drive.