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answers.

The questions people actually ask, answered plainly, with the built in Windows tools named where they exist, and the limits of each one stated. Sometimes the honest answer is that you cannot know after the fact. Those pages say so.

  1. 001How do I protect my laptop before giving it for repair?BEFORE A HANDOVER
  2. 002How do I know if a repair shop copied my data?AFTER THE FACT
  3. 003Is it safe to give your laptop to a repair shop?THE RISK, MEASURED
  4. 004How do I see which apps are accessing my files on Windows?YOUR OWN MACHINE
  5. 005How can I tell if someone used my computer while I was away?YOUR OWN MACHINE
  6. 006How do I prove someone copied files from my laptop?EVIDENCE
  7. 007How do I check if a USB drive was plugged into my PC?YOUR OWN MACHINE
  8. 008What was my computer doing while I was asleep?YOUR OWN MACHINE
SUBJECTS: BEFORE A HANDOVER · AFTER THE FACT · THE RISK, MEASURED · YOUR OWN MACHINE · EVIDENCEEND OF REGISTER
WHY THIS PAGE EXISTS

Ask the internet how to protect a laptop before a repair and you get the same three answers: back up, delete, factory reset. All three reduce what is on the machine. None of them tell you what happened to it.

These pages fill that gap, and they try to be useful whether or not you ever install anything of ours. Where Windows already has a tool that does the job, we name it and explain how to use it. Where our product is the answer, we say so and mark it clearly.