Whenever you promote, recycle, or donate any gadget, you wipe your information off it. That’s simply fundamental pc safety, proper? It’s why the “Reset this PC” choice, a staple of Home windows for years, consists of the choice to “Take away all the pieces,” ostensibly wiping the storage drive clear of something shut to non-public information. However with the most recent variations of Home windows 10 and 11, all the pieces doesn’t essentially imply, um, all the pieces.

In a help doc posted yesterday and noticed by BleepingComputer, Microsoft warns that recordsdata saved in OneDrive accounts may not be faraway from a pc’s native storage even after the person goes by way of the “Take away all the pieces” reset course of. Clearly that’s an enormous safety problem. To work round it, Microsoft recommends that you simply signal out of OneDrive or unlink your account earlier than resetting your PC. When you encounter the issue after resetting a PC, delete the Home windows.previous folder.

Precisely why that is taking place hasn’t been made clear, however it’s one thing to concentrate on when you’re planning on passing your {hardware} alongside to anybody else. Microsoft says it’s engaged on the issue however there’s no timeframe for a repair in the intervening time.