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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Did the laptop have any kind of mobile device management on it? If so you will have to perform an offline install of windows otherwise the laptop will call home when installing to get security policies.

    I would enable bitlocker on the drive to encrypt what is current there then do a secure erase just be 100% sure any leftover data is inaccessible.

    I am also going to be that guy and say why run win8? A Linux distro with Proton will likely perform better and still receive security updates. Unless you are doing competitive ranked games.