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Surface 9 Returns

Steps to follow before returning your Surface 9 at the end of the semester.

Surface 9's

Please follow the steps listed below before returning your device:

  1. Close all of your open windows and applications. 
  2. Delete your files.  
    • Click the file folder in the taskbar at the bottom of your screen.
    • For each of the following (Desktop, Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos) 
      • Check to see if these include any of your files, folders, documents, pictures, music, or videos.
      • If you have items in these folders, right click them, select "show more options", and then select "delete."
      • Close window.
    • Empty (delete all) items from your Recycle Bin. 

When you return your device to the Computer Lab Tech:

  1. Please be signed in and ready to show the Computer Lab Assistant your empty files.
  2. After the Computer Lab Assistant has seen your empty files, click Ctrl-Alt-Del and sign out.
  3. Turn off computer.