Leav­ing one job for anoth­er takes a lot of steps. After you com­plete the hur­dles of stress­ful job inter­views, nego­ti­at­ing a job offer and set­ting up your tran­si­tion, there’s still one cru­cial step before you bid your old job farewell: delet­ing your files.

Often, employ­ee hand­books dic­tate what you can and can­not delete, so you need to be both care­ful not to run afoul of those poli­cies — and to delete every­thing you should.

“Employ­ees need to be very wary not to acci­den­tal­ly or inten­tion­al­ly delete or copy any of an employ­er’s pro­pri­etary mate­r­i­al, such as emails, con­tacts, files, doc­u­ments, soft­ware, and the like,” said Joan­na Gra­ma, asso­ciate vice pres­i­dent of Van­tage Tech­nol­o­gy Con­sult­ing Group. “If I had worked on a big project that I was proud of, and want­ed to use a deliv­er­able from that project in my work port­fo­lio, I would ask my employ­er for a copy for that pur­pose, and also ask them to pro­vide writ­ten per­mis­sion that I can use the copy for cer­tain pur­pos­es.”

But once you’ve dou­ble-checked what you can delete or take with you, here are five things you should ide­al­ly be wip­ing from your work com­put­er so that you can leave your job in peace.

Ide­al­ly, you should not be using your work lap­top for per­son­al items, but as work and life bound­aries blur, it’s easy to for­get.

If you are plan­ning an exit, you’ll first want to get rid of any per­son­al files like fam­i­ly pho­tos.

“Gen­er­al­ly speak­ing, if it is per­mit­ted in an employ­ee hand­book, employ­ees should delete their per­son­al files from a work computer/phone before they leave an employ­er,” Gra­ma said. “If I stored pic­tures of my kids on my work phone, I would want to move those files to my own per­son­al stor­age and delete them from the work device.”

If you down­loaded sen­si­tive doc­u­ments to print at your office, like your W‑2 or oth­er tax papers, be sure to delete those, too. “High­ly rec­om­mend delet­ing per­son­al files, tax doc­u­ments, con­tacts and per­son­al pho­tos,” said Nick San­to­ra, CEO of the secu­ri­ty aware­ness train­ing plat­form Cur­ric­u­la.

Want to delete any embar­rass­ing Google search­es? Gra­ma also rec­om­mend­ed delet­ing your brows­er his­to­ry and any pass­words that your brows­er may have saved for you.

For Chrome, select His­to­ry, then “clear brows­ing data,” and then select the appro­pri­ate time range. On Fire­fox, once you select His­to­ry, you will have the option to “clear recent his­to­ry.”

If you down­loaded a bank app or Ven­mo on a work-issued phone, make sure to delete those before you leave. You should also think about sim­i­lar items on your lap­top.

“If I had down­loaded appli­ca­tions, soft­ware, or brows­er exten­sions for my own use and not used for com­pa­ny pur­pos­es, I would prob­a­bly delete that from the work device as well,” Gra­ma advised. “On my last day, I would also log out of any active appli­ca­tions that I use for work and I would emp­ty the com­put­er’s recy­cle bin.”

As part of your clean-up process, con­sid­er whether you need to update the email address you use to sub­scribe to any ser­vices or newslet­ters.

“If the newslet­ter is one that I still want to receive after I leave the employ­er and it is not a newslet­ter for my employ­er, then I will want to change the email address to a per­son­al one,” Gra­ma said. “If the newslet­ter is one that I no longer want to receive, I could unsub­scribe from it, just to keep my work email tidy for whomev­er might be mon­i­tor­ing it once I leave.“

Your employ­er can poten­tial­ly have access to your per­son­al mes­sag­ing apps, like Apple Mes­sages or Google Hang­outs, if you leave them on your work com­put­er, so be sure to take those off, too.

”A lot of peo­ple will log in to their per­son­al accounts — think iMes­sage — on their work com­put­er,” said Andrew Stanek, data sci­ence man­ag­er at Pave, a com­pen­sa­tion start­up. “I always sug­gest log­ging out of these and clear­ing your cook­ies so they don’t stay on the work com­put­er.”

Web browsers also store cook­ies, which con­tain infor­ma­tion about your web­site activ­i­ty and pref­er­ences.

If you’ve ever used your work com­put­er for any­thing per­son­al, you like­ly saved a pass­word. Be sure to wipe those off before you leave.

“Most of the time work com­put­ers will also be used as per­son­al devices on occa­sion. This means that your pass­words and account for per­son­al web­sites might also remain unless you inten­tion­al­ly delete them off the device,” San­to­ra said. “It’s best to dis­con­nect any type of iCloud or Google Sync to ensure none of your per­son­al infor­ma­tion is left behind to your for­mer employ­er.”