Create New User--delete old user-- Lose applications? (giving iMac away)

I want to give my iMac to a friend. I want to just create a new user for him, then delete me to erase my info and files.. If I do that will my bootcamp and Windows, and iLife, and applications all remain for him? I hope so!
I can erase my mobile me, mail, and itunes account. Basically like a pseudo "wipe clean". Any suggestions?
I would rather not re-install. It would be nice for him to have it up and running already.
Thanks

After you delete your personal files, you can use Disk Utility to 'Erase Free Space'. When you trash files in OS X and empty the trash, the files are no longer accessible (and they become free space that may be reused) but they are still on your hard drive and could be recovered by someone with the necessary software. By doing +Erase Free Space,+ OS X will write 0's over all free space, eliminating the ability to recover the deleted files. Read the Help topics in Disk Utility for more info.
For the extra paranoid, you can specify doing this 7x or even 35x when you erase free space in Disk Utility.
There is no need to completely wipe out the drive & reinstall. Even if you did a complete reinstall, if you don't do a secure erase first those data files may actually still be recoverable because the free space they occupied previously likely won't get reused during the installation.

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