Augeas

I don't have this behaviour. I get an immediate alpha list, so fast that looking at anything whilst it's loading is not even contemplatable. If I move a cookie from one list to another the list doesn't refresh, the cookie is just moved, but I loose position in the list. I have about 50 cookies (I've just noticed that when I move the cursor with the arrow keys it moves two cookies at a time), maybe you have many more. I can't say that I recall anyone else commenting on this. Maybe you have a lot of flash cookies that are kept in one or more disparate folders, or cookies from several browsers, and that's why it's doing a refresh and taking longer to load.

No there isn't. Yes, the topic has been covered before, there may well be some in-depth stuff somewhere. Essentially you can create enough zero-length files with harmless filenames to use up the slots in the MFT that hold the deleted file info, then delete them, and run Recuva with Show Zero Length Files unticked. You can do it yourself which is probably better than some overwrite-everything application. Pointless exercise though, in my opinion.

There's no way I know of. Such a list would be of limited use, and is unlikely to avoid doing a second scan if you wanted to process deleted files. The problem is that the list contains nothing more than the file name and perhaps path info. In a normal scan Recuva might be able to access the MFT entry by deleted file name, but more probably the directory/indexing info in the MFT would be lost and the MFT would have to be rescanned to find the entry to check that it hasn't been reused. I find the scan to be very fast anyway. In a deep scan then there's no way I know of finding a file in some distant cluster from file name alone, the disk would have to be rescanned. I think that there must be some information in the form of a cylinder/track/sector address that is used in the original scan list but would be lost if a list were saved. The list of course is a moving target, you can never be sure that what Recuva has shown is a true reflection of the contents of the disk. I assume Recuva does a second check if you ask for a file to be overwritten, etc, to make sure that the space hasn't been reused subsequent to the list being produced. So a saved list would in effect decay with time. (Ususal proviso, everyhting I post is just a wild guess.)

When doing a registry scan, the check-all-issues box at the top of the list overlays the P in Problem column header. No big deal, I obviously need to get out more.

Oh I dunno, I think mine is set to 1%, the lowest it will go. That's still enough (1.5 gb) for over 50 points in XP. I seem to remember that if you have multiple volumes using sys restore and one is close to running out of space then sys restore is effectively stopped on all volumes. This might well not be the case in your setup. I don't know how CC could do this. Your post - after two days of running CC the restore point has gone - is too vague. Do you have sys restore switched on? How many sys restore points do you usually have? 100? More? Can you create a restore point, run CC, and it's gone?

There may well be other reasons for losing sys restore points. Are any of the volumes on your pc which are managed by sys restore close to max usage?

Preload.exe appears to be a process supporting Millenium Multi-Function Keyboards and, as Google says, 'provides additional configuration options for these devices.' If you have one of these keyboards and it's working as you would wish, then I wouldn't worry about it. If you have the keyboard and you constantly want to tweak the hotkeys, then either stop it or post back here. If you don't have one of these keyboards then you've just eliminated a useless process.

Both. It's possibly the same font, it just looks babyish when it's larger. Do you get the new font? All over the world people are bashing their pc's thinking they have a fault. It's not life or death, just annoying.

Why do they do these things? I hate change! Yesterday the Google font size in the web search box increased. I first blamed CC as I had run it recently, then I spent some time looking for an option to return it to its normal, friendly familiar size, and then ran a fulll virus scan. Today I Googled this and I find that it's a Google change and you. or we. will just have to live with it. My eyesight's not brilliant but this is just baby font. It doesn't seem to affect Google Image or other searches, just the Web search, and only the search box. http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/10/did-googl...-google-search/

Overwriting free space is a secure overwrite, in as much as what was there before is no longer retrievable, and is the same as the one pass secure delete option. The superflous multiple overwrite options are not offered, presumably because overwriting say 150 gb 35 times would mean writing 5,250 terabytes of data. It would be a toss-up who dies first, you or your disk.

Yes, enter the path/file in the Options/Exclude section. Details can be found in docs.piriform.com.

Well just try it on a few files. Piriform says that secure delete overwrites file names. Posts 2, 4 and 8 say that secure delete overwrites file names. I know that secure delete overwrites file names. The misguided OP has long since buzzed off, and after posting the same stuff three times so have I.

Sys Restore was just an example. The point is that a fluctuation of 200 mb, especially on Vista, is nothing when you're using your pc. NTFS transaction logging, buffer flushing and countless other things.

If you deleted the files to the recycler and then deleted them they may well have been renamed by Windows. Sort the Recuva list by date and look for the pics there, or filter by name, $D.... for XP or $R... for Vista. If no luck try a deep scan, but tha will take some time and return far more files.

If you tick the option to Scan for Non-Deleted Files (as well as Deep Scan) Recuva will retrieve files from a formatted disk. You can then use the filter as Andav suggests. As far as I know Recuva does not discriminate between file types, it just shows what it finds. A file is a chunk of data irrespective of its extension. I have occasionally scanned for non-deleted files, and found them, but Recuva wouldn't recover them. But that was on a good system, so maybe it's different for files that have suffered from formatting.

It removes the restore point. You can't initiate a system restore from CC.

There must be something up with the question here. CC secure deletion does (as the previous posts state) rename deleted files, including their extension. Well, those it can.

You can't, it's the other way round. The Registry section removes entries from the registry, and the Exclude option enables you to exclude a registry entry from the cleaning process. So, the Registry section removes all ticked entries except those specifically named in the Exclude list. I think. There's probably a bit of coding to do what you want, but somebody experienced in this will be along in a minute.

Ishi, I think you are on Vista. Two hundred mb is nothing, hardly one restore point in Vis. That sort of space fluctuates as you're using the pc: even if you're not good old Windows will amuse itself sorting your hard drive out.

You mean I've just spent something? Damn.

As this is in the Recuva discussion forum, are you talking about Recuva finding a lot of deleted files? If so then the space they are taking up is freely available to any user or application on your pc. You cannot remove them in any sense of the word. Even if you did more would appear as soon as you touched your pc. The majority of these files will eventually be overwritten: personally I wouldn't worry about it.

OK, seeing as you asked. CC renames on secure deletion, Recuva doesn't, presumably on the grounds that it can't. Both leave the path info intact, presumably (again) that they can't alter directory info in the MFT.

I should find the location of this file and delete it to the recycler, or move it to a flash drive. This thread is the only Google mention of this exec, so it sounds dodgy.

The new logging display has been mentioned many times in the last few months. The info hasn't gone, just right click and select full display, which can then be sorted on name or size etc, a feature many have asked for previously. I'm not sure why you are so excited about showing some white space (which the full list takes up). I can't get too bothered about this, it's just a display panel. Personally I much prefer the new display, far neater, flexible and manageable than the old everything piled in together list.

Connie, of all the Advanced settings Wipe Free Space is the last one I would tick. I have never used it and don't intend to. If you must use it then run it once every six months or so, not as a permanent setting. I would leave the Advanced settings on their defaults. Ishi, if you mean that you didn't get an increase in disk space after running WFS, there's no reason why you should. WFS does what it says, it overwrites all free space so no data will be deleted.