Augeas

This is not an option. Search the forum for the reasons why, it has been discussed many times before.

I managed to uninstall McDuff completely and with no hassle on my Dell Dimension a couple of years ago. I'll pm the process unless you want me to post it here. Now for all the other Dell padding!

That's strange. You don't even have My Computer? I don't have an answer to this. Are you running the portable or installed version of CC? You could try a reinstall, or download and run the portable version (from other builds) on a flash drive, but I'm just groping here.

Ah, you mean All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disk Cleanup? This option enables Windows to compress files that haven't been accessed for some time. It saves space, but it doesn't mean that you necessarily want these files to be deleted. They are just old files you haven't looked at for some time. CCleaner will only delete temporary and other files that are specifically selected using its options settings. If you included any files that have previously been compressed then CC will delete them. CC won't touch the compressed files in Disk Cleanup. I don't know of any way of identifying these compressed files, but I've never looked for them.

I cannot see any advantage you would get from running Wipe Free Space, or even any point at all. It just seems like looking for trouble. Don't touch it with a barge pole. What file type is your book (doc, etc)? How did you 'lose' it, by sending it to the recycler or some other way? Have you put the recovered files (no matter how corrupt they are) in a safe place? On the same drive? How large are they? Have you run a Recuva deep scan?

I'm a little lost here. Do you mean that under c:/Properties/General/Disk Cleanup the Compress Old Files is showing 1 gb, or do you mean something else? I can see nothing under Properties/Tools that shows compressed files.

From what I gather from earlier in this thread CC will just go ahead and delete compressed files. There is no option in CC that refers to compressed files. What makes you think that CC isn't deleting compressed files?

I would create a new folder using Explorer, and then when you click on Recover Checked and the destination box pops up open up my Documents (or wherever the new folder is) until you get to the new folder, and then press OK. It is better, and in your case with a large number of files to be recovered, to make your destination folder on another device or partition. If you recover to the same partition the files you are recovering will be merrily overwriting files still to be recovered. 200,000 files is a huge number though. Make sure you have enough space to hold the new files, and prepare to wait for some time.

Doesn't the previous (very old) post answer your question?

Assuming that you are using Recuva to locate and recover the document... Download and load Recuva on another pc or drive, or use the portable version on a flash drive. Run a standard scan. Click on the column headers to sort in either data or filename order. If you can't find the file by filename, then Windows may have renamed the file to Dcnn.ext in XP, where nn is some number and ext is the file extension; or $Innnnnn.ext or $Rnnnnnn.ext in Vista. Try to find these by name or date, and when found right click on the filename and recover to the flash drive. When you've recovered all you can find open the files to see what's there.

No problem, that's just me being pernickety. As far as I know M/S are still intending that exFat is used on mobile personal storage, as they call it. I doubt whether there will be a great takeup on hard drives, as it seems unlikely to become an offering on new pcs and the overwhelming majority of users won't want, or know how, to change that. But then Bill doesn't let me in on his plans.

I believe you get one pass of zeroes, no matter what is specified in the secure delete option.

In Options/Settings there is the ability to select which drive you want to have free space wiped. The standard clean operations only apply to the system c drive, as this is where the default folder and file locations are. It would be dangerous to assume that similarly named files on other drives could be removed. (I can't remember what happens if your system drive isn't c, but it's in the forum somewhere.)

Is M/S now pushing exFat for hard drives, as opposed to its original intention of specifically portable devices? 167 mb on a 500 gb disk is negligible, around three-hundredths of one percent. Not really a big improvement.

Not as far as I know. As Recuva doesn't do this then I expect it isn't easily done.

First run your up-to-date virus scanner on the two good drives. Install Recuva on one of the good drives. Run Recuva with the Option/Action 'Scan for Non-Deleted files' checked. Scan the bad drive. If it finds anything, good. Check the files you want to recover and right click and select Recover Checked. (Check the undeleted files, not any deleted versions.) Chose one of the good drives for the recovery target - preferrably a new folder so you know what you've done. Recover them. Scan the new folder with your virus software.

It is, or should be, in Cleaner/Windows/Advanced, fourth on the list.

Do you have Window Size/Location Cache ticked in Advanced settings? This might be the cause.

Then tell your mother to stop running CC. Delete the icon from the desktop. Untick 'Run CCleaner when computer starts' in Options/Settings.

You're the first I know of. Yes, I get this too. But if I untick Temporary Files and then run Analyse the total figure does decrement by the right amount. I haven't tried any other options.

Your assumption is quite correct, the .lnk files are shortcuts to recently accessed files, and not the files themselves. LNK seems to come from Office, and lnk from recent documents. They are safe to remove. You can right click on any individual option in the Cleaner section and press Analyse, which will show you what comes from where. With its default settings the Cleaner section of CC should be safe to run. I would not run any other part of CC until you are familiar with what you are doing. You can run Analyse on the Registry section for Saturday evening entertainment, but don't run Fix Issues until you are sure you know what is being fixed. It's not essential that the reg is squeaky clean. PS The forum is not usually slow.

It's a mile away from CC's primary function, and it's been done many times before.

May I be one of the first to disagree? This would take a month of Sundays to run, scan the entire contents of the disk, sort in filename order, report back duplicates. There may well be, in a system of hundreds of thousands of files, a returned list of many thousands of duplicates/triplicates/nplicates. How would a user know what the function of these files is? How would a user know which duplicate is safe to remove, and which is not? The forum would be filled with users complaining that their software doesn't work anymore. I don't want this foolish bloat in CC.

Thiago, tick 'Old Prefetch Data' in Cleaner/Windows/Advanced.

I've just noticed that I've lost about a gb of data on my hdd. I installed SP3 on 8th of this month, and that loaded a bloated 1.7 gb. The deleted stuff this evening - 17 days after SP3 - seems to be connected to the SP3 install. There are 2726 newly deleted files with the last access date/time of the install (thanks, Recuva). Does SP3 have some sort of self-cleaning? I have run CC every few days, but not today, and it doesn't reference this at all. There's no path info. Strange. I still have the system restore point for sp3, which is apparently a biggie. In fact I have all points since an XP reinstall in late Feb.