Augeas

Well, to each his - or her - own, but you can be too clean. It does seem rather pointless and wasteful clearing up all the time then downloading the same stuff again. Why not just clear up at the end of the day or at shutdown?

I don't want to pinch Andav's glory, but the wipe free space function is enabled by ticking the (last) box in the Cleaner/Windows/Advanced panel. And then run CC as usual. WFS will take some hours, dependiong on the size and speed of your disk. Let it run to conclusion. (PS Sorry AV, I didn't realise that everyone was up on this bright and sunny morning! That's a good point about unticking the box. Perhaps CC should auto reset the box when the run completes, or on pgm startup?)

I suggest that you read this http://128.175.24.251/forensics/restorepoints.htm and then come to the conclusion that no is the only practical answer. That's for XP, I'm sure Vista is worse. Why do you want to recover your restore points? If your pc is working OK then just ride it out. You would only want to go back one point, and you already have that.

From memory (mine, not the pc's) I don't think that CC supports secure deletion ubder Win98, and free space wipe is doing secure deletion, so maybe the two are linked?

A friend's new Dell desktop (don't know the id at the moment) beeps once on startup. If it has any usb device plugged in, mouse, keyboard, etc it beeps once for those as well, so it beeps 3 or more times on startup. My older Dell doesn't beep at all. He has had Dell around to look at it and it has been back to Dell who said nowt wrong with it, but still it beeps. Any clues? Please don't say smash the tiny speaker.

Go to Google or do whatever you do to create the cookies. Open CC and in Options/Cookies drag the relevant cookies from the left to the right panel. Then run CC.

I think it's safe to say that the odds are greatly against it, well, negligible really. What browser were you using? In my experience of two browsers, IE retains the web page name in temp internet files, Firfox bungs them in cache files, so you can't see what's there. If you use IE then you could run Recuva, using the deep scan option, and (after several hours) you may have a very long list - tens of thousands - of deleted files. Now how you would look for the file you want? By date? Do you know the date when the temp internet files were deleted? I suppose you have an approximate date. You could sort the files in Date Last Modified order, but I don't think that this necessarily represents the date that the file was deleted. You could sort the file list by name, but you don't know the name of the file you're looking for this may not be too helpful. If I were you I would spend some time on Google, and try to hit the webpage again.

I can't say that CC is infallible (I'm just a user) but when using secure delete it should overwrite the names of all the files it finds to delete in that specific run with ZZZ's. If readable file names remain then they could be from already deleted files before you ran CC, or they could have been deleted by some other means, your browser settings for instance. I'm sure there are other reasons I can't think of at the moment (breakfast is calling me!).

Sorry I don't know the answer, but it certainly points to some unusual behaviour. I would not run the registry cleaner.

No. It's as well you said 'If I scan...' I would run the Cleaner section first with the default settings, it should be harmless. I would also not run the registry clean until I either knew what was being deleted or I had more confidence. Take a registry backup when you do, this part can be restored.

I don't think you get it with XP, not Home anyway. I don't have that folder.

I may well do that. Cheers, H. The ashampoo website fails to acknowledge the existence of Burning Studio 2009, or any free burning software. So where does the free version come from, apart from download sites - they must have found it somewhere. Is it a pukka Ashampoo product or a cobbled version like Adobe Lite?

I've no idea what Net Framework is, let alone Paint.Net. Kenny. I just have that feeling that a piece of software should be installable without (generally speaking) having to install something else I know nothing about (I don't think I need anything netty or frameworky). Besides, other cd burners don't need this, do they? The install without dotnet just seems flaky, running registry patches before you start. I am, by the way, looking for a burner, after rebuilding my Dell and losing the Roxio integrated stuff that came with it.

You're right Hamall, the address bar isn't cleared. Dennis's workround isn't what I want (removes all entries) so there appears to be a glitch in CC. How annoying is that bar? There is apparently a plugin that will revert the bar to FF2 style. I'll look for it later.

But deleting 2500 entries? That sounds like pushing it a tad too far, especially as Vanadis said that he previously had some errors and fixed them, implying that the registry was reasonably clean. I don't know what the cause is. There have been no other large software events recently Van?

Tell us about Net Framework then, Kenny. I like the look of CDBXP, but don't like other software/application dependencies.

Wiping free space will not give you any more free space than washing the kitchen floor will give you a larger kitchen. Although I only have a few clues about how CC's free space wipe works, I suggest that you search your drive by date, the day you ran CC. Sort the result into date/time order. Have a look at the approx time you ran CC wipe free space. Can you see a number of largish, similarly named, strangely named files? Do they contain zeroes? Were they all created consecutively withing the CC run time? If so delete them, at your own risk. It is possible that CC wipe free space didn't run to conclusion, and the filler files, which do the overwriting, were not cleaned up. Perhaps clean wipe space files should be an option in CC.

And please can the sort order be maintained when switching from list to thumbnail view? One can sort the main list, switch to thumbnail view, and the sort order reverts to well, whatever it is by default.

I must admit I hadn't thought of that, you must be selecting a large number of files to overwrite? This list order, by the way, apperas to be the same as the order in the main list.

You could search for files modifed today (or when you ran CC) and sort by name, and you may see a number of similar sized files with a similar name pattern, with a near identical create time (when you ran CC), all containing zeroes. You could chop these - not to the recycler! (This is just a guess how CC wipe free space works.)

Your English is excellent. CC does rename files when using secure deletion. What makes you think that is isn't renaming files on your pc?

Yeah, but then the program would have to be called De-piece-ler. Anyway, in how many pieces is the file? None, it's whole. Following years of computing convention one could talk of extents. In how many extents? One, two, etc. Makes sense. If we're deconstructing fragments, in the gramatical sense, then something that is whole cannot be a fragment, but once it is split into two it is composed of two fragments. So you would have no fragments, or two, three, etc. There would never be one fragment. Or one could keep to even more years of convention and continue to call them fragments, just like all the other defraggers, and number them one, two, etc, or zero, two, three, etc. To number them in any other way would cause confusion and be untrue.

Yep. It probably stands for cd recordable, but the end result is the same.

On, or in, the CCleaner/Windows panel there is a checkbox right at the bottom of the Advanced section. Tick that and go. Go for a few beers, that is. It may take some time.

In my opinion that would be the safest bet. If you have any idea of the size of the files you want to recover then you can get a drive to suit. Itis not gb's of stuff, is it? Get one as large as you can. It helps to have a friend who can dump the stuff from the flash drive to cdr for you, then you can recover a gretaer amount of data.