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You're doing nothing wrong, you are analysing the files to be deleted. To delete the files to be deleted, press the Run Cleaner button on the lower right. There will be a warning that you are about to delete files forever, click yes to this. You don't have to run the analyse step first if you don't want to, CC will still go ahead and delete what it should.

Yep, changes to any settings. Sort of exit without saving changes.

I know it ain't on my XP Home SP2. I understand that Cipher is part of FRS and there are many hits, including good old Wikip, saying that EFS is not part of XP Home. I'm not really bothered but it might dash some users' hopes.

I'm only posting here 'cos I'm interested in the mechanics of it all. I don't think I'll ever want to defrag my MFT. Vista creates an MFT zone of 200 mb by default. If a very large number of files are created, more than would be by what Microsoft thinks is an average user, then an additional 200 mb is allocated elsewhere on the disk. Quote Microsoft: 'For workstation or server profiles that have large MFT?s, it is possible that the MFT will be more ?fragmented? however these fragments will be 200MB in size a piece so the performance impact will be negligible.' And again: 'If the MFT is spread into multiple fragments, the defrag engine can combine the MFT fragments during defragmentation.' And yet again, but from a different article: 'However, it is exactly the size that the MFT file was before the defrag operation.' So defrag, but to no great advancement in speed or size. I don't know how many files it would take to force a second (or third!) MFT zone to be created, but it's likely to be a large number, many hundreds of thousands or more. Now for those holes in the MFT. Another quote from M/S, but this time it is more general than specifically referring to Vista. 'An MFT can be too big if a volume used to have lots of files that were deleted. The files that were deleted cause internal holes in the MFT. These holes are significant regions that are unused by files. It is impossible to reclaim this space.' This is different from the event where the disk is full of data and an attempt is made to create new files. In this event new files will be forced into the MFT zone, if there is space, and this space can be retrieved by defragging, after freeing up enough space to be able to run the defragger. However such a disk, and its operating system, would be in dire straits. Most of the M/S MFT stuff seems to be generic to NTFS volumes, the Vista specific stuff refers to differences in space allocation and how the defragger utility behaves. Personally I think that for the vast majority of users defragging the MFT, or attempting to, is a waste of time. But don't let me stop you playing with it if you want to. Oh Yes, does Defraggler fragment the MFT? I dunno, but I doubt it. I think that Defraggler uses Windows APIs to access the MFT, so I would expect Windows, or NTFS, or whatever manages disk data, to take precedence.

Ha! At a meg a second it would take 8 days and 3 hours. Go CCleaner!

Is this possibly a pirated game? If it's around 20 gb then I'm not surprised CC coughed when asked to do a 35-pass overwrite. On the other hand Waka never said that he had the Empty Recycle Bin option ticked in the first place.

What would really be a good tweak (OK, in my opinion) is a cancel button so one could leave CC without saving any changes. Quite often one can change something to see the effect, or to assist some other board member, and then be not quite sure that the original settings are reinstated. Or even press something by accident.

It's not something you would do every day though, is it? And you could just highlight them all and press the > or < button, done!

From what I remember Cipher is only available in the pro Windows versions. Things might have changed though.

I'm on FF 2.0: there have been some problems with FF 3 but as they don't affect me I can't remember what they were. Try searching the forums for FF 3.

I'm on the same CC version and I don't lose FF's home page. I have all options except Saved Form Ifo ticked in CC'c Firefox options. What version of FF are you using?

None. CC doesn't touch any system restore files, as far as I know.

400,000 files? That's 10 times more than all the files I have on my pc. Google produces around 10 applications associated with the .T extension, with Tads seeming to get more attention than the others. If a mass delete is causing your pc to lock up then why not try it in smaller chunks, you don't have to eat the horse in one mouthful. Isolate the files as Dennis suggests and start deleting in say 100's, increasing to 1000's if all is fine. You might get up to deleting 5 to 10 thousand in one go without locking up. It's cold and frosty outside so you might as well give it a go - assuming that you really don't want any of those files.

Item 6: Windows log clean (excl error) is already an option. Error logs can be useful, usually a few seconds after you've cleaned them. Item 7: The files that CC cleans only reside on the system disk, which CC I think assumes is the c drive. It would not be wise to attempt to clean temp files on a drive where they should not be. If these files have been placed on a non-sys drive then the Include option places the cleaning responsibility in the user's hands. The option to choose a drive would however help those who have a system drive which isn't c. Item 8: You can press Check for updates from the program, do you mean something more sophisticated? Item 9: What does this mean?

You appear to have the latest version of Recuva. Ever since secure deletion was introduced oh I dunno, a couple of years or so ago, the secure overwrite option and the secure delete choice in the context box have been there. Did you download recuva from a safe source, such as Piriform's website? Apart from that I don't know what would cause this apparent program modification. The more I think of it the more it seems that you have a very old version. When you do a scan, do you get Stage 1 and Stage 2 running, or just a simple scan and that's it? In Options/Actions, do you have Scan for Non-deleted Files as the last Scanning option?

Hmm. About 5mm below Save all settings to INI File is a selection box labelled Secure Deletion. This defaults to one overwrite, which is quite sufficient. You cannot choose nothing. Close Options and return to the main screen. When you run a scan in Recuva, and right click on a file name, at the bottom of the context box you will see Secure Delete Highlighted, and Secure Delete Checked, depending on whether you have highlighted or checked, or both, the file name. Chose one and click on it and you will see a confirmation box, Press Yes.

Well, what's crap to one man (or woman) is manna to another. CC has never, as far as I know, been promoted as a crapware cleaner. It cleans temporary and work files, etc. for existing applications. The uninstall section can't reflect your choice of application, it just shows what is on your pc. I have a Dell and I spent many a happy hour removing AOL, Norton, McAfee, Corel, Google, Yahoo, Tiscali, and every damn thing that kept popping up in front of me. There are websites devoted to cleaning crap from Dells, so maybe there's the same for HP. Otherwise just keep pressing te uninstall button.

Not easily. Does your pc lock up immediately or when you have closed CC and moved to another application? Does it lock on startup? Are you using Fix all Issues or are you fixing one at a time? I should try running a full reg scan and then selecting Fix Issues, taking the backup of course. The fix the issues one at a time and with a bit of luck your pc will lock when the 'bad' issue is found and removed. You could try switching to another window/application and doing a little non-cleaner activity between each registry fix to make sure that each fix is OK. This is rather laborious but non sine laborum, if I remember my schoolboy latin correctly (which I doubt).

Yzetc, after you have run CC, go back to the Cookies page. Can you still see the cookies there - on both sides - or have they all gone? If they're still there then your 'don't delete' settings are fine, and it's probably flash cookies that you need to keep which Davey will help you with. If they're gone then your delete settings are incorrect and you need to follow Davey's advice above.

Ho hum, I have one of these, all 65 mb, looks like it was created, accessed and modified once at the time of Windows loading in 2006. Microsoft say that '$logfile, Log File: Used for recoverability purposes.' I wonder if it is required or if it's created if required?

Not, as far as I can tell or manage to do, with the normal display and select options. It might be possible with some command-line hieroglyphics, but not being a hierophant (yes, I've had the dictionary out) I don't have any clues there. In any event I don't think that the file status as determined by Recuva is absolutely accurate. All the files can be recovered of course, it's just what's in them that's of interest.

For me it cleans C:\Documents and Settings\Me\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat C:\Documents and Settings\Me\Cookies\index.dat C:\Documents and Settings\Me\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\index.dat C:\Documents and Settings\Me\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist012008123120090101\index.dat and leaves 10 others, but most if not all of these are not active. I am the only user so others may have more complex combination of index.dat files. I don't know how CC decides which to clean and which not to.

The only thing you can do with Recuva is to overwrite them with zeroes, so the content will not be recoverable by anything (well, it will, but will be zeroes). The filename and path will still be visible. You can alternatively stop cleaning, especially your browsing, and eventually the file name, path and contents will be overwritten by a new and presumably perfectly unobjectionable file. Then you can have a good clean. If they are small files in the MFT then Recuva will not be able to touch them, so plan B is all you can do.

This has been requested several times before but has met with some resistance from other members. CC isn't a disk washer and many would like it to stay that way, small and cute.

Not as far as I know. I can't really see that building the list is a great overhead, the list is not written to disk. There are other ways to get a speedy run, don't run the Analyse step first, don't use secure deletion, but if you do then specify one overwrite. CC only takes a few seconds for me if I'm using normal deletion.